Top Tech trends of 2012

1. Android based devices
2. Rise of Java alternative but running on JVM languages
3. HTML5
4. Social networking Analysis
5. Big Data will rise further
6. Touch based computing devices
7. Voice operated devices
8. Spatial gesture sensitive devices
9. Merging of Gaming, Social Media and TV
10. Mobile payment
11. Flexible Screens
12. Walled garden approach for IT solutions in consumer space – Apple (iTune, iOS, ect), Window 8, etc
13. App Internet will rise to new heights

Ref:
1. http://architecture-soa-bpm-eai.blogspot.com/2010/12/predictions-for-next-decade-2011-20.html
2. http://architecture-soa-bpm-eai.blogspot.com/2011/12/prediction-for-remaining-decade-2012.html

Prediction for remaining decade (2012-2020)

1. Android (and its derivatives) will be omnipresent in embedded, mobile and hand held devices.
2. In laptops/desktops, windows or some flavor of it will be preferred operating system.
3. SAAS and PAAS will prevail for small and big enterprise.
4. IAAS will thrive in enterprise data centers.
5. Fragmentation and Alternatives of Java and Enterprise Java (like Apache harmony, and Spring) will emerge stronger and official java from Oracle will loose its sheen due to lust for its monetization by Oracle.
6. Laptop, mobile and tablet will merge into one.
7. Indian IT workforce will shift from permanent job to contractual jobs like in USA.
8. 3G and 4G (BWA) will bring internet book in India over smart phone and tablets.
9. Developing countries will swept by telecom revelation like India in previous decade.
10. Gamification will engulf almost all experiences especially of social media.
11. Outsoucing will change from India focused to 2I + 1 (2 location in India and one elsewhere)
12. Apple will loose its grip on smart mobile phone market.
13. Application will be pervasive in devices and appliances like phones (mobile and fixed line), TVs, automobiles, refrigerators, disk (CD/DVD/BlueRay) players, and any computing device.
14. Fragmentation of Internet - There will be walls around country or region specific internet
15. Rise of china based technology companies.

Ref: http://architecture-soa-bpm-eai.blogspot.com/2010/12/predictions-for-next-decade-2011-20.html

HiTech Marketing Rant

Even after more than a decade, “Inside the Tornado” still companies following advice illustrated. Take example of Fusion Middleware by Oracle.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is in middle of Tornado. Oracle Fusion Middleware is Gorilla of current time and replacing TIBCO – Gorilla of past.

No SQL (Big Data) is in initial state, any standard yet to emerge so not in the tornado. Only companies who are very enthusiastic about technology have adopted.

Though, Inside the Tornado very effectively suggest marketing strategy for products/solutions which have migrated from enterprise to consumer segment but it did not cover the solutions whose evolution has happened from C2C or B2C ( Auction, Social Networking, classified advertisements).

Geoffrey A. Moore should write a book where major focus should be eBay, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Gmail, FourSquare, Gowalla, MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, Amazon, iTune, Orkut, and other similar successful or not so successful phenomena (sic!).

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Book Review: The Future of Looking Back

Book Review: The Future of Looking Back by Richard Banks: Publisher- Microsoft Press: ISBN- 13: 978-0735658066

The Future of looking back is book which very clearly and concisely take you journey where you learn effects of technology on common people. The book is well written and easy read. Banks creates a world where he takes you slowly and see how transition is happening from physical to virtual, analog to digital.
In the end of each chapter, design challenges are fantastic and provide a quite peek into Bank’s designer brain.
This book is certainly good read.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.


One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Future-Looking-Back-Microsoft-Research/dp/0735658064
2. Bank’s Blog: http://www.richard-banks.org

Book Review: Privacy and Big Data

Book Review: Privacy and Big Data by Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff: Publisher- O’Reilly: ISBN- 13: 978-1449305000

Privacy and Bigdata is survey of privacy philosophy and laws in USA and Europe. Book covers privacy debate in very comprehensive way across USA and Europe.

Though book is short but very extensive in its approach and provides links to related material.

It cautions us about free stuff (sic!) on internet for which we trade our personal information and compromise privacy in pieces. With advent of techniques of information aggregation any one with sufficient resources and make profile and …

Book briefly touches Australia and Canada and completely ignores rest of world especially developing counties where privacy has very different meaning in culture as well as in law.

Book is must read for any internet entrepreneur to understand privacy laws in USA and Europe.

Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book.


One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Big-Data-Terence-Craig/dp/1449305008
2. Publisher – Oreilly: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920020103.do
3. Authors Blog: http://blog.patternbuilders.com/
4. Federal and Trade commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/tech/privacy.shtm
5. Wikipedia on Internet Privacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_privacy