Posted by Johan Cyprich on 19 May 2007 | Tagged as: Reviews, Technology
Someone once told me that the cost of computers have never changed. They remain at the same price, but you get more computer for the same dollar amount. Well, if your talking about $2,000 computers then that’s true, but computers have dropped in price enormously over the years. My first computer, an IBM PCjr, cost [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 09 May 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
Once again, John Chow is giving away computer hardware … it’s good to be rich! He recently had photos taken for an upcoming article in BC Business Magazine and was shown demonstrating his blog on his dual monitor system. His blog post led to many readers asking how to make a dual monitor setup in [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 25 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
Two speed records for Internet data transfer were recently broken. On December 30, 2006, the Internet2 team sent data at 7.67 gigabits per second over a 20,000 mile path. The next day the experiment was repeated with a transfer rate of 9.08 GBps. These are the fastest speeds on record for transferring data using standard [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 07 Apr 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
We have the Russians to thank for the existence of the Internet. It all started with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957. The Sputnik Program was a series of missions by the Soviet Union to test artificial satellites in earth orbit. The launch terrified the United States. It wasn’t just the [...]
Posted by Johan Cyprich on 13 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Technology
Just about everyone has some kind of flash memory stick. They come in cereal boxes and you get one if you open a new bank account. The 32MB sized ones are so inexpensive to produce that they are being given away.
Yesterday, Intel launched their Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. This isn’t a memory stick for [...]