http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/24/19683-tech-layoffs-and-counting/
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E4DB1238F933A25752C1A963948260 (Extra Research)
This article is not really about new technology that is coming out or having problems, this is an article that looks at the people that is works at the business that create that technology. Since the economy is in a recession there is always jobs that have to do job cuts or move jobs around. According to Layoff Tracker it has been a brutal month for tech; there has been 19,683 job elimination since mid-September. But only five big companies make up more than 90 percent of the layoffs: Xerox (3,000), Dell (8,900), Yahoo (1,500), eBay (1,500), and German chipmaker Qimonda (3,000). The other 33 companies are mostly startups, and collectively account for 1,683 layoffs. The after some of the other layoffs there are the other numbers of layoff tech startups with 573. This comes to about 57 startups with ten people each. Some of the companies do not have a big staff, like Cake Financial has laid off 30 percent of its staff, or 6 people. Then Meraki was 20 percent, or 10 people. My thoughts on this is that this a horrible thing to go through, but when the economy is in a recession job cuts business have to go through this. The thing that i do not like when people get fired because the jobs are going over seas and that is the main thing that hurts the economy to an extend. I assume that the technology of today will be coming more over seas and there will be less jobs over here. I do wish that we could do stuff about this, but that is up to the government.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Journal #8, October 19
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1078397/Disappearing-act-The-invisibility-cloak-ready-years.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm (extra research)
The invisibility cloak is what most of the world first learned about from Harry Potter that he used to creep out of Hogwarts, but really developing this invisibility cloak. Instead of using magic like Harry Potter researchers from Purdue University are using 'nanotechnology' and 'metamaterials' along with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It now seems that this cloak is becoming a reality in five years. The way that the cloak will work it bends light around itself like the flow of water around a stone, which would make both the electromagnetic cloak and the object inside hidden. Professor Vladminr Shalaev is one of the researchers involve with the cloak and he said, " The whole idea behind metamaterials is to create materials designed and engineered out of artificial atoms, meta-atoms, which are smaller than the wavelengths of light itself." In the cloak they used an array of tiny needles radiating outward from a central spoke and that would bent the light around the object. With the light going around the object it pretty makes that object invisible to the naked eye. Also with this technology they can start developing super fast computer microchips and can allow DNA to be visible to the naked eye. I think that this is an awesome cloak. I think that everyone would want one, but if the researchers finish the cloak that it will probably be used only for the military. It is a very cool invention but if it got in the wrong hands it could be used for bad. I do like that with this development there are many other cool toys and other things that can use that technology.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm (extra research)
The invisibility cloak is what most of the world first learned about from Harry Potter that he used to creep out of Hogwarts, but really developing this invisibility cloak. Instead of using magic like Harry Potter researchers from Purdue University are using 'nanotechnology' and 'metamaterials' along with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It now seems that this cloak is becoming a reality in five years. The way that the cloak will work it bends light around itself like the flow of water around a stone, which would make both the electromagnetic cloak and the object inside hidden. Professor Vladminr Shalaev is one of the researchers involve with the cloak and he said, " The whole idea behind metamaterials is to create materials designed and engineered out of artificial atoms, meta-atoms, which are smaller than the wavelengths of light itself." In the cloak they used an array of tiny needles radiating outward from a central spoke and that would bent the light around the object. With the light going around the object it pretty makes that object invisible to the naked eye. Also with this technology they can start developing super fast computer microchips and can allow DNA to be visible to the naked eye. I think that this is an awesome cloak. I think that everyone would want one, but if the researchers finish the cloak that it will probably be used only for the military. It is a very cool invention but if it got in the wrong hands it could be used for bad. I do like that with this development there are many other cool toys and other things that can use that technology.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Journal #7, October 12
http://www.pcworld.com/article/152173/.html?tk=rss_news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHL
On October 13, 2007 there was a train wreck near Duke, Texas that had 21,600 Xbox game consoles on it. Well since the train derailed all the Xboxes were lost and then Mirosoft is now suing the U.S. based cargo-delivery service DHL Express. In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle a complaint was filed from Microsoft and is seeking 2 million dollars in damages from DHL for the damaged Xbox consoles after the derailment. The Xbox consoles were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas to Long Beach, California then to Hong Kong. According to the court papers the Flextronics Industrial was suppose to receive the shipment of consoles. Also in the article it talked about controversy in Colorado, when a man was reselling Xbox consoles and returning inoperable consoles to retail and online. My thoughts are that I see the reasoning behind of suing DHL for their lost property. I do not know what the contact between the two companies, but it seems that DHL was liable for the accident. I the one thing I do not like that Microsoft is suing them for 2 million dollars, because that seems a little too much to "make-up" for their loses; I think that Microsoft has plenty of money for them to ask that much money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHL
On October 13, 2007 there was a train wreck near Duke, Texas that had 21,600 Xbox game consoles on it. Well since the train derailed all the Xboxes were lost and then Mirosoft is now suing the U.S. based cargo-delivery service DHL Express. In the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle a complaint was filed from Microsoft and is seeking 2 million dollars in damages from DHL for the damaged Xbox consoles after the derailment. The Xbox consoles were en route from a Microsoft office in McAllen, Texas to Long Beach, California then to Hong Kong. According to the court papers the Flextronics Industrial was suppose to receive the shipment of consoles. Also in the article it talked about controversy in Colorado, when a man was reselling Xbox consoles and returning inoperable consoles to retail and online. My thoughts are that I see the reasoning behind of suing DHL for their lost property. I do not know what the contact between the two companies, but it seems that DHL was liable for the accident. I the one thing I do not like that Microsoft is suing them for 2 million dollars, because that seems a little too much to "make-up" for their loses; I think that Microsoft has plenty of money for them to ask that much money.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Journal #6, October 5, 2008
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151816/bad_things_happen_to_unlicensed_windows_users.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows (Extra Research)
Most likely everyone that owns a computer in America uses some sort of Windows program, well when we are using those programs ourselves they are mostly likely a licensed Windows program. There are Windows programs that are unlicensed that some companies rely on so they do not have to pay to use it. Well the Microsoft Corp. said that those unlicensed programs are more likely to experience system failures and lose certain type of data. According to the research done by the Microsoft Corp. they report that 43% of those that use the unlicensed one had a critical failure lasting more then 24 hours. Those companies were also 28% more likely to lose customers data and 73% more likely to lose their data. Also in their research they calculated that 56% of 1,600 companies are using the unlicensed Windows and that is a big risk for those companies to take. Whoever is sneaking the unlicensed can also be sneaking the risk for those companies, so Microsoft Corp. is saying that you are getting what they desire. But they are awaring companies about this risk to make the companies think before getting the unlicensed Windows. I think that Microsoft is doing a good job in awaring these companies about the risk. It is beneficial to them, because the companies now would buy the product instead of trying to be cheap and take a risk in downloading the unlicensed version. I know a couple people that have the unlicensed version so I do not know if they are risk of the same thing since they do not have a company. If it was me that owned a company and I was at risk I would go head and buy it legal and pay for it that way, then downloading it and paying for it buy losing important data. So this can have a very big impact to society according what companies have what.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows (Extra Research)
Most likely everyone that owns a computer in America uses some sort of Windows program, well when we are using those programs ourselves they are mostly likely a licensed Windows program. There are Windows programs that are unlicensed that some companies rely on so they do not have to pay to use it. Well the Microsoft Corp. said that those unlicensed programs are more likely to experience system failures and lose certain type of data. According to the research done by the Microsoft Corp. they report that 43% of those that use the unlicensed one had a critical failure lasting more then 24 hours. Those companies were also 28% more likely to lose customers data and 73% more likely to lose their data. Also in their research they calculated that 56% of 1,600 companies are using the unlicensed Windows and that is a big risk for those companies to take. Whoever is sneaking the unlicensed can also be sneaking the risk for those companies, so Microsoft Corp. is saying that you are getting what they desire. But they are awaring companies about this risk to make the companies think before getting the unlicensed Windows. I think that Microsoft is doing a good job in awaring these companies about the risk. It is beneficial to them, because the companies now would buy the product instead of trying to be cheap and take a risk in downloading the unlicensed version. I know a couple people that have the unlicensed version so I do not know if they are risk of the same thing since they do not have a company. If it was me that owned a company and I was at risk I would go head and buy it legal and pay for it that way, then downloading it and paying for it buy losing important data. So this can have a very big impact to society according what companies have what.
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