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Digital Business: Connected lives

Mobility: Flexibility is driven from the bottom up

By Stephen Pritchard

Published: May 28 2009 21:39 | Last updated: May 28 2009 21:39

The fastest growth in IT and mobile communications is coming from devices that are small, simple, and above all, cheap.

Netbooks, simple portable computers that sell for less than $400, are the only technology sector set to post any significant growth in 2009. Gartner Dataquest, the research firm, expects sales to reach 21m units this year, up almost 80 per cent on 2008.

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