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February 8th, 2012 by
David
With a new year comes a plethora of corporate shake-ups. 2012 is no different and Intel, the world’s leading manufacturer of microchips, was one of the big companies to celebrate after the annual Consumer Electronics Show by moving key personnel around. While several well-known members of Intel’s executive staff moved around – like David Perlmutter, whom the Board promoted to Chief Product Officer – there was perhaps no greater beneficiary of the corporate shake-up than Brian Krzanich. Brian Krzanich is now the Chief Operating Officer of Intel!
Brian Krzanich was Intel’s Vice President and General Manager for Manufacturing and Supply when he was tapped to be the new Chief Operating Officer. Krzanich served as General Manager for Marketing and Supply since 2007 and before that, he worked for four years as part of the Assembly Test team, ensuring quality control at Intel was up to the company’s lofty standards. Brian Krzanich first came to the attention of Intel’s executives when he devised a process to manufacture technologies at the .13 micron-process level. This was a breakthrough at the time and helped put him on the radar of those he will now work with as Chief Operating Officer.
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February 8th, 2012 by
David
If you have been around an Apple store lately, you may have heard a lot of jargon shot at you. Apple has such a pervasive subculture that those who are in it seem to find it inconceivable that anyone could not be a part of their subculture. As a result, Apple salespeople often rattle off specifications and jargon at such a speed at to appear daunting to those who are not technically inclined. One of the most frequent words Apple salespeople toss out with the expectation that you know what they are talking about is “FireWire.”
You may have been too afraid to ask, but you are not foolish for not knowing what FireWire is.
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February 7th, 2012 by
David
There are few industries where you can rise to become a billionaire with little in the way of formal education. In fact, outside the entertainment industry, the most probable way to become a billionaire fast is through the technology sector. The innovation of computer devices and electronic products requires intelligence and creativity. The technology industry still rewards people who have a great idea without a lot of formal education on their resume. Marc Benioff is one such creative and intelligent mind who has used the technology sector to amass a fortune.
Marc Benioff is the founder and CEO of Salesforce.com. In 1999, Benioff saw the potentials of the Internet to deliver software to customers in a non-traditional way. Believing that the Internet represented a vast pool of data and computing power, Benioff conceived of the idea of computer users operating software that they did not actually have installed on their computers. Yes, Marc Benioff is generally considered to have conceived of Cloud computing long before it was effectively marketed!
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February 7th, 2012 by
David
The Internet is a remarkably shifty place. Like the most clique-oriented teenagers, the Internet is home to overnight successes and equally fast crashes in popularity. The Internet is, in many ways, the ultimate medium for those who have short attention spans. Perhaps that is why there have been remarkably few Internet music phenomena. The latest celebrity in music to have gotten her start from exposure on the Internet is also, arguably, the one who has gained the most from her time as an Internet phenomenon. That person is Rebecca Black.
Rebecca Black was thirteen years old when she became an Internet phenomenon with her song “Friday.” ARK Music Factory produced the song “Friday” and its creation was a gift from Black’s mother to Rebecca. When the video for “Friday” was released on YouTube, it languished for a month before exploding with popularity. On March 11, 2011, “Friday” started picking up millions of hits and the song and Rebecca Black became trending topics on Twitter. Despite having a vastly disproportionate number of “dislike” ratings by viewers, “Friday” became a legitimate Internet success when YouTube users downloaded the video over 165 million times. The video earned tens of thousands of dollars in royalties and revenue-sharing from advertising through YouTube.
But how did Rebecca Black become an Internet phenomenon and what did she do with her sudden celebrity?
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February 7th, 2012 by
David
Have you been considering upgrading the storage capacity of your laptop? Are you thinking about data backup? Since different laptops store data in various manners, there are actually quite a few options to consider when upgrading your laptop’s storage capacity.
The oldest type of storage, and the bulkiest, is the traditional hard disk drive. Hard disk drives have been around since the 1950s, though they are drastically smaller now than they were then. Hard disk drives use a rigid spinning disk to store information and they have been growing in storage capacity at a pace that has kept them relevant for the advances in technology.
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February 7th, 2012 by
David
There have been some truly intriguing combinations of computer devices. The Sony VAIO Mouse Talk, for example, very cleverly combined a computer mouse with a cell phone. It takes a lot of imagination to combine a standard computer peripheral with something else to make a new device that is more useful than it is clever. Inventors risk making something that is more of a gimmick than a worthwhile gadget. Genius, a Taiwan-based company specializing in devices for the information technology field, managed to create an unlikely combination device that is surprisingly practical with its Ring Presenter.
The Ring Presenter combines a computer mouse with a laser pointer. This unlikely combination proves to be remarkably useful due to the way that it was designed by Genius. With a clever ring design, Genius gives you hands-free control of your presentations. Equally important, the Ring Presenter allows you to control your presentations without having to be at your computer.
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February 6th, 2012 by
David
Once upon a time, there were three fields of vision. Normal vision was considered a range around twenty feet away and with ideal vision you could see everything there clearly. When humanity was hunting to survive, seeing farther way became important. With the invention of the written word and, especially, printed text, the ability to see close objects became essential. With the rise of technology tends to come new problems and for computer users, one of the most serious is computer eye strain.
Computer eye strain is a condition reported by fifty percent of computer users. Computer eye strain can manifest itself in symptoms as benign as slightly dry or itchy eyes to the more extreme migraine headaches. There are several causes of computer eye strain.
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February 6th, 2012 by
David
As technology has improved, it is easy to recall the milestones in terms of experience. Those who were alive during the transition between black and white and color television often recall the first program they saw in color. Similarly, those who were raised on older color televisions can usually recall how awesome their first experience with a true high definition set was. Now, the next leap forward has hit the market with an ultra-high definition 3D television from Samsung!
The best part is, with this 3D television, you do not need special glasses!
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February 5th, 2012 by
David
If you have seen The Social Network, you know the Hollywood version of the history of the creation of Facebook. In the movie, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook for the programming challenge and the status of creating the “next big thing.” When Sean Parker comes into the mix, the priority with “The Facebook” is keeping the site cool and hip, as opposed to monetizing it. This is actually one of the details from the film that jives with reality. However, there came a time for Facebook to monetize and when it did, it was Sheryl Sandberg who made the cool Facebook into a multibillion dollar advertising platform.
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Sandberg arrived at Facebook in 2008 after being wooed away from a potential job at Google. That hiring was seen as a real coup for the Facebook team and shortly after joining the company, Sandberg initiated the advertising program that changed Facebook from a potential cash cow into a multibillion dollar moneymaker. By 2010, Facebook was showing a profit, which was virtually unheard of in Internet social networks.
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February 5th, 2012 by
David
Wireless power, or at least the idea of it, has been around for centuries. Nikola Tesla invented the first “Tesla coils” that produced an electrical field able to wirelessly power light bulbs up to fifty feet away in the late 1800s. Unfortunately, this did not lead to widespread use of wireless power.
Constantly, every day, there are thousands of wireless energy signals being sent back and forth across large distances, but we have yet to perfect easy methods of wireless electricity. That might be about to change.
For a while, there have been wireless charging stations available for cell phones, but those come riddled with many mobile computer support problems. Most of the time, these wireless-charging stations will only work with certain products, or they become obsolete when you upgrade to a new model of phone because of incompatibility.
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