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Anyone who has enjoyed the recent advances in high definition digital video technology knows there are two issues that frequently stymie video enthusiasts: battery life and video memory card storage capacity.  Batteries running out of power are a real downer, but when your power supply is uninterrupted, you may easily make long, memory-intensive videos that quickly fill up your video memory cards.  To avoid that, you need a video memory card that has great capacity and is durable.  Easily meeting those criteria is the 64 GB CombatFlash685 CF memory card. Read more »

Technology, as you know, changes exceptionally fast.  It seems like just last year that Cloud-based services were just appearing on the Internet!  Now, Google is releasing its personal Cloud service and, in advance of that, the competitors who got the jump on Google are revising their services to remain relevant.  Some of the well-established personal Cloud services may be changing the services you have come to rely upon!  Some of the most significant changes are coming to the following: Read more »

Girls are an often neglected demographic when it comes to the technology sector.  Most major manufacturers have not figured out how to market computers and computer accessories to girls.  Even so, computers are especially important to girls, both for education and emerging career opportunities.  Some companies are trying to make an effort to match computer products with neglected demographics of girls.  Mimeco seems to have successfully marketed toward girls with their Hello Kitty Loves Animals BLOTz Blind Box MIMOBOT. Read more »

One of the things that very few people consider when they talk about the economic downturn in the world today is how it affects emerging technologies.  When consumers do not have the financial resources to continue spending on luxuries, developing technologies stall.  Unfortunately, technological development does not occur in an economic vacuum; the reality of financing demands that great ideas be developed into potentially profitable products.  Few people know how an amazing idea may be crushed by the demands of sweeping economic movements the way Michael Schuette does. Read more »

For those who are not tech savvy, there have been some important advances in data storage in the last few years.  Arguably, the most important development is the development and mass-production of the solid-state drive.  Solid-state drives are like computer hard drives, except that instead of storing data on an electromagnetic disc that spins, the data is stored in integrated circuit assemblies. Solid-state drives are quieter and more durable than traditional hard drives.  USB flash drives are a popular and prevalent form of solid-state drive.  What you may not know is that now there are solid-state drives you may use to replace your hard drive in your PC!  One of the best solid-state drives on the market is the OCZ Vertex 3 SATA III 480 GB solid-state drive! Read more »

With streaming technology becoming more and more prevalent, there is an emerging unease among network television executives as well as major movie studios.  The entertainment industry knows that technology is drastically changing the traditional models by which they make money.  But consumers have a real chance to benefit.  Never before have there been more ways to interface between computers and televisions.  An array of exciting new products continue to make it easier for consumers to legally stream television, movies and video games and get the benefits of both your computer and high definition television.  One of the premiere devices that is changing the way consumers use their appliances and computers is the DarkCrystal HD Capture Station SDK! Read more »

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 »

There are a so many exceptionally cool USB flash drives.  As USB flash drives evolve from the standard USB 2.0 to USB 3.0, it is interesting to see how companies are promoting the newer technology.  As usual, some companies are highlighting fun and collectability with their new USB 3.0 flash drives.  Corsair, the manufacturer of durable computer accessories, is going an entirely different way.  With the Flash Survivor USB 3.0 32 GB USB Flash Drive, the company has created the most solid, damage-resistant USB flash drive yet! Read more »

There are so many options when it comes to USB flash drives that it is hard to decide what factor one ought to prioritize when choosing a flash drive.  There are so many options for those who want their USB flash drive to reflect their personality.  For sheer volume of information, Victorinox now offers a 1TB flash drive and many other flash drives appeal to consumers based upon their fast data transfer speeds.  But what about security?  When it comes to security, no one beats Ironkey for USB flash drives!

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Some of the coolest ideas in the tech sector come about by accident.  These accidental ideas might not have the overwhelming significance to humanity that medical science kismet discoveries – like the discovery of penicillin through bread mold – have, but they can be pretty neat in their own right and lead to surprisingly cool businesses.  Andrew Houston is an American Internet pioneer whose frequent forgetfulness led to the creation of Dropbox!

Andrew (Drew) Houston studied computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 2000s.  Born and raised in Massachusetts, Drew Houston frequently forgot his USB flash drives while attending MIT.  Always on the run, Houston soon came to lament how forgetting his flash drive would affect his time, grades, and travel.  Houston began to back up his files so he had remote access to them.  When he started doing that, he realized the idea might translate into a service.  With his fellow MIT graduate, Arash Ferdowski, Drew Houston translated the idea for the service into a business: Dropbox.

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