According to Google, over 1 million calls were placed from Gmail in just 24 hours of its launch. For comparison, there are somewhat more than 300 million people in the United States. If the average person makes 10 calls per day–research in 2008 put the number at 208 calls per month–that means about one out of every 3,000 calls in the U.S. went through the service on its first day.
The service lets Gmail users make free calls to U.S. and Canada and inexpensive calls to phones in other countries. It uses Gmail as an interface and optionally can integrate with Google Voice to receive calls as well.
That is pretty amazing and just shows how many using or have gmail.
The Apple iPad made its international debut on Friday. In Tokyo, some 1,200 people lined up to get the opportunity to purchase one/
In Australia, hundreds lined up outside on the first day of sale. In Europe, the same could be said. In London, the demand was strong.
This all bodes well for Apple which overtook Microsoft as the largest technology company in the world.
However, on Tuesday, Dell unveiled its Streak tablet computer, which can double as a mobile phone and will have a front-facing camera for videoconferencing. Sony said on Thursday it would launch an e-reader in Japan by the end of the year.
So for the moment, Apple might be on top of the hill but there are others coming after them.
Internet experts warn that we will be running out of Internet address towards the end of 2011. When the Internet was first created, there were only four billion ip address allotted based on a 4 (IPv4) format. With the pontification of smarphones, cell phones, and online gadgets, the number of available ip addresses is running out.
The solution is to switch to a IPv6 format but everyone has to switch to it. There are also new hardware and systems that have to be converted to make the changes. The problems is that not everyone is moving quickly to make the switch. So until every company and businesses makes the change, under the current system, we will run out of ip addresses in the near future.
Don’t worry this does not however concern the domain name sector.
Google on May 21, 2010 gave an amazing tribute to one of the most revolutionary arcade game, PAC Man, by displaying the game on its search page, www.google.com I grew up on PAC Man and remember playing it everyday after school at the local 7-11. I recently played it on my X-Box 360. So it was nice to see Google give the game such an impressive tribute.
Just like everyone these days, one of the most essential things that a homeless person has these days is a laptop computer. The laptop enables people to maintain and communicate with their friends and family. Its not hard these days with all the free wifi locations like starbucks and etc.
As long as you have a computer you can go to any free hifi location and start surfing the web like any person with a roof over their head. Gradually the computer is becoming one of the most essential equipment that all American have to have in tough times.
Sony is soon to announce that it will be challenging Apple’s new IPad. The revival product will have all the capabilities of a netbook, a Sony Reader and a PSP, the company’s handheld gaming device.
Sony will also be making a new smartphone. The phone will contain Sony Ericsson mobile technology and capable of playing PSP games – to compete against the iPhone. Both devices are expected to work with Sony Online Services, an online store due to launch in March and sell music, movies, books, and other downloadable applications for mobile products.
Both these products will be launch sometime in 2010.
By combining three basic technologies, you can now make video phone calls off your television set. What are these three technologies you ask? The Internet, Television, and Skype.
Samsung just announced that they will be adding VoIP calling services Skype as an application in their television, allowing phone calls to be made on camera right above the television. Samsung is not the only company that will be providing this possibility. Panasonic and LG have already made similar announcemnts.
These new television sets will go for about $1,200 to $2,000.00.
In a huge move, Verizon announced that it was adding Skype available to its 90 million wireless user. Those with smartphones and the right data plan can now make unlimited calls to hundreds of millions of Skype user worldwide, beginning next month (March).
These calls will go over Verizon’s network, not using cellphone plan minutes. Minutes would be deducted to use Skype to call regular phone numbers in the US.
What exactly a tablet?
Some say a computer just needs a touch-sensitive screen to be a tablet. Others say a person should be able to write on it with a pen. Still others say it’s screen size that’s important — tablets must fit somewhere between phones and laptops. For some, it’s partly the keyboard — a tablet should have one of those.
Break off the keyboard, leaving only a touch-screen device, he said, and the gadget falls into another buzz-worthy category: the slate.
Were you affected by the latest Microsoft update? Miscrosoft announced yesterday that it is looking into its latest security updates. For those affected, they are left with a black desktop and little else on their screen.
“The symptoms are very distinctive and troublesome,” Prevx said. “After logging on there is no desktop, task bar, system tray or sidebar. Instead you are left with a totally black screen and a single My Computer Explorer window.”
However, those far, Microsoft is saying that they cannot locate the problem nor replicate it.
A Microsoft representative said that the company continues to recommend that customers “test and deploy” the November security updates.
“Based on our investigation so far we can say that we’re not seeing this as an issue from our support organization,” the representative said. “The issues as described also do not match any known issues that have been documented in the security bulletins or (knowledge base) articles.”
So if you are amoung the few people affected by this update, please notify Microsoft. We need to get to the bottom of this.
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August 26, 2010 10:09 pm | 
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