An article on the upcoming Gartner BI conference caught my eye.

In a great example of blogsourcing, my idea to gauge Second Life against the Gartner Group Hype Cycle is being refined thanks to a post from Linda Zimmer.

The end, or at least the peak, is near, according to Gartner. The research firm predicted that blogging will top out in 2007; bloggers have responded to the forecast with various degrees of laughter and contempt.

Research groups mimic the behavior of animals to make their search technology more efficient.

If you have a digital camera or a camera phone you can be a photojournalist. That’s at least what Reuters and Yahoo are thinking. The two have created a project to bring newsworthy photos or videos to their sites.

Microsoft is taking a play from the playbook of “Dirty Harry” by telling phishers around the globe to,” go a head punk and make their day”. They are working with law enforcement in Europe and the Middle East to catch gangs of phishers.

IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be.

The research firm Gartner thinks the rash of mergers and acquisitions in the customer relationship management sector has only just begun, according to its latest findings. The company believes “the CRM market will continue its consolidation unabated.”

MarketingVOX is reporting the Gartner Group thinks that Google will likely acquire a web-based PowerPoint-like presentation application, such as Thumbstacks.

The consumer version of the much delayed Windows Vista operating system may be pushed past its planned January 2007 launch date.

A two-sentence post from research firm Gartner has caused some uproar in the technology world, as Gartner researchers claim Microsoft will miss its release of Vista by three months, pushing it back into 2007.

There’s been a lot of press on a Gartner Research report that predicts Windows Vista will be delayed three months.

The web analytics company announced a record sales quarter and the addition of the company to coverage by Gartner in its MarketScope for Web Analytics.

Gartner’s vision for the next decade regarding information technology was recently presented at the CeBIT event.

The research company thinks that corporations should utilize the Enterprise version of Google Desktop if they permit the product in their operations.

In a new study by research firm Gartner, IT organizations will be facing dramatic change in the coming years. By 2011, 75% or more will have a different role entirely , 10% will be gone and 10% more will relegated to commodity status.

Based on expectations driven by posts in Sun president/COO Jonathan Schwartz’s blog online, analysis firm Gartner was not impressed by what was disclosed.

Research firm Gartner says PCs set to move to the tune of double digit growth but revenues will be flat. Their new study says PC unit shipments are set to 12.7% but they said accompanying revenues will grow just .5%.

Business Week reports on the success of enterprise software vendors and their ‘corporate governance programs’ to fix internal accounting problems …

Gartner G2: From Web portal news coverage to individual blogs, the world got a glimpse into a future that portends a major shift in political communications.

Gartner announced the six finalists for Gartner’s CRM Excellence Award, which will be presented at the company’s CRM Summit, October 4-6 in Scottsdale, Arizona.