2010 Trends in Tech and Services

To start the new year I’ve decided to ask my colleagues and myself what we think the year 2010 will be made of in terms of trends and innovations in the internet / tech field.

Here is the compilation of our “visions”:

Jugs – Chief Technology Officer

Cloud computing will be big, including a huge market for Mobile Cloud Computing.

Q1. What do you think are the trends / innovations coming in 2010?

1. Ideas / Innovations around Mobile phones to give information at your fingertips. Things we might see in 2010 – Mobile cloud computing (HUGE market), Newspaper on mobile, e-Tickets on mobile phones, using mobile phone to cure diseases like Alzheimer / Insomnia
2. Cloud computing – With Microsoft, IBM and Google announcing their initiatives in cloud computing, I have a feeling this is going to be BIG. And with SaaS looking so prospective and the fact that it can sit in a cloud fuels this thought.

Q2. What is your most expected technology, product or service for 2010?

1. 3D Televisions
2. Solar powered batteries

Pierre – Product Director

I can see us re-creating the world around us using augmented reality technologies.

Q1. What do you think are the trends / innovations coming in 2010?

1. Virtual worlds through augmented reality technologies: Recreate the world around you through the camera of your phone.
2. Interactive TV: Makes your TV smart and finally gives you complete interaction with what you are watching.
3. Massive monetisation of Facebook by offering dating services within its 350+ million active user database (find a match etc.).
4. Accession of Video DSLR in the professional word (journalism, TV and cinema). Will help another trend; the citizen journalist.

Q2. What is your most expected technology, product or service for 2010?

1. iTablet (soon!), this will be a killer as a home computer. Read the newspaper or a book on it, broadcast a movie to your big screen using DLNA, play games like you would do on the iphone, opens many doors in terms of domotic especially when linked to the augmented reality technology…
2. Apple TV. Nothing sure there but I can see an Apple TV that brings an app store to your tv with all sort of clever apps that adds content / functionalities on top of your favorite show. And the iTablet or the iPhone will come very handy as remotes 😉

Mick – Head of Marketing

I believe we will see more social privacy in 2010.

Q1. What do you think are the trends / innovations coming in 2010?

1. App stores everywhere – on phones, games consoles, TV.
2. Silicon Valley the biggest tech space in the world, but the world so big SV is just a part of it.
3. Social privacy – too much media, too much real time, too much advertising – consumers will run to private, invite only groups.

Q2. What is your most expected technology, product or service for 2010?

1. Non-Geeky – A cure for malaria.
2. Geeky – tablets/e-readers – sharing will be done right.

Oliver – Web Engineer

Android, ARM processors and new screen technology (touch, OLED…) are my big things for 2010.

Q1. What do you think are the trends / innovations coming in 2010?

1. Interactive touch-screen technology
2. Smartphones and OLED Displays (with the launch of Google’s smartphone, the Nexus One).
3. Cloud Computing
4. ARM processors will create a whole lots of new cool devices like tablets, smartphones, ebook readers, micro PCs.

Q2. What is your most expected technology, product or service for 2010?

1. Gaming will advance beyond PCs and consoles
2. 2010 will Be Android’s year (with more than 50 new Android phones entering the market in 2010).
3. Solid state harddrives – they run cooler, faster and cheaper to run then the current spinning disks.

KK – Project Manager

I can see an Android notebook, perhaps even an Android based competitor to the iSlate?

Q1. What do you think are the trends / innovations coming in 2010?

1. Android emerging as real competitor for Iphone.
2. Google chrome os.
3. More security/privacy based regulations in web world.
4. Android Notebook possibly a competitor for Microsoft in desktop world which linux still is not able to battle in.

Q2. What is your most expected technology, product or service for 2010?

1. Islate from Apple ?

Dave – Product Marketing Manager

Expect a failed attempt to charge for general online news.

Q1. What do you think are the trends / innovations coming in 2010?

1. Vendor Relationship Management

Social networking sites and buyer intermediaries that monetise by adding social influence to purchasing decisions:

• Expect Facebook to add the ability to review and recommend products, and to see reviews from people you know
• Expect strong takeup of viral discount sites and online-only discounts
• Expect better-organised online pushbacks to corporate misbehavior

1. Media Business Models

The content creation businesses will make serious inroads into online business models.

• Expect legal, on-demand music supported by advertising and/or subscriptions.
• Expect a failed attempt to charge for general online news, even as paid subscriptions to specialist information such as investment advice take off.

1. Thorium Reactor Research Capturing Public Attention

These reactors are a more realistic bet for replacing coal-burning power stations than green technologies like solar or wind. While not yet ready for power generation, it should be possible to develop thorium reactors that are immune to meltdown, cheap to build and produce very little nuclear waste.

• Expect to start seeing public attention on thorium this year

Q2. What is your most expected technology, product or service for 2010?

1. Service/Product – Legal, on-demand music streaming
2. Technology – Better batteries