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2006 DEMO Conference

by Victoria Murphy Barret, Forbes Magazine

BURLINGAME, CALIF. - At a resort outside Phoenix, Ariz., this week, 68 companies and some 700 industry-watchers gathered to agree on a familiar premise: Tech is back and roaring.

At the annual DEMO conference, where budding technologists strut their stuff in front of would-be investors and buzzmakers, there was no talk of the recent bust. But there was lots of chatter about consumers eager to get more out of computers, networks and cellular phones.

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Mobile E-Mail Set To Explode

Wireless Newsfactor

Mobile e-mail is on the verge of mass adoption, according to industry analysts Datamonitor. A new report from the company claims that there are roughly 650 million corporate e-mail inboxes worldwide today, at least 35 percent of which could be mobilized.

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30 Trends for 2006: Pursuit of the Frictionless Business Platform

By Allan E. Alter, CIO Insight

It's not enough to run a cost-saving, well-aligned IT group anymore. This year's CIOs have to build platforms that can make their companies flexible, frictionless, "flat" and able to use technology to increase revenue as well as keep the infrastructure running.

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Top 10 Trends for 2006

Red Herring Print Issue

Alternative energy, tiny sensors, and engineered foods figure among the leading technologies for 2006.

The global business of technology took some sharp turns in 2005. We saw public companies going private, a preference among entrepreneurs and investors for buyouts over IPOs, the growing influence of the iPod, and the gravity-defying rise of Google’s stock price as the search company turned from underdog to overlord.

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Computer to User: You Figure It Out

Emerging Technology by Gary H. Anthes (COMPUTERWORLD)

The work is a branch of "affective computing," which attempts to make computers recognize and respond to users' emotions. And then there's "culturally embedded computing," as Cornell University information science professor Phoebe Sengers calls it, which applies a twist to the concept.

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Eight Tech Trends for 2006

By Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek

• The War for the Digital Home
• Yahoo's Social Circle
• The Brave New World of Wireless
• Phones Above and Beyond the Call
• Is the Web the New Hollywood?
• Coming to Your PC's Back Door: Trojans
• They're Hiring in Techland
• A Monster Year for Game Consoles

Complete Article: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2006/tc20060123_465596.htm

VCs trends for 2006

By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Here are the trends five Silicon Valley venture capitalists presented at a Churchill Club debate Thursday evening:

Complete Article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13621471.htm

Top valley investors predict the future

By Mike Langberg
Mercury News

Microsoft and Oracle are humbled, phone calls become free, and product design trumps functionality.

There's much to get excited about in 2006, according to five of Silicon Valley's leading venture capitalists -- as long as we don't all die first from a global outbreak of bird flu.

If nothing else, the five see lots of opportunities to invest the many millions of dollars in their hands.

Complete Article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13626114.htm

2006: The Real Breakout Year

By Eric Lundquist
January 2, 2006

Opinion: Mobile apps, SOAs and technology rebuilding all hold promise. What will be the top IT trends in 2006? I know it is a bit premature to outline what will happen in '06 just as the year is getting under way, but here goes.

Complete Article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1905836,00.asp

The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler

In the annals of contemporary change literature, Alvin Toffler is the 600-pound gorilla. He and his wife and collaborator Heidi Toffler have written a baker's dozen of books that have all been best-sellers, starting way, way back in 1970 with Future Shock. The family tree of thousands of books about the future, and about how to cope with it, all lead to the leafy canopy where he makes his roost. He has written about society, culture, the media, organizations, science, computers, politics, and economics.

More info: http://www.skypoint.com/members/mfinley/toffler.htm