What would be the top technologies that would be favoured by various markets in the year 2010?

The last 10 years have seen some of the major falls and sky highs in the world of technology. And, along with the miseries have come a lot of lessons which would probably make companies approach the next decade with a lot of caution and planning. Every market would benefit from these learnings atleast in some of their portfolios.

Gartner Group has identified the top 10 strategic technologies for the year 2010 which companies should be looking forward to. Starting from Cloud Computing, Advanced Data analysis and Green IT initiatives there are technologies and strategies identified as going to be the next big wave which companies should look at either adopting for themselves or putting more focus on.

Techcrunch’s  top 10 technologies that would rock 2010 discusses what is going to be hot for the consumer market in this year.For the common consumer market, the Chrome OS is, as anticipated by many, planning to give Windows a huge pain in the neck, with also a rumor of Google’s Chrome OS Netbook being planned to be released probably by this year’s holiday season. Also, the web is going to see HTML5, which introduces a number of new elements for audio and video functionality – already many OS’s like Firefox and Google Chrome browser love HTML5.