Trends and Predictions – Posts

I had better luck finding sources today for this homework.

 

Trends and Predictions – Flash Drives

This is an article about cramming more content into smaller spaces.

http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,21448271-24170,00.html

 

Trends and Predictions – Flash Drives

In this article Priya Ganapati talks about the flash drive totally replacing the hard drive in everyday computers because of the speed of the flash drives compared to the hard drive.

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2008/12/YE8_techbreaks?currentPage=2

 

Trends and Predictions – Thumb Drives

Here is an article that touches on the highest storage size thumb drives being 64GB, but it also touches on the capabilities of 5 different thumb drives and what they can do.

http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide/84/five-extraordinary-usb-flash-drives

 

Trends and Predictions – Cell Phones

Here is and article about the negative effect evolving with the use of cell phones.  I just happen to agree with Anita Campbell’s perspective on the use of cell phones and how people are becoming unattached and distant.

http://smallbiztrends.com/2006/03/cell-phones-get-in-the-way-of-communicating.html

 

Trends and Predictions – Cell Phones

Here is an article in which Keith Rickwood believes that cell phones will eventually replace pc’s and laptop computers.

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/134350/cell_phones/mobile_phone_use_pastpresent_and_future.html

 

Trends and Predictions – Cell Phones

The speed that a cell phone sends and receives data will get progressively better.  There are companies that are already working on 3.5G and 4G technology.  This article even talked about possibly 5G on the 3rd and last page:

http://news.digitaltrends.com/feature/34/the-future-of-cell-phones

 

Trends and Predictions – Why Jump Drives may not be so good

Here is a source that is more against using Jump Drives as storage for important files than for it.  This person talks about 4GB Jump Drives, but we all know there are now 64GB Drives.

Here is what they said: ” Flash storage-Removable USB memory ‘jump drives’ and flash cards and drives. Up to 4 Gigabyte flash drives are now available from $100 to $300. Popular flash drives have 256MB, 512MB, and 1 Gig, starting at around $20. Looking at the price per Gigabyte, we see this method is the most expensive, about $10 per Gigabyte for the smaller drives, and up to $75 for the bigger 4 Gigabyte drives. People use them because they have fast transfer rate, and they are small and portable, a great way to transfer small files between computers. However, these are not failsafe…anyone who has used them knows that it’s a delicate device, and you must properly ‘eject’ the device from your computer, or else it could get damaged and your data will be forever gone. I have had a co worker who lost his data because his flash drive got ‘zapped’. Be careful! Most people may wear it around their neck with the enclosed neckband, but imagine this: What if you wore a wool sweater, and you walk alot on a carpeted floor? You’d get static electricity shock, which would ruin your flash drive. Because it contains delicate memory chips inside, one would have to exercise caution and not expose it to any electrical or magnetic fields or harsh vibrations or shock. In summary, flash storage is good for transferring small amounts of data between computers and digital cameras and other devices, but not a very secure way to store important data. The 2 Gigabyte capacity is small compared to the other storage devices.”

This is the link for this article:

http://www.disceraser.com/news.htm

The actual article is about a third of the way down the page after the shredder article.

 

Trends and Predictions – Cell Phone Technology

This was a pretty interesting arcticle about a Morph Phone that Nokia has come up with.  It looks like from this arcticle that Nokia will be around for quite some time.  This is a very neat gadget and something that I would probably buy.  Here is the link:

http://www.canadianmarketingblog.com/archives/2008/04/trends_in_wireless_phones_and_1.html

 

Interesting concept for a cell phone

This is a cell phone that unfolds to form 5 screens.  It is a very interesting and innovative idea of what cell phone technology could come to.  Here is the link for this:

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/concept-cell-phone-with-5-touchscreens-packet-by-emir-rifat