08.29.10 Technology Stories

 

15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything <http://www.pcworld.com/article/152683/15_hot_new_technologies_that_will_change_everything.html>

In the world, there are a lot of techonologies that are being developed in this time of year and era. from the ENIAC, there are many things that have been done to change the technological world of today. for example the iphone, it is a cellphone, combined the revolutionary mp3 player and a minicomputer inside of it. seeing all this technologies develop we might never see natural stuff anymore.

Laser Powered Television <http://www.techradar.com/news/home-cinema/mitsubishi-beams-out-world-s-first-laser-powered-tv-480280>

From the original, black and white pictures to the plasma tv’s today, we can see that we are really evolving from our past. in this laser powered tv, it may show a more finer picture of than it used to be. its screen may grow larger than it used to be. it may cause a lot of money in buying this piece of technology.

HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 firsthttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/10/29/hd-netflix-streaming-comes-to-xbox-360-first

In the technological world today, there is a lot of things being downloaded all over the world. most people download music and videoes, for their own convience. being one of the people of this current world, it encourages some people to go lazy in moving around their surrondings. it is only available for download in the Xbox 360, which in the market getting lower in cost due to low sales. this low sales causes more sad things for the microsoft sales market.

just for fun…

Digg Time :] 09.29.04

Hackers Target Pirate Bay Prosecution Law Firm [ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Pirate-Bay-Trial-Hack-Lawyer,7638.html ]

This article talks about how “Pirate Bay” suffers the attack of hackers. “Pirate Bay” is making a way to sue to those hackers who invaded their website. Then they are planning to shut down the website until the attack of the hackers stops. The organization helping “pirate bay” is International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. This organization will help them get over their hacker problems.

Why text messages are limited to 160 characters? [ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/invented-text-messaging.html ]

According to Los Angeles Times, Text messages are limited to 160 characters, it was discovered by Friedhelm Hillebrand, while typing random  sentences and questions on paper. As he went on, he discovered that 1 or 2 lines of each blurb stopped at less than 160 characters. That became the magic number of digital messaging. “This is perfectly sufficient,” he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. “Perfectly sufficient.” And, yes its still being used in current times.

i got confused while doing this…8O