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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
UK Trains Get Quieter As Window Film Blocks Cellphone Signals
UK train operator C2C has taken the neat step of actually enforcing its "quiet zone" train carriages with a system than blocks cellphone signals. It's a technique borrowed from the defense industry where a transparent conductive film is placed over windows to stop electronic signals from sensitive equipment "leaking" out (it's dubbed 
Television Versus The Internet: Which Serves As A Better Socializing Tool? US Survey
October 28th, 2008 by Taly Weiss
Filed under internet behavior, consumer behavior, pew survey, US sample, trends spotting behavior, TV
Television was always known as a common socializing tool – keeping family members together in a shared activity.
The Internet today is not only perceived as a contributing tool to improve family and friends connections – we find many internet users (in married with children households) to share online time together.
Information source: the recently released Pew Internet survey conducted January 2008, among a sample of 2,252 adults, aged 18 and older.
Watching Television together with family members:
Among those who watch TV (Note that 74% of the adults surveyed watch TV almost every day), more than half (52%) usually do so socially—with other people (63% for those living in multi-person households).
Internet as the ultimate tool for socializing with friends and family:
Perceptions:
- 79% of online adults admit that the internet has improved their connections with friends to some degree (33% report a major improvement)
- 72% online users report that the internet has improved their connections to family members (23% report a major improvement).
Behavior:
Many internet-using adults spend appreciable time at the computer with household members. Among home internet users who live with a spouse and child/children:
- 13% go online with another person on a daily basis
- 9% do so almost every day
- 30% do so a few times a week.
- 34% do so less often.
This brings nearly nine in ten (87%) home internet users in married with children households go online with another person in the home at least occasionally!
By Trendsspotting.com
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Cloudy Days In Tomorrowland
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated Jan 27, 1997
Visions Of Our Century Without Airplanes, Without Television Or Home Computers, Even Without (Gasp!) The Beatles.
We'd like to think all our predictions will prove right. But the highways of history are littered with wrong calls, false insights and bad guesses. Here's a sampler of 20th century futurology that flopped.
I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Eversince I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.
WILBUR WRIGHT
US aviation pioneer, 1908
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating it's crew and floundering at sea.
H.G WELLS
British novelist, 1901
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Marshal FERDINAND FOCH
French military strategist and future World War I commander, 1911
The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.
A president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising HORACE RACKHAM (Henry Ford's lawyer) not to invest in the Ford Motor Co. 1903
Believe me. Germany is unable to wage war.
Former British prime minister DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, Aug 1, 1934
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
CHARLES H. DUELLS
U.S. commissioner of patents, 1899
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
HARRY M. WARNER
Warner Brothers, 1927
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
KENNETH OLSEN
President and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow in our Pacific possessions ... Radio makes surprise impossible.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS
former U.S. secretary of the navy, Oct 16, 1922
What use could this company make of an electrical toy?
Western Union president WILLIAM ORTON, rejecting Alexander Graham Bell's offer to sell his struggling telephone company to Western Union for $100,000
Computers in the future may perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
POPULAR MECHANICS forecasting the development of computer technology, 1949
We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.
DECCA RECORDS rejecting the Beatles, 1962
The election of Hoover ... should result in continued prosperity for 1929.
ROGER W. BABSON
American financial statistician and founder of the Babson Institute. Sep 17, 1928
Radio has no future.
LORD KELVIN, Scottish mathematician and physicist, former president of the Royal Society, 1897
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
JOSEPH P. KENNEDY, 1936
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
IRVING FISHER professor of economics, Yale University, Oct 17, 1929
[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
DARRYL F. ZANUCK head of 20th Century Fox, 1946
For the majority of the people tobacco has a beneficial effect.
Dr. IAN G. MACDONALD
Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek, Nov 18, 1963.
Man will never reach the moon regardless of all scientific advances.
Dr. LEE DE FOREST inventor of the Audion tube and father of radio. Feb 26, 1967
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Android alinhado na HTC G1 da HTC Não está à venda em Portugal nem tem data prevista para chegar às lojas nacionais, mas o G1 da HTC, ou Android Phone, não deixa de ser um marco a referir para quem se interessa por gadgets, precisamente pelo sistema operativo que integra.
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