Foreword
Is the era of the desktop computer drawing to a close? PCs may remain the focus of computing in the office and the home for a long time to come, but increasingly we find ourselves away from our homes and offices, yet still demanding information at our fingertips. The computing world is in the midst of a transition in which mobile devices are emerging as the world's dominant computing platform. In 2006, approximately 1 billion cell phones were sold worldwide-more than the total installed base of desktop computers. The fastest-growing segment of this exploding cell phone market is high-end Smartphones.
And smartphones are only part of the picture. We use computers of all kinds when we listen to our portable music players, drive our cars, ...
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