Post-PC Era Poses Challenge to Techs: Adapt or Face the Consequences

The accelerating transition to mobile computing devices - such as smartphones and tablets - will drive tech companies to adapt to shifting consumer preferences or risk getting left behind. . Although they haven't yet tossed out their desktop or laptop PCs, more and more people are adopting mobile devices for such activities as checking e-mail, browsing the Web, playing games and interacting with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. . Indeed, the recent success of Apple Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AAPL ) iPad, for instance, is just the one example of an ongoing paradigm shift that has come to be known as the "Post-PC Era." .