ほんとうは、訳すつもりだったのですが・・・
http://wp.me/pwo1E-3Kv
なかなか、思うとおりにいかないものです 
実は、11月ころから、年末向けのポストを集めていたのですが、翻訳するだけの時間が持てませんでした。 とは言え、このまま放っておくのもモッタイナイので、英文のままですが、インデックスを作ってみました。 この手のコンテンツは、だいたいが箇条書きになっているので、それぞれの小見出しを追うだけでも、大きな流れが見えてくると思います。 よかったら、ご利用くださ～い。ーーー 
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Top 10 IT Challenges over the Next Five Years
By Dick Weisinger, on November 14th, 2011
http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=2546 
Gartner has released its list of top ten things that are sure to keep IT managers awake at night over the next five years, as presented at Gartner’s 2011 annual Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando by David Cappuccio, a Gartner analyst.
Top Trends that will shape 2012
By Dick Weisinger, on November 21st, 2011
http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=2567 
In October, Gartner announced the top technology trends that it saw will drive the technical events of 2012. The trend list was presented by David Cearley, Distinguished Analyst & Gartner Fellow at Gartner. Cearley said that the over-arching trend is the “digitization of everything”.
5 Apps That Hog Bandwidth on Your Network
Published August 17, 2011
http://meraki.com/blog/2011/08/5-apps-that-hog-bandwidth-on-your-network/ 
Does your wireless connection ever feel slow and sluggish? Below are five popular applications that can consume quite a bit of bandwidth. Don’t let them bog down your network! (Skype and VoIP / video conferencing – Dropbox and online backup – Facebook – YouTube – Pandora)
Top 10 IT Challenges over the Next Five Years
By Dick Weisinger, on November 14th, 2011
http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=2546 
Gartner has released its list of top ten things that are sure to keep IT managers awake at night over the next five years, as presented at Gartner’s 2011 annual Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando by David Cappuccio, a Gartner analyst.
Top Trends that will shape 2012
By Dick Weisinger, on November 21st, 2011
http://www.formtek.com/blog/?p=2567 
In October, Gartner announced the top technology trends that it saw will drive the technical events of 2012. The trend list was presented by David Cearley, Distinguished Analyst & Gartner Fellow at Gartner. Cearley said that the over-arching trend is the “digitization of everything”.
6 reasons why 2012 could be the year of Hadoop
By Derrick Harris Nov. 24, 2011
http://gigaom.com/cloud/six-reasons-why-2012-could-be-the-year-of-hadoop/ 
Hadoop gets plenty of attention from investors and the IT press, but it’s very possible we haven’t seen anything yet. All the action of the last year has just set the stage for what should be a big year full of new companies, new users and new techniques for analyzing big data.
Twitter’s top 2011 hashtags: #egypt and #tigerblood
6 December 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16047918 
The most popular hashtags of 2011 have been revealed, illustrating how Twitter spans diverse topics from politics to celebrity gossip. Hashtags are used to group together tweets relating to the same subject. (Top of the list was #egypt, followed by #tigerblood)
Here are the top political issues of 2011 as measured by Facebook Likes
December 14, 2011 | Jolie O’Dell
http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/14/politics-on-facebook-in-2011/ 
Between the Arab Spring, the death of Osama bin Laden, hilarious Republican primaries, and the seemingly unending economic turbulence around the globe, 2011 politics provided no end of fodder for public discourse.
2012 Predictions: Alicia Eler
By Alicia Eler / December 16, 2011
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2012_predictions_alicia_eler.php 
It’s the end of a big week here at ReadWriteWeb. For one, we just got acquired by SAY Media. As I sit here thinking about what happened in 2011 and what’s to come in 2012, I keep in mind the simple fact that soon ReadWriteWeb will be operating under a very clean look and feel in this brave new tech world.
2012 Predictions, Cloud Edition: Joe Brockmeier
By Joe Brockmeier / December 22, 2011
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/12/2012-predictions-joe-brockmeie.php 
One of the nice things about following cloud technologies and virtualization? It’s never boring, especially given how new cloud technologies are. That means that there’s plenty of room for change, and ample speculation about where the industry is going.
Facebook top search term in 2011
By Emil Protalinski | December 22, 2011
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-top-search-term-in-2011/6525 
Summary: Facebook was the top-searched term overall in the US this year, accounting for 3.10/4.42 percent of all searches, depending on how you slice it. It was also the second-most visited web property.
6 Crazy Tech Predictions for 2012
December 23, 2011 by Lance Ulanoff
http://mashable.com/2011/12/22/crazy-tech-predictions-2012/ 
We live in a world of absolutes: Here’s what happened. Even when we look to the future, our predictions are couched in the world’s sometimes difficult realities. It can, to be honest, take all the fun out of guess work. So, once a year I allow myself to go beyond the likely, beyond the possible and deep into the world of the implausible.
Grading my cloud predictions for 2011: How’d I do?
By Derrick Harris Dec. 29, 2011
http://gigaom.com/cloud/grading-my-cloud-predictions-for-2011-howd-i-do/ 
I made a lot of predictions about cloud computing and the general IT infrastructure space heading into 2011, and I impressed myself with my skills of prognostication. Of course, some might have been no-brainers, and it’s possible I’m just grading myself too generously, so I’ll let readers be the judges.
The 10 stories that defined tech in 2011
By Colleen Taylor Dec. 30, 2011
http://gigaom.com/2011/12/30/the-10-stories-that-defined-tech-in-2011/ 
While 2011 was a very busy year for the technology industry, the constant rate of innovation and activity in the market shows that things probably won’t slow down in 2012. Below, we’ve rounded up some of GigaOM’s biggest stories of the year — roughly in the order that they occurred — with a bit of insight on what each could mean for 2012.
2011 in Review: Why I didn’t buy a new phone this year
BY: STEFAN CONSTANTINESCU, DECEMBER 18TH, 2011
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/12/18/2011-review-why-i-didnt-buy-new-phone-year-and-why-im-unlikely-buy-one-next-year-too/ 
I’m getting old. My girlfriend forced me to buy a nose hair trimmer. Her pet name for me is “Grandpa” because during the winter my two favorite hobbies are taking naps and listening to the radio while lying on the couch.
2011 in Review: Top 10 mobile stories of the year
BY: MARIN PEREZ – DECEMBER 22ND, 2011
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/12/22/top-10-mobile-stories-2011/ 
The last 12 months have been a wild ride, as we started the year with many of us wondering how the Xoom and PlayBook could compete against the iPad, how would HP use webOS, what the iPhone 5 would look like and if 4G LTE would really come to America in a big way. There have been a lot of pleasant and not-so-pleasant surprises in 2011 but some clear takeaways are that the smartphone revolution is in full swing, tablets are here to stay and 4G can be real.
12 predictions for the mobile world in 2012
BY: MARIN PEREZ – DECEMBER 30TH, 2011 AT 1:50 PM
http://www.intomobile.com/2011/12/22/top-10-mobile-stories-2011/ 
The last 12 months have been pretty wild in the mobile world, as we’ve seen some major partnerships, Apple and Android continue to dominate and 4G LTE start to roll out. We think that 2012 will be just as important, if not more so, than the last twelve months, so we’ve enlisted the IntoMobile team to throw down some predictions for the next year.
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