Consumer Technologies

Featured Research

• Social Computing: Redefining Relationships and Replicating Infrastructures
  15 July 2010
• HTML5 and the Modern Web
  1 July 2010
• QTC Pressure-Sensitive Materials Enable New Consumer Interfaces
  25 June 2010
• Case Study: Social Filtering of Real-Time Business Events at Stratus With Salesforce.com's Chatter
  14 May 2010
• Case Study: Swiss Re Optimizes the Value of Social Business Collaboration Software
  14 May 2010
• Intel's Genevieve Bell: An Anthropologist at the Cutting Edge of Technology and Society: A Gartner Fellows Interview
  23 April 2010
• SWOT: Google's YouTube Business, Worldwide
  26 April 2010
• Microsoft Kin Targets Mobile Social Networking Users
  23 April 2010
• Using Consumer Versions of Windows in the Enterprise
  24 March 2010

The Basics

Essential concepts and fundamental principles

• Predicts 2010: Consumer Services Continues Its Rapid Technological Evolution
  7 December 2009
• Key Issues for Consumer Services, 2010
  17 March 2010
• To Deal With Consumerization, CIOs Should Ask 'Why?' Not Just Say 'No'
  10 March 2008

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future — or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Consumer Technologies, 2010
  4 August 2010
• Hype Cycle for Consumer Services and Mobile Applications, 2010
  26 July 2010
• Hype Cycle for Consumer Mobile Applications, 2009
  28 July 2009
• Hype Cycle for Global Consumer Communications Services, 2009
  24 July 2009

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for E-Commerce
  18 May 2010

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• Cool Vendors in Imaging and Display Devices, 2010
  20 April 2010
• Cool Vendors in Solar Energy, 2010
  16 April 2010
• Cool Vendors in Consumer Energy Management, 2010
  15 April 2010
• Cool Vendors in Consumer Client Devices and Cloud Services, 2010
  14 April 2010
• Vendor Focus: Google's GAPE Is Improving but Still Not Ready for High Growth
  4 June 2009