InformationWeek and Yeoman's Michael Healey have just released the 2012 Consumerization of IT survey. This popular annual report outlines the trends and trials related to the consumerization trends. 

This year finds a decidely positive embracing of consumer centric technologies by organizations of all sizes.  Our favorite quote from the report:

Look back on the recent history of tech adoption. The automobile took more than 50 years to become mainstream.…

A recent Yeoman study of over 1,000 items sold on Amazon found a whopping 70% contained errors or did not follow Amazon’s own best practice recommendations for providing product details.  This study further showed the same level of inaccuracy on Google and Bing product searches. This is a maddening problem that plagues manufacturers in every industry.  Once a product is “out there,” resellers, partners, distributors and reviewers end up shaping and revising the product details that your…

There's a very slick and visually catchy report on "The State of the Internet" from the website onlineschools.org,  that covers all sorts of interesting Internet factoids, from the minutiae (152 MILLION blogs?!?) to the grand, including which countries consider Internet access an inalienable right, and which ones consider it threatening enough to severely limit access to their citizens.

It includes a counter showing you how many folks have visited the Internet for the first…