Across
- 2. made a mobile workforce possible and made it possible for people to connect to corporate networks and collaborate from anywhere. In many organizations, laptops replaced desktops.
- 8. displaced the typewriter and forever changed the way we work and communicate.
- 9. transformed the way we communicating, largely displacing letter-writing and disrupting the postal and greeting card industries.
- 10. lacks refinement, often has performance problems because it is new, appeals to a limited audience and may not yet have a proven practical application.
Down
- 1. relies on incremental improvements to an already established technology.
- 3. has been a hugely disruptive technology in the business world, displacing many resources that would conventionally have been located in-house or provided as a traditionally hosted service.
- 4. has had a major impact on the way we communicate and -- especially for personal use -- has disrupted telephone, email, instant messaging and event planning.
- 5. made it possible for people to call us anywhere and disrupted the telecom industry.
- 6. largely replaced cell phones and PDAs and, because of the available apps, also disrupted: pocket cameras, MP3 players, calculators and GPS devices, among many other possibilities. For some mobile users, smartphones often replace laptops. Others prefer a tablet.
- 7. is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry