Gartner has released a series of 2010 predictions covering 56 Markets, Topics and Industry Areas.
For the full text of the release, click HERE.
Among the predictions...
- By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets.
- By 2012, India-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market (through cloud service offerings).
- By 2012, Facebook will become the hub for social network integration and Web socialization.
- By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs.
- In 2012, 60 percent of a new PC's total life greenhouse gas emissions will have occurred before the user first turns the machine on.
- Internet marketing will be regulated by 2015, controlling more than $250 billion in Internet marketing spending worldwide.
- By 2014, over 3 billion of the world's adult population will be able to transact electronically via mobile or Internet technology.
- By 2015, context will be as influential to mobile consumer services and relationships as search engines are to the Web.
- By 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.
A personal prediction of mine. By January 15, I will grow increasingly sick of my New Year's diet and fitness resolutions.
Here's a blog post I did a week ago highlighting some of the document-related predictions I have seen, a rant proclaiming that Washington, DC has the worst sports teams in the country (as well as a free training offer), and a list of Technorati's top document, content, and RM blogs (ranked by authority). And a little piece I did for blogs.com on some favorite blogs.
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