Health Care Imaging
Kodak is making great inroads into health care imaging.
Intelligent Consumers
Consumers are intelligent.
It is my belief that in order to gain wholesome consumers, a company must get into the hearts and minds of its client base. Creating a positive emotional connection with the consumer is a key first step. Getting to know them is the second. Providing cut dry value is the next.
Telecom deregulation – what are the implications to ‘Urban Canadians’?
Vista: Your window to the world.
The World of IP.
Espace.
“The most popular formulation is of the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits (a rough measure of computer processing power) every 18 months. At the end of the 1970s, Moore’s Law became known as the limit for the number of transistors on the most complex chips. However, it is also common to cite Moore’s Law to refer to the rapidly continuing advance in computing power per unit cost.
A similar law has held for hard disk storage cost per unit of information. The rate of progression in disk storage over the past decades has actually sped up more than once, corresponding to the utilization of error correcting codes, the magnetoresistive effect and the giant magnetoresistive effect. The current rate of increase in hard drive capacity is roughly similar to the rate of increase in transistor count. However, recent trends show that this rate is dropping, and has not been met for the last three years. See Hard disk capacity.
Another version states that RAM storage capacity increases at the same rate as processing power.”[1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
vistamceremote
I’m forecasting a computing revolution with the introduction of Vista. The launch of Vista is just over 2 months away (63 days in fact).
2007 is shaping up to be a good year for tech enthusiasts….64 bit processors will finally make their way into mainstream markets. The change from 32 bit to 64 bit processors will radically alter our computer experiences. The last time processors made such a radical jump was in the early 90’s when 16 bit processors gave way to the all familiar 32 bit processor. 64 bit proc. can support up to one terabyte…that’s right 1000 GIGABYTES, or just over ONE MILLION MEGABYTES of RAM (Ralph A. Meiers….just kidding Random Access Memory)
2007 will also be the year of broadband…the broadband uptake rate in the U.S. will vastly outnumber the rate in Canada (this primarily attributed to the lower broadband penetration rates in the US). Canada, however, will shine and lead in super-fast broadband (thanks Eugene). Super-fast broadband is required for IPTV. An IPTV launch is required in order for the Telcos to beat the hell out of the cable industry.
Vista will finally bring Media Centre to the masses. Media Centre Extender will flow the content through your household, and XBOX 360 may just end up linking everything together. For years I’ve wanted a COMBO Box…I’m thinking 2007 is finally the year I may get my wish.
LCD TVs will be the way to go (bye bye plasma). LCDs are inherently better at displaying high resolution graphics (why do you think Microsoft decided to demo XBOX on SAMSUNG LCD TVs?).
Computers won’t be just computers anymore. Your TV will become a computer, albeit a much more simplified and stable one.
I am ALIVE…I’m back.
Oh Movable, Movable. Where for art thou Movable?
I think I’m getting bored with my current publishing platform. I will be looking at upgrading my capabilities over the next coming months. Please stay connected.
Comment SPAM
So I have had to temporarily disable auto-commenting functionality as I’m being inundated with SPAM comments (about 25-40/day). The commenting functionality will be reinstated once I have a solution to the SPAM problem.
Ralph
Why CDs aren’t cool…in fact they’re old school.
Media Distribution – That is Mass Media Distribution in the form of CDs are trés passé
Media Player and other windows steadfasts have allowed music listeners to take control over their sounds and music. The degree of personalization and customizations among millions of playlists is absolutely astounding.
Scattered across this fractured thing we call ‘Earth’
Do you over think about how important and relevant things can become in the future? Most people don’t…but I do. Inspiration and the Sound of Musiic. I’m compiling my own playlist as we speak…a task I haven’t done for awhile.
Ready for the Resurgence?
Resurgence : bringing again into activity and prominence
So here I am sitting at my desk, listening to my favourite type of musiic while I type. It’s been awhile since I took some time to breathe.
Let’s talk about some things that have been on my mind as of late:
Technology – I love it…tech helps move our society and modern civilization forward. Regardless of the size of the technological advancement, an advancement is an advancement nonetheless. Technology helps to connect us to things that would otherwise be out of our grasp.
I am a pioneer, a trendsetter in tech. I remember the day back in 1995 when I first connected to a little company called ‘CompuServe’. CompuServe opened the world to me, I ventured to a little unknown site called ‘Yahoo!’. My initial impressions of the internet was that it was like an encyclopedia only easier to use and much prettier. Now, just so that you don’t think that I was first introduced to the net in ’95. I was an avid ‘Bulletin Board’ user reaching as far back as 1991-1992.
‘Bulletin Boards’ were one of the first ‘internet like’ communities albeit on a much smaller scale. I connected to The Hamilton Spectator’s Bulletin Board called ‘CompuSpec’ via Terry Berry Library’s public computer which was tucked away in a corner on the second floor. Having been an extrememly shy and introverted individual during my youth, the boards let me meet people I would have never imagined meeting in the ‘real world’. I blossomed on the internet, in fact the internet helped shape, and continues to shape the person that I am today.
The internet removes boundaries and borders, obstacles to doing business. Some people question whether the future is in the ‘pipe’ or the ‘content, apps, and information’ that flow through the pipe. I say it’s both. You cannot have one without the other.
I don’t know how many of you have heard of a little company called ‘Mirabillis’, and a little program called ‘ICQ’. Their invention would forever change the face of the world (literally).
Here’s some information about ICQ
The ICQ Story
ICQ was established in July 1996 by four young avid-computer users who wanted to introduce a new way of communication over the Internet.
Before ICQ, people were connected to the internet, but not interconnected. ICQ was the missing link, a technology that made peer-to-peer communication possible. The following year ICQ took the internet by storm. Through viral marketing a chain reaction was created, resulting in one of the largest download rates for a start-up company in the history of the Internet.
ICQ has always been technologically innovative. Not only was ICQ one of the first Internet wide instant messaging services, many features that make up the core of today’s IM services were first introduced by ICQ and appeared on its desktop client.
Today, Video, VoIP, and SMS features are seamlessly integrated within the client. Skins, emoticons, avatars and other personalization tools make ICQ the natural choice for millions of young users around the world.
ICQ is a personal communication tool that allows users to meet and interact, to catch up with old friends, to meet new friends and to hear the latest stories from the world wide community. ICQ is the one-stop-source for all types of communication, the tribe campfire of the virtual community where users meet to share feelings, experiences and content.
Internet Protocol Television
IPTV – And so with Vista comes the dream of IPTV. I wrote awhile back that I was ‘suped’ up over getting a Vista Media Centre PC with the hope that it would lunch in Fall’06, but it’s old news in the industry that the Vista launch has been delayed to the first quarter of 2007.
That being said, Telcos around the world are gearing up for the launch of the next generation television service based on Microsoft’s IPTV edition platform. In fact, AT&T has already commercially launched an IPTV service using Microsoft’s platform, marketed as ‘u-verse’.
And so I wait for Vista to launch. Over the weekend I watched a biography on Bill Gates on the tube. What a smart and resilient man Mr. Gates is.