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For those of you who follow my postings, hopefully you have already read my list of implausible tech predictions for 2014. On a more serious and much less satirical note, and in keeping with the tradition of industry observers to look at what lies ahead in the coming year, below are some views from my crystal ball. In my 2014 predictions posting a few days ago there was something I cited that was going to be big in the coming year and one thing I forgot to mention. The one cited was crowd sourcing. Exemplified by Kickstarter, crowd-funding is the egalitarian way any or all of us can become angel investors in products and services we believe have legs. The one I neglected was actually something I have been thinking about since Google recently made an acquisition in the space setting off lots of speculation about its intentions, robotics. The thought of 4K video is a pretty exciting one by any stretch of the imagination; a format that makes 1080p look almost like standard definition by comparison is an eye-opener to most any movie buff out there. But by like token, 4K video is likely leaving Internet service providers (ISPs) with a collective case of the cold sweats. Netflix is trialing new pricing models, which could replace the $7.99 standard streaming with a range of options that are priced according to usage levels. Facebook, Twitter, and now Snapchat. The gap in security continues to widen for the major social network operators as they continue to rely only on their internal teams and platforms. The problem for these networks and their users is going to get much worse before it gets better. Given the recent holiday celebrations, there were a couple of interesting developments you may have missed at the end of last year that are worth circling back on. The biggest one, and certainly something to keep track of no matter where you do business, was the announcement in late December by the European Commission (EC) of the launch of eight contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPPs) of strategic importance for European industry as part of the EC's Horizon 2020 initiative. By 2016, perhaps 80 percent of all mobile device data consumption might happen over some offloaded network mechanism, according to Wik Consult. Just how big a market connected car services might provide for mobile service providers is not clear yet, though some surveys suggest it might be significant.
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