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Edition covers '2010 and beyond'. Gartner's stated count: not stated (press release states no count of top predictions (it says the 2010 Predicts series has around 250 predictions in 56 areas)). Found in public source: 9 top predictions. Client report: "Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond: A New Balance" (paywalled). gartner.com returns 403 to scripted fetches; text read from the Internet Archive snapshot listed in sources. First of two editions published in calendar 2010. File named 2010-01. Quotes are the prediction headline sentences as printed in the press release; body text is not stored.
By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.
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By 2012, India-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market (through cloud service offerings).
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By 2012, Facebook will become the hub for social network integration and Web socialization.
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In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC's total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on.
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By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.
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By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs.
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By 2014, over 3 billion of the world's adult population will be able to transact electronically via mobile or Internet technology.
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Internet marketing will be regulated by 2015, controlling more than $250 billion in Internet marketing spending worldwide.
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By 2015, context will be as influential to mobile consumer services and relationships as search engines are to the Web.
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