Rumors and leaks from inside information are pointing to a new product from Google around the end of 2012.
The product will be a pair of glasses with heads up display (HUD). Based on the Android operating system, the glasses will have a small screen a few inches from your eye, use a 3G or 4 G connection and have sensors for motion and GPS.
The display will show other information in the area and provide data with location based insight. With all the data that Google has amassed you can just imagine what types of service and images could be relayed through the glasses to the user.
Using tunneling microscopes and a single red phosphorous atom, researchers from The University of South Wales in Australia have been able to accurately create a single atom transistor – that is small.
Moore’s Law states, and has held basically true, that transistor density would double around every two years. That pace is considered to be reaching a road block since current manufacturing technology is reaching it physical limits.
With atom level transistors the density and power for computing could be greatly increased.
These are early stage developments but the ability to precisely and accurately create the atom level transistor is very encouraging.
Sometimes all that technology information just gets boring and simply misses what is really important.
I found a wonderful site called www.goodnewsnetwork.org that is just that – good news and great stories about wonderful people making a difference.
To support that effort I plan on posting a “good news” story every Friday.
The inspiration for these postings is my late mother, Emily Johnson.
My mother used to frequently say “I am going to write them a letter” whenever she came across something that needed to be fixed but more frequently when an action needed to be praised. Every morning, with her cup of coffee in hand, she would sit at the typewriter and type a letter to someone mentioning events or people she came in contact with.
Every day, without fail, she wrote a letter.
Emily was a lifelong contributor to charities of all kinds and devoted untold years of her life helping others.
While I could never hold a candle to all the great work she did during her life, I can help by continuing in her spirit – Here’s to you Emily, with love from Lars.
This story typifies the type of work Emily would get involved with, grass roots organizations that just want to give back to their community and people around the world who are less fortunate – take a look, share and contribute where you can.
These wonderful ladies hold pot luck dinners and use the proceeds from “Dinning for Women”, or DFW, to raise money for needy around the world. So far they have raised over $ 1.5 million, one dinner at a time.
Read this wonderful story and visit their site to see how you can help, every small contribution makes a difference;
Thank you Emily for all you gave and thank everyone out there who selflessly contribute time, money and positive energy to those who are less fortunate!
Telecommuting has shown to be a great benefit to all size companies. Space usage studies show that only 35 – 40% of office space is being utilized creating a big opportunity for savings.
There are not only savings available but workers will be happier and usually more productive in this flexible environment.
Technology today allows for safe and secure access to all files on your network by remote users so they can access all the resources just as if they were sitting at a desk in your office.
American Express Open Forum has more information on how to take advantage of this trend;
Apple showed this ad during the XVIII Super Bowl in 1984 as the launch of the Macintosh.
The advertisement has been deemed by some as the greatest ad of all times, certainly a harbinger of the great inventions that followed.
IBM was about to launch the new PCjr computer for the home market. The Apple Macintosh would be launched later in the month, surpassing the Apple ][. This ‘teaser’ was designed to alert viewers to the new era in personal computers, long enough to stop them from investing in the IBM. The whole advertisement represented the capacity for the Apple color screen to outdo the monotone world of the IBM.
As noted in WikiPedia:
"Ted Friedman, in his 2005 text, Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture, notes the impact of the commercial:
Super Bowl viewers were overwhelmed by the startling ad. The ad garnered millions of dollars worth of free publicity, as news programs rebroadcast it that night. It was quickly hailed by many in the advertising industry as a masterwork. Advertising Age named it the 1980sCommercial of the Decade, and it continues to rank high on lists of the most influential commercials of all time [...] ’1984′ was never broadcast again, adding to its mystique.”
Apparently in use for “several months”, Bouncer, developed by Google, scans Android applications sent to them before being published to the Android market.
As new threats and techniques are discovered, Google goes back to earlier applications and rescans for those threats.
It is a foot race between the good guys and the bad guys – one trying to protect and the other trying to exploit.
On the OC side, security firm Sophos has identified an average of 150,000 malware samples a day in the first half of 2011, a 60% increase since 2010.
That is a release rate of nearly 105 per minute, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
According to Forrester Research, “video is 53 times more likely than text pages to appear on the first page of a search engine.”
Adding video to e-mail marketing boosts customers’ interaction—such as opening the email or clicking on any of the content—by as much as 200 percent to 300 percent, says Marc Fleishhacker, managing director at WPP’s Ogilvy Consulting.
You do not have to be Spielberg to add video content, a small investment can enable you to create concise video that will provide value to your website visitors.
