Kevin Burden, IDC, Program Manager - Smart Handheld Devices services
Kevin Burden is the program manager for IDC's Smart Handheld Devices services. Mr. Burden is responsible for analyzing and forecasting the emerging markets for mobile handheld computing, focusing on a variety of device form factors including PDAs, Converged Handheld Devices, Mobile Phones, Vertical Application Devices, Pen Tablets and Wearable Computers. His special concentration is in evaluating and forecasting the roles of handheld devices within enterprises and the opportunities presented to device and mobile solution vendors that pursue the corporate mobility market.
In this role, he provides clients with consulting services on key management issues including market forecasts, product strategies, competitive positioning, financial viability along with his views on the industry's overall dynamics and end-users needs shaping the handheld device market.
Mr. Burden's viewpoints have been quoted frequently in publications such as Time Magazine, Business Week, Forbes, Reuters, Investors Business Daily, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and numerous industry publications.
Before joining IDC, Mr. Burden spent 11 years with one of the computer industry's most respected and leading weekly newspapers, Computerworld. As the publications features writer, he wrote on numerous technologies while covering the corporate strategies of end-user companies and their use of technology to achieve company goals. He also served as the paper's product reviewer for several years, and in 1996, he co-authored a group of articles to win the year's "best technical feature" from the Computer Press Awards. Mr. Burden holds a B.A. in economics from Framingham College where he graduated Cum Laude.
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