Nov 18, 2009
In this article, it talked about how Dell is going to enter the smartphone market. The smartphone that they are going to bring to the table is going to be called the Mini 3. The two first carriers that are going to sell this phone is going to be China Mobile and Brazil’s Claro. This [...]
Nov 10, 2009
The article that I chose for this chapter deals with Facebook. A couple of months ago, the design of the website was redesigned and there were many users that were unhappy about the change. The product director, Christopher Cox was very open to see what people thought about this change. In the end, hundreds of [...]
Nov 4, 2009
This article is about a new invention that is called a slingshot. What this is suppose to do is purify water. It is said that shortage of water is the biggest health problem. Less than one percent of the fresh water supply is available to drink. The Slingshot is a portable machine that does not [...]
Oct 27, 2009
The article that I found for this chapter deals with how the T-mobile Sidekick lost data on many of their customer’s phones. Overall, there are around 800,000 people who use a Sidekick, and obviously the people weren’t happy about it. Many people rely heavily on their cell phone, even more if it is a smartphone. [...]
Oct 25, 2009
The article that I chose for this chapter was about a new technology that is being looked at to create a faster screening process for airports. Instead of having you take off your shoes and jackets, along with the long process and whatnot, this could speed things up. This technology is being looked at by [...]
Oct 25, 2009
The article that I chose for this chapter was about a new phone that will be coming out sometime before December. This phone is called the Palm Pixi, and it is suppose to be a smaller and cheaper smartphone than the Palm Pre. It will be similar to the Pre, for instance it will still [...]
Oct 25, 2009
For this chapter, I read this article about General Electric. It stated that in two years, they are going to introduce a new solar panel with a similar cell material as the panels made by First Solar. First Solar appears to be the best brand to get panels from today. However, as of right now, [...]
Oct 25, 2009
For this chapter, the article that I looked at is about a new feature for Facebook. This feature is the availability to chat online with your Facebook friends. However, this voice chat is not being offered by Facebook, but by a private company called Vivox. This is a Boston based company, and also provides similar [...]
Oct 25, 2009
The article that I chose was about the space shuttle, Discovery. Last Friday, it landed at the Edwards Air Force Base in Mojave Desert. It was suppose to land at the Kennedy Space Center, which is located in Florida. The reason why the space shuttle didn’t land in Florida was because of bad weather. It [...]
Oct 25, 2009
Netflix is a well known online company that has been around for a few years. However, now there has been an one million dollar prize competition going on for three years now. What people has to do to compete is improve their movie recommendation system by ten percent. Netflix is going to announce the winner [...]
Oct 25, 2009
For this chapter, the article that I found is about this dairy farmer from Pennsylvania. His name is Shawn Saylor, and his family has been dairy farmers for four generations now. A few years ago when the cost of energy increased dramatically, Saylor turned to technology to help him out. Having about 600 cows on [...]
Oct 25, 2009
The article that I chose talks about this fairly new technology of solar cell phones. The article describes that in Kenya, home landlines aren’t really sufficient and that millions of the people rely on cell phones. However, there are some towns and villages where the electricity is scarce. This being a problem for many people, [...]
