The technology industry often finds itself pontificating about the future, but the busy news cycle this year gave us plenty to discuss.
Very influential tech pioneers died; cyber-security cost companies billions of dollars; and trends in electronics and on the Web provided new tools and created new challenges.
Smartphones and tablets each grew so immensely this year that we decided to give them their own
mobile year-in-review list.
As for future talk, there were plenty of bold, futuristic initiatives that did not quite bear fruit this year.
Read more here:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/tech/web/tech-news-2011/index.html?eref=rss_tech&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_tech+%28RSS%3A+Technology%29