From the initial Technology Trigger, when software first made blogging easy, to the Peak of Inflated Expectations and the Trough of Disillusionment, thence on to the Slope of Enlightenment and, eventually, the Plateau of Productivity, blogging has passed almost all the way through the Hype Cycle.

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Although he is not a professional athlete, Walzer demonstrated a professional understanding of social technology that led him to trigger the actions of a shoe manufacturer.

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Ericsson and Micromax are the latest companies to fight it out in the courts as patent disputes between technology companies and smartphone makers trigger a slew of litigation globally.

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Rather, when trigger-happy lawmakers insert themselves into fast-moving technology markets, the law that gets invoked more often than not is the law of unintended consequences.

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For example, when a user visited a website that had code for one tracking technology, the data collection would call out to and trigger other tracking technologies that weren't embedded on the site.

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When you factor in the benchmarks set by NVIDIA Tegra 4 technology, which was demonstrated at CES 2013 with new games like Dead Trigger II, the gap between consoles and portable games is closing even faster.

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Because of the way that technology has connected the world in real time, markets are on such a hair-trigger that the tiniest vibration can set them off.

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