Since there are many things which technically “won't happen in 2008,” ABI Research analysts focused on some of the company's main areas of expertise, which includes digital media, consumer electronics, mobile handsets, Wi-Fi
, wireless networks and RFID. By singling out technologies they’re confident
won't be setting the market ablaze next year, they can isolate what
will happen through the course of the rest of the decade.
Among their conclusions are that plug-in hybrid vehicles won’t make a big splash in next year, and that Motorola’s (
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