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A few days ago we discussed you the 10 technological concepts that have marked 2011 and now want to share with you the trends that we believe will shape this coming year, 2012.
Since then we say that the trends will be guided by what we have already begun to live and learn in 2011, such as the Cloud, Social Media, Online Marketing and ecommerce.
Then we are going to expose the 7 Technology Trends for 2012 :
1. Disintermediation
This trend was marked by Javier Martinez Romero in the interview we did with him in November.
The desintermeciación is a trend that is going to be motivated and caused by the expansion of ecommerce. The power ecommerces allow us to sell our products in a fast and simple, without intermediaries. Thus we are quiene create the product, market and eventually sell to our customers.
This will please the producers, who can set prices that they want their products and consumers, who should be able to buy at lower prices because we would save the costs of intermediaries.
2. Ubiquity
This term we have also spoken in 2011 and even our manager Javier Lazaro Zapater, put it in the panel discussion on Cloud Computing in participating in Active Zaragoza.
Thanks to laptops, but even more, thanks to smartphones and tablets can perform many tasks, both personal and professional, from anywhere, anytime. Of course, we will need an internet connection.
3. Socialize even more to our company and brand
Social networking has taken a sharp turn to how we see business users and are making the mentality of companies and business change.
Companies have already ceased to be entities that have all the power and always give us statements, to be more personal. Companies are approaching people and offer them everything they need.
The companies have profiles on different social networks to make a different marketing they were doing before. To date companies will always use the internet to teach the “goodness” of their products and services. Now use the Internet to teach the “goodness” of their products and services and also to provide information about other products and give us more knowledge.
This is being given on the Internet also can be seen in television advertising, the ads are more social and now what we sell are experiences and feelings. Something is changing …
4. Customer
The customer is usually the workhorse of companies.
Now companies have already been realized and understood that the customer is the true protagonist. The customer has a say in the market.
Now when we go to a store to buy a product because we have done, at least 10 comparative online, we have studied all the features of it and know a lot more product than the seller. Read the rest of this entry »
Since ancient times human beings want to know the future. To achieve this objective we have used a variety of mechanisms, some of them not advisable not credible, but with the advancement in communications and tracking the evolution of certain technologies and devices, trends have emerged. The trends have a rational foundation that allows us to anticipate where they go for the tastes and needs of people.
Today we finished the year 2011 and it is normal to wonder what will bring next year, what will be the scenario in which we manage it in the daily activities and what the devices will become our fellow travelers on this adventure that is life.
But without getting romantic or sentimental, we address the issue in a scientific manner, listing the technologies and computing devices that stand out as we will see more frequently in 2012:
Command via voice, the success of Siri is clearly a route that many companies will in 2012, so it is expected that this technology integrates the new smartphones and other forms of tablets. The landing of this technology in the PC is also expected, as for example in the Google ecosystem as an interface with web sites and helping to navigation.
The decrease of the email is another fact that has been detectanto for some time. Reports indicate that children who leave school do not have email accounts and connect to social networks and use messaging products.
Reduction of cable television is another trend observed migrating to video game consoles and smart TVs next year. This has been happening in Europe for some time, with systems like the Xbox.
Hosting Services, Google started the ball rolling with applications, and OnLive lit a fire under this system with games. As we move into 2012, will increase access to content hosted on external servers. And movies are transmitted instead of downloading, and will not be long until most of our existing Internet applications do not run locally. It is expected a boost in this direction in 2012.
App stores: This trend continues and accelerates in 2012 with the launch of Microsoft, and its app store as a result of this is expected disappearance of the software packages.
Windows 8 – Touch, This product is a trend in itself, and represents the biggest gamble that Microsoft has ever done, according to Steve Ballmer. The company is going to erase the gap between PCs and tablets and expects users are not confused. This will make the tactile is the mainstream PC market and reduce the gap between laptops and tablets.
Thin is in fashion, this trend is driven mainly by tablets (mostly iPads) and ultrabooks (including MacBook Air), next year will be the year to move through the thin, thin laptops. This will not only be for products such as PC, but it will remain fine and thin lens smartphones, tablets and televisions too. The vendors will compete to be the thinnest in every category.
TIS (tablets of thing), Samsung has introduced a refrigerator with a system that incorporates a tablet computer and it is likely that others will follow suit. The cars are displayed with similar tablet built into your script, and this effect is likely to extend iPad to things like home automation and high-end systems home alarm. And yes, you may be able to install applications on many of them.
The company Ericsson Consumer Lab has developed a list of lines of action that set the trend this year, following a survey among 10,000 people in over 40 countries.
This study has shown among other curiosities that 90% of the owners of smartphones brings their devices against 80% who do not leave home without money, that 67% of smartphone users says he wants to pay through the mobile , and that mobile data surpassed voice in the fourth quarter of 2009 and doubled in the first quarter of 2011.
The list of some of the significant trends, according to Ericsson’s think tank, is:
. The connectivity has become essential. Consumers say the Internet is one of the last things that would be willing to resign if they had to cut expenses.
. There is a huge and growing demand for new services and the Internet.
. Social networks redefine the transmission of news and drive consumption of photographs, video clips and music.
. Mobile phones play an important role in daily life. 90% of smart phone owners carry their devices, an important fact considering that only 80% of them mention that they have money.
. Share information and have multiple devices connected all day is becoming commonplace for users, due to the massive introduction of cloud services.
. 2011 study on smartphone users found that men are still the most used services on the smartphone. Women, however, are the most call or send messages or connect to Facebook.
. 67% of smartphone users says he wants to pay via mobile.
. Mobile data surpassed voice in the fourth quarter of 2009 and doubled in the first quarter of 2011. Consumers are increasingly connecting to the Internet and everything around them, from the car to the vending machines.
Mobility plays a cross in the products and services that we will be born this year.
With the speed that has taken the technological development, progress occurred every five years before now occurring in a year or less. So in 2012 the changes will be modest and people still marveling at what he is capable of creating man. This will be a breakout year for tablets beyond the iPad, and consolidation of smartphones compared to other phones. The public and private cloud will mark the transition to mobile devices, like the growth of mobile Internet penetration, which, in fact, the country is close to represent half of all access to the Network In addition, first steps of artificial intelligence have a name: Siri, the Apple system. The following is a list of some of the trends seen in the world of technology this year.
Ultrabook
Attack Sponsored by Intel, the industry of portable flood us with ultrabooks, who must use the latest generation of the ‘brains’ of Intel (this year will be the ‘Ivy Bridge’), its thickness will be less than 21 mm, light up in seconds and your battery will last several days. Will the market be in charge of deciding whether approved or discarded.
Massification of mobile Internet
Of the 5.9 million Internet connections in the country, 2.7 million were mobile accesses. This year is expected to service adoption, growing at rates of 80 percent, is even larger. In this 2012 also operate the largest network of LTE technology, fourth generation (4G), which is high-speed mobile Internet, the company Antioquia UNE. This technology can be defined as that will survey the current 3G, 3.5G and HSPA +. According to Juniper Research, in 2012 there will be more than 24 million devices that support LTE.
Apple without Jobs first year
2012 will be crucial for the future of the company, in the absence of its founder and mentor of innovation. The challenge will be to maintain the success of its popular products. In fact, already started the rumors about the arrival of two new versions of the iPad tablet-a-smaller in the first months of the year, and the expected iPhone 5 in the third quarter. Not only will these releases. According to media experts, everything is ready for the arrival of Apple TV. Although no details or dates, you can forward it will work with IOS, you are connected to the web, have a wide variety of applications and voice recognition service Siri (which is also on the iPhone and the iPod). Challenge for companies like Sony, LG and Samsung.
Now ask things your cell
The complex control technologies and interaction with voice comprising the human sense of conversation, as Siri, Apple should be on the computers that use Android. Google working on the project Majel, who perfected the concept. Meanwhile, Microsoft also does the same in Windows Phone. We will pass the click to ‘talk’.
Windows 8 will come to war in the world of mobility
In February the trial will (beta) Microsoft System for tablets. Criticized or loved one, will give a tough fight to its rivals that do not stand still: we will see new IOS (Apple) and the expected Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Google.
Goodbye to ‘netbook’?
These teams will be the first victim of the tablets. Only in 2011 sales fell 35 percent, because today you can produce portable ‘real’, more powerful and almost the same price. Meanwhile, tablets are gaining ground.
You pay with your cell phone
Imagine sliding your smartphone on a cash register to pay for purchases. Google uses this technology, known as NFC, in collaboration with banks. Other companies like Nokia and RIM are also including the chip on their computers. On the other hand, the operator Tigo working on boosting banking and facilitate transactions through the cell in Colombia.
Decant the tablet market
During 2011, almost all technology companies in the world presented their tablet. What will this year be settling between Apple iPhone and Android, with Samsung at the top. Windows 8 will come with everything in this fight for the computer-controlled touch.
The company Toshiba has introduced what will be their new print engine in their new products for the range of multifunction e-Studio , it is the new e-X Bridge which promises to reinvent the current laser printers, renewing and optimizing the functioning of the them more than we had imagined, or so it seems.
Initially, the print engine and X-Bridge offers a processing capacity far superior to the others, thus allowing to increase the speed of printing, copying, and scanning as well, also possible to use software to take advantage of more sophisticated functionality offered by printers.
This new range of Toshiba printers also incorporate a hard drive with encryption and deletion of data that will automatically, preventing the content is accessible if removed from the MFP to another, something that companies and workplaces will be more than welcome.
In addition, the new printers of the range e-Studio will also have an ecological purpose, and that will be made ??of bioplastics and recycled materials and even be able to consume less energy.
On the other hand, also be printed on recycled paper, and use highly durable supplies high-quality prints.
The Panasonic Lumix FX-80 belongs to the mid-range compact cameras Panasonic. Its 12-megapixel sensor with an image processor called Venus Engine. This allows several improvements such as reducing picture noise (those annoying little red dots that appear in photos taken in low light). It is easy to use camera for amateurs in many different conditions.
Most of the functions of the camera are controlled via a touch screen of three inches. One of the most interesting of this camera is the ability to make minor photo retouching at the time. Paint your lips, teeth whitening or background blur is possible through the generosity of the rear monitor. Furthermore, from the same screen can focus and shoot. No doubt some people find this convenient and modern, though many still thought that a touch screen is not very useful for focusing or fire due to vibration is transmitted to the camera.
The camera lens is supported by the hallmark of Leica, but not in no big technical issue. A diaphragm aperture of between 2.5 and 6.4, which risks leaving us somewhat short light if we use more zoom. And that this is not spectacular: five increases, or what would be a 26-130 mm in traditional photography.
Enough, but just on both sides. A little short if we are shooting angle, for example, a building. Nor spare telephoto, which we seek to give further details. The Lumix FX-80 is also capable of recording video in Full HD. This is an excellent complement to our photos, and we can take high quality videos that can be enjoyed on the family TV. However, if the camera allows the recording in this format, we should not think that the video of the fellowship will be as if he had recorded himself Spielberg. The optics of the camera is limited, so we will have problems with light and constant blur. In addition, its size and weight is very small, and lacks any stabilizing mechanism, which, if recorded with the camera in hand, the feeling of “trembling” is constant. Like most cameras today, the FX-80 includes a series of artistic filters (black and white, sepia, etc..) that can be added to photos before or after shooting. What is really new is the ability to recharge the battery via USB and the traditional outlet. The camera will be available in the market from next March, and we know that its price will be $ 300. Priced for a camera that meets the requirements of surplus by an amateur.
The next February 20 will be a historic date in the computer, it is the market entry of cheaper computer in the world.
He paid with a limited stock of 10,000 units, which will be manufactured in China, and will be released in two different models, but obviously this is a very small computer.
Anyway this is a project by the British foundation Raspberry Pi, which want to take the use of computers to developing countries and societies with very poor income, also expect to be included for the education of young people in schools of this type of country.
The project is interesting that, while not the first, if that is what has earned the most economic, and, according to the foundation itself, I owe much to that microprocessors have increasingly more affordable, certainly understandable given their manufacture for mobile devices.
Thus we can say that soon will be released to the market two models , one that will have about 128MB of RAM, an ARM microprocessor, and a single USB port, no Ethernet connection, this at a reasonable price of 19 euros.
While the other version will have more memory (256MB) and Ethernet for only 35 euros.
We must emphasize that this computer has neither cabinet, much less keyboard, mouse, or monitor, it is a simple plate with the necessary software, and the corresponding connections.
So you must connect to a TV or monitor, with the respective peripherals.
We must also mention that it is necessary to place the operating system with an SD card.
If today we finished our evening by talking about Apple, and the output of the computer catalog a few years ago replaced the iBook, the white Macbook, now continue with the theme of Cupertino, looking for new ways to use their gadgets, but in this case about the iPad, because there are accessories that make it much more than a tablet.
We are pleased to introduce a supplement that is going to make the iPad tablet in addition to its preferred IOS is also in some specific cases a second auxiliary monitor. It is a flexible arm, like a tentacle can hold the iPhone and leave it suspended in the air as I show in the catch, on a computer or on any table or surface.
The truth is that like almost everything that has to do with the Apple world this accessory is not exactly cheap for what it does, but the truth is not that count in the market with a wide variety of these gadtes, let alone we allow such versatility and above all ensure that the iPad will be there still and not fall. The price for having this accessory TwelveSouth found in the catalog is $ 50. The truth is that I say is not cheap, nor is that usually we use so often an iPad as a second screen, mainly because of its small size, but hey if you feel like the fancy, at least now I know they can have on the plam of your hand, or rather, suspended in the air. What do you think? Do you like? At least Apple style if you have impregnated.
It is seen that the novelties of this 2012, as had been discussed in an another opportunity will be on screens because the screens are what drives the technology today, tablets, netbooks, the TV’s, cell phones ¿more examples? No longer continue, as the news that we take today will have to do with the improvements the Korean brand Samsung has done with respect to its AMOLED displays.
The truth is, exactly, the development of better conditions screens makes the products put on the market in the coming seasons will be better to face not only the usability, if not in addition to the enhancement of display contents consumers. In the beginning, what is known of the modern development of Samsung AMOLED displays is that they will get a 7-inch featuring a resolution of 600 X 1.024.
And while the resolution of the new Samsung AMOLED screens, being in the resolution of 600 X 1.024 p is not really anything that has not been seen in the market, however, this means that Samsung is on the right path, and surely with these new projects will be able to give us much better than tablets which are available now with the seal of the Korean. And is that by giving an example, the new creation comes about 400 nits brightness, while the display of the Samsung Galaxy Tab is only 250 nit. A quite remarkable difference to insurance mess once these new displays are going to see it live. Only for the moment, nothing is known of when they would arrive, but it is assumed that the rate at which technology moves, would not take long.
There is no denying that if we talk about Samsung all eyes and hopes are placed on the possible introduction in the not given the Galaxy S III, the famous smartphone terminal that could revolutionize what is considered today the technology this Korean company.
However, the firm has enough phones on hand so that the news does not have to talk about the Samsung Galaxy S III. In this case focuses our attention on the Samsung Infuse 4G, which has received the update of the Android OS 2.3.6 to go to enjoy the users of the operator AT & T.
This update has not yet succeeded in version 4.0 of Ice Cream Sandwich, however, incorporates a large number of new features for the user to get more from your mobile. As an example, the 2.3.6 update of Android is going to allow the use of a 4G multi-keyboard, which is a better system to copy and paste, and energy performance and battery efficiency.
Besides, added a new download manager and among other small improvements that will help stop the best feelings smartphone. The update process began and for users, so it should not take long to reach all units of the device. The good new is that the Samsung Infuse 4G, is moving forward and maintaining attention and support from the manufacturer, which end users are guaranteed never Android once your phone is offered for sale. Such fragmentation has always been one of the main problems of using the Android operating system, and therefore users in some cases, await larger models, like the aforementioned Samsung Galaxy S III, to provide assurance of knowing that their cell not remain forgotten.
