Just think about how many catalogs you receive in your home each week. I know in my house at home, having seven kids in our family, we probably get 3-5 a day, which is 18-30 a week. If all shopping catalogs move from paper to the internet, there would be so much paper saved every single day. Once those were converted to the internet, maybe we could get rid of the news paper as well. I know some of the older generations don't really like the whole idea of communicating through e-mail and the internet in place of snail mail, but eventually i think we will get to the point where that is going to be how it is.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Shop Direct Strengthens Online Channel
The article that i read is about "Online and home shopping retailer Shop Direct is rolling out e-commerce software across its multiple brands to improve customer loyalty" hoping to soon replace paper catalogs in the next year. By adding more personalization to the site they are hoping to bring in more loyal customers. This personalization includes the ability to add photos, reviews and even shop with a friend.
Just think about how many catalogs you receive in your home each week. I know in my house at home, having seven kids in our family, we probably get 3-5 a day, which is 18-30 a week. If all shopping catalogs move from paper to the internet, there would be so much paper saved every single day. Once those were converted to the internet, maybe we could get rid of the news paper as well. I know some of the older generations don't really like the whole idea of communicating through e-mail and the internet in place of snail mail, but eventually i think we will get to the point where that is going to be how it is.
Just think about how many catalogs you receive in your home each week. I know in my house at home, having seven kids in our family, we probably get 3-5 a day, which is 18-30 a week. If all shopping catalogs move from paper to the internet, there would be so much paper saved every single day. Once those were converted to the internet, maybe we could get rid of the news paper as well. I know some of the older generations don't really like the whole idea of communicating through e-mail and the internet in place of snail mail, but eventually i think we will get to the point where that is going to be how it is.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
CSR ships combined GPS/Bluetooth chip
I don't know about you, but if you don't already have GPS on your phone, you would love to have it, but that usually means spending an extra $100 on a phone. Not anymore. Today CSR launched the world’s smallest GPS combination device, the BlueCore BC7830, designed for mobile handsets- in one single chip measuring 11mm2 in silicon size, it includes GPS, Bluetooth v2.1+EDR, FM transmit and receive technologies and support for Bluetooth low energy. This unique design allows phone/handset designers to add the GPS function to their products for less than a dollar. Meaning that now GPS will be able to be added to mid-range low cost phones that it could not be added to before. Also with the small design of the chip, it will now be able to fit into smaller phones that it was not able to be fit into before.
The BlueCore BC7830 is sampling today, but should be available in a broad number of devices by the end of this year. They predict that the technology will be shipped in over 428 million devices by 2010. Therefore if you're planning on splurging on a new phone in the next year, I would wait if I were you.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
tv is the new pc
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/01/09/technology/personaltech/1194837694976/tv-is-the-new-pc.html?ref=technology
This is a news video that I found some what interesting. It is about using your TV to view things such as pictures or video's from files on your PC. It talks about how every year how we are needing more and more storage and we have gone from kilobytes to megabytes to gigabytes and now they have terabytes which is 500 gigabytes. This is really big for things like home theaters where more and more people have HD tv's and DVR systems where they can store pretty many shows that they have recorded.
I think it is pretty cool how we are able to do these sorts of things with our tv's now. I think that the next thing to come would be being able to store all of your movies on your tv or some sort of file that you can plug into your tv instead of having dvd's. It is sort of like having all of your songs on your ipod instead of on cd's.
This is a news video that I found some what interesting. It is about using your TV to view things such as pictures or video's from files on your PC. It talks about how every year how we are needing more and more storage and we have gone from kilobytes to megabytes to gigabytes and now they have terabytes which is 500 gigabytes. This is really big for things like home theaters where more and more people have HD tv's and DVR systems where they can store pretty many shows that they have recorded.
I think it is pretty cool how we are able to do these sorts of things with our tv's now. I think that the next thing to come would be being able to store all of your movies on your tv or some sort of file that you can plug into your tv instead of having dvd's. It is sort of like having all of your songs on your ipod instead of on cd's.
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