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Name Your Top Tech Trends of 2010

Posted January 13, 2011 7:00 AM

Technology-wise, plenty happened in 2010. This CNN story gives one reporter's take on the top tech stories of the year. In brief, they include (in no particular order): Tablet computers (iPad in particular); Facebook (which passed the 500 million user mark); mobile check-in apps (Foursquare, Gowalla, others); hands-free video gaming with Kinect; watching the Web on TV; escalation of the smartphone wars (iPhone 4 and the emergence of Android competition); apps galore and app-stores (for both Apple and Android); privacy concerns (stirred by Facebook and mobile check-in sites, in particular); and Net Neutrality. How does this match up with your take? Are there others you would add to this list, or any you'd leave off?

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Re: Name Your Top Tech Trends of 2010

01/13/2011 10:38 PM

As a tech trend, I might be a bit off the mark, but I'd like to suggest Shipping Containers as Emergency Shelters and related uses. While not a new trend in 2010, it certainly gained a major boost by the Haiti quake, in both innovation and public awareness, as our own CR4 thread tends to show.

Chris

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