Instagram vs Twitter

With tons of social media sites and apps out there its only a matter of time until rivals are made. Twitter has been around for around five years, while Instagram is making a relatively new splash in the social media world. Instagram is only about twelve to fourteen months old. Recently Instagram had pulled the plug on its app sharing via twitter. Now, Instagram links are only posted on twitter and not the picture. Fairly soon all pictures will be taken off twitter that were shared through Instagram.

IG or Instagram has remodeled its web connection and is know making a presence online rather then just through a phone app. Now IG users can do everything they can do on their phones via internet now.  However, its not the end of the world for twitter users using IG.There will just be one extra click that will bring people back to the web link where the IG content is displayed.

How do you feel about this? Do you share you Instagram photos via Twitter? 



















Twitter battles Instagram

Addicted to Smartphones

Smartphones with the new technology they can give access to, makes a new adventure waiting to happen. As it is today people have become addicted to smart phones. The difference between an addiction and other kinds of compulsive behavior, loosely, is that addictions cause people do something compulsively even though it's detrimental to their lives.

With new studies, Nancy Petry, a researcher at the University of Connecticut Health Center's department of psychiatry says smartphone lovers may not meet the full criteria for having an addiction. Smartphones are like slot machines for the brain. It taps into the associative learning pathway. Associative learning means that your brain is trained to make you feel either good or bad after a certain event. A new event on a social media site or even a text or missed call on a ones phone can access a similar feeling. In a survey of 200 students at Stanford University, 34% rated themselves as being addicted to their phones, and 32% of the remaining participants worried they someday would be addicted.

The debate on addiction to smartphones will be debated for a while now. With technology advancing in ways that would cause more addiction studies are continuing to grow in this subject. Are you addicted to your smartphone? In what ways does your smartphone cause an addiction for you and what ways does it not? 




 



The Superphone

New Operatione System:Windows 8

Windows 8 is a new operation system and has very different operate way as MAC. It is a big challenge for Microsoft Corporation because they are taking a risk on customer trusted. The old software with a changes, it rises complaints to loss of trust.

Pro: Windows 8 keeps customer up to date so they won't see another company's product and want to leave the windows company. The new design that no other company has seen before. It is looks more maneuverable.

This is what the Windows start with.
We can see there has no Start Buttom left of the screen, instead  using " Windows 8 Seyle Menu.

It has changed a lot from old operatione system. Look at the screen of Windows 8, there is noting same as old one, so I think it is needs time for customers to adopt it and to learn how to us it as well.

So what you think about Windows 8? Do you think it is a good business strategy to take a big stape from old operate system?

Here is a website about how to using Windows 8. I think one day you may need know how to us this new operate system.

 Here is the Link if you want read more
 

Google Maps, the Best One in the World

Google Maps was the first map system to be created for the Internet and smartphone. Since we have though technology capabilities to research and fine tune the information we want, the maps have become one of the must used applications. Since Google was he only one to have an advanced map, it was the most widely used but when apple and other companies came out with their map system. The competition increased when people start to compare the new technologies to the old technologies, they find that the maturity of Google's software is still the best. Through the 8 years Google has been perfecting and updating their software, proving that it is the better software. Even there have Apple iOS 6 want compete with Google Maps but iOS 6 is not as Google Maps has highest accyracy. Some time iOS will give the wrong direction to the driver or just tell you there has no results found.
Here has a qicture we compare and I think a lot of people has same experience.

Which map system you using right now and how it is work for you?

Here is the Link if you want read more about Google Maps compare Apple iOS 6.

Tablets, will they replace the Smartphone?

 

 Tablets replacing the smartphones? Really?

Our dependence on mobile media consumption is growing.Why watch the content on a small, low-resolution screen when you can watch it on a high-definition screen that’s still easily portable? There’s just no point in doing so, nor is it likely to be preferred. I believe this reason has already been driving the desire for larger smartphone screens, not the need for more components in the devices nor bigger batteries, although that’s a nice side benefit. T-Mobile’s recent survey showing that 77 percent of the respondents want larger smartphones. It may not be our current generation that can get past the ability of putting phones in pockets, but I suspect it will be the next one at the latest. After all, you couldn’t pocket the first phones either, and look how that turned out.

To read more go to:  http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-02/heres-why-tablets-will-replace-the-smartphone#p2

Question:
So what do you think? Do you think the Tablets will take over the smartphones when you can do basically the same things with both?

Apply Mini Compare With Others

There is a Test Center Scorecard is to compare various performance between Apple iPad Mini, Amazon.com Kindle Fire HD, Asus Google Nexus 7.

Apple Mini is latest product in Apply Company, the ideal about the Mini are even it has smaller size and light weight but it still can handle most basic system compare normal table as well. Apply mini only have half of a full-size iPad and 12 ounces weight. On other hand, it also has less powerful then the fill-size iPad. For example, the camera on the iPad Mini has no flash and lacks the ability to take high-dynamic-range (HDR) photo. I think because it is first generation, so it is never be a perfect on the first generation even they have enough technology can create a better one. However, even iPad Mini is not good as fourth generation iPad but it is still good enough to compare with same type of product created by other companies.

What you think about this first generation Apple Mini? Would you willing to buy it and even you know they will have second generation, third generation at the following year as the business strategy? Or compare Full-Size iPad with the Mini which one you will like it and why?

Here is the link it may can give you a good suggeation if you looking for a better tablet.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/tablet-deathmatch-ipad-mini-vs-nexus-7-vs-kindle-fire-hd-205937?source=fssr

Coming to a Mobile Plan Near You: Pay Just for E-Mail or Facebook

        Would you ever have a trouble to pay the overage fee on your cell phone? If you have 250 megabytes of data left on your smart phone plan, and in the most of days, you spend four hours to checking Facebook e-mail and YouTube. Is that passable to not overuse if you are on a type of limited plan?

         I think there are a lot of people have this issue, they pay a lot fee on their cell phone, and they didn’t feel they was use as this much. Fortunately, there have a technology call ItsOn app, it can help people to tailor their data plans according to the services they use. For example, rather than monitoring how many megabytes you’re using watching Netflix, a carrier could offer a flat monthly rate just for video streaming. The same could be done just for e-mail or social networking.

       With the ItsOn app, we can manage which type of services they’re subscribed to, and the requests would go into effect immediately. After you ready this article, if you are a person want manage your data, would your want buy a system like that to help you to save money and your time?

Here is the website about ItsOn app. If you want know more about it, you can check this link.  

<http://www.itsoninc.com/news/releases/ItsOn-Inc-Secures-15.5M-in-Series-B-Funding-from-Andreessen-Horowitz.html>

Milk Guardian/ Iphone Milk App?

Milk Guardian?

 A Canadian company, Dairy Quality, unveiled a new product called Milk Guardian, a small black box that slides onto the back of an iPhone. A farmer inserts a plastic slide containing a milk sample from one of his cows, and the device counts the number of somatic cells (a high somatic cell count can be an indicator of mastitis, an infection of the udder tissue). Counting somatic cells used to require sending milk to an offsite lab and waiting a week or more for results; using a microscope and an app, Milk Guardian can analyze a sample on location in six seconds or less. The accessory and app together cost $1,800.

After connecting with Gary Jonas, co-founder and president of app developer Mpengo, Mangan realized that most of what he needed could be found in a smartphone. “We needed a camera; a smartphone has that,” Mangan says. “We needed software; we could do that through an app. We needed to export the data; a smartphone’s designed to do just that.”

Do you think technology should or shouldn't be involved in natural situations such as using a phone to do what scientist are trained and paid to do?

I personally think technology can be used in certain situations but having a phone basically analyze and count somatic cells verses sending the milk to an offsite lab and waiting a week or more for results using a microscope? I personally feel like science that requires a microscope to see and discover should be done by scientist with a microscope no matter how time consuming it may be.
What do you think?

To read more about the Technology used on the dairy farm " robot cow milkers" possibly texting farmers when cows are in-heat  go to:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-18/big-dairy-enters-the-era-of-big-data#r=tec-s

Mobile Companies Cashing In

With thousand of Mobile apps in the iPhone app store and the Android App store some of these app companies are cashing in on some serious bucks $$$$. Most Venture Capitalist this year are putting their money where there mouth in saying that mobile is the future." A  from M&A firm Rutberg & Co. covering the first half of 2012 shows firms invested $3.9 billion in mobile companies, everything from Jawbone and Viddy to Vox Mobile and Tango. That total is already 7 percent more than all the mobile-focused investments made in 2011, and 46 percent of all the venture capital invested in tech companies so far this year" says Sarah Mirtoff. App start up companies like Tango and Instagram to name a few make up the $1 billion venture capital for companies targeting users in any single category. 

Although these companies dominated in money raised, they did not however bring in the most overall.
Device, payments, and infrastructure companies raised the largest individual rounds, especially those focused on the Chinese and broader Asian markets. Before no one wanted to invest a single penny into device companies, now there in a overwhelming abundance of people looking to invest into these companies. If you had the money to invest, which would you put your money into? And if you did invest, do you think its a good idea and a good money maker? 


















Companies Cashing In

iPhone and Science

Do you remember the first cell phone you ever got? I sure can, mine was a Nokia. The one with the neon green lighting and black lettering. All i could do was text, call, and play the cell game Snake. With technology increasing the way we communicate it also is changing the way we use our phones as well. A company called Labstrip is doing just that. They are bringing the laboratories to an iPhone near you.According to the founders of the Kickstarter project LabStrip is the combination of calibrated strips, a meter accessory, and a cloud-connected iOS app. Noland and Hoefman say that the meter helps to "augment the native optics of the iPhone" and remove distracting elements like ambient light. They promise that this yields more accurate results than existing strip-reading apps.
 This new app will bring new change to how scientist work with testing out in the field. They can now do anything from anywhere with just an iPhone. What cant the iPhone do in this day and age of technology? Would you use this science technology on your iPhone?





Labstrip project

The Coolest Glasses in the World

     Hi, here have a very cool technology product I want share. I think must people may already heared about it -Google Glasses.  But do you know how it is to be proposal of the invention? The Department of Homeland Security asked a team of futurists from the agency’s Science and Technology Directorate to brainstorm future technological needs of emergency workers and first responders. The prognosticators came up with a ton of scenarios where existing technologies could help police, firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians do their jobs. The one of them is Google Glasses, it  can scope out suspects from a distance, but the overall message was clear: Just like the words on the picture: walked down the street wearing Google Glasses, and didn't get hit by any cars. What do you think? Anyway, I think it is very cool to have it and timely recording something you don't want missing in the life or something like scene of crime.  

     For the future development of science and technology, scientists, high-end technical personnel demand and social status will be beyond measure.

IPod? What's an IPod?

Does Anyone Remember the IPod?

             IPod's generate billions in cash for Apple each year and have become a bit of a necessity -- the products that Apple will continue to release simply because it doesn't want to disappoint Wall Street. So, the company recently announced a new iPod Touch and iPod Nano at its iPhone 5 event. The announcements were strategically placed after the iPhone 5 was announced to all but guarantee they were given low billing in news stories.
Does the average person care that Apple is slowly easing iPods aside until finally, its impact on its financials is so small that it can discontinue them? Not a chance. A solid argument can be made that every iPhone or iPad a person buys is really another iPod sale. After all, those devices integrate all of the features found in today's iPods. They are, for all intents and purposes, iPods on steroids.
That's why the iPod really matters, but the iPod – a platform that allows consumers to play music and video while mobile – is morphing into its next state as a component in a product that can do more. And that's why it still matters: The iPod isn't dying. The iPod is simply entering the next phase of its long history.

What do you guys think? Do you think the IPod is what started all of the technology battle between phone companies?


To find more information visit: Why the Ipod?

M channel

 With Technology advancing everyday which seems like every hour something new is taking place in the technology world, it is important for a business to find, keep up, and revolutionize how it brings in and retains repeat customers. With the fast food mega giant McDonald's leading the pack in almost every category, it is crucial that they find new ways to bring in money. Which in most cases they do, and are very good at it. Now the question becomes, Do you want TV with you Mcdouble? That is right, now you can watch TV exclusively through McDonald's new M Channel. But unlike other channels the new M Channel strives for exclusive content to entertain customers. Also McDonald's is allowing other companies to create promotional and sales opportunities for record companies and others who want to dive into McDonald's vast customer pool. In more way then one McDonald's is rising to the top on the revolutionary chain in the fast food business by continuously offering new mobile as well as in store technology. McDonald's is planning to at the M channel in over 14,00 locations in the next 18 months. Check your local McDonald's often to see if the M channel will be playing at a McDonald's near you. If this was brought to a McDonald's near you, how often would you go in and sit down to watch the M channel while you ate, instead of just using the Drive Thru?







M Channel

Wake Up Song?

Wake Up Song?

  

Did you know that now with the Iphone update IOS 6 when setting an alarm you can now wake up to a song of your choice from your music library? Now you will no longer have to wake up to an annoying alarm that you dread every morning. Here is how it works: Open the Clock app and choose Alarm. When you add a new alarm or edit an existing alarm, tap Sound. Here, you'll see a new Songs section. Tap "Pick a song" and you'll see a list of the songs in your music library. Choose a song and that's what you'll hear to start your day or end your nap. The only disadvantage of using a song for your alarm is if you lose internet connectivity while sleeping, the alarm will be silent. This can be tested by selecting a song that you have not downloaded, set the alarm and turn on Airplane mode. When the alarm goes off, it will be silent. A good practice would be to download a song to your phone before using it as your alarm. The question is how many of you Iphone users were aware of this new feature? If so, have you used this new alarm feature? What are your thoughts on this new feature created by Apple?

For more information go to: Alarm heard as a Song?

Mobile technology: Mobile Spy

As we know , Technology can do incredible job, and there have a news was talking about Mobile Spy, and I found it from-Security NBCNEWS.com.

The title is " 'Mobile Spy' app may be open to, yep, spying.

Do you think it is cool, like we always imaging something that we may have saw it in the movie or in your dream. Anyway, here is what Mobile Spy do: It is designed to let its customers monitor the information, including text messages, GPS location and call logs, of other phones installed with the app. That private info is then uploaded to the app user's account and can be viewed in any Web browser, either on a computer or phone. 

Unfortunately for those doing the watching, Mobile Spy contains several srcurity vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to inject malicious code into the target's phone, via SMS message, and hijack their spy session, according to researchers at Vulnerability Lab, who disclosed the flaws.

Because the developers of Mobile Spy say it is available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone, the presence of a security glitch makes it a top target for exploitation.

To make things even more confusing, there are at least five separate Android apps in the Google Play store called "Mobile Spy," and none of them seem to be the one about which Vulnerability Lab issued its warning. Nor is there any app in the iTunes App Store by that name.

The Mobile Spy website states that iPhones must be jailbroken in order to install Mobile Spy, and hints that Android versions will need to be "side-loaded" from a PC. Usage licenses run from $50 for three months to $100 for a full year.

Anyone who jailbreaks an iPhone or sideloads Android apps is running a big security risk. And from the looks of the "Mobile Spy" apps that are in the official Google Play store, you probably shouldn't install them either.

Mobile Technology: Kindle Fire HD

 Mobile Technology: Kindle Fire HD

          Who would had ever imagined that we would be able to hold something in our hands that is like a book but without the weight or dog eared pages? In mobile technology today we have the access to the Kindle Fire. Ranging from $199 for 16 gig model and $249 for a 32 gig model. Seems kinda expensive but wouldn't that beat carrying around dozens of books in a book bag? With the Kindle Fire, it is a affordable one-stop device for reading Amazon books, magazines, streaming video, and playing music. Amazon provides support at their various stores and have more than enough content to keep customers entertained for the next 20 years. The display is very sharp and clear and has excellent viewing angles. The speakers are pretty incredible for just a 7 inch screen, followed by a battery life that will last. 

The only thing to remember is the Kindle Fire is not an Ipad so if reading books, magazines, streaming videos, and playing music is what you tend to do then the Kindle is for me what about you?

For more information go to: http://www.mobiletechreview.com/tablets/Kindle-Fire-HD.htm

Mobile Technology in Sports Business.

John Cunningham
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    With business technology moving fast it sometime hard to keep up with the most up to date types of technology. Even in the sports world it is hard to keep up with the most up to date information on your favorite sports, teams, and players. With new technology in NFL 2012 mobile app for the iPhone it now is much easier for football fans to get update information as well as live play by play even live audio feed for their Iphones. With mobile technology changing by the week or even by the hour, its making business keep up with the movement to provide their customers with the best quality product as well as great customer services.

  With the new 2012 NFL mobile app it gives football fans who have an Iphone easy to use app with any game right in the palm of their hand anywhere and everywhere they go. This app not only benefits fan but the NFL as well. This app will build a bigger fan base for the NFL and in certain ways bring in more money to the NFL as a whole. With the way technology is evolving there is no end in site to the wonders of what mobile technology can be in the future. The future is here, the future is now. How likely would you use this mobile app to watch your favorite sports team?





NFL MOBILE APP

Mobile Technology

" The Obsession of the Iphone"

         On the 29th of June an advancement in mobile technology began. The Iphone costing around $600, had no physical keyboard, had limited email, and had no feature of copy and paste. Apply has now sold more than 217 million Iphones worldwide. In a study at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass, stated that "76 percent say they've experienced "phantom vibration," that insistent buzz from an imagined text or phone call".
        Scientists speculate it’s the result of random nerves firing, biochemical noise that our brains easily tuned out until they were reconditioned by the iPhone. According to Larry Rosen, a psychologist, professor, and author of iDisorder: Understand Our Obession with Technology and Overcoming Its Hold on Us, states " The Iphone has changed everything about how we related to technology, for both the good and the bad". In his research, nearly 30 percent of those born after the 80's, feel anxious if they can not check Facebook every few minutes. Others will catch themselves patting their pockets to make sure their smartphone is still there with them. He says, " The relief is not pleasurable," mean that is a sign of an obsession. Rosen also stated, " The great thing about the Iphone is that we carry it with us all day long" However, " the bad part is that we carry it with us all day long". By 2016 Cisco Systems predicts their will be more mobile devices than people.

With all this science and research do you see the Iphone or Iworld causing problems for society?


To read more visit: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-21/the-first-five-years-of-the-iphone-obsession#p2