Posted by Johan Cyprich on 18 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Technology
Market share of products is important to keep track of so that software developers will know the most profitable area to focus building applications. comScore conducted a survey over several months to determine the number of people using smart phones. The survey was reserved for American mobile customers over the age of 13. They were [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 24 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
Back in university, we were using Amdahl terminals running off a mainframe running the MTS operating system. The speed we got from this machine was around 1 MHz. I wasn’t very impressed since my home computer was running at 4.77 MHz. However, the area where the mainframe wins is throughput. It could have hundreds of [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 04 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher (1788-1860) Ask most people today about the dangers of cell phones, wireless networks, and microwave ovens, and they’ll probably laugh at you and dismiss any negative thoughts you [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 03 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will now be in control of Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). The new standard, ISO 32000-1, Document management – Portable document format – Part 1: PDF 1.7, is not only an excessively long name but its also based on version 1.7 of PDF. The PDF format was created in [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 05 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Technology
On June 8, 1978, Intel released the 8086, the world’s first 16-bit microprocessor. This CPU was vastly superior to the existing 8-bit processors used on computers at the time. The family of x86 refers to the instruction set of microprocessors used from the 8086 to today’s modern Pentium 4 processors. Intel has effectively won the [...]