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Do you believe e.Station is something of a success?

2006-04-12T06:26:20Z

I do believe e.Station is a success, because of the convience and price. Since people are able to moniter their own conditions before seeing a doctor it just makes everybody's life easier. Both patients and doctors will be able to have more productive lives. Doctors will be able to see more patients, and patients will be able to get in and out in no time. Since our prototype in hospital waiting rooms, it recieved great reviews by patients and doctors alike. In addition, e.station provides other variety of conditions and procedures like greeting card, purchase health books, and medical supplies. Since we also had a direct relationship with physicians we could easily make e.station compatible to their needs. As the internet becomes means for everything, it is only suitable for e.station be part of it. Since physicians can use e.station to see patients conditions over the net it again just becomes that much more convienent for everybody. That is why I believe e.station is a success and will only become more succesful.

What will be big for Microsoft in 2006?

2006-03-20T06:43:02Z

Well, Microsoft will be launching it's biggest lineup of products ever. Our software maker will ship two critical products: Windows Vista, its next-generation operating system; and Office 12, a package that includes updated versions of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel. Its Xbox 360 is already on store shelves worldwide, albeit in short supply, and gamers who bought the consoles will now expect a steady flow of thrilling new games.
Since we have already began to dominate in internet, games, and software it is now time for us to advance in these areas.
We have already made 95% of the market share in explorer and now we must make a search engine to rival that of Google. Who is now planning on combining with AOL in there search engines. So we must work hard to defend our turf. We have been critisized for our slow product development cycle, lack of agility, and inability to capture emerging market opportunities. So for sure you will see a revamped Microsoft for 2006. So get ready to see a new wave of products.

What are the drawbacks of Instant Messaging?

2006-03-06T09:15:34Z

Like e-mail ,IM can get out of hand. Since it is essentially always on, it is too easy for instant messaging to become distracting and annoying instead of a useful. While many companies are beginning to try instant messaging to help promote productivity, a few are uninstalling their IM programs because employees were being interrupted too frequently. Some, too, have started "lockdown" policies, banning wireless IM devices from meetings in order to miminize interruptions. People who use IM for personal or business purposes should use it discriminately, and should take advantage of features that prevent unwanted incoming messages.
Unlike e-mail, people who need to keep a record of what is being said should not use instant messaging. E-mail messages can be kept and referred to at a later date. Instant message programs do not record what is said, so users usually need to print or save each screen if they want to keep the conversation.
The biggest issue as you may well know the article is mostly about is the instant messaging compatibilty. Four major different systems are a float right now but none of the users are able to communicate with one another.
So there are drawbacks to Instant Messaging but it is a standard these days and many find it useful and entertaining as of now.

Why should we choose Audible.com?

2006-02-27T06:07:52Z

There are so many reasons for one to join Audible.com. With our company joining so many others we are one of the top competitors.
Unlike Itunes, Audible has a larger variety of books including many unabridged versions. Any audiobook you buy remains in my audible.com library. You can re-download it anytime I like, in any number of formats. That means that Stephen King's On Writing that you downloaded onto your PC in December 2000 (and lost when that PC hard drive had a meltdown), can be re-downloaded onto your mac. Now. Next week. Next year. Or in 2008. There are a lot of unabridged titles. Just go the the site and check out the number of unabridged titles available at audible.com. It is phenomenal. An interesting account options, as part of the AudibleListener program. For instance, for $19.95 per month (premium account) you can download any two books (with the exception of a few audio language courses) at no additional cost. A download worth nearly $60 for just the cost of my $19.95 monthly subscription.
Audible.com downloads are also compatible with iTunes and iPods. And, for those iPod owners (like me) who want an mp3 player that will "bookmark" files, audible.com offers a free Otis MP3 player with the premium AudibleListener account.
Audible.com offers many titles at no cost many cotaining C-span content. Audible.com's site is so easy and convenient to use that it would be hard not to try it out.

Has anything really changed since Post-Napster?

2006-02-20T05:56:06Z

The biggest issue is the depth of song selection that online music stores will offer. The services still need to figure out complex arrangements to share revenues with a variety of parties, including artists who own their works and music publishers. The record label is also struggling to deal with the legacy of Napster. While the labels have won significant victories so far in court that have defanged their most potent online enemy to date, they have yet to escape Napster's sway.
Despite their legal actions, the recording industry has taken cues from Napster's success to try to replicate its service. Other online companies have jumped on the demand for creating music subscriptions. And most importantly, consumers have woken up to online music's potential.
Participants have pointed out that free music and file sharing remain mercurial and will not go away with the limiting of Napster. Disabling Napster has pushed people to use other free music download services such as Gnutella or Morpheus. The threat from free services still remains. It will be up to the labels to offer people something better than getting free downloads.

Will Moore's law ever slow down?

2006-02-08T06:14:57Z

Moore's Law: The number of transistors on a chip would double every two years. The prediction was an elegant statement of how semiconductor chips would become cheaper, faster, smaller and more reliable over time.
"It became an almost religious faith in human ingenuity and a belief in the future," said Carver Mead, the former professor at the California Institute of Technology who coined the term "Moore's Law." "It spoiled everyone into thinking that this would go on forever." By most accounts, Moore's Law will collide with the laws of physics sometime in the next 15 years. That's when it will become physically impossible to squeeze more transistors onto a single silicon chip. Maybe though it will be for the best.
We have become so used to the idea of throwing away our technical efforts every year or two that "long term" has been redefined into absurdity. If Moore's Law was gone, all that would change, and we might find ourselves building data structures of enduring quality. We won't be wearing computers in our jackets, we'll be living in a world that has taken the true potential of computing into its heart. Rather than standing on a street corner asking my jacket to tell me the weather forecast, I'll ask a street light or a parking meter. Anything that has power should become a networked device and as a part of the public infrastructure, should be an entry point to the store of public knowledge.
Think about it. A parking meter as a networked device could be used by hundreds of people per day, which is a heck of a lot more cost-effective than wearing a computer suit. And it wouldn't even be that hard to do. But it won't work at all if we have to buy a new parking meter every 18 months. And that's why I am eager for the end of Moore's Law, for a time when we can stop building gizmos and start using digital technology in an enduring way.
I'm not saying we'll return to the age of building great cathedrals, but at least we'll have the right bricks and mortar should we decide to

How will Realnetworks stay ahead of competition?

2006-01-30T04:54:42Z

We have done many things to stay ahead of our competition, RealNetworks has reworked its Internet video and audio playback software to become an all-purpose online entertainment center. The company, which was built on software that allowed audio and video to be streamed across the Internet, hopes to capitalize on the increasing use of the Web as an entertainment medium, from MP3s to video, with products that will work on computers and wireless devices. The company is trying to stay abreast of the rapid consumer-driven changes in digital entertainment, which will shift even more this summer when major record labels like Sony and BMG begin selling downloadable top hit songs through the Internet. We're not using this as a feature to move operating systems. We're looking at the complete transformation of a communications medium. This is not about computers this is about the way people communicate. It's about to explode in ways completely independent of the computer. It won't take to much time to look down the road and see Real moving into the consumer electronics space.

what are the advantages and disadvantes to digital music?

2006-01-25T06:45:34Z

Widespread adoption of the technique of distributing digital music via the internet either in MP3 format or in some other form would give rise to some important social and economic advantages and disadvantages. Currently, most of the retail price paid by a consumer for compact disks goes to the manufacturer of the disc itself, the distributor of the disc, the retail store where she purchased it, or the record company that produced the recording. If the music were distributed over the Internet by the artist himself, almost all of costs associated with making and distributing discs could be eliminated. Then musicians could earn more or consumers could pay less or both. It would also get rid of the overproduction or underproduction of albums. Under the current system, the record companies must guess how many copies of each CD consumers will demand. Distribution of container less digital files over the Internet would eliminate this problem. More and new musicians would come forth, the set of musicians who would like to make their music available to the public and the set that significant numbers of consumers would like to hear are both much larger than the set hired by the recording companies. The opportunities available to new artists and to bands that appeal to certain markets would increase rapidly through widespread adoption of the new technology.
Regrettably, distribution of digital music via the Internet also has one, very substantial drawback: It undermines the ability of music creators to earn money. Two circumstances, in combination, give rise to this problem. First, MP3 files are unsecured. In other words, nothing prevents a person who has acquired with or without permission an MP3 file to make an unlimited number of copies of it. Second, unlike the copies of musical works made using analog technology the copies made using digital technology are perfect. In other words, each copy is identical to the original. In that case unauthorized, perfect MP3 copies of copyrighted recordings are widely available on the Internet for free. I hope this answers the question!