Matthew Temple

The end of the year is here so lets review how well I did predicting what would happen.

• The EU will come down hard on Google over it’s anti trust investigation 
• Facebook will go public (IPO) 
• Nokia will start selling Android based phones 
• Yahoo will shut down or sell more services  (details, and more details)
• Steve Ballmer will step down or be fired as Microsoft’s CEO 
• WebOS will be back 
• RIM will be acquired 
• There will be no 4G/LTE iPhone this year 
• All major laptop manufactures will offer solid state drives 
• Net neutrality will become an important main stream issue 

Here we are in the new year and it’s time for my predictions of what will happen in the tech world this year.

• The EU will come down hard on Google over it’s anti trust investigation
• Facebook will go public (IPO)
• Nokia will start selling Android based phones
• Yahoo will shut down or sell more services
• Steve Ballmer will step down or be fired as Microsoft’s CEO
• WebOS will be back
• RIM will be acquired
• There will be no 4G/LTE iPhone this year
• All major laptop manufactures will offer solid state drives
• Net neutrality will become an important main stream issue

It’s that time of the year again, here’s the review of my predictions for the year.

• iTunes will have subscription music
• Apple will roll out more MobileMe features (details)
• Twiter will be purchased
• The iPhone will allow background apps in a limited form (i.e music apps) (details)
• The UK Internet Piracy bill will not get passed (details)
• Google Voice will come to the UK
• Google Wave will flop without a purpose (details)
• UK telecom companies will start rolling out fiber on a large scale (details)
• Microsoft will bring the Zune to the UK
• The Apple Table will not launch (details)