Archive for December, 2009
What’s "In the Clouds" For Google?
With all this talk about clouds, I decided to delve a little bit deeper into this new buzz word.So what is this "cloud" anyway? I got on my laptop and went straight to the source... Google. I typed in "Google Cloud" and hit the search button on Google. I found many results, 85,900,000 to be exact. Many of the results on the first page were for Google's new Docs and Print programs. While these results all relate to the topic, I wanted to see the homepage for the "cloud", so I kept looking. The website googlecloud.com offers a simple format where searches appear in a tag cloud form, with emphasis on the more popular searches. So naturally, I searched for the term "Google Cloud" here too, That sent me back to the original search results on Google. I came back to the articles on Docs and Print to see if they offered anymore insight. It was in these blog write-ups that I started to get an idea what the "cloud" really meant.Ok, so to be fair it's not just Google who is "in the clouds", so to speak. I discovered Microsoft also has their own cloud based services, Azure and, ... [more..]
Basic Technology History
Online Technology SourceComputers:First Computer Invented: Most people when they think of first computer invented they think Bill Gates. This, however, is not true, for the computer was invented long before Bill Gates was around. Bill Gates only revolutionized the computer, buy creating a more compact and useful form of the computer and making it available to everyone with a job.There are many people out there who would say that the first "computer" was the abacus, invented in Asia about 5000 years ago. I however, wouldn't.The first of the "modern" computers was invented during World War II, in 1941 by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse. Its name was the Z3 and it was used to help design German airplanes and missile's. Then in 1943, the Allied forces developed a computer called Colossus. It helped decode German messages.The Mark I, designed by Howard H. Aiken, an engineer working with Harvard and IBM. The Mark I was positively huge, taking up half of a football field. It was useful though and it helped to create ballistic charts for the US Navy during the war.Shortly after this, came the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), developed by John Presper Eckert and John W. ... [more..]
4G Mobile Internet – An Introduction
Are you becoming increasingly bored with your old mobile phone and with the mobile network it's hooked on to? Are you dissatisfied with your mobile network's services? Do you want to switch networks but don't know which really is the better, if not the best, mobile network out there in the market today?As you are one who is addicted to the Internet, the main reason you would be switching and the one feature that the network should have would be 4G Mobile Internet. You want it in your mobile phone. You want your mobile network to have such a feature.This is because a mobile phone with a 4G Mobile Internet not only has the fastest Internet connection but it also has the best Internet connection, which means less downtimes if none at all. What more, since its mobile, you can take it anywhere and have your Internet fix wherever you are in the world.The 4G Mobile Internet is only the latest type of internet technology to come out in the market today and only a few mobile networks have been able to successfully integrate into their system. This is actually the means by which the network can extend or offer ... [more..]