Week 5 Tech News

For the first time, marketers spent more in 2009 on Internet advertising than in magazines, according to a report from ZenithOptimedia, which said online ad spending would rapidly close ground on newspapers. Despite a record-setting $6.3 billion fourth quarter, online advertising revenue declined 3.4 percent for the year from 2008, the first year-over-year falloff since 2002. The loss in ad spending across all media was an even steeper 12.3 percent for the year and 2 percent for the fourth quarter.

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Week 4 Tech Post. Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing

Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing

SAN FRANCISCO — This year, Netflix made what looked like a peculiar choice: the DVD-by-mail company decided that over the next two years, it would move most of its Web technology — customer movie queues, search tools and the like — over to the computer servers of one of its chief rivals, Amazon.com.




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Second Life

I went to the Second Life website and was kind of blown away, it is amazing. The concept that you can be someone else and connect with other people is wonderful. I thought that the graphics are great and the scenery was beautiful. I think that Second Life would be a great tool to connect with people and to find out about things that you may not be able to do such as go to different museums and see different places.

Week 3 Tech News

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is trying to hone in on a younger, chatty demographic with two new cellphones centered around social networking.
The phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, allow users to keep in close synch with sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. For example, they have a start menu that displays a montage of photographs from friends and notes about what they’re doing rather than a more traditional menu that caters to phone functions. The Kins also have touch-screens, links to the Zune music service and high-powered cameras that make them well suited to taking photos and videos.

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Week 2 Tech Post

The analysts at Gartner must have been fairly impressed with the Apple iPad because their latest research report predicts that over 50% of the computers purchased for children will have touchscreens by 2015. In this case, Gartner defines children as those under the age of 15 or, as we like to call them, "Generation I." (This is the new, hipper terminology for children of the 2000's once dubbed "Generation Z" or "digital natives.") They're the ones born into a world where computers and cellphones are introduced as baby toys, where the iPod has always existed and where everyone they know can be found on Facebook. And now, it seems, they're going to grow up with computers in an entirely different way, too.

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Week 1 Tech Post

Windows: File Blender is a free and portable interface for more than a half-dozen tools. Drag and drop everything from pictures to music to File Blender and convert it to something new.

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