A new report from Deloitte says tablets and cloud computing will be among the technology buzzwords of 2010.
While last year's forecasts centred on the economic downturn, this year's predictions are about transformations ushered in by portable Internet technology.
Duncan Stewart, director of research at Deloitte Canada, says there will be a 50 per cent surge in the popularity of cloud computing this year.
The technology allows users to store their documents and files in cyberspace and access them anywhere they want.
Stewart also says the tablet PC – touch-screen devices designed to fill the gap between a smart phone and a laptop – could generate more than $1-billion in 2010 and revitalize the Canadian media industry by providing new ways to access news and information.
The tech outlook also suggests that telecom companies will need to develop solutions to cope with an influx of users who are clogging up networks with high usage of data plans on their phones.
