Things are changing. And with the growth of Linux, powered handheld devices, and the fact that they are being built by the truckload overseas, I suspect that we are in for a real shift in the portable market very soon.

Internet-related investments in Linux servers, PDAs, digital storage and new portable consumer products will be the highest growth areas in the global IT market in the next year, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The OECD’s biennial IT Outlook report predicts the worldwide IT sector to grow at six per cent in 2006, with growth fairly evenly-balanced across the world’s industrialised nations.

The report said: “Overall the prospects for continuing balanced and sustained growth at a relatively high rate are good but a return to the unsustainable annual rates of 20 to 30 per cent growth of the late 1990s is unlikely.”… [Source: Silicon.com]