He points to data from Gartner Research that predicts sales of 1.4 billion post-PC devices (a category that he construes as including the Chromebook) by 2015 compared with 540 million traditional PCs.

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Nominees for each category have been whittled down by lecturers and post-graduate students at the university, from about 400 entries.

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