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Inbox: Social networking can help you secure a job
Comment If we were to look at social media from the Gartner-esque hype cycle point, social media has use however the business value is diminished simply through the quantity and diversity of users and groups... [11 Nov 2009]
Why the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series Is the Ideal Foundation for Cloud Computing
White Paper While "Cloud computing" appears to be reaching the top of the hype cycle, there are some very real, substantive reasons why companies of all sizes are closely examining the benefits of the cloud. A cloud... [30 Aug 2009]
Inbox: Worried about pink slips? Here's some advice
Comment As the hype cycle of virtual worlds finally fades into the distance, it is being replaced by practicality. Virtual worlds have been getting an airing lately - is it all hype?... [03 Nov 2008]
Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams
AS Profile Earlier this year, microblogging made it onto analyst Gartner's annual tech hype cycle for the first time. Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams are the holy trinity who co-founded Twitter, a service... [07 Oct 2008]
Cloud - not ready for mission-critical business
News We are on the steepest portion of the hype cycle curve," he said, and advised against fully handing over an enterprise to the "cloud" just yet. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is "several years away" from... [03 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Microblogging
Cheat Sheet Microblogging made it into this year's Gartner Hype Cycle as a new entrant - and the analyst house notes several "leading-edge companies" are looking at it as a way of "enhancing other social media and... [02 Sep 2008]
Web 2.0, cloud computing 'to transform business'
News The analyst's annual hype cycle predicts the fortunes of emerging technologies as they progress from early day enthusiasm, through user disillusionment as they fail to live up to immediate... [11 Aug 2008]
Vista: Companies slow on the uptake - poll
News We will have a stronger, faster upgrade cycle for Vista than for Windows XP," he said. Despite all the hype and razzmatazz surrounding Vista, a poll of silicon.com readers has found most businesses are... [06 Dec 2006]
Why CIOs need to know about Ajax and mash-ups
News Web 2.0 is one of the major themes identified in Gartner's emerging technologies hype cycle, especially around user-generated content and web services. One of the key themes of the emerging technologies... [09 Aug 2006]
Topping the hype curve - mobile TV and IPTV
News Gartner uses its 'hype cycles' model to show the maturity of technologies that the analyst claims run through a cycle from hype, though to disillusionment and then on up to... [27 Jul 2006]
The SME hype cycle
Comment The hype cycle has come around again. The stalwarts are then left to get on with it as usual and the cycle starts over again a few years later. With the potential opportunity to provide... [25 Jul 2006]
Avoid 'clean break' Vista upgrade - Gartner
News Jump also raised the issue of hardware compatibility, and claimed that only machines bought in 2007 will probably be around long enough or have enough of their "useful life" left to run Vista, based on a three-year life... [22 Jun 2006]
Gartner: Linux 'five years away from mainstream' use
News Gartner's latest Linux 'hype cycle' report shows that open source is halfway to maturity but warns the biggest test will be whether it can demonstrate the necessary performance and security to function... [08 Sep 2005]
Emerging tech gets the hype test treatment
News Tablet PCs, internet micro-payments, passive RFID and videoconferencing are four technologies that are firmly stuck at the bottom of the "trough of disillusionment", according to the 2005 "Hype Cycle" of... [25 Aug 2005]
Leader: Microsoft faces a tough sell for Windows Vista
Leader On a more serious level there is evidence that CIOs and IT directors of businesses using Microsoft software are preparing to play hardball over the company's upgrade cycle and licensing costs. It may be early days but... [03 Aug 2005]
