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Top Technology Trends, Stories, Products of 2011: A Compilation
2011 Year in Review for technology and electronics features lists from around the Web: consumer electronics, energy, mobile, health tech, entertainment, gadgets, world IT news and more.
It was the best of times (Apple, Android, .xxx domains). It was the worst of times (HP, hacking, RIM, Solyndra). It was the most controversial of times (3D, the smart grid, Netflix, the Cloud). It was 2011.
CE Pro has compiled a list of lists from around the Web, featuring the top trends, biggest stories and best and worst products of the year in a wide range of consumer electronics, IT and home-technology categories.
Did we miss your list? Please send a link to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we'll add it to our list!
Biggest Home Technology Trends from 2011 (Electronic House)
From streaming media to 3D TV, this has been an interesting year.
1.) Active vs. passive 3D glasses
2.) Is the iPad replacing the touch panel?
3.) All-purpose media rooms
4.) Android Catches Up with iOS
5.) Netflix Bombs
6.) Apps for Every A/V Component
7.) Smarter and More Social TVs
8.) Big Affordable TVs
9.) Streaming vs Stored Music
Biggest CE Stories of 2011 (CE Pro)
Savant vs. Crestron, the cloud, Netflix, independent reps, and attempts at mass-market home automation were just a few of the biggest and most controversial CE stories of 2011.
1.) Savant vs. Crestron vs. Cyber Sound
2.) The Demise and Rise of Steve Jobs
3.) Plight of the Independent Rep
4.) Netflix Price Hike, Implosion
5.) Service Providers and Mass Market Home Automation
6.) Association Shake-Ups
7.) Rise of the Independent Technology Consultant/Specifier
8.) The Cloud
Top 5 Smart Grid Trends of 2011 (greentechgrid)
Integration is the name of the smart grid game, whether it’s making good on corporate acquisitions or ensuring smart grid systems live up to their promises.
1.) Corporate M&A Yields Investor Exits, But Have They Yielded Value to Market?
2.) Smart Meters Are Getting Up and Running -- or Facing Consequences
3.) Demand Response Shifting Models, Waiting for Payday
4.) The Smart Grid Back-Office Moves to the Cloud
5.) Managing the Grid and Managing Markets Converge
The top 10 trends for cleantech in 2011 (Gigaom)
1). Solar prices plummet
2). India set to become cleantech power house
3). Biofuel companies push for IPOs., aftermath varies
4). Batteries still suck
5). Solar CIGS players held on
6). Slow going for electric vehicles
7). Waiting for IPOs
8). Year of large solar power developers
9). The politicization of clean energy and green jobs
10). The cleanweb is here
2011 Renewable Energy Trends Taking Us Forward (Renewable Energy World)
As 2011 rapidly comes to a close, we take a quick a look back at some of the key developments of the past year – ones that will likely shape the market in major ways going forward.
1.) Chinese Solar Panels Fuel Growth & Protectionism
2.) Electric Vehicles Enter the Mass Market
3.) Renaissance in U.S. Domestic Fossil Fuel Production
4.) The ‘Solyndra Flu’
Top 5 Online Music Trends in 2011 (ReadWriteWeb)
1.) Music Moves Toward the Cloud
2.) Online Music Gets More Social (or Annoying)
3.) Recommendation Evolves: Man vs. Machine
4.) Group Listening: Turntable.fm and Beyond
5.) Music Creation Goes Mobile
For IPTV, a mostly bright 2011 leads into a brilliant 2012 (FierceIPTV)
1.) The rise, and fall, of Netflix
2.) Cord cutting a double-edged sword
3.) Operators scramble to get a handle on OTT
4.) Multiscreen delivery has multiplied
5.) The cost of doing business went up drastically
Top Trends of 2011: How TV Grew More Social (ReadWriteWeb)
In 2011, services like Twitter and Facebook served as the virtual water cooler for just about every major news story and broadcast media event. It may not have been invented this year, but 2011 was pivotal for social TV.
1.) Twitter TV Grows Up
2.) Second Screen Apps
3.) Content-Shifting and Tablet TV
Top 5 Most Time-Shifted TV Moments of 2011 (TiVo)
1.) Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger throws incomplete pass to Mike Wallace at the end of Super Bowl XLV
2.) The eulogy for Charlie Sheen's Charlie Harper on "Two and a Half Men."
3.) "The King's Speech" is announced as Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards.
4.) The "After the Fire" episode of "Modern Family."
5.) The "Hit and Run" episode of "Modern Family."
5 Ways The Smartphone Market Evolved In 2011 (Information Week)
The smartphone market is one of the most dynamic in the world. Here are the five biggest smartphone trends that took place during 2011.
1.) Dual-Core Reigns
2.) Massive HD Screens
3.) 4G
4.) Millions (and Billions) of Apps
5.) Platform Consolidation
The 10 biggest stories of 2011 in mobile tech (CNN)
Some of the year's top mobile stories were mostly hype (QR codes and cell phone radiation) or vaporware (those persistent iPhone 5 rumors). But other developments were genuinely important to the U.S. mobile landscape.
1.) Goodbye (mostly) to unlimited data plans; hello throttling
2.) Growth of mobile streaming media
3.) 4G network rollouts
4.) BlackBerry outage and continuing RIM decline
5.) Android commands half the U.S. mobile market
6.) Mobile payment infrastructure begins
7.) The debut of smaller, cheaper e-reader tablets
8.) Mobile privacy concerns increase
9.) Voice interface progress continues
10.) Steve Jobs' mobile legacy
Top 12 Mobile Tech Stories of 2011 (Laptop Magazine)
Last year at this time, there were no 4G LTE phones available and all Android tablets ran on version 2.2 or earlier of Google’s OS. Steve Jobs was still with us last December, but Siri was not. AT&T hadn’t made a bid for T-Mobile yet, while both Skype and Motorola remained independent companies.
1.) Steve Jobs Dies
2.) LTE Becomes the 4G Standard
3.) AT&T Tries to Buy T-Mobile, Fails
4.) Apple Sues Samsung, HTC Over Patents
5.) Google Brings Android to Tablets with Honeycomb
6.) BlackBerry in Free Fall
7.) 3D Goes Mobile, Glasses-Free
8.) iPhone 4S Launches on 3 out of 4 Carriers
9.) Ultrabooks Try to Make Laptops Sexy Again
10.) HP Goes Bipolar
11.) Nokia Bets on Windows Phone
12.) Microsoft Debuts Windows 8
The Year's Top 5 Health Tech Surprises (SFGate.com)
Practice Fusion takes a closer look at the major trends and surprises that changed the health information technology landscape in 2011.
1.) Small Practices Led Meaningful Use
2.) Google Health Said Goodbye
3.) Tablets Took Off
4.) Health IT Hiring Boomed
5.) Heads Were in the Clouds
Top health industry issues of 2011 (PWC)
The new health reform law will prompt most organizations to do strategy makeovers as they react to and prepare for new rules and payment models in 2011.
1.) Booming business in health information technology
2.) Gearing up to redefine health insurance: From MLRs to insurance exchanges
3.) ACOs: Is this the next big thing or not?
4.) Nowhere else to cost shift: Consumers could continue to reduce utilization
5.) M&A: Deals will bond the familiar and unfamiliar as organizations look to fill strategic gaps
6.) Follow-me healthcare: Patients look to health organizations that are always on
Telehealth, the cloud and BI — oh my! Top 7 community blogs of 2011 (HealthIT Exchange)
Below are the seven most popular blog posts from the community, touching upon just some of the prevalent industry trends, policy changes and market developments from 2011, and also shedding light on some of the key areas that health IT leaders should continue to watch as we head into 2012.
1.) Final MDDS rule deems hospitals medical device manufacturers
2.) Top 7 steps for a successful business intelligence implementation in a meaningful use era
3.) Five reasons why cloud computing is essential for health care
4.) Mind the gap: Connecting health care IT and disaster planning
5.) What would Siri mean to health care and how can it change the way we view EHRs?
6.) Veterans Affairs department leads the way in telehealth services
7.) Views from the top: On health information exchange and RECs
Most popular #hashtags of 2011 (Twitter)
1.) #egypt
2.) #tigerblood
3.) #threewordstoliveby
4.) #idontunderstandwhy
5.) #japan
6.) #improudtosay
7.) #superbowl
8.) #jan25
Most popular Technology topics on Twitter (Twitter)
1.) Mac App Store
2.) Sony NGP
3.) Guitar Hero
4.) Mozilla Firefox
5.) Duke Nukem Forever
6.) iPad
7.) iPhone
8.) Nintendo 3DS
9.) Mortal Kombat
10.) iPod
Fastest rising consumer electronics products worldwide in 2011 on Google (Yahoo)
1.) Amazon Kindle Fire
2.) iPhone 4S
3.) Sidekick 4G
4.) HP Touchpad
5.) SPB Shell 3D
6.) iPad 2
7.) HTC Sensation
8.) Samsung Nexus Prime
9.) Sony NGP
10.) iPad 3
Top ten most searched consumer electronics in the US in 2011 on Bing (Yahoo)
1.) Xbox
2.) Kindle
3.) PlayStation
4.) iPhone 5
5.) iPad
6.) Wii
7.) iPad 2
8.) Nook
8.) Windows Phone 7
10.) Macbook Pro
CE Pro has compiled a list of lists from around the Web, featuring the top trends, biggest stories and best and worst products of the year in a wide range of consumer electronics, IT and home-technology categories.
Did we miss your list? Please send a link to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and we'll add it to our list!
Home technology, smart home, custom electronics
Biggest Home Technology Trends from 2011 (Electronic House)
From streaming media to 3D TV, this has been an interesting year.
1.) Active vs. passive 3D glasses
2.) Is the iPad replacing the touch panel?
3.) All-purpose media rooms
4.) Android Catches Up with iOS
5.) Netflix Bombs
6.) Apps for Every A/V Component
7.) Smarter and More Social TVs
8.) Big Affordable TVs
9.) Streaming vs Stored Music
Biggest CE Stories of 2011 (CE Pro)
Savant vs. Crestron, the cloud, Netflix, independent reps, and attempts at mass-market home automation were just a few of the biggest and most controversial CE stories of 2011.
1.) Savant vs. Crestron vs. Cyber Sound
2.) The Demise and Rise of Steve Jobs
3.) Plight of the Independent Rep
4.) Netflix Price Hike, Implosion
5.) Service Providers and Mass Market Home Automation
6.) Association Shake-Ups
7.) Rise of the Independent Technology Consultant/Specifier
8.) The Cloud
Green, clean tech, energy
Top 5 Smart Grid Trends of 2011 (greentechgrid)
Integration is the name of the smart grid game, whether it’s making good on corporate acquisitions or ensuring smart grid systems live up to their promises.
1.) Corporate M&A Yields Investor Exits, But Have They Yielded Value to Market?
2.) Smart Meters Are Getting Up and Running -- or Facing Consequences
3.) Demand Response Shifting Models, Waiting for Payday
4.) The Smart Grid Back-Office Moves to the Cloud
5.) Managing the Grid and Managing Markets Converge
The top 10 trends for cleantech in 2011 (Gigaom)
1). Solar prices plummet
2). India set to become cleantech power house
3). Biofuel companies push for IPOs., aftermath varies
4). Batteries still suck
5). Solar CIGS players held on
6). Slow going for electric vehicles
7). Waiting for IPOs
8). Year of large solar power developers
9). The politicization of clean energy and green jobs
10). The cleanweb is here
2011 Renewable Energy Trends Taking Us Forward (Renewable Energy World)
As 2011 rapidly comes to a close, we take a quick a look back at some of the key developments of the past year – ones that will likely shape the market in major ways going forward.
1.) Chinese Solar Panels Fuel Growth & Protectionism
2.) Electric Vehicles Enter the Mass Market
3.) Renaissance in U.S. Domestic Fossil Fuel Production
4.) The ‘Solyndra Flu’
Music, movies, entertainment
Top 5 Online Music Trends in 2011 (ReadWriteWeb)
1.) Music Moves Toward the Cloud
2.) Online Music Gets More Social (or Annoying)
3.) Recommendation Evolves: Man vs. Machine
4.) Group Listening: Turntable.fm and Beyond
5.) Music Creation Goes Mobile
For IPTV, a mostly bright 2011 leads into a brilliant 2012 (FierceIPTV)
1.) The rise, and fall, of Netflix
2.) Cord cutting a double-edged sword
3.) Operators scramble to get a handle on OTT
4.) Multiscreen delivery has multiplied
5.) The cost of doing business went up drastically
Top Trends of 2011: How TV Grew More Social (ReadWriteWeb)
In 2011, services like Twitter and Facebook served as the virtual water cooler for just about every major news story and broadcast media event. It may not have been invented this year, but 2011 was pivotal for social TV.
1.) Twitter TV Grows Up
2.) Second Screen Apps
3.) Content-Shifting and Tablet TV
Top 5 Most Time-Shifted TV Moments of 2011 (TiVo)
1.) Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger throws incomplete pass to Mike Wallace at the end of Super Bowl XLV
2.) The eulogy for Charlie Sheen's Charlie Harper on "Two and a Half Men."
3.) "The King's Speech" is announced as Best Picture at the 2011 Academy Awards.
4.) The "After the Fire" episode of "Modern Family."
5.) The "Hit and Run" episode of "Modern Family."
Mobile
5 Ways The Smartphone Market Evolved In 2011 (Information Week)
The smartphone market is one of the most dynamic in the world. Here are the five biggest smartphone trends that took place during 2011.
1.) Dual-Core Reigns
2.) Massive HD Screens
3.) 4G
4.) Millions (and Billions) of Apps
5.) Platform Consolidation
The 10 biggest stories of 2011 in mobile tech (CNN)
Some of the year's top mobile stories were mostly hype (QR codes and cell phone radiation) or vaporware (those persistent iPhone 5 rumors). But other developments were genuinely important to the U.S. mobile landscape.
1.) Goodbye (mostly) to unlimited data plans; hello throttling
2.) Growth of mobile streaming media
3.) 4G network rollouts
4.) BlackBerry outage and continuing RIM decline
5.) Android commands half the U.S. mobile market
6.) Mobile payment infrastructure begins
7.) The debut of smaller, cheaper e-reader tablets
8.) Mobile privacy concerns increase
9.) Voice interface progress continues
10.) Steve Jobs' mobile legacy
Top 12 Mobile Tech Stories of 2011 (Laptop Magazine)
Last year at this time, there were no 4G LTE phones available and all Android tablets ran on version 2.2 or earlier of Google’s OS. Steve Jobs was still with us last December, but Siri was not. AT&T hadn’t made a bid for T-Mobile yet, while both Skype and Motorola remained independent companies.
1.) Steve Jobs Dies
2.) LTE Becomes the 4G Standard
3.) AT&T Tries to Buy T-Mobile, Fails
4.) Apple Sues Samsung, HTC Over Patents
5.) Google Brings Android to Tablets with Honeycomb
6.) BlackBerry in Free Fall
7.) 3D Goes Mobile, Glasses-Free
8.) iPhone 4S Launches on 3 out of 4 Carriers
9.) Ultrabooks Try to Make Laptops Sexy Again
10.) HP Goes Bipolar
11.) Nokia Bets on Windows Phone
12.) Microsoft Debuts Windows 8
Health technology
The Year's Top 5 Health Tech Surprises (SFGate.com)
Practice Fusion takes a closer look at the major trends and surprises that changed the health information technology landscape in 2011.
1.) Small Practices Led Meaningful Use
2.) Google Health Said Goodbye
3.) Tablets Took Off
4.) Health IT Hiring Boomed
5.) Heads Were in the Clouds
Top health industry issues of 2011 (PWC)
The new health reform law will prompt most organizations to do strategy makeovers as they react to and prepare for new rules and payment models in 2011.
1.) Booming business in health information technology
2.) Gearing up to redefine health insurance: From MLRs to insurance exchanges
3.) ACOs: Is this the next big thing or not?
4.) Nowhere else to cost shift: Consumers could continue to reduce utilization
5.) M&A: Deals will bond the familiar and unfamiliar as organizations look to fill strategic gaps
6.) Follow-me healthcare: Patients look to health organizations that are always on
Telehealth, the cloud and BI — oh my! Top 7 community blogs of 2011 (HealthIT Exchange)
Below are the seven most popular blog posts from the community, touching upon just some of the prevalent industry trends, policy changes and market developments from 2011, and also shedding light on some of the key areas that health IT leaders should continue to watch as we head into 2012.
1.) Final MDDS rule deems hospitals medical device manufacturers
2.) Top 7 steps for a successful business intelligence implementation in a meaningful use era
3.) Five reasons why cloud computing is essential for health care
4.) Mind the gap: Connecting health care IT and disaster planning
5.) What would Siri mean to health care and how can it change the way we view EHRs?
6.) Veterans Affairs department leads the way in telehealth services
7.) Views from the top: On health information exchange and RECs
Tech trending on Twitter, Google, Bing
Most popular #hashtags of 2011 (Twitter)
1.) #egypt
2.) #tigerblood
3.) #threewordstoliveby
4.) #idontunderstandwhy
5.) #japan
6.) #improudtosay
7.) #superbowl
8.) #jan25
Most popular Technology topics on Twitter (Twitter)
1.) Mac App Store
2.) Sony NGP
3.) Guitar Hero
4.) Mozilla Firefox
5.) Duke Nukem Forever
6.) iPad
7.) iPhone
8.) Nintendo 3DS
9.) Mortal Kombat
10.) iPod
Fastest rising consumer electronics products worldwide in 2011 on Google (Yahoo)
1.) Amazon Kindle Fire
2.) iPhone 4S
3.) Sidekick 4G
4.) HP Touchpad
5.) SPB Shell 3D
6.) iPad 2
7.) HTC Sensation
8.) Samsung Nexus Prime
9.) Sony NGP
10.) iPad 3
Top ten most searched consumer electronics in the US in 2011 on Bing (Yahoo)
1.) Xbox
2.) Kindle
3.) PlayStation
4.) iPhone 5
5.) iPad
6.) Wii
7.) iPad 2
8.) Nook
8.) Windows Phone 7
10.) Macbook Pro
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