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Tech Stocks Set To Soar in 2011 as a New Era of Personal Computing Dawns

Technology companies, and tech stocks, started a revival in 2010 and are heading toward an even more profitable 2011. That's because a new age of computing - one that prioritizes mobility and efficiency - has dawned in the computing world. Indeed, we've entered what researching firm International Data Corporation (IDC) calls a "new era" of computer usage. Roughly half of all regular Internet users in 2011 will use non-PC devices , according to IDC, which says a trend becomes mainstream when it constitutes more than 15% of the market. Just as the smaller PCs of the 1980s supplanted the lumbering terminals of the 1960s, PCs are being replaced by a variety of hand-held devices - like Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL ) iPhone and iPad and Research in Motion Ltd.'s (Nasdaq: RIMM ) Blackberry. " The PC-centric era is over, " IDC said in its annual report, released in November. The firm predicts 330 million smartphones will be sold worldwide next year along with 42 million media tablets.
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