Technology Today

Technology offers growing options for keeping an eye (or an ear) on aging parents.

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Apple on Wednesday released Safari 5.01 for Mac and PC that lets you add third-party extensions to the browser such as e-mail alert widgets and news alerts. Safari users can now easily add extra functionality to their browser through the Safari Extensions Gallery at extensions.apple.com or from individual developer’s websites (click on the screen cap for a closer look). Safari Extensions were …

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Mumbai, July 28 : The Walt Disney Company India and UTV Motion Pictures announced an agreement Tuesday where by the former will handle home entertainment distribution for key titles like ‘Raajneeti’ and ‘I Hate Luv Storys’ from the latter’s stable.

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The Louisiana Technology Council, in cooperation with Louisiana Economic Development (LED), selected nine Louisiana companies to participate in its First Annual “Technology Road Show” to educate and create a greater awareness of the technology initiatives going on in Louisiana, and to help Louisiana businesses work more closely together. The 3-City event included highly successful stops in New …

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Apple said its latest generation iPhone will become available starting Friday in more than a dozen additional countries.

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The prime concern while installing a home theatre design is budget. Home theatres are really expensive and care must be taken choosing the right one as it involves a considerable amount of investment.

Henceforth a proper research regarding prices, budget, and designs needs to be made. One might buy a home theatre in different instalementary phases since the investment is huge. However, care must also be taken to check that the present model should complement the purchases to be made in future. Home theatre budget should cover a good universal DVD player that supports high definition audio sound, a surround sound audio amplifier/receiver and matching speakers. These should ideally be purchased together to ensure that the various home theatre sound components provide a perfect match.

Include at least a 37″ wide screen TV along with your home theatre. Do not forget to budget for a suitable projector screen if you will be making use of a video projector as a big screen TV solution for your home theatre. Similarly, budget also for good quality audio/video cabling. Both issues are often overlooked by many. Another greatly overlooked aspect in any home theatre design is equipment power protection. The shopping list moves forward to match room lighting, furnishing, and ambience.

The PDA presenter has a similar visual layout as a multimedia CD Rom., the PDA’s media player will have a slimmed down look, and offer customized skin design, video viewer screen, and navigational buttons. Upto 10 pages can be available. Additional video can be taken as a page. Quick Time Virtual Reality can be made a part of your presentation giving it a 3 dimensional look.

Each PDA presentation includes contact information for the company and its key personnel. This page would feature your business address, Email addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. This information is essential for bringing the buyer to you. General information pages allow you to profile your company, describe its history, create a mission statement, express your company goals, and list product information.

The PDA format is ideal for business meetings – your multimedia sales presentation can be taken with you anywhere.  This is an excellent sales tool for traveling executives who require the best presentation technology available in a variety of corporate settings. The interactive format provides your customer with choices – the opportunity to self-navigate the selection menu and instantly obtain the information desired.  It places your products and services in the hands of those most qualified to generate sales, increasing your marketing strength and revenue earning potential.

By end of 1990 a huge change came in the world of music. It is during this time music lovers started downloading music from the Internet using the MP3 format. This changed the way we collect, listen to and distribute music forever. Today millions of music lovers are using their personal computers to download their favorite music’s into MP3 players.

MP3 player sales expected a jump from $126 million in 1999 to $1.25 billion by the end of 2002. ETC music developed MusicTeller – an ATM like machine that delivers music files instead of money. ETC’s MusicTeller will also include Windows Media (WMA) and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) music files, all of which are compatible on MP3 players. ETC music hopes to cash on the release of this MusicTeller.

They look forward to develop a network of MusicTellers. Then a whole group of audience not owning a Personal computer will be introduced to these MP3 files. He audience will learn step by step the proper usage of this MusicTeller.  One will learn about MP3 file formats. How to play music and can easily download them from their local supermarkets. Isn’t that music really within the reach of the masses?

Photography is capturing moments that never repeats it. Passionate photographers always look for the best shot. Using a compact digital camera can delay you for a second. A second’s wastage of time can ruin a shot of a lifetime. This is immensely frustrating for the photographer. This is when the need of digital SLR cameras is felt. The prime reason behind massive demand of digital SLR cameras is speed.

The secret behind the popularity is the logic of electronics vs. mechanics. There is a device called a shutter that sits in front of the digital SLR sensor, blocking it from light. When you take a photo, the shutter (made up of two curtains) opens and closes. This mechanism is instant and extremely fast. Whereas in compact digital cameras there is no such mechanism. Every time you take a snap the sensor gets activated electronically.

The Digital SLR camera thus, captures a million dollar shot without any delays. Anyone with an eye of perfection and need for the ultimate experience might go for a digital SLR camera. With a Digital SLR camera in hand one can never miss a great photo.

Iphones have become popular in the United States. However, it failed to make its mark in the Asian market. Some said it was due to high cost but in reality smart Asians were fed up with the hitches of this new phone.

It makes you handicapped. You will not be able to share any of your favorite mp3s, videos and images with the help of Bluetooth. Isn’t it frustrating? Even after spending so much of money, you are unable to use these hi-tech phones as a modem. The phone cannot copy-paste any document. It means you have to type every time you wish to send an email. Apart from that, it comes with one of the worst cameras available in the market. When most of today’s ordinary phones have more than 3 megapixel cameras, iPhone comes with a 2 megapixel one. You cannot video record it and can’t take pictures in dark as it does not have a flash.

If I want to keep on blabbering, I can continue. Buyers have high expectations from this phone. However, the efficient marketing strategy of Apple has been able to create more than enough hype just before the launch.