Consumer Technologies

News Analysis

• Google Buzz Shows Navigation's Social Potential
  17 February 2010

Featured Research

• The Next Big Impact of Consumerization Will Be Consumer Editions of Windows
  8 March 2010
• Case Study: Microsoft Engages Employees and Creates a Self-Service Knowledge Repository
  24 February 2010
• Gmail in the Real World: What Business Users Miss
  24 February 2010
• Policy Is Not Enough: Educate Employees About Social Media Use
  10 February 2010
• Externally Facing Social Software Market Definition and Magic Quadrant Criteria
  8 February 2010
• How to Win Arguments About the Security of Social Software
  1 February 2010
• Twitter for Business: Activity Streams Are the Future of Enterprise Microblogging
  1 February 2010
• Predicts 2010: Consumer Services Continues Its Rapid Technological Evolution
  7 December 2009
• Introducing Social Software in the Workplace and Externally Facing Social Software: Market Definition Update
  7 December 2009
• Predicts 2010: Social Software Is an Enterprise Reality
  3 December 2009

The Basics

Essential concepts and fundamental principles

• Key Issues for the Consumerization of IT, 2009
  3 February 2009
• Key Issues for Consumer Services, 2008
  19 March 2008
• 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 Mobile Applications, 2009
  28 July 2009
• Hype Cycle for Global Consumer Communications Services, 2009
  24 July 2009

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• Vendor Focus: Google's GAPE Is Improving but Still Not Ready for High Growth
  4 June 2009
• Vendor Rating: Google
  1 April 2009