DeviceGuru

ABI Research’s analysts have published their annual year-end forecast of key technology trends. In light of the looming global recession, however, this year’s prognostication is framed as “What’s NOT Going to Happen in 2009.”

Briefly, here’s the list of 21 technology occurrences that ABI’s analysts believe won’t happen in 2009:

1. 2009 Won’t Be the Year of Mobile Marketing
2. Mobile Operators Will Not Own Primary Customer Relationships in Mobile Banking
3. There Will Be No Big NFC Rollouts in 2009
4. RFID Investments Will Not Stop in 2009
5. Hollywood Studios and Other Content Producers Will Not Challenge Latest nDVR Court Ruling
6. Will IPTV Replace Traditional Broadcast TV in 2009? No, Not Quite Yet!
7. Over-the-Top Video to the TV Will Not Rule the World, but Perhaps Will Take over a Nation State or Two
8. The Living Room Social Will Not Be about Ice Cream in 2009
9. Intelligent Transportation Systems Won’t Hit the Big-Time
10. The Location Industry Will Not Come to a Halt
11. The Mobile Phone Market Won’t Grow in 2009
12. RIM and Apple Won’t Have the Smartphone Market to Themselves
13. UWB Will Not Reach the Cell Phone Market in 2009
14. Windows Mobile Will Not Go Open Source
15. Nothing Will Shift Qualcomm’s IP Position in 2009
16. Femtocells Will Not Be Huge in 2009
17. In 2009, the WLAN Big Fish Will Stop Eating the Little Fish . . . NOT!
18. Cisco Won’t Abandon the Search for New Technologies
19. Healthcare Will Be Unhealthy for WLAN Vendors
20. WiMAX Will Not Go Mass Market in Asia-Pacific in 2009
21. China Mobile Won’t Hit its Interim Targets for TD-SCDMA Adoption in 2009

Find out what ABI’s analysts have to say on each of these interesting topics by downloading the free whitepaper in PDF format (requires registration) from the firm’s website.