Analysis: Rise of the cloud - this time it's personal

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The personal computer is dead, again. Long live the personal cloud

Earlier this month Gartner published a report, The New PC Era: the Personal Cloud, which predicts that by 2014, the personal cloud will replace the personal computer at the centre of users' digital...

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