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A report by research analysts Gartner has downgraded the forecast of worldwide PC shipment growth 17.9% to 14.3%. That drop comes from an estimate made just a couple of months ago indicating that PC sales are suffering from the onslaught of alternate computing platforms and a lack of innovation. 

When Steve Jobs said competing 7-inch tablets were DoA or 'dead on arrival', he was right in many ways, as competing smartphone tablets lack a dedicated OS, a standard platform or hardware and an OS fast enough to do the job, while iOS powers ahead not only wowing the consumer market but having also sparked ever greater business interest as well!

Ovum's research director, David Kennedy, has astutely analysed the actions of Australia's politicians and telcommunications companies in fracturing the once-strong momentum behind a National Broadband Network, urging 'solid policy development' before any NBN can bloom again.