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Jen MacWhinnie

A backup service you can retrieve anywhere and anytime of the day your file. Just download your drop box and right after you installed it into your computer open it and begin to drop and drag (Files, Video, and Pictures) into your drop box folder. It will be automatically attached to your computer.
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Digital Dropbox A Digital Drop Box is a tool that a teacher and Students can use to exchange files.

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Jenny MacWhinnie September 1, 2011, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 was introduced. It has a //1.4GHz// duel core processor and is 7.89 millimeters thin; the tablet weighs only 12 ounces. It also can be carried in your pocket for convenience. //“//The new Galaxy Tab 7.7 demonstrates Samsung’s commitment to offering consumers the most choice in the mobile tablet market,” said JK Shin, President and Head of Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business. “The Galaxy Tab 7.7′s ultra-thin design and WXGA Super AMOLED Plus display are impressive differentiators in the tablet marketplace and pillars of our ultimate goal of meeting a wide variety of consumer needs.” The tablet has the speed, battery-life, and power that will attract consumers. It has a HSPA +21 Mbps network and a 1.4 GHz duel core application processor. This makes uploading and downloading fast along with web-loading. It also has Wi-Fi Channel Bonding. The battery life is up to 10 hours. In addition, the tablet supports MicroSD cards of up to 32 GB for direct media files transfer. “Galaxy Tab 7.7 lets you enjoy video clips without limitation, featuring 1080p full HD playback, DivX included multi codec and Micro SD. The device also includes Universal Remote Control functionality, allowing control of the entire home entertainment system – TV, Set top box, DVD, Blu-ray player, AV audio system – from one device” ( android.com). “Samsung’s Hub Services offers easy access to content including games, eBooks, music and more. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 is the first mobile tablet to include a pre-loaded Game Hub; complete with easy social games, all delivered with lightning fast graphics. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 also features access to Samsung’s Music Hub service, which offers 15 million songs for preview download and play”. “The Readers Hub service features a robust library filled with more than 2.3 million books, 2,000 newspapers and 3,000 magazines in up to 49 languages, and Samsung’s Social Hub service aggregates email, contacts, calendar and social network connections into a single interface”. The tablet also has the capability of voice and video calls. “IT is preloaded with the full suite of Google Mobile Services including access to more than 250,000 applications on Android Market™, Gmail™, Google Search™, Google Maps™ 5.7 with 3D maps, and Google Talk™ with video and voice chat”. Project Peace- I browsed through the web site. There was not much you could do in the site. There were videos pertaining to peace in some fashion. Beyond that I was not able to connect to any links they had. They were either not there or it said that you were required to sign up and register. Once you did that then you have to wait for an approval from the company.
 * Reflection Due 10-27-11**

[|http://projectpeace.ning.com]

The English Companion-

I had trouble with this site. It wouldn’t allow me to navigate and when I tried it came up as not working and not available. [|http://englishcompanion.ning.com] Field Finder-

This site didn’t work at all. It requested me to leave my name with the owner of the site. Site is unavailable. [|http://fieldfindr.ning.com]

Jenny MacWhinnie Arab Spring

The rise of technology the Middle East has brought enormous conflict throughout the land. The use of social media brings protests and revolutions. The use of the media brings a new light into a language barrier and dialects. The technology gave most people a sense of what was really happening around them. This gave them the incentive to voice their opinion and give them hope. The rise of the social media leads to many battles among the government and the people. The long term effect will leave many casualties and changes within the government. This will also lead to many more clashes as social media expands throughout the world. Many will want to have some democracy of some soughts.

Jenny MacWhinnie September 28, 2011 New Media

Digital Divide

A quote from President Obama, State of the Union Address, January 25, 2011: “This isn’t just about faster internet or fewer dropped calls. It’s about connecting every part of America to the digital age.” He goes on etc... And etc. The digital divide exists from our local communities to worldwide countries. At the beginning the gap was enormous and that was because of lack of service available and the high cost of buying a computer. Now at the present time the costs have dropped drastically but there are many places that don’t have access. There are other reasons for the gap and they are the cost of running a computer, access, the ability to work the computer, governments that control and regulate it and the countries technology (Are they able to provide the service). There are a few organizations that are trying to close the digital gap. The World Summit on the Information Society tries to provide individual/shared access through tele-centre, and desktop virtualization and multi-seat configurations (Wikipedia). Another organization known as Geekcorps, EduVision, and Inveneo supplied low-cost laptops/subnotebooks, handhelds, tablet PCs, and Wi-Fi in the classrooms. A project called Moonitin “has devised a means to deliver access to the internet without the requirement for an internet connection and for free by means of dialing Hypermostlinks. With technology increasing and becoming available throughout the world, we will close the gap but not entirely. The gap will remain throughout the areas that are consumed by rulers such as dictators. There is little we can do as a nation to help them. As far as other parts of the world we will have the means to supply them with the power that’s needed. I do believe thou that computers and technology will grow to become more advanced. Areas that have little or no income will have what we have today as our present technology. We will advance beyond what we have now Jenny MacWhinnie

The future of I-Pads

There is talk about an I-Sight camera being installed on the new I-Pad 3. There is also talk that the new I-Pad 3 will come out in 2012. The company has reduced orders from Taiwanese manufacturers for new [|Apple iPads] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> by as much as 25 percent, according to a JPMorgan Chase analyst <span style="color: #183a52; font-family: arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">cited by Bloomberg <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Amazon.com is expected to reveal its entry in the volcanic tablet computer market on Wednesday; a $250 gizmo analysts say could be the first real threat to the iPad's market domination. And even Apple appears to be getting worried.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The TechCrunch blog earlier this month said the Amazon tablet will also be called Kindle, and offered a few statistics for the curious: It will be a 7-inch device with a full-color touch screen, it will run Google's Android software, and it will cost $250, the blog said -- well below the price of the least expensive <span style="color: blue; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|iPad] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.

<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">[|http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/09/26/amazons-wednesday-tablet-launch-threat-to-apples-ipad-analysts-say/#ixzz1aWFJEM4k]

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