iPhone

The iphone has taken over the cell phone industry.  Numbers are in and it is finally official that the iPhone has more consumer use than the Motorola Razr now has.  The Razr has had 7 periods of falling sales due to the huge success of large touchscreen phones.  Motorola has yet to put forth a competitor to the iPhone, although they have released many Razr upgrades such as the Razr2.  

Apple blocking Opera?

Rumors reported this week and last that Apple had blocked the OPERA internet browser from creating an application for the iPhone.  The CEO of Opera released a statement that it was not necessarily true yet.  They have not submitted a copy of the program to the Apple application store for trial.  Many people interviewed don't even know if they have created a Opera mini for the iPhone!  We'll see in the near-by future if the company will be able to compete with Safari, Mac's internet browser.

NetFlix

NETFLIX, a successful online video rental service, has decided to launch a new branch of video offerings.  Mac users, a large group of computer users, can now rent streaming movies from Netflix.  Microsoft's "silverlight" streaming software will allow Mac users to enjoy this feature of Netflix.  For Mac users, they must be using the newer intel-processing Mac computer which accounts for 3/4 of the users' computers.  This will allow more profits for Netflix, and allow more movie rental options for Mac users. 

Motorola

So, Android came out, and the big news was the T-Mobile is the only carrier using it for its grand entrance.  Well, here comes Motorola!  Watch out, it was announced that they are creating their own device that uses a touch screen and slide out keyboard to master their own Android cell phone.  They want to allow social networking users to update their accounts and have a cutting edge device using Motorola rather than the iPhone, Blackberry, or TMobile G1 device.  It is set to make an appearance in 2009, but no official design has been showed.  Motorola just recently released its own first touchscreen last week for Verizon, and this cutting-edge cellphone creator will have its share of pushing technology further.

AMD

AMD... aka Advanced Micro Devices, is a microprocessor used in many gaming computers around the world.  The company said that it will become two companies now, in order to cut costs and continue to maintain its position as one of intel's strongest competitors.  The company also has a couple of new investors hoping to advance the new two companies further into the computer world.

SanDisk

SanDisk is coming out with a new type of medium for music... A micro SD memory card with an album loaded on it.  This sounds pretty bazaar, and quite frankly I don't think it would work very well.  They are advertising this as being DRM-free allowing people to put this music anywhere.  Suppliers could then carry a lot of albums in a very small space.  The music could go in phones, computers, music players, etc.  I think that if someone were to buy an album, why buy it on something so small you could easily loose it rather than a CD or online.

the Dream

So, cell phones are becoming more and more like the iPhone, and T-Mobile is about to reveal its newest phone, the Dream... an open source phone created by Google.  It has been pushed for many months already, and the time is coming when google and tmobile will unleash the new wave of cell phone.  So, once again, Google is trying to take over another sector of media not only through web browser but now by phone.  Android is considered the open source operating system that will run on many more phones beside the Dream... Android can run on any phone manufacturer's system as an option to compete with Apple.

Chrome.

Well it's here, the anticipated Google browser I talked about last time.  Companies and people are excited, scared, and don't know where this development will take the internet.  Google's claim is that most web browsers have simply added on to what the original web browsers fifteen years ago looked like, and this program started from scratch.  It has the search functions, new tab functions, speed and capability of upholding many types of features undiscovered.  It also has one thing covered... as google always do... advertising.  This browser sneaks even more advertising in but makes it continually more and more precise about what you search for.  Some companies are actually upset with the Google ad's now because if someone searches for, say, Toyota, Ford can "buy" that key term and have an ad on the side bar.  CHROME, will definitely impact the world.

Google's Internet Browser

GOOGLE... the huge internet power is attempting to grow even larger, with the launch of a new open source web browser.  It will be called Chrome, and they actually talked about this browser in a blog, which is funny because I'm writing about it in a blog as well.  It will start off as a Windows version only and will eventually be created for Macs.  I think it is genius of Google because they have great name recognition and this will only help them receive more.  I know I am excited to see how well it works and special features that it may offer that the latest and greatest Firefox does not have.  

Hello!

Here we are at the 1st blog for my new media class of fall 2008.

Well, my family has had T-Mobile for a very long time now because of the low cost and the quality of customer service.  T-Mobile is possibly even larger in Europe than in America... and therefore can offer items such as the iPhone and the 3g network that is still lacking from its services here in the States.   It is crazy how AT&T has the whole US market for the iPhone, and they can charge what they want for that sole reason.  In Europe, cellphones have been better than ours, and the number of users of the iPhone is drastically lower than ours... although T-Mobile is happy with the 75,000 phones that were sold in Germany alone since July 11, America has many many more in use.  

So, I would love for T-Mobile to be able to have access to use the "legit" iPhone in America rather than not allowing for their popular customer service usage on a European/ ripped model.  I sure would get one!