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Edition covers '2009 and beyond'. Gartner's stated count: 10 (press release: 'Top 10 Predictions for 2009'). Found in public source: 10 top predictions. Client report: "Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2009 and Beyond: Where Is the Money?" (paywalled). gartner.com returns 403 to scripted fetches; text read from the Internet Archive snapshot listed in sources. Only public copy found is the Sydney release (Gartner Predicts 2009 briefing, February 6, 2009). It leads with the telepresence prediction and lists the other nine. The research note itself was likely published earlier (late 2008); no global press release found. Quotes are the prediction headline sentences as printed in the press release; body text is not stored.
By the end of next year 2010, most wireless operators will cease to offer unlimited (flat-rate) mobile data plans.
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By 2011, 30 percent of Consulting and Systems Integration revenue will be delivered via 'cloud computing'
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Gartner Predicts Video Telepresence Will Replace 2.1 Million Airline Seats Per Year by 2012, Losing the Travel Industry $3.5 billion annually
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Twenty-five percent of the top 20 BPO providers will not exist as separate entities by 2012.
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By 2012, successful enterprises will actively encourage and reward more failures in order to find the optimal approach they want more quickly.
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In 2012, the major PC vendors will recycle only one PC for every five they ship.
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By 2012, 30 percent of mobile PCs sold in the worldwide consumer market will be priced at less than US$300.
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By year end 2012, physical sensors will create 20 percent of non-video internet traffic.
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From 2009 to 2013 the server virtualisation software market will grow with a CAGR of 28 percent, rising from US$1.8bn to US$6.2bn.
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By year end 2013, 40 percent of enterprise knowledge workers will have abandoned or removed their desk phone.
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