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Major Technology Trends or Indices

Top 100 Federal Prime Contractors
Washington Technology’s Top 100 list in the federal IT market.

TOP500 Supercomputer Sites
The TOP500 project was started in 1993 to provide a reliable basis for tracking and detecting trends in high-performance computing. Twice a year, a list of the sites operating the 500 most powerful computer systems is assembled and released.

Trends in Japan: Science and Technology
Trends in Japan is a site that introduces the latest developments in Japanese business, entertainment, fashion, science, society, sports, and more through short, engaging dispatches.

FIND/SVP: Technology & Communications
FIND/SVP is an innovative knowledge services company that offers a continuum of custom business intelligence, advisory, research and consulting solutions to address clients’ critical business needs.

Five Hot Trends in 2008
While these five trends maybe familiar, 2008 should see them maturing to become forces in their own right, not just sideline fads that may or may not make a difference.

Gartner's Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008
Gartner, Inc. highlights 10 key predictions of events and developments that will affect IT and business in 2008 and beyond and where executives and IT professionals need to take action in 2008.

Global E-Government Survey 2008
The UN E-Government Survey 2008: From E-Government to Connected Governance assesses the e-government readiness of the 192 Member States of the UN according to a quantitative composite index of e-readiness based on website assessment, telecommunication infrastructure, and human resource endowment.

National Institute of Science and Technology Policy [of Japan]
The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy [of Japan] leads Science & Technology policy research with a comprehensive and long-term perspective, provides research results to formulate strategy for Research & Development and innovation management, and promotes policy research through gathering a wide range of institutions and human resources from Japan and abroad.

The Industry Analyst Reporter: Research News
Tekrati Inc. is the leading news source covering high tech industry analysts and firms. Tekrati monitors, profiles and reports on over 325 industries analyst firms worldwide.

D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. (DHBA)
In-depth analysis of computing technologies to support information technology research.

The Foresight Institute
Foresight is a nonprofit educational organization formed to help prepare society for anticipated advanced technologies, with a primary focus on molecular nanotechnology; the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision.

NewsFactor Top Tech News: Tech Trends
NewsFactor.com is the premier publication of NewsFactor Network and is widely respected as one of the leading sources of daily news and information about enterprise computing.

CIO Update: Technology Trends
CIO Information Network publishes current articles about trend in ICT.

IT Conversations
IT Conversations is a network of high-end tech talk-radio interviews, discussions and presentations from major conferences delivered live and on-demand via the Internet.

Onvista: The eFinance Company
This site presents major indices of the world market. Also compares major technology indices.

SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center's (AIC) Video Archives
This page contains a number of digital movies that describe various projects and systems that have been developed at the AI Center.

Foreign Policy:
Measuring Globalization: Who’s Up, Who’s Down?
This article compares 64 countries in terms of globalization. The index measures a country’s global links, from foreign direct investment to international travel, telephone traffic, and Internet servers.

The US Software Industry
This article compared the turnover rate in the US software industry with non-US companies. It lists states according to readiness for, and current participation in, a high-tech economy.

Top 10 Hot Business Technology Trends for 2008 by Verizon
Here's Verizon Business' list of ten hot technology trends for 2008.

Top 10 trends at Mobile World Congress 2008
This ComputerWorld article lists the top 10 trends in the technology of mobile phones.

USA TODAY Internet 50
USA TODAY index – the USA TODAY Internet 50 -- designed to help individual investors monitor the performance of 50 Internet firms.

The World Bank Group, “The Information Age”
Table from the World Development Index 2003, showing ICT and media penetration in all nations.

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