Celebrate this Earth Day on April 22, 2011 by purchasing eco-tech gadgets. Here are some featured in this article from www.cio.com which includes a water-powered alarm clock, EcoCube cardboard speakers, solar-powered camcorder and many other awesome gadgets.
Please review the www.act.earthday.org/ website for more tips about how to go green in 2011 and make an eco-commitment to yourself, company and family.
Every day is Earth Day, hard-core environmentalists will tell you, but on the calendar it’s April 22. And if you want to show some support for Mother Earth, you might as well do so without abandoning your techie principles. There’s no shortage of energy-efficient, ecofriendly, or generally “green” gadgets available, but here are 15 of the coolest, weirdest, and most practical, in no particular order.
Posted By: Mark Dryer, president of MDL Technology, LLC
According to an article from http://www.kmbc.com, Google announced Wednesday that Kansas City, Kan., will be its first “Google Fiber” community.
Google will build an ultra-high speed broadband network for the city. It is expected to start in 2012. The company said it would work with the Kauffman Foundation, KC Next and the University of Kansas Medical Center to help develop applications.
The new broadband service will deliver the Internet at over 1 gigabit per second or “100 times faster than what most Americans are used to,” according to a Google background report. It will increase the speed of data transmissions, providing cleaner video signals and moving large files in a shorter amount of time.
“We want to be able to increase the speed of the Internet by a factor of 100,” said Google executive Milo Medin. “This is the beginning, not the end, and we are starting in Kansas City, Kansas.”
“I don’t know what it will lead to, but it’s a good place to be,” said Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. “This puts us in the lead of Internet technology.”
Unlike many of Google’s services, the new service was not expected to be offered for free. Google said it would be “competitively priced” with other broadband services.
Google will offer it to cities between 50,000 and 500,000 population.
Google said it will transform computer service such as the way the conversion from broadband versus dial up.
MDL Technology, LLC, a managed services company, announced today that it will host a cloud computing seminar on April 28, 2011 from 1-2 p.m. Pat Powell, president of Spectrum Sales, will be presenting a cloud computing case study along with T.J. Bloom, COO of MDL Technology, LLC at their 1102 GRAND office location in Kansas City (www.mdltechnology.com).
I would like to share an article from Mashable.com regarding how the tsunami and earthquake in Japan will effect technology. This article shares what products were most effected by the natural disaster.
As Japan digs out from its worst earthquake and tsunami in recent history, and engineers scramble to contain the damage at the Fukushima nuclear plant, another crisis is unfolding behind the scenes: massive disruption to the global supply chain.
As relatively unimportant as it may seem, Japan’s factories are the lifeline for electronics companies the world over. Some 20% of all semiconductors and 40% of all flash memory chips sold in the world’s smartphones, tablets, cameras and computers are made in Japan. Manufacturers are facing a drastic reduction in supply, which could have significant knock-on effects in earnings, employment — and the global economy as a whole.
So which companies and products are most at risk? Here’s what we know so far:
Toshiba makes NAND Flash memory chips used in the iPhone, iPad and a string of tablets launching this year. Prices of the 32GB NAND chip jumped nearly 20% in component markets Monday. Toshiba says it is examining damage to its plant, and has no date set for reopening. Toshiba President Norio Sasaki has more important things on his mind at the moment: Prime Minister Naoto Kan has ordered him to help with efforts to stop radiation leaking from the Fukushima plant, according to reports.
Most affected products: The iPad 2 and similar tablets.
Sony, the nation’s largest consumer electronics exporter, shut down six factories last week and another two this week. One of those factories took a direct hit from the tsunami. The plants are all involved in making Blu-ray discs, magnetic heads, PlayStation 3s and lithium-ion batteries. The company makes about 10% of the world’s laptop batteries. The factories are likely to remain shut for at least the next two weeks.
Most affected products: Blu-ray DVDs, PlayStations, PC laptops.
Texas Instruments lost two of its plants making wafers and DLP chips. A spokesperson told Reuters it would take until July for them to come back online.
Most affected products: DLP TVs, video projectors.
Hitachi has six manufacturing facilities in the quake-struck north of Japan, all of them now closed, all of them now being inspected.
Most affected products: Plasma TVs, LCD TVs, camcorders and DVD players.
Posted By: Mark Dryer, president of MDL Technology, LLC
According to an article from www.engadget.com, CBS and Turner sports will stream all of the March Madness games to PCs, iPhones and iPads for free.
Every year CBS has enhanced its March Madness On Demand experience, from HD VOD on cable boxes to HD streaming on PCs before adding PiP and paid mobile access last year. For 2011, a new deal has brought in Turner Sports to not only provide enough channels to air all the games in high definition (we figure you’ll find CBS, TNT and TBS on the channel guide with no problem, but with some of the games diverted to lesser known TruTV HD check the HDSportsGuide link below to see if it’s in your area yet) but also expand the streaming experience by promising higher quality video, personalized channel lineup and social tie ins. If you’re on the go, the mobile client for iOS devices (sorry, no Android or other mobile OSes) is free this year so you can keep that fiver in your pocket this time. There’s another pic of the iPad client, a video trailer and all sorts of details waiting after the break, so click through to find out more or just wait for the free apps to hit iTunes March 10th.
