Have you ever heard of an amazing new app that you really wanted to use, only to find out that it is not available on your device? The current limitations of app stores can be frustrating for both consumers and developers. Mozilla, the company who brought you the Firefox web browser, wants to change the restrictive nature of app stores by putting them all online. Read more »
Traditional television service, like any other service, has both positive and negative attributes. Lately, though, it can be difficult to find the benefits of traditional broadcast television service when the detractions to it are so easy to spot (like weather-related outages). Even cable television no longer seems as impressive a service, especially when compared to emerging Internet-based television options. Users of Internet television services have discovered that they can pay a fraction of the price to subscribe to Hulu Plus or HBO Go and get a more customized service. Read more »
Have you ever seen something legitimately newsworthy and wished there was a reporter around to get the facts correct? Do you wish there was a way you could give feedback to companies easily? Do you love sharing great deals you find with your friends as soon as you encounter them? Now, there is a smartphone app that meets all of those needs! That app is Stringfly.
With so many changes coming to the tech sector and the distribution of media, it is understandable that evaluating those changes has often been difficult to assess. While television has mechanisms built in, like the Neilsen Corporation’s statistical analysis, how can industry leaders determine if you are watching their program from your smartphone or tablet computer? When users stream videos from the Cloud is not as easy to chart the impact of your programming. At least, it was not easy to chart before Deb Roy set his mind to the issue!
Deb Roy saw the way social networking was changing the landscape of communication at the same time as technology was advancing to provide users with more instantaneous shared experiences. Deeply interested in the relationship between the distribution of media and news through technology, Deb Roy began an ambitious project to collect the statistics that would inform him – and others – as to the actual effect of the technological changes. That was when he and Michael Fleischman founded Bluefin Labs. Read more »
In the tech sector, there are many important companies whose influence is not felt as widely in the United States as it is in other parts of the world. One company that is still gaining footing in the United States is Archos. Archos has a significant market share in the consumer electronics market in Europe, especially France. Archos produces its own line of portable audio and video players, tablet computers and netbooks. The man who pioneers the various technologies for Archos is Yves Gregoire and he is an impressive engineer! Read more »
2011 saw some real changes in the world on online video streaming. As the Cloud rose to prominence thanks to Apple and it advertising juggernaut, some of the traditional leaders in home media found themselves in drastically new positions. Netflix, for example, was quick to reinvent itself as a digital streaming company, but in the process of price hikes and trying to distance themselves from their DVD subscribers, the company had a much more erratic year than many in the industry thought they would. With Netflix faltering, Amazon.com was able to make significant strides in the digital video streaming market. Amazon.com now has a service called Amazon Prime that allows members to stream unlimited videos and receive free two-day shipping on all orders, for only $79 for a year. Amazon Prime’s video streaming service is now a very cool way to get your movies and television programs on your computer.
There are billions of pages on the Internet and millions of things to do on those pages. Among other things, you can chat with people across the globe, learn about new computer support issues, write blogs about your favorite subjects, or watch streaming movies. So why would we ever run out of things to do online? For those who face the overwhelming choices the Internet offers with a profound sense of indecision or who enjoy the thrill of discovery, there is StumbleUpon.
We are using our smartphones less and less for actual phone calls and more for mobile web browsing, text messaging, video chats, and apps. This implies that we do not like calling people anymore, not when it is far easier to simply text them or pull up a website. Of course, that applies to ordering takeout food as well.
Sometimes, an individual’s association with a company can make all the difference in establishing a business venture. John F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to make a political magazine at a time when the market was pretty much strangled with political print magazines did not stop him from making George a success. In a similar way, one of the new tech sector startups benefits greatly from the celebrity of one of the members of its management team. Numecent is an emerging Cloudpaging company and it would be just another Internet startup if it was not for Hildy Shandell.
Wikipedia is, it might not surprise you to learn, not considered a valid reference by the vast majority of those in academia. Because just anyone can write or edit the articles on Wikipedia, they are often inaccurate or imprecise. Fortunately, there are other resources that educators consider authoritative, even digital resources that are like Wikipedia. One of the most comprehensive, authoritative sources students may use as a reference tool is the 2012 Britannica Ultimate Reference DVD!