Consumerization 

Consumerization is an increasingly accepted term used to describe the growing tendency for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business and government organizations. The emergence of consumer markets as the primary driver of information technology innovation is seen as a major IT industry shift, as large business and government organizations dominated the early decades of computer usage and development.

The term, consumerization, is believed to have been first used regularly in an IT industry context by Douglas Neal and John Taylor of the Leading Edge Forum in 2001. The first known published paper on this topic was the "Consumerization of Information Technology," published by the LEF in June 2004.^[1]' The term is now used widely throughout the IT industry, and is the topic of numerous conferences and articles, most prominently thus far as a special insert in "The Economist" magazine in October 8, 2011.^[2]

Historically, many technology-based products such as calculators, facsimile machines, and mobile phones, have also had their origins in business markets, and only over time become dominated by high volume consumer usage, as these products commoditized and prices fell. The technology behind the consumerization of computing can be said to have begun with the development of eight-bit, general-purpose microprocessors in the early 1970s and eventually the personal computer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, it is significant that the great success of the IBM PC in the first half of the 1980s was driven primarily by business markets. Business preeminence continued during the late 1980s and early 1990s with the rise of the Microsoft Windows PC platform.

Big data

                                                       

If there’s one thing scarier than the big data tsunami, tech vendors tell us, then it’s tech vendors getting left out of the big-data conversation.
Microsoft is the latest software maker to crowbar itself into the debate on big data, this time claiming a place at the table on in-memory databases.

 The amount of data in our world has been exploding, and analyzing large data sets—so-called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus, according to research by MGI and McKinsey's Business Technology Office. Leaders in every sector will have to grapple with the implications of big data, not just a few data-oriented managers. The increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise of multimedia, social media, and the Internet of Things will fuel exponential growth in data for the foreseeable future.

Big data (also spelled Big Data) is a general term used to describe the voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data a company creates -- data that would take too much time and cost too much money to load into a relational database for analysis. Although Big data doesn't refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data

cloud computing

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The name cloud computing was inspired by the cloud symbol that's often used to represent the Internet in flowcharts and diagrams.

Social media is a phrase being tossed around a lot these days, but it can sometimes be difficult to answer the question of what is social media. If MySpace is a social media site, and Mag.nolia is a social media site, and Wikipedia is a social media site, then just what is social media?

Next-Generation Mobile -Smart Devices and tablets

PS-enabled camcorder

GPS makes geotagging still photography images easy. But Contour is taking the pairing further with its Contour GPS — a small, light, wearable, GPS-equipped HD video camera. Attach it to your bicycle helmet or to your off-road vehicle, and start taping your movie. When you're done, you can download the video to your computer, and an interactive map will let you track y

Next-Generation Mobile -Smart Devices and tablets

For me the next generation of  all gadgets is very nice