Category: Technology
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Buyers Warning on O2 HTC HD7, HD3 Windows 7 Smartphone's / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Nadeem_Walayat
UK smartphone users have been eagerly awaiting to switch to the updated Windows Smartphone platform following the release of Microsoft's Windows 7 mobile O/S on 21st October, which had been accompanied by the announcement of HTC updating the the HD2 handset to HD3, which as the below spec's illustrates implied a quantum leap from the HD2 to the HD3.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Notebooks overtake Desktops / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Pravda
There is a new trend in computer Sales. Whereas in 2004, Sales of notebooks (laptops) represented around ten per cent of the sales of desktops, in 2011, they are expected to sell ten times more. The reason? Consumer trends and changes in behaviour, alongside more attractive prices.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
Asia’s Digital Dragon, $80 Billion and 1.1 Billion Users by 2015 / Economics / Technology
By: Dian_L_Chu
With just over 1.3 billion people (as of mid-2008), China accounts for about 20 percent of the world population and needless to say, is the world's largest and most populous country. Although the country’s population growth has been somewhat slowed by the one child policy (in effect since 1979), its internet population has been growing leaps and bounds over the last ten years. (Figure 1)
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Will Barnes & Noble Lose the E-Book War? / Companies / Technology
By: Investment_U
Alexander Moschina writes: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) – the largest bookstore chain in the United States – is in trouble. So much trouble that it’s decided to put itself up for sale.
The bookseller, whose stock recently dropped to a 10-year low, is hoping for a takeover bid as it tries to gain a foothold in the growing e-reader market.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Secure Websites Are All a Lie / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Shelby_H_Moore
There is no such thing as a secure website, and everything you've been led to believe about web security is a lie. And your free speech is threatened, amongst other serious ramifications. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, June 25, 2010
The Design in Society / Politics / Technology
By: Christopher_Quigley
“Science will have its mastery of all things.”
“Thus the design of a system of generational control and transfer of
technology and technique and resources must have been developed long ago.”
Saturday, March 06, 2010
The Bio and Nano Tech Revolution to Rival Computer Revolution / Stock-Markets / Technology
By: John_Mauldin
The Mauldin Test
Who Stole My Nanotech?
Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink
The Promise of Biotech
DIY-Bio
Random Takeaways
We are in an era of accelerating change, moving toward a future that will be profoundly different from the past we grew up in. But what will the nature of that change be? What will the future look like? For the last 7 days I have been in an executive program designed by Singularity University (www.singularityu.org) to give some insight into that complex question. We looked at a number of technological fields, lectured by experts assembled to give us some idea as to where current research is and to where it is going. We visited some of the cutting-edge companies here in Silicon Valley.
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
America Must Innovate or Die as China Scientists Lead the World in Research Growth / Economics / Technology
By: Gordon_T_Long
US innovation is plummeting faster than our Financial Markets did during the 2008 financial crisis!
The future of America is presently in peril, not just because of the “banksters’’ shadowy ways, but because of a sputtering Innovation Engine that has had the fuel “choked off’. It has now gone “critical” and can no longer be left to only the carping of the academic community.
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Monday, September 07, 2009
Sky Saves the Planet by Killing Digiboxes / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Sky in recent months has been automatically putting sky boxes into standby during the night to save the planet by cutting back on electricity usage whilst the viewer is 'asleep'.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Which UK Full HD Digital Camcorder Review / ConsumerWatch / Technology
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The must have consumer gadget of 2009 is a Full HD camcorder / digital camera combo which is the target for this review and selection process.