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the year may be winding down but the experts at cnet have been taking stock of 2012 to compile the definitive list of technology news and information Cena 100 is a collection of the biggest stories of the year in technology so it's all of the trends news stories technologies and people who mattered in tech this year spanning those four categories of trends news technology and people the scene at 100 is decided upon by cnet staff who cover analyze and use tech I'm Scott Stein and this is the iphone 5 there's a lot of discussion of what really matters in technology what the biggest story is both short-term and long-term which technologies are going to have the biggest impact on our lives over the next year or maybe over the next ten years from the tech curious to the tech entrenched the cnet 100 is intended for everyone but for professionals in the tech sector the list conserved as a handy roadmap for the year ahead we hope that in the future companies will have this in mind when they're releasing products and they'll be thinking about where their products fall in this landscape of the 100 most interesting stories so what made the cut the heavyweights in the business left their mark all over the list Google Apple Amazon and Facebook their own face in the United States and they're all doing different things as far as you know someone's in search someone's and hardware someone has content and someone is social media but how they are really like their emerging and they are really battling each other for control and invading each other space as well every list needs a few surprises like the product we didn't see Apple TV but it really has the TV industry in the tech industry just on the edge of their seats about is this coming and if it does come then what kind of impact is it going to have reaching well beyond smart phones and social media technology made headlines during one of the year's biggest political stories nate silver and the rise of just sort of the data in going into elections and how important that was this year you know that's not a technology people holding their hands of course it's not a consumer technology but it's extreme important to the 2012 election of it leading up to it and there's no denying that Twitter came into its own in 2012 changing the way we experience global events like the Olympics and providing an instant information pipeline its role in the election of course this year that people are live-tweeting these events live tweeting sandy hurricane sandy so you really saw you know the sort of disaster in real time oh it's coming it's here my house is flooding see if your favorite tech stories snagged a spot on the list at cnet com / seen at 104 cnet news I'm Sumi das