  Everywhere you go today, everyone is talking about the iPhone, and before it got to market I knew I had to have one. Thus, I confess that each time I see someone who owns this technological masterpiece, I am sinfully envious.
You see, for a few months now I’ve been bearing a great suffering. My best friend is one of those iPhone owners. If that weren’t enough to add more consternation to my life, I have to put up with him all day long because we work together. That’s my life these days, full of internal strife ever since that bitter day when my friend, most "humbly," showed me his new iPhone.
I don’t lie or exaggerate when I say that a great battle surges within. So much so that, I‘ve wasted incalculable hours in the john with stomach pains induced buy chronic bouts of iPhone envy. Now, I know how ingenuous I’ve been. You see, I should have known this would happen as my friend is a master geek.
Nonetheless, thanks to this lesson, I’ve been transformed into an astute young woman with a plan to dethrone my geeky friend. I don’t plan on being left behind and have decided to create a personal iPhone fund into which I will deposit a penny a day. Using my advanced mathematical prowess... Read More
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 If you’re a student, a computer engineer, a mother or any other human title who has suffered the effects of high quality compulsion, then you understand the discomfort of having to settle for any type of low quality tech. So, here we are today, men, women, children and those matured by time; some working on advancing technology and others, spectators of its evolution, yet all part of this remarkable revolution. Whether we take action to help continue its growth or not, we are still all affected by it. This is because technology has this thing for imposing itself. Call it power or supremacy, control or influence, command or authority, the reality is that it is ruling our lives in the most brilliant way.
Be it from Plasma TVs, LCD Monitors, Portable Laptops or Cell Phones, we are now plugged into high tech everything. With all these technological varieties and flavors, becoming a Tech geek is the natural thing to do. In the category of Video, we have screens that range in size from 2 to 102 inches and in the esoteric flavors of Plasma, LCD and DLP; in the category of Audio our choices could vary between numberous MP3 player (Zen, Zune, Roxio, etc...) and the iPod, in the category of Mobile we have options such as cell phones, PDAs and even our latest: VOIP/internet phoning. Yet, in the category of Camera: is there possibly a smarter choice other than Digital?
The truth is that with today’s exceedingly sophisticated digital technology, we are demanding photographic perfection, while also becoming severely judgmental of... Read More |
 From 1976 until the mid 80’s Sony was involved in a bitterly fought tech battle over VCR format supremacy. By all accounts Sony’s Betamax video recording standard was superior to JVC’s VHS standard in all but one aspect – recording time. Despite having come to market first and backing a technology which boasted better video reproduction, Sony found itself on the loosing end of the war mainly due to its early failure to adapt to the public’s desire for longer recording times.
Fast forward now to present day where Sony was again engaged in a new battle involving the latest and greatest video reproduction and distribution technologies. Long after the demise of VHS, at the hands of the laser disc and the DVD, Sony found itself at odds with rival company Toshiba over which next generation DVD format would become the de facto standard. However, there seems to have been a role reversal this time around as it was Toshiba who came to market first in April 2006 with two HD DVD entry models (Toshiba's HD-A1 and the higher-end HD-XA1) . It wasn’t until June of the same year that Sony partner Samsung shipped the first Blu-ray player (BD-P1000), and while the Samsung player ($1,000) cost almost twice as much as those from Toshiba, it boasted up-converting circuitry, full 1080p playback and the capacity for more content.
Today, while Sony players still carry $400+ price tags, comparable players from either camp can be had for under $300 bucks. Both standards produce extraordinary picture quality and prices will continue to fall. Blu-ray discs can hold 50GB of data vs HD DVDs 30GB, but it is yet to be demonstrated how much of a deciding factor this was in the end. But, I digress… Read More
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