Protection

http://www.infoworld.com/video/InfoClipz/Virtualization/EDP-InfoClipz/video_1806.html

Look at this Video! I thought this was interesting simply because last week we were talking about something similar to this topic. How some people can steal identities, fraud and so on…

Google enters mobile phone market

  On Monday Nov 5th Google inc. said it was going to offer a new software system to make internet work smootly on CELL PHONES, as it does on computers.   The free software is knwon as “Android”.

   T-Mobile will start selling Google Softwarebased phones next year.    And chief Executive Eric Schmidt hopes there are thousands more of different mobile phones which will be powered by Android. 

  And because this software is free, this may bring a 10% saving to customers through phone subsidies or lower montly fees.

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Old Versions of Freeware Available Even After Upgrade

This site has previous versions available for some of the more common freeware utilities…

 

http://oldversion.com/

Best Buy Pulls Analog TVs Off Shelves

Best buy has pulled all analog tv’s of the shelves because of the change to digital television in 2009.  All tv’s will be LCD or flat panel. More then 60 million citizens rely on analog television now and will have to switch over to digital or buy converter boxes. The government will be making coupons for converter boxes that will be able to be purchased at best buy.

Spending in the computer industry to top a trillion dollars in 2007

Spending in the computer technology industry will top a trillion dollars this year. Global IT accounts for 2.5% of the worlds gross domestic product. The IT industry will employ 35.2 million people next year, and will pay a trillion dollars in taxes in 2007. China is expected to add the most IT jobs with the US following behind in 2nd. Companies in “the Microsoft ecosystem” will earn more than 400 billion dollars in revenue this year. The IT industry is a huge world wide and with more and more reliance on computers one could only imagine that the industry can only continue to grow.

Mark Prince

Cell phone projectors

A concept has recently come out to have cell phones have projectors on them in the future. As you can see on the link provided there is a cell phone projecting a desktop similar to a windows desktop. If this idea becomes available laptops will not be necessary for business meetings anymore since your entire presentation will be on you cell phone. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/concepts/cellphone-projector-concept-allows-impromptu-sales-meetings-311590.php

Broadcasters begin public campaign

In an effort to begin educating the public about the February 2009 shift away from analog TV, the National Associate of Broadcasters has begun a public service campaign to educate Americans about what this changes means for the average television viewer.  For more information check out the coverage in the CNN technology section today.

Want to see October’s coolest gadgets

Japan’s largest electronics show, Ceatec, kicks off October every year with all that’s new and coming from the country’s consumer electronics vendors. The 2007 show was certainly no let down and provided visitors a chance to catch some world-first technology, like a 3-millimeter thick TV, a laptop with super-charged graphics processing and new high-def video recorders.

And theres much much more..Check it out at

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071010/tc_infoworld/92477;_ylt=At7595k.A_mzYFRNweYm7LkjtBAF

Adobe Acrobat Vulnerability

Adobe, the creater of the Acrobat Application, has released a work around for the exploit that was recently discovered in both the free reader as well as the profesional version of the Acrobat product.  According to PC World, there is still no official patch for Windows XP machines.

 

Puppy Linux

My future brother in-law and I were talking and he was telling me about Puppy Linux and that its an operating system that can be uploaded off of a thumb drive or CD. You can do you work off of it and then save it right back to the thumb drive or the CD. The system is a tiny 96mb. The linux system has it pros and cons compared to Microsoft’s Windows, Linuz is supposedly a more stabel system that crashes less. The web site for this article is as follows : http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1772.

Mark Prince

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