FUTURE COMMUNICATION COMPRISING OF PEN-SIZED COMPUTER, VIRTUAL KEYBOARD, AND BACKUP WATCH!

Amazing pen-sized computer with docking stand, full size virtual keyboard and a watch for storing backup files. Predictions have it that by the year 2020 keyboards and monitors will be a thing of the past. This is a really interesting video about future communication pertaining to computers. Hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.

NO MORE FORGOTTEN PASSWORDS IN FUTURE COMMUNICATION THANKS TO FINGERPRINTS!

Computers in future communication have the ability to use fingerprints to sign on to personal computers. People will never have to worry about forgotten passwords again. Enjoy the video and very informational article attached below to see exactly how this works. Hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.

http://www.m2sys.com/DBS.htm

IBM'S SUPERCOMPUTER "WATSON" PART OF FUTURE COMMUNICATION!

"Watson" is an IBM supercomputer that competed against two recorded highest winning Jeopardy champions and defeated both of them. Communication in the future will most likely include contact with supercomputers such as "Watson". Watch the below video to see how "Watson" was able to more accurately respond to questions on Jeopardy enabling it to defeat these human champions. Hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.

"ROLL TOP LAPTOP" PART OF FUTURE COMMUNICATION!

Introducing the laptop of the future. The Roll Top Laptop Computer is still presently in development. You simply roll it open to use, and then roll it up when you are finished using it. It resembles the size of a map or a window shade. This extremely convenient item allows for easy storage and the ability carry your computer over your shoulder with a strap similar to a purse or school bag. Watch the video below in order to see how it works. This is definitely an exciting part of future communication. Hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.




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Future Evolution of Communication

Hard Workers will now explore the evolution of communication in the future. Through research we will be able to introduce you to different ways we will be able to communicate in the future. Hope you enjoy these posts. Mary Ann Reday.

Online Dating Services

Online dating services allows individuals to communicate with each other, usually with the objective of developing a romantic or sexual relationship. Online dating users are able to create their profile, write an introductory about themselves and also include pictures that help other users to find a potential match. They then message back and forth until they confirm a date. Another form of online chatting is video chatting. Video chatting is a form of virtual dating that allows users to use live chat. Sites that offers this allows 3-5min webcam interviews. Virtual dating includes avatars for people to interact, that duplicates a real life dating environment. They are able to travel and explore together online. Second Life is the second highest dating services.

BBS

A Bulletin Board System is a computer system running software. It is also called BBS. BBS let users to connect and log in to the system. If users logged in BBS, users not only can uploading and downloading software and data, but also can read news and bulletins, exchanging messages with other users through email or in public message boards. It is including on-line games, chat rooms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Wiggio

Wiggio's interface has six basic toolsets. Calendar allows you to manage the events of your group. There is folder to let you upload you most file types to your wiggio groups; you can edit your documents and spreadsheets in the wiggio and view photos and videos and listen to audio files in the wiggio’s folder. You can have three types meeting in wiggio, like in-person, conference call, chat room. You can get a consensus of your group’s members. You can receive: text message, email and voice note. To-Do feature let you to create to do list for you group.
This one is really good communication place for students.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiggio

Telecommuting

Telecommuting is also called telework. It means employees can have flexibility in working location and times. Employees do not have to drive to work and only need telecommunication links. You can work from home or at coffee shops or other locations instead of company. It is also refer to any form of work-related travel, thereby eliminating the distance restrictions of telecommuting .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommuting

Microsoft Windows Live Groups

Microsoft Windows Live Groups
Microsoft Windows Live Groups help working people to build a team, the whole team do not have in the same company and more to do with the ad-hoc pool of talent that contributes to any given project.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222576/get_people_together_with_windows_live_groups.html

Tencent QQ

Tencent QQ is very popular free instant messaging computer program in Mainland China. Up to September 30, 2010, it has 636.6 million active QQ users’ accounts for QQ IM. It is making it the world's largest community on internet. In February 2011, QQ.com has very high ranking and it is only behind Twitter. Based on Wikipedia: “The program is maintained by Tencent Holdings Limited (HKEX: 0700), owned in part by Naspers.” Since the Tencent QQ among Chinese households and it became as a modern cultural phenomenon, now being portrayed in popular culture. QQ also has games, virtual pets, ringtone downloads, etc.

Here is the link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QQ

Cell Phones.

Cell phones has changed the way we communicate today. You are able to text, recieve emails, shop and surf the web, listen to music, helps you get to a location and even do online banking. Basically anything can be done on this one device.

Almost everyone has a cell phone and it has become absolutely necessary for our daily lives. Cell phones are very convenient: no need to run to a pay phone anymore or wait to get home to use the internet, it helps to get a lot more done.

One of the most important distractions for drivers is the cell phones and has known to increase the risks of accidents.

Alot more state laws are prohibiting cells phones and drivibg. In California, the new hands- free cellphone law has been taken place.
http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-50002826.html?tag=mncol;4n

Facebook !

Facebook is one of the biggest social network that has over 600 million active users world wide. This video is very interesting. Is Facebook really worth $50
billion??

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2011/03/08/foreman.facebook.cnn?iref=videosearch

iPhone 5

There are a lot of rumors going around that Apple will be debuting the iPhone 5 this summer. Every time a new iPhone comes out, it offers something new to the customer. This new phone is supposedly going to have new software owned and being bought by Apple. And of course there will be a new design.

Here is one of the websites that is talking about this new rumor:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iphone_5_completely_redesigned.php

The ipad

The ipad has revolutionized the world. This new technology allows us to communicate with others in ways that we would have never imagine in the past.

Sony e-book Reader

Fax Machines Important In Present Communications

Fax machines were first designed in 1843 and are a very important part of present communication. They allow you to transmit pieces of paper to other people or companies instantly. It is nearly impossible for businesses to function in present times wihtout a fax machine. The attached link contains a very interesting article about how fax machines work. This article also mentions how faxes can now also be sent via emails. You can also watch the attached video to see what types of fax machines exist in the present. Hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.

http://communication.howstuffworks.com/fax-machine.htm

Present Communication Via Social Networks

Social networks are online communities of Internet users. Online members share information and have common interests such as hobbies, religion, and politics. People also go on these sites to socialize. People from all over the world have access to these networks. Social networks are a very important part of present communication. Follow the link below to read an interesting article about social networking. Also if you watch the video attached below it will educate you about how social networks work.

http://www.whatissocialnetworking.com/

Skype!

Skype is a new way of communication. It came out in 2003, and it basically makes sense to the world we live in today. "Skype is an online communciation tool that you can use to talk to anyone anywhere in the world. You can use it as an instant messaging service, or as a telephone... with a special Skype phone or traditional headseat. It even works for video calls. Calls to and from other Skype members are free."
This is something very useful for big corporations because it allows business people to communicate from country to country for free. Also, family that doesn't live around the corner can keep contact and not be worried how much the phone bill will be. One thing I love about Skype is the way the video communication works. I use it with family members who live in Portugal. They love this program because they get to see my little brother not only through pictures but actual live video. 
I can't wait to see what happens with this method next. 

Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/office/collaboration/articles/6109.aspx#ixzz1G4SFr3vB

Blog and Tweeting in the Scientific World

Here is an excerpt from the article "Peer review: Trial by Twitter". This article discusses how blogs and tweets are ripping scientific research papers apart.


"Scientists discover keys to long life," proclaimed The Wall Street Journal headline on 1 July last year. "Who will live to be 100? Genetic test might tell," said National Public Radio a day later.

These and hundreds of similarly enthusiastic headlines were touting a paper in Science1 in which researchers claimed to have identified a set of genes that could predict human longevity with 77% accuracy — a finding with potentially huge implications for medicine, health policy and the economy.

But even as the popular media was trumpeting the finding, other researchers were taking to the web to criticize the paper's methodology. "We expect that most of the results of this study will not have the same longevity as its participants," sniped a blog posted by researchers at the personal genomics company 23andMe, based in Mountain View, California.

Critics were particularly perturbed by the genome-wide association study (GWAS) that the authors had used to identify their longevity genes: the centenarians and the controls in the study had been tested with different kinds of DNA chips, which potentially skewed the results.

"Basically anybody that does a lot of GWAS knows this [pitfall], which is why we all said it so fast," says David Goldstein, director of Duke University's Center for Human Genome Variation, who voiced his concerns to a Newsweek blogger the day the study appeared.

This critical onslaught was striking — but not exceptional. Papers are increasingly being taken apart in blogs, on Twitter and on other social media within hours rather than years, and in public, rather than at small conferences or in private conversation. In December, for example, many scientists blogged immediate criticisms of another widely publicized paper2 — this one heralding bacteria that the authors claimed use arsenic rather than phosphorus in their DNA backbone."

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110119/full/469286a.html?s=news_rss

Cell Phones and Texting Present Communication

"COUNTERFEIT drugs can make up around a quarter of all those sold in poor countries, according to some estimates. They provide a lucrative and lethal business, against which most consumers are powerless. “If your anti-malaria pill is made of any old white powder, you may not survive,” says Bright Simons, one of the founders of mPedigree, an advocacy group from Ghana. "

"Mr Simons is not just fighting with words. Late last year mPedigree launched a mobile service in Ghana and Nigeria that could make a dent in the fake-drug trade. People buying medicine scratch off a panel attached to the packaging. This reveals a code, which they can text to a computer system that looks it up in a database. Seconds later comes a reply saying whether the drug is genuine. The service is paid for by pharmaceutical companies that want to thwart the counterfeiters. Hewlett-Packard runs the computer system and found a cheap way to print the scratch-off labels." http://www.economist.com/node/18008202

Texting

"A third, perhaps even more promising category is “crowdvoicing”. Ushahidi, founded by a group of activists in Kenya, is among its pioneers. After the country’s disputed elections in 2008, Ushahidi (which means “testimony” in Swahili) mapped reports about violence, most of them text messages, on a website. Now the organisation offers software and even a web-based service to monitor anything from elections to natural disasters. Similarly, text-messaging software called FrontlineSMS collects and broadcasts information".

http://www.economist.com/node/18008202

Text Messaging

Who can live in this world without text messaging now? I'd say very few people don't have text messaging on their phone. Text messaging has become something very big over the last couple of years, especially with the newer cell phones.
When texting first came out in 1992, only 0.4% of people with cell phones used it. The very first message read "Merry Christmas". Since then, the amount a person could send in one message got bigger and bigger, and now it doesn't just include text, but pictures, and videos.
There are various ways people text. There are abbreviations for just about every word in the dictionary. Smiley faces are not just :) anymore. There's :( :/ ;) and so many more!!
Here's some more info on texting and its history and some crazy video of someone texting.
Enjoy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXyVzLjKag

Blogs Are Part Of Present Communication

Blogs are a relatively new type of communication. Since all of our groups are placing our blogs on Blogger.com, I decided to take this chance to educate everyone about the history of blogs. The links below include an article telling about when and how blogs started, and also a video explaining exactly what blogs are. I hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.

http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/05-06-wt1/www/A cho/history.htm

Radio Changes Over Past 100 Years

Radios have been in existence since the 1800's. They still continue to be popular today. AM and FM radio stations are offered free to listeners. Sirius and XM radios are subscription based. These stations offer listeners more choices to pick from based on what they like. They also include commercial free listening. Even though radios have been around for such a long time, they continue to be very popular today. Follow the link attached to read an article telling about how radios have changed over the last 100years. You can also see pictures of different types of radios. You can see for yourself how much they have changed. I hope you find this post to be informative. Mary Ann Reday.


http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/radio.html

E-Mail???

Internet made it's big debut a few years ago, and it was nowhere near where it is now! With internet came e-mails. E-mail stands for electronic mail, and it is just what it says. It's like sending a free letter, and it's not tangible. It's also an easier and much faster way to communicate. Mostly big companies use this as their form of communication because of its power.
Here are some facts on The History and Evolution of Email.

http://www.focus.com/fyi/information-technology/history-and-evolution-email/

Telephones experience evolution

Telephones have evolved from the rotary phones of the past to cell phones of the present. It is amazing see how different they are. The video below provides informative insight into changes in their appearance. I hope you enjoy seeing the changes the telephone has gone through. Hope you enjoy this post. Mary Ann Reday.

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Evolution of Communication In The Present

The Hard Workers will now explore the evolution of communication in the present. We hope you enjoy these posts. Mary Ann Reday.

Cave Paintings

Cave paintings consisted of engraved,or pained works on open air, rock, or on the floors, walls, and ceilings. It was discovered in many parts of the world from Europe to Australia from 31,000 years ago. The Egypt style usually depicted the incidents which will occur during the journey of the dead in the next work. The Greek style in Pompeii came from the eastern Mediterranean. Many painter stride for the degree of realism.

Pigeon post

Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeon to carry messages. Pigeon were transported to a destination in cages, where they would be attached with messages, and then naturally the pigeon would fly back to its home where the owner could read his mail. The Greek and Romans both used the pigeon post to convey information, and many pigeon worked in military service, carrying message with troop orders and other military material from place to place.