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We are well into what Mary Meeker calls the next major technology cycle, the mobile Internet.  ( Mary Meeker Internet Trends 2010 ) The drivers are adoption of 3G, social networking, video, VoIP, and amazing mobile devices.   Global 3G penetration has hit the 20% sweet spot and is now mainstream.   Social networking platforms like Facebook already are winning a rising share of communications through mobile phones, while video on mobile is likely to follow its surge on the desktop and stimulate explosive growth of mobile data usage.  VoIP leader Skype already has more registered users than any global carrier, while the network effects from Apple’s iPhone / iTouch ecosystem have stimulated probably the fastest user growth in the history of consumer technology .  Only Exxon is now  worth more than Apple!! S o we have massive mobile growth accompanied by other technological developments such as NFC ( Near Field Communications) will become increasingly mainstream as POS systems inc

  In 1880 Africa remained relatively untouched by Europeans.   Over the next two decades the Continent was carved up by the Colonial powers in their urgent quest for raw materials to feed the post-Industrial boom.  The parallel scramble over the next 2 years (this is Internet time !) will be for security assets.   The large firms such as IBM, Intel and HP (read: the Colonialists) will start to acquire smaller security firms such as Sophos ( raw materials).  It has already started playing out this year with BAE announcing its acquisition of Norkom for E217m ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/marketforceslive/2011/jan/14/baesystems?CMP=twt_gu ) Among the growing threats facing many organizations this year is the advanced persistent threat, continual patterns of digital assaults aimed at government and business IT systems to steal intelligence and trade secrets, often backed by foreign governments or their supporters.  Or perhaps to put it another way Cyber War, (now de rigueur ) is u

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