http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171419
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer (extra research)
It seems that since Nintendo has been around and producing video game system they have kind of followed the same model as the Apple Computer. Like the N64 it was an expensive proprietary format, relatively sparse releases, an insular corporate culture, but also offered the same ultimate benefit: powerful hardware and quality software. Here are some examples to show that; Apple makes computers and laptops that are translucent blue or orange with white accents and soon after that Nintendo comes out with games that are same thing. Then Apple comes out with a compact, cube-shaped computer that founders in the marketplace and Nintendo comes out with a compact, cube-shaped console that founders in the marketplace. So it seems where Apple leads, Nintendo seems to follow in lockstep. Well now Apple is now going to go into the video game system business. They suddenly felt like that video games are the future and that is a very different change of pace for that company. They also have very big ties with gaming developers, so it seems they have the right people for the job. Of course have made big news with the Ipod and recently the IPod touch and with that they had some games that was available. If they do use the IPod for gaming it will most likely be like the Nintendo DS and PSP consoles. I think that it would be cool if Apple decided to join some of the other companies and start making video games and consoles because that could help out the consumer. With another company that drives the prices down and there of course will give them more of a choice of games. I think that will be very successful in making games because everyone loves the IPod and Apple has got this development and selling of technology down pat.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Journal #12, November 16
http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39549424,00.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux (extra research)
Today it is almost everything is about computers and they have become very important, well since people need and use computers everyday well there are programs and computers that people use. Like Mac and Windows Vista and Linux, well this article is about many IT departments are considering a migration to Linux instead of Windows Vista and such. Well before you decide to pick a certain criteria that you should look at before switching. And this article gives the reader ten questions to ask and look at before you do something that might hurt you or your business. Number one, will that proprietary, mission-critical application run on the new platform? Number two, which desktop are you planning to use? Number three, is your IT department up to the task? Number four, does your corporate headquarters get a benefit from Microsoft? Number five, do your employees use a lot of removable media? Number six, is your hardware supported? Number seven, are you using Active Directory? Number eight, do you outsource your helpdesk support? Number nine, are you subject to licensing fees for software? Then lastly, do some of your employees fit the Linux user experience more than others? All of these question are important and should be ask or thought over. Some are more important and then there are some questions that do not apply to everyone, but I think that this article brings up very good questions, even though I do not understand some of the questions and some of the words or programs that they are referring to, but it seems that these questions would help. With people these type of questions, I could see the that company making a better decision, instead of just going with whatever everyone else is using. And like what the article said, ask these questions before going backwards and back to square one, cause we all know time is money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux (extra research)
Today it is almost everything is about computers and they have become very important, well since people need and use computers everyday well there are programs and computers that people use. Like Mac and Windows Vista and Linux, well this article is about many IT departments are considering a migration to Linux instead of Windows Vista and such. Well before you decide to pick a certain criteria that you should look at before switching. And this article gives the reader ten questions to ask and look at before you do something that might hurt you or your business. Number one, will that proprietary, mission-critical application run on the new platform? Number two, which desktop are you planning to use? Number three, is your IT department up to the task? Number four, does your corporate headquarters get a benefit from Microsoft? Number five, do your employees use a lot of removable media? Number six, is your hardware supported? Number seven, are you using Active Directory? Number eight, do you outsource your helpdesk support? Number nine, are you subject to licensing fees for software? Then lastly, do some of your employees fit the Linux user experience more than others? All of these question are important and should be ask or thought over. Some are more important and then there are some questions that do not apply to everyone, but I think that this article brings up very good questions, even though I do not understand some of the questions and some of the words or programs that they are referring to, but it seems that these questions would help. With people these type of questions, I could see the that company making a better decision, instead of just going with whatever everyone else is using. And like what the article said, ask these questions before going backwards and back to square one, cause we all know time is money.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Journal #11, November 9
http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-40085-128-1-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless (extra research)
Since Barrack Obama is going to be the next president, TG Daily revisited Obama's speeches and highlighted what they thought were the top five most important technology promises. During the presidential race Silicon Valley's cash was behind Obama, in total he collected 1.44 million in donations from employees at the 20 largest companies. A big donation came from Google, they donated almost half a million dollars. Obama seemed to have a greater understanding and use of technology, the Internet was a key role in his fundraising effort. His ads were in Facebook, MySpace and even in video games to try to connect to younger voters. Here are the top five choices. Net neutrality is one and that is to set rules and put laws in place to force service and telcos to allow all applications, services and devices access networks to perform on equal terms. Second broadband penetration and that is to have quicker speeds for the Internet because the US is very slow compared to Japan and South Korea. Third is wireless spectrum, today there is a lack of competition and fair usage rules in it are key obstacles that hold back new innovation. Fourth there is the outsourcing problem, and there are big problems for today because there is so many jobs are going over seas. Then lastly there is privacy and in today's society everyone wants that and our privacy legislation appears to be always one step behind when it comes to high tech and online scenarios. I think that all five of this issues are a big deal for today's society and needs to be looked at and something done about it. For the next four years we will see if these things are looked at and some attempt to fix or help is made. So Silicon is very much backing Obama, so maybe he will help out the technology problems and Internet problems and get the US back to top of technology and research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless (extra research)
Since Barrack Obama is going to be the next president, TG Daily revisited Obama's speeches and highlighted what they thought were the top five most important technology promises. During the presidential race Silicon Valley's cash was behind Obama, in total he collected 1.44 million in donations from employees at the 20 largest companies. A big donation came from Google, they donated almost half a million dollars. Obama seemed to have a greater understanding and use of technology, the Internet was a key role in his fundraising effort. His ads were in Facebook, MySpace and even in video games to try to connect to younger voters. Here are the top five choices. Net neutrality is one and that is to set rules and put laws in place to force service and telcos to allow all applications, services and devices access networks to perform on equal terms. Second broadband penetration and that is to have quicker speeds for the Internet because the US is very slow compared to Japan and South Korea. Third is wireless spectrum, today there is a lack of competition and fair usage rules in it are key obstacles that hold back new innovation. Fourth there is the outsourcing problem, and there are big problems for today because there is so many jobs are going over seas. Then lastly there is privacy and in today's society everyone wants that and our privacy legislation appears to be always one step behind when it comes to high tech and online scenarios. I think that all five of this issues are a big deal for today's society and needs to be looked at and something done about it. For the next four years we will see if these things are looked at and some attempt to fix or help is made. So Silicon is very much backing Obama, so maybe he will help out the technology problems and Internet problems and get the US back to top of technology and research.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Journal # 10, November 2
http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9118758&intsrc=hm_list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_9 (extra research)
These days everyone either has a computer or uses one. Well now there are subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-Note that will soon cost as little as $99. But this might be a great deal there is a catch like always; the person would have to omit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost of the notebooks would come from the courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone. There are reports that HP is already talking to carriers about such an arrangement, but it did not say what carriers. If HP is talking to carriers then you can be that Dell and Asus are too. People believe that they are talking to AT&T, which they already have a deal with Lenovo and Ericsson to sell full-size ThinkPads at $150, so they have a plan that HP is looking for. AT&T also announced a major strategic shift a couple of weeks ago that should result in AT&T stores selling nonphone gadgets that can take advantage of mobile broadband, including netbooks. I think that it would be great if HP or Dell or Asus would come out with these $99 notebooks. Like that I said at the beginning, almost everyone in the USA either has a computer or uses one. In today's' society a computer is essential and when they are that cheap people can buy them and not be in a lot of debt because of there prices. Since the technology is being made cheaper then the product is sold for cheaper, but the catch i do not like, but comes with the good price.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_9 (extra research)
These days everyone either has a computer or uses one. Well now there are subnotebooks like the Asus Eee PC, the Dell Mini 9 and the HP 2133 Mini-Note that will soon cost as little as $99. But this might be a great deal there is a catch like always; the person would have to omit to a two-year mobile broadband contract. The low cost of the notebooks would come from the courtesy of a subsidy identical to the one you already get with your cell phone. There are reports that HP is already talking to carriers about such an arrangement, but it did not say what carriers. If HP is talking to carriers then you can be that Dell and Asus are too. People believe that they are talking to AT&T, which they already have a deal with Lenovo and Ericsson to sell full-size ThinkPads at $150, so they have a plan that HP is looking for. AT&T also announced a major strategic shift a couple of weeks ago that should result in AT&T stores selling nonphone gadgets that can take advantage of mobile broadband, including netbooks. I think that it would be great if HP or Dell or Asus would come out with these $99 notebooks. Like that I said at the beginning, almost everyone in the USA either has a computer or uses one. In today's' society a computer is essential and when they are that cheap people can buy them and not be in a lot of debt because of there prices. Since the technology is being made cheaper then the product is sold for cheaper, but the catch i do not like, but comes with the good price.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Journal #9, October 26
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.
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 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.
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