On the 9th of December 1968 Dr. Douglas Engelbart demonstrated the first online computer system featuring the first computer mouse, interactive text, video conferencing, email and hypertext. The official session title was:”A research center for augmenting human intellect”. The co-author was Bill English. That demo announced the beginning of information and communication technology convergence.
After HTC it’s Australian company Kogan that is joining the mobile phone market with Linux based phone powered by Googles Android. Agora and Agora pro phones feature touch screens and full keyboards and design similar to Black Berry or Nokia E71. The price starts at 195US$.
While announcing new mobile phones that will only be available in few months in few countries Nokia announces pullout from a major mobile telephony market -Japan. I’m wondering if World’s number one phone maker has a strategy for mitigating the risks facing the global financial crisis or is it just making some unplanned, sudden moves. What to expect next? Launching of new products looks like Hollywood film makers announcing new movies. One can only see trailers of N97 and 5800…
The International Space Station turned 10. On the 20th November 1998, “Zarya” the first ISS module was launched on board Russian Proton rocket.
This post is proof that Mac users read PC magazine too.
I could not resist to share with you a good laugh I had while reading First Word by Lance Ulanoff titled Macs are PCs in October issue. Lance criticized Apple’s add where computers running MS Windows are called PCs and Macs are called, well Macs. What else?
I agree with Lance that by the definition both fall in the category of Personal Computers. However, if there would be an add with Ford and Ferrari, would you object to it if one says “Hi I’m a car.” and the other one “And I’m Ferrari.”?