Sony Betamax the Apple Newton push technology Web TV electric vehicles. What do all these things have in common? They were all heavily promoted technologies that didn't live up to the hype surrounding them. And they are not alone.Indeed, all too often, today's "next big thing" is tomorrow's overhyped tech trend that never took off or lived up to its potential.[ 10 Overhyped Tech Products That Crashed and Burned ]So what recent technologies have (to date, at least) failed to live up to the hype surrounding their release? CIO.com asked dozens of IT professionals, marketing experts and business owners and managers to find out. Here are their top 12 nominees for the most overhyped technology of the last few years.1. Big Data. "Big data has been overhyped in two ways," says Betsy Bilhorn, vice president of Product Management at Scribe Software, a provider of data integration and dat
