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Tech Headlines You Won't Read in 2005
prostoalex writes "Folks at Silicon.com posted a list of tech headlines that you won't see in 2005. Read about spam volume decreasing, Sun revenues soaring, Longhorn operating system delivered on time and bug-free and other news you're unlikely to see in the papers."
well, the cnn tech predictions for 2004 is right here.
ultimately last year's predictions were a bust: voip didn't take off, outsourcing didn't become an election issue, the nasdaq didn't rally like crazy. in fact, the only prediction hellwig got right was that digital music did continue to be popular and record labels did continue to be pissed off about it. really just a "more of the same" prediction.
bottom line: if you really know what's going to happen next year, you're probably a multimillionaire stock broker instead of some hack journalist.
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OK, 3G was overhyped few years back... but so the whole internet buzz was overestimated. During the last 5 years the so called 1G seriously evolved... now in some countries the 2-2.5G _is_ happening already. GPRS and bigger color display on mobile devices is out and it is usefull. Even commercial handheld devices with linux are available on the market... only the bandwidth is missing and that is called 3G and it is coming. Maybe not with stupid hype as the net boomed 5 years ago but smarter. :) and anyway.. it is way more realistic then a bugfree Longhorn on time :)
Guys at SCO admit that they were wrong when they claimed that Linux kernel contains the proprietory UNIX code.
Going one step further they will start advocating Linux and the advantages of Open Source.