Mobile Computing Component Makers to Be Big Winners in Post-PC Era

One of the fundamental creeds held by the proponents behind every new technology and gizmo market, including cell phones, smart phones, tablets, Sony Walkmen, 8-tracks, VHS tapes, juice extractors, tape rewinders, etc., is that their growth rate (and by implication the consumers' discretionary income), is complete

By Dividend Kings:Mobile computing devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are displacing laptop and desktop computer sales in developed economies. This structural shift in the technology sector has sent shares of many personal computer companies down in price. Are their valuations low enough at today's market prices to justify the risk of investing in a losing sector? The End of An Era

By Scott Francis Winder:The technology market is a scramble with companies trying to join the swelling mobile revolution. The godfather of this market, Palm Inc., helped break the barriers between personal computing and mobile computing; where PALM left off, Research in Motion (RIMM) picked up and defined the connected mobile smartphone market, creating a multibillion dollar industry that the world did not know it needed.

Boston — The car is the next great proving ground for communications technology, General Motors Co Chief Executive Dan Akerson said on Thursday. The automobile will become a major platform for tech “and one with far better battery life than an iPhone,” he said in prepared remarks to the Chief Executives’ Club of Boston.

For the first time ever, smartphones outnumber basic mobile phones. Apple‘s iPhone and Google’s Android devices — which are more powerful than the top consumer PCs of just a decade ago — are changing our habits. Consumers are using smartphones to compare prices at brick-and-mortar retailers. Innovative startups are using these devices to make entrenched markets more efficient. And the “social networking” phenomenon continues forward, as people everywhere join Facebook and Twitter to connect and share content with friends, relatives, and strangers.

For the first time ever, smartphones outnumber basic mobile phones. Apple‘s iPhone and Google’s Android devices — which are more powerful than the top consumer PCs of just a decade ago — are changing our habits. Consumers are using smartphones to compare prices at brick-and-mortar retailers. Innovative startups are using these devices to make entrenched markets more efficient. And the “social networking” phenomenon continues forward, as people everywhere join Facebook and Twitter to connect and share content with friends, relatives, and strangers.

My series on the mobile computing wars has been quite prescient do date, as has my forensic analysis of the players (click to access the free opinions and paid reports): 

By TechCrunch: By Ingrid Lunden