Google is taking on Apple in the race to information supremacy. Google is set to release its own mobile phone on October 22 2009. The new G1 phone is going to cost $179 that’s twenty dollars less expensive than apple’s cheapest iPhone. However, the G1 is going to incorporate certain features that no other internet phone can match. Google has to decided to unrestricted the operating system known as Android that the phone is based on. This will allow 3rd party tech. Groups to develop programs for the phone that can be downloaded through the company’s website. Blackberry and Apple have not opened up their technology in quite the same way Google will. The new G1 will also have enhance abilities to connect to corporate email servers, and like the iPhone will be able to operate off of WiFi. Google feels that by not limiting what programs are available for the phone it will greatly benefit the consumer while setting them apart from internet phone producers.
I think that it is great that Google has decided to create a product that will compete with iPhone as well as others. When a company as massive as Google can produce technology innovations such as the G1 it helps out the public tremendously, not only by forcing other companies to drop prices to compete with google, but it will also allow for the public to have more access to information along with allowing the 3rd party developers to create programs that will keep us connected more than ever.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Reading 1
Thomas Frey’s, “The Future of Libraries Beginning the Great Transformation” is an informative article dealing with how libraries have progressed through time, and what the future may hold for libraries. Frey also provides a guide stating what will be required of libraries as technology changes and evolves.
Frey explains how libraries were instrumental in the preservation of DaVinci’s work and that libraries were more like archives in the medieval times. Libraries have since transformed in multimedia learning stations that not only house books but also provide internet access along with videos and other research materials. Even though libraries have become more and more advanced they still need make technological leaps to better serve patrons. Frey identified ten current trends that directly affect library patrons: Communication systems are constantly changing the way people access information, all technology ends, we have no reached ultimate small particle storage but we soon will, search technology will become more complicated, time compression is changing lifestyles, over time we will transfer to a verbal society, the demand for global information is growing, the stage is being set for a new era of global systems, we are transitioning for a product based economy to an experience based economy, and libraries will change from centers of information to centers of culture.
Frey feels that libraries must embrace new technology along with preserving the past. Libraries can incorporate things such as pod casting and blogging to enrich the library experience. But with all the new technology libraries must preserve the past of their community.
Frey explains how libraries were instrumental in the preservation of DaVinci’s work and that libraries were more like archives in the medieval times. Libraries have since transformed in multimedia learning stations that not only house books but also provide internet access along with videos and other research materials. Even though libraries have become more and more advanced they still need make technological leaps to better serve patrons. Frey identified ten current trends that directly affect library patrons: Communication systems are constantly changing the way people access information, all technology ends, we have no reached ultimate small particle storage but we soon will, search technology will become more complicated, time compression is changing lifestyles, over time we will transfer to a verbal society, the demand for global information is growing, the stage is being set for a new era of global systems, we are transitioning for a product based economy to an experience based economy, and libraries will change from centers of information to centers of culture.
Frey feels that libraries must embrace new technology along with preserving the past. Libraries can incorporate things such as pod casting and blogging to enrich the library experience. But with all the new technology libraries must preserve the past of their community.
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