This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending December 13, 2013

Wi-Fi and Nokia are just two of the topics analysts touch on this week in the Mobile & Broadband section:

• What Is Wi-Fi's Role in the Internet of Things? | Farpoint Group - Mon, 09 Dec 2013 |Craig Mathias
• BLE Beacons: Here Comes Everybody | ABI Research - Wed, 11 Dec 2013  
• The race to 11ac begins | Canalys - Tue, 10 Dec 2013  
• Surprise: Nokia Developed "Forked" Android Device, Will It Survive? | Opus Research - Wed, 11 Dec 2013 |Greg Sterling
• Is Nokia's rumored "Normandy" Android smartphone project a good idea? | Strategy Analytics - Wed, 11 Dec 2013  

Security and management of Big Data is still attracting analysts' attention.  Here are just some of the headlines you will find in the Data, Big Data and Digital Assets section:

• Is Big Data killing the RDBMS? | Freeform Dynamics - Tue, 10 Dec 2013 |Dale Vile
• Best Practices for Big Data Management | TDWI - Tue, 10 Dec 2013  
• Real-Time Big Data Security Analytics for Incident Detection | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Mon, 09 Dec 2013  

As we close out this year, the 2014 Forecasts & Predictions are really starting to accumulate.  Here are just a few:

• Strong opportunities and some challenges for big data security analytics in 2014 | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Fri, 13 Dec 2013  
• Predictions for 2014 | Osterman Research - Wed, 11 Dec 2013  
• Key Trends for 2014: New Demands Accelerate Marketing | eMarketer - Tue, 10 Dec 2013  
• 2014 Will Be the Year the Asia Pacific Mobile Industry Adapts to Meet the Demands of Generation C, the Connected Consumer: IDC | IDC - Wed, 11 Dec 2013  
• Middle East IT Spending to Exceed $32 Billion in 2014, According to IDC | IDC - Wed, 11 Dec 2013  
• Ovum predicts mobile first, mobile enterprise apps, and corporate mobility policies to be top of the CIO agenda in 2014 | Ovum - Wed, 11 Dec 2013 |Richard Absalom

Here are more headlines that caught our attention:

• One OpenText: E Pluribus Unum, Enterprise Software Style | EA Consulting - Wed, 11 Dec 2013 |Josh Greenbaum
• Flattening the Curve | Beagle Research Group - Mon, 09 Dec 2013 |Denis Pombriant
• Data Governance: Decision Rights Not Decision Avoidance | TDWI - Tue, 10 Dec 2013  
• Microsoft Cloud OS Network Strengthens Weak Link | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Thu, 12 Dec 2013  
• Billions for Snapchat – Have We Lost Our minds Again? | Forrester - Mon, 09 Dec 2013 |Craig Le Clair
• Things That Go Bump in the Night | Cutter Consortium - Sun, 08 Dec 2013 |Claude Baudoin
• The Internet of Things is bringing Electricity 2.0 that much closer | GreenMonk - Fri, 13 Dec 2013 |Tom Raftery
• In remaking itself, HP delivers the IT means for struggling enterprises to remake themselves | Interarbor Solutions - Thu, 12 Dec 2013 |Dana Gardner
• Gartner Says the Nexus of Forces Will Drive More Than 26 Percent of Total Enterprise Software Market Revenue by 2017 | Gartner - Wed, 11 Dec 2013  
• Gartner Says the Internet of Things Installed Base Will Grow to 26 Billion Units By 2020 | Gartner - Thu, 12 Dec 2013  
• LeWeb: The Next 10 Years | Forrester - Wed, 11 Dec 2013 |Thomas Husson