Convergence is ultimately about connecting – more, faster, easier. We live in a world where billions of people are connected through the Internet. More content is created in a single minute online than in a single year back in the 1990s. According to IDC, the "digital universe" – the amount of information and content created and stored digitally - will skyrocket from 1.8 ZB (zettabytes) in 2011 to more than 7 ZB by 2015 with 90 percent of that coming from digital content in the form of graphics and video. More...

For the first time in history, the number of smartphones sold worldwide exceeded the number of PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2010: 100 million smartphones versus 92 million PCs.  In fact, smartphones grew 72 percent in 2010. Tablets are not far behind.  More than 17 million tablets were sold last year and Gartner forecasts 2011 tablet sales will reach almost 45 million.  That is a remarkable 164 percent growth rate. More...

Today the enterprise office space is at most sort of a “home base” for employees. The days of a permanent cubicle, with a desktop computer and POTS phone, seem archaic. It is a very dynamic situation, and as the IDC 2009-2013 forecast points out, a remarkable 72 percent of employees are mobile today, some even working out of their homes and on the road entirely. More...