Voice, Voice Everywhere
The spoken word is the hot commodity this fall, for Internet companies ranging from retailers that envision voice-activated sales to advertisers envisioning a captive audience. In this special report, Business 2.com examines how companies will profit from voice technologies on the Web, what obstacles remain, who the leading players are, and what the future will bring.
Content: Article | Author: Elizabeth Hurt | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Unleashing the Killer App : Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
Downes and Mui argue that the dominant trend behind the proliferation of killer apps is a combination of Moore’s Law, which states that the processing power of the CPU doubles every 18 months, and Metcalfe’s Law, which observes that the value of a network increases dramatically with each node that’s added to it. These two laws are fundamentally changing how businesses interact with each other … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Chunka Mui, Larry Downes, Nicholas Negroponte | Subjects: Strategy, Trends / Analysis
George Gilder
The central event of the 20th century is the overthrow of matter. In technology, economics, and the politics of nations, wealth in the form of physical resources is steadily declining in value and significance. The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
Content: Quotation | Subjects: Knowledge, Trends / Analysis
Microcosm : The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology
Content: Book | Author: George Gilder | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Telecosm : How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
Content: Book | Author: George Gilder | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Can peer-to-peer grow up?
The latest tech craze needs one hit company to make it valid. The Silicon Valley elite is betting on InfraSearch.
Content: Article | Author: Justin Hibbard | Source: Red Herring | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis
Powerful Patterns Shaping eBusiness
Professor Mohan Sawhney describes the implications of three eBusiness patterns on investment decisions and new business models. Three major topics discussed include: Wave Theory, The Myth of Substitution, and Migration of Intelligence.
Content: Article | Author: Mohanbir Sawhney | Source: nMinds | Subject: Trends / Analysis
What Will It Take to Win in the Next Phase of the New Economy?
This April, the new economy suddenly entered a new phase: the Next Phase. Just when we’d all grown accustomed to dueling business models, high-flying IPOs, built-to-flip companies, and less-is-more balance sheets, the game changed. The Next Phase featured funerals for once-proud dotcoms, sputtering IPOs, and the rediscovery of the power of profitability. The question now is, what will it take to win in the Next … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Trends / Analysis
A Nation of Spendthrifts? An Analysis of Trends in Personal and Gross Saving
The steep drop in the U.S. personal saving rate over the last decade has fueled speculation that Americans are spending recklessly. But alternative measures of personal saving show that households are actually setting aside a larger share of their resources than the official figures suggest. In addition, government saving has risen markedly, leading to an increase in overall domestic saving that has helped finance a … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Charles Steindel, Richard Peach | Source: Federal Reserve Board (FRB) | Subjects: Economics, Trends / Analysis
Online B2B Marketplace Forecast
B2B Exchange Market Predictions
The Six Greatest Barriers to mCommerce
Despite optimism surrounding the launch of the wireless web, it hasn’t exactly taken off in the U.S. and may not for the forseeable future due to these six barriers.
Content: Article | Author: Claudine Thompson | Source: eMarketer | Subject: Trends / Analysis | Industry: Telecommunications
Business guru Tom Peters sees major e-commerce shakeout
The legendary business guru says over 85 percent of e-commerce-based companies will bite the big one and that the real issue is whether companies have the guts required to succeed.
Content: Article | Authors: Michael Vizard, Tom Peters | Source: ITworld.com | Subject: Trends / Analysis
An Insider’s Report on European Integration
The European Union today consists of 15 members and it will expand significantly in years to come with the addition of countries from eastern and southern Europe. Europe’s economies are, on the whole, strong, and companies there have lately demonstrated uncharacteristic aggression in acquiring other firms. Yet stumbling blocks to closer cooperation remain: Not all EU members, notably Britain, have embraced the euro, which recently … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subjects: International – Europe, Trends / Analysis
US Residential DSL Market Forecast
E-Mailbox Market
CRM Market
Corporate Web Filtering Facts
Wireless Market Numbers & Predictions
GW Forecast
The GW Forecast brings experts together online to forecast forthcoming breakthroughs and strategically plan for their impact. It can be thought of as a “virtual think-tank” that conducts its work electronically. The most useful section is the knowlege base, which consists of results by year or field (inc. energy, environment, materials, IT hardware, IT software, medicine), articles & briefings (in-depth analysis and summaries of each … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: George Washington University | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis