IDC: Mobile devices will drive IT spending in 2013
Posted on November 30, 2012 at 18:11 PM EST
More than half of next year's expected 5.7 percent increase in global IT spending will be driven by sales of smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, IDC said in a forecast published Friday. IDC projects that mobile device sales will make up "an incredible" 57 percent of overall IT spending growth expected in 2013.