Report Highlights
This 2012 Information Technology Research Review provides:
- Coverage of various types of passive and interconnecting electronic components and the technologies involved.
- Analysis of the printed electronics market with the greatest commercial potential for the near-term to midterm (2012 to 2016).
- Understanding of the primary products in the market; the products to print digital photographs; and complementary products closely tied to digital photography.
- Understanding of the embedded devices architecture and the roles played by different hardware components.
- Role of conformal coatings in providing protection to electronic products.
FOREWORD
The information cloud overhanging the global economy has many silver linings. Never has setting up one’s own information technology company been easier or less costly in the initial phases. Innovation has been the immediate child of such progress, and in this year’s reports, we can see the linking up of product, payment and information archiving. 2012 was the first year that a stock market for personal data has been seriously mooted. There is genuine interest from big companies such as Oracle, IBM, Qualcomm and more. Driverless cars add another dimension to the locational advertising possibilities.
The reports in this Research Review cover intelligent buildings, wallets, cameras and more. Digital life has become the enveloping experience its early founders had predicted and hoped for.
This 2012 Information Technology Research Review provides a sample of the quality of market information, analysis and guidance that has been aiding business decision making since BCC was founded in 1971. It includes highlights of reports published in 2011, covering the following markets:
- Smart Card Technologies and Global Markets.
- Global Markets for Conformal Coatings in Electronics.
- Commercial Building Automation Products: Technologies and Global Markets.
- Embedded Systems: Technologies and Markets.
- Passive and Interconnecting Electronic Components: Technologies and Global Markets.
- Printed Electronics: The Global Market.
- Digital Photography: Global Markets.
We hope you find this Research Review valuable, and we look forward to serving our customers’ information technology market research needs in the future.
Chris Spivey
Senior Editor
BCC Research
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