Virtualisation, telepresence, netbooks and sensor networks are the hot technologies this year, according to Gartner's annual Top 10 technology predictions released last week.

• Deskphones
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Flat rate wireless data plans
• Airline travel

By 2012

• As many as a 1/3 of the top 20 business process outsourcing providers will fold.
• Successful enterprises will encourage and reward more business process failures in order to find the optimal approach they want more quickly
• The major PC vendors will recycle only one PC for every five they ship
• 30% of mobile PCs sold in the worldwide consumer market will be priced at less than US$300
• Physical sensors will create 20% of non-video Internet traffic
• Video telepresence will replace 2.1 million airline seats a year at an annual cost to the travel and hospitality industry of $US3.5 billion.

The server virtualisation software market will grow with a CAGR of 28% through 2013, rising from $US1.8 billion to $US6.2 billion.

Source: Gartner