As is traditional at the start of the year, technology thought leaders are often asked to risk their reputations by making predictions about the hot technology for the forthcoming year.
At the start of this year we invited our panel of European technology thought leaders to put their reputations on the line by making predictions about what would happen in technology this year.
Technology analysts thought the devices could pose a serious challenge to the market leaders.
When he arrived in March 2003, each client account team at EDS operated as its own fiefdom, developing systems and using whatever technology it thought best.
Metamaterials are proving to be quite useful for toying with the electromagnetic spectrum, whether for technology previously thought to be the stuff of science fiction, or for boring real-world applications.
We have a habit of approaching new technology with careful thought before building any new product.
Since he had spent his career in technology, he thought it would be interesting if it was a service business.
Or consider how Honest Tea, the organic tea company that is an independently run wholly owned subsidiary of Coca-Cola, combined web video technology and a thought-provoking purchase experiment to cut through the clutter in the over-crowded beverage market.
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This was a bit of a one-off style post for me, as I thought the technology was cool.
In finance, telecoms, media and technology, there is thought to be a rare opportunity to seize global market share.
The last technology that could be thought of as revolutionary, he says, was the Apple II personal computer introduced in 1977.
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Sotoro settles down only when you take a seat and stroke its brown fuzzy "arms" -- a delightfully offbeat piece of technology that I never thought I needed.
Zakir Hussain, a knowledge worker who participated in the community screening session in Seelampur ICT centre in New Delhi said: "I never thought the technology could be used so effectively to communicate our problems".
GSK's two predecessor companies, SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome, which merged to form GSK in 2000, had been among the first to invest in gene-hunting technology that scientists once thought would fast lead to a bushelful of new drugs.
However, with regards to technology, it often is thought of as quite positive.
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Last week, I discussed these issues with Dave Sutton, who is founder of TopRight Strategic Marketing, co-author of Enterprise Marketing Management: The New Science of Marketing, and a thought leader regarding technology and marketing.
While my reports were constantly getting job offers from other technology firms, because they thought that they were exposed, my people chose to stay with the company and help our customers move forward through the hostile takeover.
My consulting work includes thought leadership reports in technology and digital media for KPMG and Sony.
When we open-sourced our cloud technology, a lot of people thought we were crazy.
We believed that because it used the same technology as the desktop, we thought it could improve.
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My colleagues in the TV box saw it differently - and I thought the use of technology was supposed to remove controversy!
Earlier this year, at the Milken Global Conference, I had a fascinating discussion with Nicholas Carr, a renowned author and thought leader investigating how technology is impacting the way we think.
Impact investors, donors and policy makers can be far more forward thinking by linking resources to fund the next round of technology innovation and offering incentives to thought leaders to tackle the ethical and moral questions.
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Other employees thought Intel's information technology group would automatically save their e-mail.
Most analysts don't expect North Korea to stage an attack on the U.S. or its allies and it isn't thought to have the missile technology to hit long-range targets.
Video chatting technology makes me wonder just how I ever thought my kids were once cute and cuddly.
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Then it turned out this new technology was a bit more complex than first thought and the company went bust.
Almost all thought it likely that online and technology-based learning would increase.
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It is thought Sony will use the Gaikai technology to offer a broader portfolio of games to owners of its PlayStation 3 consoles.
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