Here's an opinion piece by a North Carolinian (hmmm... Do Triangle Parkians know more about technology than Silicon Valleyians... er, Valleyiates, um, Valleyers. Perhaps... There's some smart people there. We'll see.), Joe Procopio, on how current technology is opening up new opportunities in emerging markets, like Security, Personal Music Players (like the iPod), and of course, Mobile Devices (the convergence of J2ME technology-enabled cell phones with PDA functionality).

See:

Perspective on emerging technologies

Here's an interesting quote from his Web post:

  Take a step past mobile phones, however, and you get Mobile Devices, 
  and it’s safe to say that this market has started to explode. 
  ...
  This is a great market. A ripe market. But it probably means we 
  have to start pretending like we’re going to learn Java again,

  ...
  Anyway, we need mobile business applications. By the truckload. 
  Forget about the racing games and Tetris and blackjack – well, 
  okay, keep blackjack – what we need are the convergence items, 
  the apps that bring to fruition the promise of those 
  IBM/Microsoft/SAP commercials. 

Ha! Entertainment apps like the one above (BTW, I've got first dibs on it), will be the driver of Mobile Devices. Who would resist downloading a game like that? ;-) You might need a 1GB SD card, but hey, they're only about 80 bucks now at Fry's Electronics. :-)

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