TameBear: Emerging TechSpotting the innovations, trends and small revolutions marking the significant turning points and advances in technological evolution. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- February 28, 2007 Time To Get A Mac: When the Windows diehards like Chris Pirillo all begin "upgrading" from Windows Vista to Windows XP, the writing is on the wall. Thomas Hawk advises all his Windows power users to make the switch, and admits that he "should have done it years ago". Now a satisfied Mac user, Hawk has no regrets. Digital Connection via MyAppleMenuhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/28.html#a840 (Untitled)- February 22, 2007 iPods Set to Usurp CDs: The Beatles settlement clears the way for Apple to begin selling iPods loaded with music. As the cost of flash drives continues to fall, a low-cost shuffle loaded with tunes begins to compete head-to-head with CDs. Wired Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/22.html#a839 (Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Windows Defections: Scott Lowe speculates about why, when Vista is now available, the Windows power users -- experts who have championed the Windows platform for years --are switching to Mac OS X. Scott Lowe via MyAppleMenuhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/20.html#a837 (Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Broadband Passes Halfway Mark in U.S.: Residential high-speed (broadband) internet access is expected to hit about 55 percent by end of 2007. That's 60 million U.S. households. CNET Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/20.html#a836 (Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Buzzoo.net: Here's one to watch - a news links site started by three Goshen College grads seeks to aggregate the top aggregators. They started with reddit, digg, slashdot and del.icio.us; now they're drawing from the top news on google, netscape, dzone, gigaom, techcrunch, arstechnica, cnn, shoutwire, yahoo, boingboing, furl, and more. See what floats to the top on all your favorite news aggregators, by visiting just one site: Buzzoo. TameBear Radiohttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/20.html#a835 (Untitled)- February 20, 2007 Cheap Solar Poised to Undercut Oil and Gas by Half: Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, says Anil Sethi, CEO of Swiss startup Flisom. The company is developing a solar film production process that they expect will drive the cost of solar panels (currently around $3-$4 per watt) down to less than $1 per watt within four years. Telegraphhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/20.html#a834 (Untitled)- February 15, 2007 U.S. Servers Suck More Power Than Mississippi: Power-hungry servers consumed 45 million kilowatt-hours of power in 2005 - twice the power usage of 2000. One obvious solution: solar powered servers. CNET News.comhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/15.html#a833 (Untitled)- February 14, 2007 Detroit's Plug-In Concepts. GM's Chevrolet Volt and Ford's HySeries Drive are plug-in electric cars that could give the hybrid Prius some stiff competition for fuel efficiency. Trouble is, Detroit's cars are so far just "concept" and won't be rolling off an assembly line for at least another four years. Big help, huh Wired Newshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/14.html#a831 (Untitled)- February 5, 2007 Wind Resource Off Eastern U.S. Coast Could Provide Energy for Nine States: Enough energy to supply the needs of nine states from Massachusetts to North Carolina, plus the District of Columbia--with enough left over to support a 50 percent increase in future energy demand, according to a study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Stanford University. What's Next Networkhttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/05.html#a829 (Untitled)- February 2, 2007 How Soon are You Moving to Vista: The results of a Cnet poll of over 13,000 readers provides this telling statistic... slightly more than half of the respondents indicate they are "Sticking with the Mac -- or moving there soon". Cnet Pollshttp://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/emergingTech/2007/02/02.html#a826 |