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Saturday, 10/02/2010 1:38:47 AM

Saturday, October 02, 2010 1:38:47 AM

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The latest report from market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are big business, and that business should only grow in the next few years. Gartner's predictions for 2010 are 4.5 billion apps downloaded, for a total of $6.2 billion in revenue. Predictions for 2013, just a few years away, are even bigger--21.6 billion apps downloaded for a total of $29.5 billion revenue.

In addition, the healthcare industry is among the fastest growing handheld device markets, and should hit $8.8 billion this year, per Kalorama Information. The total market for handheld devices in healthcare is expected to reach $8.8 billion for 2010, a 7% increase from last year when the global market posted $8.2 billion, as relayed in a new report per Nicole Lewis of InformationWeek Magazine in the July 2010 article.