ICT RESPONDING TO 3 TOP 7 DAY TECHNOLOGY STORIES

1) In my opinion this story is very critical to those under the employment of youtube. To them it may seem unfair that MTV is suddenly bringing up all these things to do with music. However it does not seem too important. Youtube has more or less of the time recieved excellent viewings and I dont think that will effect their current ratings just because of MTV and MTV2. I mean sure they may contain music profiles, videos and updates but OYutube is one of the most popluar sites for movies and such and I do not think it will effect the ratings in any way. But that is just my personal opinion. MTV has been out of the category for “music” for a while now and I do not think that since they have created a new channel it will affect Youtube and its ratings. Youtube is safe! I watch movies on Youtube all the time and I find no reason to cange now and I am sure teens all over the globe contain the same attitude when it comes to this situation.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-mtv-smacks-youtube-posts-almost-every-music-video-ever.html

2) The second story I read is saying that Youtube will now allow you to send users to a specific point in a video by appending a short tag to the end of a video’s URL. It’s pretty surprising that this functionality wasn’t available earlier. This is quite helpful so that now people can send a URL to their friends and other users in order for them to view a movie at a certain part instead of having their friends/other users searching for that one part of a film. In my opinon it is not a very big advance or change but it sure is benenficial.It will affect me in the way of making things a sure lot easier when and more enjoyable when it comes to viewing and sharing videos on Youtube.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-videos/

3) The third story I read states the 7 reasons why the iPhone is a smash hit. It also states that Apple’s iPhone is not only a game changer but a certifiable hit. I think that the iPHone was an excellent creation in the cellular phone world. It advances technology in a whole new way. The iPhone allows you to surf the web, hold and play music just as an iPod does, and the main feature: phone others!! Other reasons that the Iphone is such a smash hit are:

- Since its release on July 11th, Apple sold 6.892 million 3G iPhones in the quarter, bringing the total number of iPhones sold so far to 12.992 million. Many of the new phones were sold to first-time buyers.

-If Apple didn’t defer the iPhone revenue, the iPhone sales would have accounted for about 39 percent of the adjusted total quarterly revenues. Jobs put the number at $4.6 billion.

-The iPhone will be sold in 70 countries by end of this year. It is currently sold in 51 countries

-By revenues, Apple is now the 3rd largest mobile phone maker behind Nokia and Samsung, ahead of Sony & LG Electronics. Samsung had revenues of $5.9 billion and it seems beatable

-iPhone is outselling RIM. Jobs kept hammering on that point during the conference call

http://gigaom.com/2008/10/21/7-reasons-why-iphone-is-a-smash-hit/

Part 2, 3 of info tech assignments

Part 2:

Turing Machine

            In 1936 Alan Turing, a British Mathematician, came up with an idea for an imaginary machine that could carry out all kinds of computations on numbers and symbols. Turing’s Machine is the first step of the modern theory of computation and computability even though it was invented nine years before the creation of the first electronic digital computer. This composed of an Input/Output Tape, The Turing Machine itself and a Rule List. The Turing Machine itself is pictured in this ‘black box’ that sits above the tape and reads in symbols one at a time from its head. Turing machines are basic abstract symbol-manipulating devices which, despite their simplicity, can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm.

 

http://web.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/Turing/Turing.html

 

Apple Computer

            The Apple I, also known as the Apple-1, was an early personal computer. They were designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak’s friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple’s first product. It went on sale in July 1976 at a price of $666.66, because Wozniak liked repeating digits and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $500 and added a one-third markup. They were sold in kits instead of pre-built ones. However, users still had to add a case, power supply, keyboard, and display. An optional board providing a cassette interface for storage was later released at a cost of $75.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I

 

Next Follower

            Apple II – Lisa – Macintosh- and today’s computers + accessories such as MAC mini, or an iPod

 

Bill Gates

            Bill Gates’ first product was an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer when he was in Lakeside School during 8^th grade. Then he made Microsoft BASIC program with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). After this he made the MS-DOS which made Microsoft a major company in the industry. Also, Gates made money from giving ownership to the IBM since he believed that hardware vendors would clone IBM’s system. The selling of MS-DOS made the Microsoft’s foot step to be rich today. Microsoft worked together with IBM when they announced that they are working on Windows NT kernel. After this, they developed their company and are a competing company to other computer companies.

 

Timeline

 

1975: BASIC – made with Allen, Gates’ partner. Used to cooperate with MITS

            This basically started Micro-Soft Company

1976: Microsoft was registered to USPTO

1980s: PC-DOS made by Microsoft and sold for US$80,000 for full ownership

1980s: MS-DOS also made by Microsoft with this copyright Microsoft prosperity.

1985: produces Microsoft Windows and develops this program.

1985: Signs contract with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2.

1991: Microsoft announces that the OS/2 partnership was over and focusing on Windows NT kernel

1975-2006: Bill Gates worked on managements and pulls his company to success

2006: Gates announced that he would transition out of his day-to-day role over the next two years to dedicate             more time to philanthropy

Present: Gates is the Chairman of Microsoft and co-Chairman of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

 

Part 3:

5. My fifth technology is Free Energy. Having free energy means geothermal energy, Hydropower energy and solar power. Obviously they are available today as well; however, in the future these energy sources would upgrade for people to be able to use easily, affordable and more efficient.

 

4. My fourth place takes on flying cars. There are several flying cars that have been made already, yet they cannot fly for long and are very small making for only one driver. Flying cars uses hovering idea and propelling idea at he same time to make the car stop, go and park. Flying car would make the world more advance because there will be less traffic and less death. I think it will be dangerous as well because of computer malfunction but it will still be very useful

 

3. Time Machine replaces the third place of future technology. To go back in time, it would be wonderful and very useful. The ultimate question that I had for time machine is that “What would happen to others when I go back or ahead time?” and “What would happen to me in present if I go back or ahead time?” I would not know these answers until the day with time machine comes. However, if this machine comes out I would like to stay in the present and build my future.

 

2. My second future tech. is transporting also known as teleporting. In games, movies, books, anywhere where we come across has at least piece that mentioned transporting. This transporting is not transporting goods across the sea via boats or airplanes, yet is it a similar to time travel. From my room to the kitchen it takes me about 30 seconds. However, with teleporting technology, I could go to my kitchen in .00001seconds, or something else. I personally like this because then we don’t need cars or any transportation system and just teleport to wherever I desire to go.

 

1. And the anticipated #1 of my technology is the cure. It may sound simpler than any other lists that I wrote. However, imagine a world where no illness and death due to lack of medicine technology. I think that anyone who invents this universal cure, then he or she should be father or mother of the treatment and they should win a Nobel Prize for Medicine. Nothing can cure cancer, post-polio, or even a flu/cold with one pill or a medicine. I personally think that this universal cure would change the whole world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gadget from Movie

 Mophie Juice Pack

I chose to report on the “extra life” ipod battery pack. It is also known as the Mophie Juice Pack. You can use it as a form of mobile ipod charger whenn your battery runs out. It’s also used as a battery pack that doubles the battery life of the 1st gen iphone and ipod touch.

This device would be quite beneficial on a flight (airplane) or any sort of transportation. Due to the low lasting battery power of these apple products this in my opinion would be an excellent investment. This device would also come in handy on long road trips when you have absolutely nothing to do but listen to music or watch films on your ipod. If you have an ipod you would certainly know that the battery life never lasts as long as you would like it to. So in this case all you would have to do is simply place your ipod/iphone in the juice pack and let it charge and you also have the option of continuing to play a game or watch a film or listening to music.

Another time when this device would be beneficial would be when you are on vacation in a different country and that country seems to have different electrical outlets. With this gadget you would again just simply place your iphone/ipod in the juice pack and let it restore its battery. This saves time and energy yet vat the same times provides with with the satisfatcion you so well deserve.

So all in all I would say this device is quite beneficial to all. It is filled with coubntless numbers of good points and if you think about it, there is nothing bad or any cons for this device.=(

You can purchase the Mophie Juice Pack for 99.99 online or at a store near you!!!