| On 01.03.10, In Uncategorized, by deep |
Looking back at 2009, we can say that it was the most interesting time in the web technology ( despite the harsh economy). The year 2009 boosted the potential of mobile gadgets and its value in today’s networked society. We can call it the rise of social awareness of networking and communicating.
So when we look ahead in 2010, we will see that the innovation has just begun. So here are the lists of technologies, which I think, will rock the year 2010. Most of the technologies that will be mentioned are related to online media and the Internet.
1. Apple’s Tablet
The noises and speculations are too high to ignore the presence of Apple’s Tablet. If all the rumors are authentic and, if by all means, Apple launches the iSlate on 25th January, then it’s going to be the thing to talk about in 2010.
We must admit that a tablet is a concept that has been around us for a very long time. But it is still not the consumer device that people would die for. But after the increase in sales and demands of Amazon Kindle and Nook, the market is pretty sure that a tablet is soon to be the device to have. So at this time, if Apple can bring the device with the interface that people are looking for then that’s it – We have our new iPOD. It is not a biased statement, but a truth in some way.
The reason that I say is because Online Reading is something that every Internet users do and Tablet provides the best way to consume the Internet content. Though we might still be working on a Laptop, Tablet will be the way to consume digital content.
2. NetPhone
We are already seeing the importance of Google Voice, which many Americans have enjoyed. We already have a software like Skype which allows you to communicate through the internet data line.
This demonstrates that people are still comfortable with voice communication and it is not going to die. We would still want to call our friends and families and communicate. Hence, we might see more advancement in VOIP technology.
Though mobile network providers would have to play a hard battle with the VOIP services, the conflict between these two models will end once we have more and more VOIP services running in our mobile devices.
3. Net Neutrality
The rise of Smartphone have suddenly put a lot of pressure on the mobile network providers. The online content consumption and communication have stressed out the network providers. One of the prominent example is the failure of At&T to meet the iPhone’s demand. This have forced the content providers and distributors into two opposite poles.
Content providers like Google (YouTube for video content) consumes a lot of bandwidth. This is not good for the network providers because they have to face the burden of handling the requests. On the other hand, content providers don’t have to pay anything to the distributors. As a result, Network providers would have to increased their fees. Now, this brings a great conflict between the consumers, the providers and the distributors.
Net neutrality is all about giving full access to the Internet without any restrictions. But we still need to see some agreement between the providers and the distributors. Hence, we might be able to see some breakthroughs on Net Neutrality in 2010 which would solve the current problems.
4. Social Profile Management(Advanced Analytics)
Online Social Networking sites have blasted the news channel on each opportunities in 2009 and it will continue to do so in 2010. More and more real time contents would be distributed online and consumed by people. Online networking will see more than just sharing information.
2009 had an overwhelming reaction towards social media which created a lot of junk in the Internet. Currently, informations and contents go to waste and don’t make their way toward the targeted audiences.
2010 will see a revolution towards social profile management with advance analytics. This will be applying spam control over your networks and strengthening the efficiency of your network connections. As sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are used in professional hiring, Profile search will also be a big thing. Social network provides a best way to reach out to potential businesses. Hence search (not for content) but for people should be big. Social profile management with advance analytics will be the next big thing for social networks
5. Virtualization
Client desktop computing is surely the new way towards connecting people to offices. Virtual desktops or Virtual machines will soon be employed in many offices providing better flexibility to hardware and software selection.
This will reduce the hardware cost of servers and desktops and CPU maintenance in office. This will also reduce the cost of softwares as most will be deployed in the virtual machines. This is a key to cutting costs, lowering complexity, as well as increasing agility as needs shift.
6. Online TV
YouTube and other online video sharing sites have almost killed Television. The new generations prefer Internet over TV channels. As with the music industry, TV channels have understood that going online is the only way towards future and they have to jump into this bandwagon before it’s too late.
There are already many commercial channels shifting their attention from TV to Youtube or other sites like Hulu. Further, Google have already announced its paid content over Youtube and the new video advertising technology.
Along with TV, advertising also has to make its way to the eco-system and we already know of many rumors over Apple and Google coming with ways to prevent viewers from skipping the ads. This provides great opportunity for TV Channels to enter into the Internet. Hence 2010 will certainly see hand and hand cooperation of the Internet providers and the Online TV channels.
7. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing will be the new way of doing business over the internet. It will be more of virtual resources management, where company can optimize his/her resources according to needs and dynamic adaption to changes. This will allow companies to greatly enhance their products and services. Cloud computing will also leverage the potential of web applications in the Internet and we might be seeing some great online applications for users and also enterprise solutions.
8. Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is going to blow people’s mind in 2010. With the help of mobile computing, GPS technology, mobile camera and Google maps, mobile applications are going to have much more power to bring the experience to the user than in past.
Further, the core of the technology will be the mobile camera and the placement of processed information on top of live streaming contents from the camera.
We are already seeing some of it with mobile GPS applications, but 2010 will clearly put these applications on the top shelf of mobile apps. This will allow users to get information by integrating physical reality and virtual world.
9. Online Microsoft Office
Microsoft did face a lot of failures in 2009, starting with its slow rise of Bing and failure of Windows Mobile 6.5. So 2009 was not the year for Microsoft, but we could expect more from Microsoft in 2010. It’s Windows 7 have received good reviews, hence in 2010 we may get to read more about it. Windows Mobile 7 is also on its way, it might help Microsoft gain over their Smartphone market share.
But above all, we might get to read about Microsoft’s online OS. With the strength of today’s computing power over the Internet, the time is right for Online Office Suite. We have already seen the success of the Google Docs, so the speculation is high for Online Office. Hopefully this will reduce their cost and avoid nagging updates. The new competition is obviously on the Internet.
10. Mobile Transaction (Mobile Banking)
We surely need to get rid of credit cards and debit cards. They have already become less attractive in terms of monetary transaction. Once mobile phones starthandling our financial details, we will see a huge potential for mobile transactions and mobile banking.
Mobile application builders have already started making applications for enterprise solution by adopting enterprise protocol. For mobile banking and transactions to be successful we need an enterprise solution over the mobile network, similar to RIM’s Blackberry, which will confirm security over the mobile transaction.
The year 2010 will certainly see the glimpse of future’s monetary transaction.
[The article has been updated since last written]
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40 Responses
thanks for the post and nice prediction
i love the apple tablet. so costly 
Very nice post! I am always excited to see a new year where technologies mash together even more smoothly than we could have ever imagined and idea’s that we thought we a decade away are now here today. What will we be talking about for 2011?
This article is completely stupid because it doesn’t explain what any of this stuff is. What good is an article about new technology that no one is aware of yet, if it doesn’t explain what the new tech is or how it works or who will make it or how you will use it or why we should care? That’s like writing an article about a recent football game without telling the reader what teams are playing or what the final score was.
all very important predictions and i hope accurate. thanks for sharing this
I really hope we see the Apple Tablet this month – if not we will certainly see tablet devices in 2010
Neat stuff! I was explaining to my daughter this morning, how futuristic 2001 A Space Odyssey was when I was her age. Wow, were our ideas advanced or retarded? Who’d have guessed that “heightened reality” is not a dream, it’s here! As a kid, we didn’t have call waiting. Now, we have phones that we carry anywhere, which are a window to the world: mini communication computers that were not even anticipated when Star Trek hit the airwaves. (Even their Communicators, although able to reach into space, were limited in function to locating the device and voice data transmissions. Plus they were always breaking!) Now with our ability to communicate so rapidly, it’s feasible, and even probable that we will experience our news coming to us solely through the Internet. What does this mean for traditional broadcast?
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Your Comments You have interesting content, but please tell me that the writer is foreign as there are so many grammatical mistakes, it would only be forgivable if that were so. Otherwise, your technical content provider needs an editor!
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Nice predictions but I think you are biased in some.
The first for instance, Apple’s Tablet. After the macbook Air fiasco apple has lost a lot of credibility in their computing initiatives and a Tablet is more of a computer than an mp3 player. The Google Android powered Camangi Webstation was released December 2009 and demand was far higher than expected so the only way to buy it is getting on a waiting list. I agree with your prediction that this new year MIDs and Tablets will be replacing the mp3 player but Apple’s is just one of the products that will be doing so. Their advantage is the enourmous drone followers that seek apple products independently of knowing what they are buying. Techies on the other hand tend to prefer Android. But the Kindle and Nook are definetly a thing of the past. Now competition begins as with the cellphones between the android and the apple plus whoever is smart enough to try it as well, nokia has already had its tries but didnt make much noise maybe they will find a way to correct this.
As far as the Netphone goes, with advantages such as Wimax with Clear and the like, everything is already set up, the rest is up to the users. Mobile companies are taking advantage of misinformed or uninformed users but as soon as word gets out that you can hire a virtual number and have a wimax phone that works all around the city VoIP will not be the future anymore but the present. Still its the users that need to see that, as far as things are going Mobile companies chose the wrong path already and suffer being replaced by companies like Clear if they dont act fast.
NetNeutrality is a very good point but hard to attain, except with Wimax, it doesnt matter that much anymore.
Social Profile Management(Advanced Analytics) is a very good bet, although I was thinking more about company profiles rather than people but your right theres a long way for that while peoples profiles are already there.
I see virtualization and cloud computing as a present thing as well. It will only grow as companies decide to use it more but again its the users initiative that has to change. Big companies are still using old server setups for their ERPs because of bad tech consulting but I already know of some companies who have been installing ERPs and CRMs on cloud networks with virtualized software.
I think the same thing happened to online TV, it hit the jackpot with hulu.com and ever since has only been growing in audience. But that wasnt even last year, but the one before.
Augmented Reality is a very good bet for the future specially since sixth sense was made open source this last semester.
Microsoft is slow as usuall and second to the main inovations but this time it was so slow that Google Docs has had a strong predomination over Online Office programs since years ago. It has also grown so much that its already embedded into popular CRMs (such as Salesforce and SugarCRM) and can even perform some small automation tasks that only ERPs used to be able to perform. Microsoft on the other hand has to have a very very good first product if they intend to be able to scratch the market specialy because google docs is free with google apps up to 100 users and is still cheap for corporate accounts. I really see Online Microsoft Office as the next botched attempt of Microsoft just like their try at the mobile market, since they have been in this position thousands of times before and have always failed, take vista for example it used to be announced as better and faster than MacOSx and thanks to it computers started selling with Ubuntu linux.
I cant really comment on the last since I dont have a US bank account but here in México we can do all sorts of bank transfers(except international) and even payments to different stores from our phones, even if they are not smartphones thanks to encrypted sms technologies. Using this sort of technologies makes sures that iphones and old motorola and nokia phones have access to the system and not just the cool new smartphones. But Im not sure what the US banks or other countries Banks are doing right now.
Cheers again on a great post.
You have left off one major change that is now starting to really change the way of computing…. TOUCHSCREEN – I predict in the not so far future that the mouse will soon be obsolete…
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Thanks a lot for the responses, I am glad that the article was appreciated. Regarding some of the missed technologies from the list, I would like to apologize and say that I tried my best to bring a very unbiased list, as possible. I have tried to include some critical issues like netphone and net neutrality..
About the grammer, I will try my best to avoid those errors.. and if anyone wants to personally suggest me my email id is deep@in-rev.com. I would really appreciate this a lot.
@ David Zambrano Thanks a lot for your comprehensive comment and really appreciate them. And thanks for adding your thoughts about apple tablet. Tablet have taken immense height in the market and its always good to hear some different perspective.
If even half of that stuff rocks as much as this post would imply, 2010 is going to be a technologically great year.
Hard to read your post. English is probably not your first language. Still, a good read once you get past that.
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While this should have left me simply bored, it actually angered me. My conclusion is that the reader probably went to some sub-par search engine and typed in “Emerging Technology,” then utilized the first 10 results as his outline for this entry.
In conclusion, if I ever see another link to “technology.globalthoughtz.com” I will discount it as meaningless drivel and not waste my time or computing resources to access the content.
Great Article. The only thing missing is the whole revolution that’s taking place in Mobile. I predict apps and smarter smart phones will see the biggest breakthroughs this year.
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It will be interesting to see how quickly adoption for the online Microsoft Office takes place. In 5 years time traditional apps that you install locally will surely be a thing of the past.
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Nice & pretty detailed wish list. Personally maybe 1 or 2 may find it’s way on the radar as far as India is concerned:(
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I think this is a great article and I agree that these 10 things will definitely be recognized in 2010. I’m not sure how the Apple Tablet will do its part but I don’t doubt it, I mean, look at the iPhone. A phone somehow became a revolutionary internet device. Going back a little more, the iPod. I think apple does a great job as a facilitator as well so I’m thinking the apple table could possibly integrate augmented reality somehow.
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Thanks for compiling the list. Nice article.
Great post nd hope we wil c microsoft office this year nd happy to see technologiest come 2gether in everyways never known. Kabelo
Yet another great post by you. Keep them coming.
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