Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Fast Internet For Korea

Casey Ojeda

Fast Internet For Korea

Home Internet May Get Even Faster in South Korea
By MARK McDONALD
Published: February 21, 2011
url:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/technology/22iht-broadband22.html.

Summary:

South Korea has been claim to have the fastest internet connection.  The Koreans has the fastest connection leaving Honking number 2 and Japan number 3. The gigabit internet will be the future technology for faster connection. The advantage of this is to manipulate videogames or tv online.

Relevance to class:

This article is related to the class because the internet is improving to the benefit of the user. The user is important while using the internet. They must feel comfortable and understand it. If the internet takes to long to load, the user might lose his or her patience.

Quote:

"By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. That would be a tenfold increase from the already blazing national standard and more than 200 times as fast as the average household setup in the United States," is the quote I choose for my review. This quote shows that the future of the internet will be very fast and smooth for the users. 

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

iPhone Car Application

Casey Ojeda

iPhone Car Application

More cars controlled by more iPhones
Ian Douglas
June 10th, 2009
url:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/10021917/more_cars_controlled_by_more_iphones/

Summary:

iPhones has an application that can control their car. The application also tell you where the nearest cache is and book your car directly from the screen. If you are near enough, you can control the car. With the application , you can beep the horn and lock the doors of your car.

Relevance to class:

This article is related to the class because the technology is improving in controling other device with a touch from an application. Online communication gives many the advantage and benefits. Internet gives us information and helps communicate. In this case, the application uses online service to control their electronic car.

Quote:

"They that can tell you where the nearest cache is and book your car directly from the screen, but the new version for the Apple mobile life controller will not only show you a pin on a Google Map, it will beep the horn and unlock the doors once you’re close enough.," is the quote I choose for my review. This quote tells me that if I loose my keys and I have my iPhone and the application, I will be able to get in my car and ue it without going through the trouble of getting some help. 

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Social Media Takes Over

Casey Ojeda

Social Media Takes Over

Is Email Really in Danger Because of Social Media?
By Chris Crum
February 27, 2011
url:
http://www.webpronews.com/is-email-really-in-danger-because-of-social-media-2011-02

Summary:

Lately social media has been taking over in the internet industry. Emails and Blogs are being left behind due to the increase of social network use and users. Texting and social media has an advantage in finding and communicating with your friends. Unfortunately, this was just a phase and email using will return to its normal rate or higher.

Relevance to class:

This article is related to the class because the social media such as Facebook or Twitter has played a huge role in the internet. Most people has accounts for one or the other. They are the website most used by users. Since this creates traffic online, what might other website want to do?

Important quote:

"I’m not sure which came first, the idea that social media is killing blogs or social media is killing email," is the quote I choose for my review. This quote tells me that one or the other, social media is making huge progress and. And its caused emails to be ignored.  According to Chris, he does not know which came first which I wish he would had research.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Article review #2

Casey Ojeda

Article review #2

Improved Measurements of Sun to Advance Understanding of Climate Change
By National Science Foundation
January 19, 2011
url:
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/01/19/improved-measurements-of-sun-to-advance-understanding-of-climate-change

Our technology improves each day which benefits us towards our future. In this article we can see that technology has been improving in the productions of satellites. The current satellite we have does not get enough values on the solar irradiance. According to the Solar Electricity Handbook 2011 Edition (not in the article), solar irradiance is a measure of how much solar power you are getting at your location. Now the current satellite has better accuracy of its values on the solar irradiance. With this satellite we can estimate the influence on the earths climate. Does the sun light has any affect in our atmosphere of the earth? With these measurement, we can see how the earth behaves. In the pass 11 years, the solar variability has been producing by 0.1 Celsius. This is not the reason for global warming. What can we find out with solar irradiance and its effect on earth?

This article is related to the class because the satellite helps communicate with the user to measure a certain unit in the astronomy field.  Comparing this to what we are learning, the internet helps us communicate with others in different ways and by sharing information. Also the satellite in space can communicate with the satellite in earth that way the people can receive the information on solar irradiance. Here is the bog connection between the article and our class. 

"Improved accuracies and stabilities in the long-term total solar irradiance record mean improved estimates of the sun's influence on Earth's climate," is the quote I choose for my review. This quote tells me how people will find out the earths climate due to the suns solar irradiance.

article review #1

Article review #1

Android Momentum for Netflix Share
By Garett Sloane
February 14, 2011
url:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/android_momentum_for_netflix_shares_Gq3fSS2M6Nf7wcw3e5S0XJ

Summary:

Netflix is one of the largest company for streaming videos at this point. Netflix allows people to view movies, tv shows, or dramas. Lately, we see Netflix online as well at the same time, there are Netflix apps for mobile and device such as iPhone and iPad. The Android decided to add a new adjustments so that the android device will be more efficiency to streaming movies and tv shows. Netflix is trying to expand little by little and upgrading there ideas to have more costumers join the site. As of now, Netflix is consider to be in the top 10 pay sites. Netflix apps, we can be sure to have easier access to any entertainment we will like to watch. Keep in mind Netflix is not like youtube. In Youtube you can see streaming videos from tv shows to music videos, to home made video recording. Netflix is strictly films and tv shows only that were are created by huge production film companies. This idea is not mentioned in the article, but at this rate, movies that are at theatre will be charged at the comfort of your own house. In later on people will be able to purchase movies that are in the theatre and watch it at home or at there mobile device. This article relates to the class because streaming videos are information we receive on the website. The kind of information we receive is a video file that we can view either online or on a app which is happening in the present.

Key quote:
By 2013, revenue from movies rentals will surpass online movies purchases for time, according to Screen Digets.

This quote is important because it talks about the future plans for netflix and what they have to offer to make the consumers lives more convenient.