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IT Predictions for 2009: The Economy Dominates

We set forth to find out what industry analysts and insiders are forecasting for 2009

By Nancy Weil, IDG News Service

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We predict that Obama will appoint a new U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman who will shepherd through Net neutrality rules to keep broadband providers from blocking or restricting customer access to Internet content. Wider broadband access and adoption will actually happen rather than being talked about all the time as some grand dream, with an administration in place that gets the pivotal role of the Internet and actually uses technology. (But we haven't the foggiest idea what he and his family will name the puppy his daughters have been promised.)

Dan Nystedt in Taipei, James Niccolai in San Francisco, Nancy Gohring in Seattle, and Juan Carlos Perez in Miami contributed predictions.

Copyright 2009 IDG News Service, International Data Group Inc. All rights reserved.

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