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Google Prepares to Launch Epic Broadband at Stanford
By James Mulroy, PCWorldOct 23, 2010 2:57 pm
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Skype for Android Brings VOIP to Droid Line
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Google’s CEO: ‘The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists’
Oct 1 2010, 11:58 AM ET 30
“The average American doesn’t realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists” to protect incumbent interests, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Atlantic editor James Bennet at the Washington Ideas Forum. “It’s shocking how the system actually works.”
In a wide-ranging interview that spanned human nature, the future of machines, and how Google could have helped the stimulus, Schmidt said technology could “completely change the way government works.”
“Washington is an incumbent protection machine,” Schmidt said. “Technology is fundamentally disruptive.” Mobile phones and personal technology, for example, could be used to record the bills that members of Congress actually read and then determine what stimulus funds were successfully spent.
Beware the Internet is Shrinking Things!
Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: the computer punch card handled data thru the 1970’s on computers that filled an entire room. Computers were large, cold and non-personal during this era. This is where the shrinking began and the punch card was replaced by the floppy disc.
Data storage was much easier with the floppy disc which were used on the new PC or personal computer that only took up an entire desktop. The IBM 8” floppy disc came out and soon shrank to the common 5 1/4” with the most common sizes holding 360K and 1.2MB. The final shrinking of the floppy disc that was encased in a hard rigid envelope, so it was not actually floppy at all, ended up at just 3 1/2” with a larger storage capacity from 400K to 1.4MB of data.
Back in the day this is how data was transferred from one computer to the other, until the advent of the Internet. The Internet allowed people access to data and information from anywhere in the world without the need for storage. CD’s or portable thumb size zip drives with multiple GIG storage are mainly used for data storage and backup, because with the ability to attach files to an email or use applications like Google documents information is now shared over the Internet instantaneously.
Computers have gone from the old room sized to the commonly used laptop to mobile devices. Pew Research Center reports 40% of adults use the Internet, email or instant messaging on a mobile phone with over 70% of their actions being taking pictures and text messaging. So the Internet has also been shrinking phones and cameras.
With all this instant global communication, is the Internet shrinking the world?
Mobile Phone Use by Adults
Read more: http://www.flowtown.com/blog/how-are-adults-using-mobile-phones#ixzz0zcIxmQMv
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- Unicode over 60 percent of the web February 3, 2012Computers store every piece of text using a “character encoding,” which gives a number to each character. For example, the byte 61 stands for ‘a’ and 62 stands for ‘b’ in the ASCII encoding, which was launched in 1963. Before the web, computer systems were siloed, and there were hundreds of different encodings. Depending on the encoding, C1 could mean any of […]
- Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering February 2, 2012Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world’s engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placement computer science test takers. Even in high-tech Israel, few girls choose computer science. Not only is this a loss to companies like Google and everyone who bene […]
- Playbook for tackling the Super Bowl with Google February 1, 2012While thousands of lucky fans will brave the crowds at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. to fill the coveted seats at this Sunday’s Super Bowl, many more in the U.S. will enjoy the game from home—in front of the TV, with mobile phones and tablets at the ready. As the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare for kickoff, here are several way […]
- 2012 global award winners RISE to the top January 30, 2012Our business at Google is rooted in STEM and CS, so we’re passionate about supporting organizations that are expanding access to these fields, especially for students who might not have the opportunity otherwise. The annual Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) program supports organizations running innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering […]