Technological developments in 2011 was so rapid. Many new things appear both negative and positive effect on the development of technology. But, certainly, rapid technological developments force us to be more active in the field to recognize and develop these technologies, either as players or spectators, are all equally benefit from the presence of rapidly evolving technologies of the year 2011. Christmas New Year is underway and soon to come, meaning we are waiting for new developments especially in the year 2012. It must be really amazing day.
the monumental change of the 2011 technology world is very interesting. One enterprise's able to conquer the others. An excellent stuff suddenly becomes very favourite, while other stuffs began to be forgeted. it will be said below several who was recorded by The Telegraph.
Development of Broadband Infrastructure
The British government has started construction of Broadband in rural areas throughout the year 2011. Maybe Indonesia is still struggling with the distribution of 3G spectrum, while the British had begun to auction spectrum for 4G.
The rise of hacker activity
This year, a large group of hackers like Anonymous and LulzSec managed to steal the attention. LulzSec managed to violate the security system and disabling websites large companies, including attacks on international news sites and Nintendo, as well as government-owned sites (including SOCA and the CIA).
While the group Anonymous managed to break through the security system and undermine Sony's 77 million customer accounts that led to the company Sony is losing about 170 million U.S. dollars.
Google Launches Google Plus to Compete with Facebook
When Larry Page (Google founder) took over the company and served as Chief Executive Officer of this year, he prioritizes the strategy into the realm of social networking. Google finally launched Google Plus, a social network that is prepared to overtake greatness Facebook.
Although it claims to have had 40 million members, but Google can not be sure how many users are active. Nikesh Arora, Google's Chief Business Officer Plus it says that Google is not the social networks that compete with Facebook. Next year, Google still will make a new social project.
Android growth
Android Operating System has taken over the smart phone business for several years, but in 2011 was a critical point when the OS is already taking over more than 50 percent of smart phone sales.
Seen rapid growth of the number of downloads has reached 10 billion by the end of 2011. Who have purchased Google Android to prove that the software is able to compete with Apple's big names.
RIM's Volatile
Riots in London, August 2011, RIM made a name tarnished because of the riot maker is said to use the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM primarily Broadcast) to organize demonstrations and chaos. These events make the parliament decided an internet connection and control all access to information.
However, news of RIM's most harmful is when the BlackBerry service was "down" for 3 days in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. RIM recognizes these events occurred due to failure of a chain of hardware and software in data centers.
Not Year of tablets, but Year of the iPad
The year 2010 is the year when Apple started selling iPad skeptical. But in 2011 made the iPad as a year of competition with the number of tablets that have sprung up and become a tight battle for Apple.
Tablet products that touted the potential to destroy the iPad appear. Starting from Asus Transformer, BlackBerry Playbook, Samsung Galaxy Tab, until HP TouchPad. But in the end, all the competitors confronted with obstacles.
Starting from Apple that attack through the patent on the Samsung Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. So that in some countries that had blocked the product. Until the sale of products of competitors who are still below expectations.
Although many products springing up, the iPad was still dominate the market. Presumably, Apple is better prepared in terms of hardware, software, application store, until "ammo" their patents.
The rise of Patent War
Speaking of patents, 2011 seems more intense with a patent war. The dispute between Apple vs Samsung, which had been called, occurs in 10 countries.
Other vendors are also no less do a patent dispute. Including, for example, Microsoft vs Motorola, Apple vs. HTC, Apple vs Nokia and others.
Commencement Era of Ultrabook
When Apple launched the MacBook Air, some critics reject this product by reason of this product is only a "toy" the rich. However, manufacturers like Dell, Sony, and Panasonic was interested to produce the same model.
Intel then managed to embrace the laptop device manufacturers to create Ultrabook. Although extremely thin and has the advantage that combines tablet with a laptop, Ultrabook has prices tend to be more affordable than the MacBook Air.
Technology Company Go Public
Technology companies in 2011 has increased rapidly during the year 2011. The increasing number of users and high revenue led the company dared to trade their shares.
Initial Public Offering (IPO) this year to touch her number 2, 6 billion U.S. dollars in June, and LinkedIn to touch 9 billion U.S. dollars. Groupon and ogled Zynga also started this year. Facebook, is expected to have a stock value of 100 billion U.S. dollars in 2012 thanks to rapid developments in this year.
Year of E-Book
Amazon has made the latest trends to produce tablets with Kindle Fire. This product is concentrated on E-Book sales and profit from subscription fees, not from sales of the device.
Some technology companies also started to provide e-reader for smart phones and tablets so users can read digital books anytime, anywhere.
resource: The Telegraph
