Technofender

Technology applied to the field of communications has changed the way the human race see its own world and environment as well as the roles of the different actors in society. Just two centuries ago, it was totally impossible to maintain a live stream of news and information within a distance of more than 100 Kms.

But, the technology has changed the landscape of the human interactions through an increasingly powerful use of new devices and channels to send and receive information in real time.

Particularly, the internet TV has grown up as an emergent use of the information technologies, in which the live video streaming offers the chance to enhance the power of communication to more than the simple text-based content of the web pages.

The live television is a derivation of the primary live chat, in which a streaming of multimedia data is made on real time for a person to person chat session. It is the broadcasting service of the live streaming what makes the difference. Naturally, the archival of user-made tv shows can incorporate the edition process and translation to several languages.

BlogTv is a place to start the tests to broadcast our own tv shows. It counts with all the necessary services to provide a high quality real time streaming of video and audio. It also archives the shows and keeps statistics of the visitors for every video published.

The future of the television and media in general, may change suddenly as the Internet Tv Shows gain popularity among the internauts. What i would bet on is the high probability that the Internet Tv shows might become a star-maker place to find new talents and powerful ideas that can be escalated to the mainstream media.

Another high probability is that the Internet Tv becomes an "Indie Tv" or "Underground Tv", where more than just simple reality shows will be exposed and gain the attention of a compromised audience.

Finally, as the Internet is a democratic place, the opinions can be expressed unbiased, and a futuristic Internet Tv show can portrait the facts of the society in a more accurate fashion.

Hughes Net is a company dedicated to the service of Satellite ISP (Internet Service Provider). In a less technical jargon, it is a company that can provide Internet access by means of satellite transmission of data.

Compared to the traditional dial-up services, the satellite transmission has some advantages and in the case of HughesNet, the only specific requirement is that the user has a good view of the southern sky.

The company offers a group of commercial packages ranging from the home user (running at 700 Kbps) to the office (2000 Kbps), and the prices are reasonable. If the payments are made in advance, the customer can get a mail-in rebate, that cheapens the price of the service.

The main benefit of Satellite Internet is the availability, basically the connection uses to be up and running 24×7. It makes a difference when compared with the traditional dial-up and even some ADSL connections.

Who would be interested in the service? Basically, the people that lives in the regions where there is no dial-up or cable service, and also, the people that travels a lot inside the country and needs to be online all the time.

Nevertheless, there is one thing to consider, as the signal has to travel for thousands of kilometers, the latency tends to be increased (by some fraction of a second), which makes it unsuitable for playing online games - as World of Warcraft.

Medical Career Training dot Com is a specialized portal that provides information to obtain a qualified education in classic and heterodox medical careers, as the one offered by the ultrasound tech school.

In fact, the ultrasound tech is one of the most avant-garde careers offered through the portal. And it is also very attractive; as the ultrasound technician has a good level of earnings (in average) and the conditions of work are slightly less stressing than in other medical careers.

Computer Based Training is an effective channel of learning, which has been popularized in recent years due to the advent of the new information technologies and the reduction of the prices of hardware and software.

At present, Computer Based Training is reaching a new level, with specialized companies offering courses, seminars, coaching and training in such different topics as Pmp training, Sales Force Training, Computer Language courses and some less common ones.

CBT is a company dedicated to provide focused training for the e-learner - the individual willing to learn at his/her own pace by means of software-aided training. Among the offers, they feature the excel training with a smart program designed for this specific way of learning.

CBT also features a specialized training that aims to increase the leadership skills of the takers.

Computer Games are pieces of software specifically designed for the recreation of the consumer. It has been a while since Pacman - which was one of the first video games - and lots of improvements have been introduced - such as video enhancements, multimedia, 3D designs and virtual reality.

At Phelios, it can be found a wide variety of small games, most of them available for download (for trial). Mac games, board games, sports games, tycoon games are among the wide variety of resources.

Specifically, Mac Games is a section which contains some classic games: Mah Jong, Solitaire, Swap and many others.

GSM stands for “Global System for Mobile Communication”. At the beginning, it was the acronym of Groupe Spécial Mobile , developed in 1982 by the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations and was intended to become an European standard, and now it is probably the most popular standard for mobile phone technology in the whole world.

Currently, GSM signals are spread in the 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz frequencies. GSM belongs to the group of mobile communications technologies commonly known as Second Generation (2G).

Reach of GSM Technology

According to the GSM Association - an organization devoted to the task of promoting GSM standard - it has been estimated that roughly 82% of the users of mobile telephony in the world has a GSM-enabled cell phone.

That counts for about 2 billion persons in 212 countries, which has made GSM the de facto standard, what enables GSM users to roam their phones and adds portability to the portfolio of benefits of GSM cell phones. It has to be noted that many operators lock the phones, which makes the issue of portability something unexplainably difficult.

SMS and GSM

One of the striking features of GSM was the development of a very cheap and affordable option to voice calls, the Short Message Service - also known as SMS - which was first implemented together with the standard and introduced a whole new concept in the life of millions of people.

In some countries where the prices of regular calls through the cell phones tend to be prohibitive, SMS not just became a draft-style solution, but it became more of a cliché, and in fact, in some places like Latin America, SMS is so widely spread that it tends to be used more extensively than even simple voice calls.

Locked and Unlocked Cell Phone issues

It is not a classified secret of the CIA that many providers lock the cell phones, so as to avoid that the user can change of provider in a fast manner. What most of the customers do not know is that there is no reason why they have to buy locked cell phones.

In fact, in my humble point of view, there is something of unethical in the whole process of locking a cell phone. It is like cutting the democracy of choosing with which mobile cell provider I want to work.

What it is also ignored is that there is nothing that prevents the user from unlocking the cell phone by him/herself, BUT the strong chance of not achieving his/her pursuit. While it is not so difficult, it does in fact require some basic knowledge of software and how the cell phone works. And geeky passion for electronics, in some extreme cases. Again, personally, why would someone buy it locked, when there are strong chances that getting an unlocked one since the beginning be less tortuous and desperating?

Global Positioning System is a well known technology, whose origins date back to the past century and derived from a project of the US Department of Defense: the NAVSTAR GPS.

Based on a fleet of about 25 satellites (medium earth orbit), it send signals to
GPS receivers to establish the Geographic location, time and some other spatial
variables.

Though developed to fulfill military uses, it was released to the public in 1983 and since then the commercial and scientific applications of GPS are almost countless. In fact, being GPS the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at current days, it has become the standard - de facto - to locate a precise point on the surface of the Earth.

Navigational Systems

Following the rise of the Internet and the era of high speed communications, GPS technologies experienced a high peak of adoption coming from the Industry, in general.

Of course, navigational systems are the best known and more popularized of the derived applications of GPS and another related technology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which in fact cope with the geography of a place, country, region or even the world. Being very basic, GPS establishes the coordinates and GIS shows the place.

It is very common nowadays that the cars are equipped with navigational systems, although the price of such devices is not exactly cheap.

GPS Insight

Among the offers of GPS products and services, GPS Insight is highly remarkable as a provider targeted at the niche of service and trucking companies. In plain words, they are best for the companies that manage a fleet of vehicles:

• Wholesalers
• Sales Forces
• Couriers
• Utilities
• Long Haul Trucking
• Taxi and Car Rentals

The star product offered by the company is the GPS Insight vehicle tracking system which consists of pieces of software and hardware packaged to be plugged easily in the vehicle diagnostic port.

GPS Insight Highlights

I checked the website and there is a lot of information about the product - there is even a GPS Insight support wiki for customers, very WEB 2.0 and a Blog for GPS vehicle tracking. As an excerpt, the following list shows what is more relevant and definitely marks the difference, which according to my humble opinion is the level of service offered.

• Detailed reporting of activities to better control expenses and avoid frauds
• Calculated Fuel Consumption
• Detection of Speed Violations, Non working time
• Tracking of Vehicle State of Performance
• Continuous and Easy Update of GeoBase
• Wide access from mobile devices; e.g. the mobile phone
• 24 Hour Shipping Policy
• Money back guarantee (30 days)
• 24×7 support, rated 12 in the scale of best time performance for support.
• Flexibility in the choice of options
• More than simply enough product information on the website.
• Interesting (and seemingly verifiable) testimonies of satisfied customers.
• Ease of Setup and Installation.
• Most of all, Better Business Bureau Accreditation, which on the Internet is the equivalent to a Certification of Honesty.

Power, Electric Power is a constant of modern lifestyle and became absolutely necessary at around the first half of the previous century. Though the continuum of the power generation scheme of modern cities, there is an outage from times to times.

Most of urban citizens can deal with an outage, but there are some critical situations where energy cannot be interrupted for more than a few seconds, in some cases - as Intensive Care Units of the Hospitals - the timespan is even more reduced.

Emergency Power Systems

According to Wikipedia, Emergency power systems are a type of system, which may include lighting, generators and other apparatus, to provide backup resources in a crisis or when regular systems fail. Mostly, these systems use to rely on Power Generators to provide energy to sustain the vital charge for an accurately calculated period. The vital charge is defined as the one absolutely necessary to maintain the most basic and urgent operations of the building; i.e. the emergency lighting, fire alarms, fire sprinklers, life support systems, information servers and lift emergency operations.

Power Generators start to provide energy when activated through a - usually automatic - device known as the transfer switch, which detects the power failure from the main electric line and connects the vital charge to the generator.

Reviewing Power Continuity Systems

Power Continuity Systems is a firm based in the United Kingdom, which provides services and products aimed at the purpose of producing energy.

Generators

Among the main lines of the company, Generators are well featured and there is a reasonable offer of them, in the following categories.

• Diesel Generators
• Silent Diesel Generators
• Super Silent Generators
• Gas, L.P.G. Generators

Taken from Power Continuity Systems U.K.

In terms of energy supply, Power Continuity Systems offers generators that range from 30 kVA to 1 mV, and in fashionable sizes to reduce the need for space to locate them.

Units of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)

Furthermore, the company offers an interesting option for emergency energy needs, specially from Computer Centers and Offices. UPS is a unit of emergency that activates immediately after an outage occurs, and provides a limited supply of energy, usually enough only to switch off the services properly.

The company offers UPS Systems for the residential (monophasic) and the industrial needs (triphasic), from 1 kVA to 800 kVA and even 2 mVA in parallel operation.

Additional Services

As a plus, the company offers some services, many of them very attractive and mostly oriented towards the protection of the customer’s assets and the continuous provision of energy to safeguard the operations (of production).

• Standby Power Hire (Generators and UPS).
• Generator supplied and installed since £15 per day
• Specialized Consultancy in System Design.
• Emergency Callout, 24×7 scheme.
• Maintenance and Installation.
• Remote Monitoring, 24×7 scheme.
• HV and LV maintenance.

Conclusions

In general, the company provides most of the devices, supplies and services necessary to provide emergency power. Prices do not seem so high and there seems to be a reasonable predisposition to negotiate the terms of credit and prices.

Computer Memory, commonly known as RAM is an essential piece of hardware that is in charge of providing random data storage - data can be accessed in no particular order, as opposed to sequential.

One feature of RAM, which hasn’t changed during the last decades is that it is a kind of memory without persistence -volatile - , that is, when the power is turned off, the whole content of the memory is released.

About 15 years ago, only large manufacturers used to release the memory modules. IBM, Samsung, and others lasted years sharing the market with almost no competition. But, in recent years, the expansion of the markets has made it more affordable for investors all over the world, to manufacture memory modules at lower costs and selling them at lower prices, consequently.

Memory Deal is a specialized site that promotes the purchase of original Computer Memory parts.

The site states some very clear reasons to buy original memory from qualified manufacturers, the best of which is that those manufacturers help to test the equipment at developmental phases. As a result, the memory cards made by the qualified manufacturers work so much better than untested memory parts.

What Memory Deal offers is not only the purchasing option. In fact, the site assures the customer that every time someone picks on a Computer Memory Deal, he/she is getting the right memory upgrade for the computer.

Maybe, some people - tech geeks, among them - would argue that the functionality provided by the generic memory modules fits quite well and the price tends to be significantly lower. That is what I see as the third aim of the site, if you couldn’t get a deal memory, which feels satisfactory, then the name of the site wouldn’t work, would it?

Edmund Scientific is a complete, vertical portal dedicated to the professional and non-professional Sci&Tech-stuff customers. Highly organized in structured categories, it offers its clients and visitors many interesting products, most of them related to a set of specific disciplines and some also of general interest.

One key feature of Edmund Scientific is the good user-experience that it provides. Usually, it’s hard to find a verticalized shopping portal dedicated to Sci&Tech stuff that might be at least relatively easy to browse. If there is something impressive and relevant in Edmund Scientific is the way that information is organized and how few clicks away lies a product that a potential customer searches for.

Another outstanding characteristic of Edmund Scientific is the catalog of products. I found - when browsing the catalog - interesting and useful items as Metal Detectors, Dissecting Sets, Stethoscopes, Optic Microscopes, Solar Panels, Astronomy Software, Small Electric Engines and many amusing items for gift. And if you are wondering if the site is only for Geeks, then you might probably want to browse the catalog previously filtered by age segment. In fact, I found a few items for my own kids at very reasonable prices.

The site encourages the people to review their items, and from what I saw the reviews are mainly positive. Edmund’s Scientifics also provides basic, useful information related to the technologies being browsed at an article level. For instance, if you choose to see the details of a Levitron Antigravity Top- a magnetic gadget - it provides a couple of links related to the topic.

What I would suggest - in feedback - is that the items descriptions would include the period of warranty, it’s rather important for us - the customers -to know that specific detail. Another suggestion is the inclusion of the Wish List support. Personally - as the Geek that I am - I will be more than pleased if I can put a few items of Edmund’s Scientifics in my Wish List.

Finally, I believe that what Edmund’s Scientifics would get high benefits of, is a Weblog. A weblog associated to the main site would help to portrait much better the experiences of bloggers with the products and would allow to portrait some specific items in a much better way.

And the prices? I’d better not tell you, but encourage you to take a look at www.scientificsonline.com. What I can promise is that you won’t be dissapointed. Not at all.