Google Chrome

I am doing my emerging technology based on the satellite imaging and mapping assignment. As a class we had to download Google Earth (Chrome) and MS Virtual Earth. Exploring each pieces of software, I enjoyed learning about Google Chrome. Google Chrome is a web browser that makes the web faster, safer, and easier to use. What makes Google Chrome different from other web browser is the one box for everything, the new tab page, and the application shortcut. These three tools make Google Chrome easy to use because the “one box for everything,” gives you suggestions from both search and web page. The “new tab page” accesses you most visited favorite page instantly. The “application shortcut” let you launch you web applications as a shortcut to your desktop. Google has made Google Chrome a tool that is faster and easier to run pages, sites, and application on the web.

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Graphene Transistors

Graphene is a sheet of bonded carbon atoms with a thickness of one atom. It has been made into faster, low power transistors, and can take the heat in future ultra fast microprocessors. Semiconductor industries hope to make computers faster by devloping microprocessors that uses graphene transistors because graphene conducts electrons better than silicon. Measured in gigahertz, silicon processors perform a certain number of operations per second without over heating. Graphene, measured in terahertz (a factor of thousand over gigahertz) has no resistance allowing heat to dissipate quickly. Graphene has been tested and confirmed the strongest material ever. Besides graphene making faster computers, it can be useful in communciation and imaging technology with ultra fast transistors.
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Prepare Now for DTV

Digital Television (DTV) is an advanced broadcasting technology that transmits visual images, music, and speech. DTV offers program choices called multicasting. Multicasting allows each digital broadcast station to split its bit stream into 2 or more individual channels of programs and data services. The digital transition is not fully prepared. Starting February 17th, some broadcast television stations in the U.S will stop broadcasting on analog and start broadcasting DTV. Analogy television has been in use for 50 years to transmit signals to customers. The customer that has analogy TV has a problem with color and brightness. So Prepare Now!!! Cables and Satellite subscribers may need new DTV equipment for DTV to receive high definition. If you are interested, check with your cable or satellite company for more details. June 12th is the final termination for analog broadcast and is expected to be signed by President Obama.
http://www.dtv.gov/whatisdtv.html

FCC DTV Websites (what’s on DTV)
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Microsoft Shows Off Windows 7 Device Stage

Windows 7 introduces a new way to interact with your media player, phones, printers and cameras. This new visual interface is called Device Stage. Device Stage does not only work with devices connected to a Window 7 PC via USB, but Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Device Stage is customized by the device manufacturer and specific devices you own. Device Stage has a new way of extending the feature capabilities of Windows 7 such as the support of Jump List (a new Windows Taskbar). Microsoft will be adding Touch, Windows 7 Networking, and Media Enhancements to Windows 7.
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Microsoft shows off new device called “Device Stage” at PDC.
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