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Most will access web trough cellphone by 2020..

lejla — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:04:41 +0000

People are addicted to their blackberries and iphones today but according to a study that was done this week, most tech savvy people will use their smart-phones as the primary internet connection by 2020. The cellphones will change so much that they will be small computers instead of primarily cellphones.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,233…

mobile voting

agorelik — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:56:46 +0000

Residents of Estonia can now vote in national elections via their cell phone.

http://gizmodo.com/5108828/estonia-will-be-the-first-country-to-elect-politicians-using-mobile-phones

Yahoo! email becomes more social.

gmera0226 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:33:26 +0000

In this article, Yahoo! announces that it will launch new features to its free email service to enhance their product. It will add features that are commonly use by social networking sites (e.g Facebook, Myspace, etc). Some of these features include: creating social interactive communities with the help of their email (based on friends and interests), sort emails of friends/family separately, it will allow you to add third party applications to the emails, and it will scoop up buried pictures from old emails. With this new look, Yahoo! is trying to appeal to a new set of consumers. They are trying to reach to the people who do not engage into social networking sites, but have tons of memories (pictures) in their emails. Furthermore, they are pursuing the idea of interactivity between their users. With all of these cool new changes Yahoo! is obviously trying to become the most popular launching site.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20081216/tc_afp/usitinternetyahoo

What Louisiana Can Teach

Tim — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:13:36 +0000

New York Times article on page A40 on the December 12,2008 that talks about how teacher programs arent always as good as its cracked up to be. They are looking at Louisiana’s accountability-based reform efforts to fix the issue and let other nations follow their example. I feel as though this article stronly related to the community seeing how teachers effect almost every citizen int he United States.

Timothy Lopez

PLan to help poor and immigrants open and maintain bank accounts

Tim — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:11:05 +0000

New York Times article on page A22 on the December 12,2008 stating that California is tying to create a program to make it easier for immigrants and the poor to open up bank accounts instead of keeping all of their money in cash. They would provide the public with free training on the new program and give them low/no fees. This would greatly affect the community and is an interesting article.

By Timothy Lopez

The New Examined Life

ccastillo — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:51:00 +0000

This article talks about the online community and how many sites are offering life trackers. these sites offer agendas where people can write down everything they do and keep a record of it some of these sites are: Dopplr, which allows people to post their iteneraries and cshare them with others., Mon.thly.Info, tracks down menstrual cycles. and another one is trixie tracker where parents can document their childs feeding schedule. so people just post their lives on these sites and share it with others.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122852285532784401.html

Poorer Nations Go Online on Cellphones

ccastillo — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:42:19 +0000

Alot of people in emerging markets are accesing the internet through their cell phones because many of these poor areasa dont have phone lines for dial up or even cable for broadband. It is also cheaper to use their cellphones becuase if they already have a phone then they dont need to spend extra money on computers or internet, being that they dont have alot of money this works out perfectly for them. “Wireless-network operators and handset manufacturers like Nokia Corp., the world’s largest by sales, have long viewed emerging nations as crucial for growth. Now, the evolving use of phones for data transfer — not just calls — means mobile-technology firms can increase revenues per subscriber, which are much lower than in the developed world, analysts say”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122844530354182063.html

YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money

ccastillo — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:30:39 +0000

Sucessful users of you tube who would just post videos on youtube for fun “partnered” with them and are now making six figures incomes becuase of the advertisemnets. millions of people post videos on you tube and alot of them get viewed alot of time, someone said they have already gotten 100 million view, this is crazy. someone even quit their real job becuase the money they were making on youtube surpassed what they were earning at their current job.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/media/11youtube.html?_r=1&ref=technology

What the Search Engines Have Found Out About All of Us

ccastillo — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:12:10 +0000

This Article talks about the how google gathers information on what people searched for in NYC for 2008 and then creates a list of search queries from it. also it mentions how this information that is gathered by google is then used by other businesses along with the cookies that are captured and IP adresses.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/nyregion/10about.html?ref=technology

Blockbuster’s Big Gulp of Technology

trav8587 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:15:43 +0000

Blockbuster Video is selling a set-top box that could download movies and play them on a television. However, Internet connection in most homes in the United States may not be fast enough to make downloading movies a satisfying experience. I don’t think this will sell as well as Blockbuster hopes due to the rise of bootlegging and piracy of movies online.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/blockbusters-big-gulp-of-technology/