Friday, January 20, 2012

Tech Article 1/20!

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  • Today, Apple's network has raised to about $400 billion dollars on the stock market
  • This sets a record, making them the most valuable technology company in the word
  • Apple's stock set to about $431.37 earlier in the morning, leaving Apple at $398 billion at market value
  • Apple's market cap seems to be worth more than the domestic gross products of Greece, Austria, South America and Africa
  • Even though its business is small, Apple seem to keep rising, and quickly too.   

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tech Article 1/6!

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  • Google+, Google's new social networking site, has been doing very good!- even better than expected. 
  • They have gained about 60 million new users and they expect to have about 400 million users by the end of 2012.
  • Paul Allen, who calls himself the "unofficial statistician " says that in July they reached  about 10 million users.
  • At first, it took Google+ about three or four months to reach about 40 million users
  • As the picture a the top shows, the amount of users has been increasing recently.

    Wednesday, January 4, 2012

    Organizing Information Do-Now! 1/4

    Having an organized computer makes your life and internet experience so much easier. You could make different folders and bookmark different items to make things easier when you are on the internet. Creating folders makes thing easier because you could then just go to your files and open the folder when your information is needed. Say you are doing a research project for your history class. You would look up your topic and then you could book mark your favorite websites which you thought were the most useful. By bookmarking these websites, you could use them when it is time to write the paper very easily and organized. You could even share the websites with friends! The same with pictures, labeling the folder with the name of the events which the pictures are taken. For example, Elsa is having a party for her birthday with her family. Her grandma could not make it, so she wants to share some photos with her grandmother. After the party, she uploads the pictures onto her computer and she puts them in a folder labeled "Elsa's 15th Birthday Party!". This is easier for Elsa because she now can easily get the pictures to send to her grandmother. Elsa easily sends the pictures to her grandmother and she is so happy! A hierarchical system would be the easiest to use because it is very branched off and is very easy to find the things you need! This makes finding pictures, documents, or links fast and easy! Tagging thing such as pictures and links makes thing easy to retrieve when you may not remember the exact name of it. By using the tags you could just easily just search the tag and you could easily find what ever you need. Social bookmarking is sharing bookmarks with friends and family. Say you are on the school's basketball team and your aunt and uncle want to know your schedule. You could bookmark the link to the schedule of your basketball games and share it with your aunt and uncle anytime you would like. Isn't having an organized computer make thing so much easier?

    Friday, December 16, 2011

    Tech Article 12/16


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    • Blackberry's service maker, Research in Motion, said that this has been a horrible past three months
    • RIM has expected to do much better this quarter, but still seems to be struggling. 
    • they have predicted to only ship about 11 million to 12 million Blackberry's in 2012, which is horrible compared to all of the other smartphone statistics
    • It has also been said that the newer and better Blackberry service will be postponed to until about late 2012
    • After this being said, their shares have been dropped about 8%
    • RIM had informed investors about to weeks earlier but shares continue to fall and unhappiness continues to rise. 
    • Blackberry is seeming to blame this all on their bad third quarter. 

    Friday, December 9, 2011

    Tech Article 12/9 :)

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    In recent news, Nintendo creator, Shigeru Miyamotto, has taken all of Nintendo's original ideas and has decided to create something new and exciting to improve the future of Nintendo. "I am really keen to work on something really new, which eventually is going to be important for the future of Nintendo," says Miyamotto. There has been rumors about Miyamotto has been retiring, but all of those rumors have been cleared when interviewers spoke with him on Thursday. His role in the Nintendo company is not being changed, he will just have a senior role, which will give him more time come up with bew ideas for the company. Miyamotto is very intent on the idea for making a better future for the Nintendo industry. 


    Friday, November 18, 2011

    Tech Article 11/18 :)

                    PayPal launches Facebook app for sending money to friends

    In recent news on Facebook, there is a new way to send money to other friends.Facebook is linked up with PlayPal and has created a money-sharing app. With this app titled "Send Money" you can choose a card and send credits ,or money, to all of your other friends. The title of the app is pretty self-explanatory. This app is free and always will be free. You could even select your card to send the money straight to your bank account. Since PlayPal is such a big card organization, they will send you special gifts and rewards for your birthday and other hoildays.