Five Tech Trends Impacting Business Innovation in 2012. Highlights From Our 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Trend Guide Judging several categories of the CES Innovation Awards over the last three years has revealed five patterns we, at UPSTREAM, believe will impact the business of innovation for marketers, researchers and technologists in the near term: 1.
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Novel apps and devices will increasingly let consumers discreetly manage their health more productively. Need further proof? 2. 3. SoLoMo = SOCIAL, LOCAL, MOBILE. 4. 5. Top 10 Tech Trends for 2012. Technology Vision 2012: Emerging Technology Trends. The Top 10 tech trends for 2012. Bendable interfaces will let you zoom in, zoom out and scroll around a page by twisting your phone or tablet.
Mashable founder Pete Cashmore predicts which trends we'll see more of next yearLed by Facebook, more social networks will offer automated sharing of users' Web activityCompanies such as Apple may use Siri-like voice control to replace the TV remoteNokia and Samsung may release phones with bendable displays in 2012 Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about tech news and digital culture. He writes regular columns about social media and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- From the continuing rise of tablet devices to the daily-deals craze and the return of the Internet IPO, 2011 has been a transformative year for technology. The pace of change has become blisteringly fast, with traditional industries -- bookstores, video-rental chains, newspapers -- crumbling more quickly than we could have imagined.
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable.com. Tech Trends You'll See in 2012. We’re living in an exciting time in technology: From consumer products such as phones and tablets to the way your home computer accesses the Internet, everything is changing, and mostly for the better.
We predict that next year the following ten developments will change the way you interact with the digital world. 1. Dual-Core Processors Become the Norm in Smartphones In 2011, the Motorola Atrix and the Droid Bionic were the first commercially popular smartphones to sport dual-core processors. In the fall, Apple’s iPhone 4S followed suit--and now it seems unlikely that any smartphones unveiled in 2012 will be competitive unless they can offer the same processing power that Apple’s phones do. As a result, you should expect to see a surge in dual-core mobile devices. “If you look at handsets today, we’ve seen dual-core handsets reduce power consumption,” he says. And don’t expect chip development to stop at two cores. 2.
5 Tech Trends to Watch in 2012. 2012 promises to be a very busy year in all things digital, but, as with any annum, there will be just a handful of big, memorable trends.
Here, I’ve collected five such movements that are likely to make a big impact in our technologically-enhanced lives. Augmented Reality It’s now in games, location apps, business cards and coffee shops and could start showing up in cars and even eyeglasses. Augmented Reality, which puts a virtual view on top of your real world, is really just a cool way of saying, “Reality with Style.” Instead of simply viewing your apartment through your phone, you’re playing Star Wars Arcade Falcon Gunner on top of it. According to a report from Visiongain, 25% of all app downloads will feature some sort of augmented reality. The Micro-Payment Economy App manufacturers are not the only ones who can make money selling tiny wares and incremental upgrades. Sites like RedBubble do everything for the artist; all they need to do is upload the content. Mobile Chip Wars. Deloitte Consulting LLP. Download full report Select chapters to download Deloitte’s annual Technology Trends report examines technology put to practical business use.
This year’s theme, Elevate IT for digital business, examines the broad impacts of five technology forces that have influenced our reports over the past several years – analytics, mobility, social, cloud and cyber security. What makes Technology Trends unique from other trends reports? Each trend that we select must be actionable, that is, you can do something to the business to achieve improvement. It’s an uncommon, and perhaps even unique, time to have so many emerging forces – all rapidly evolving, technology-centric and each already impacting business so strongly. We invite you to view the brief three-minute overview video, and explore each of the ten trends by downloading the report below.
Our 2012 trends are grouped into two categories: Each of these 2012 trends is relevant today.