Tim+Krupienski

=DAILY TECHNOLOGY=    There are many different technologies that we use every day.  We do not even realize what technology we have in front of us.  Cell phones, computers, video game systems, DVD players, TV, radio, and cameras provide us with technology at our finger tips.   Cell phones can be used in many different ways.  You can do such things as change ringtones, record voice memos, play games, take pictures, surf the internet, text message people, call people, and even listen to music.    Computers are one of the best technological things we have.  You can do virtually do any thing on it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">You can play games, watch TV, watch movies, search the internet, edit movies, make word documents, create Power Points, instant message people, email people, take pictures, edit pictures, listen to music, and create your own music. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Video games are just as advanced as computers. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">My Nintendo Wii enables me to buy games off their shop channel, edit pictures, go on the internet, create character models of people, play video games, compete in video games on line, uses motion control that makes it possible to trace how fast the remote it moving and where it is at. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The other systems are even more advanced; offering a bigger variety of downloadable games and enhanced graphics. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> DVD players make it possible to watch a movie off a disc. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">You can also put your CD’s in it and it will play. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">DVD’s made it possible to create special features such as deleted scenes, director’s commentary, and various games. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> At last, television allows you to watch news up to the minute. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">You can watch sporting events such as baseball and hockey. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">IO by Cablevision allows you to view winning lottery tickets, caller ID, view weather patterns, play games, and even purchase a car from your TV. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> I don’t know what we would do without technology. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">With all of the machinery we use today, I don’t know how we could function without it. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">We have all of this technology at our finger tips that allows us to do virtually anything that we imagine. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> = WEB 2.0=

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Web 2.0 is the technology in which imputs social opinion. People debate if their is a real "Web 2.0" or if it is just a promotional term based on the new applications that are availible. I think Web 2.0 is completly different from the year 2000. Before the web used to be static. The web site designers didn't imput any personal information and used non updated pictures. With Web 2.0, it allows people to start posting their opinion. Amazon is the pironeer for Web 2.0. Amazon allowed its customers to post their opinions of how they liked or disliked a book or movie. Now you can post your opinions anywhere. With Myspace, Facebook, and Wiki; you can state your opinion any time you want. With the Web 2.0, it allows people to be interactive. Before the Web 2.0 era, people had to trust the main source for information. Nowadays, you can see if the consumers feel the same way about the product as did the consumers. = HISTORY OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Timex Sinclair 1000 came out in July 1982. This computer introduced a new feature where you can enter a key combination to do a command, such as nowadays Ctrl+C automatically copies the words. Another new thing they introduced was scrolling text and the beginning of voice sythesizers for computers. The product originally sold for $99.95. Allowing third party industries in, they improved the quality of the maching by making new products such as a full sized keyboard.

Commodore 64 came out in January 1981. The creators used chips to create a new game machine. Originally priced at $595, at the preview show, The idea was an instant success. People would think that a powerful system like theirs would cost a lot; but it was drastically less expensive than its competitors products. Commodore 64 has sold the most computers in history, along with a long product run lasting from 1982 through to 1992. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> DOS, otherwise known as Disk Operating System were used mostly between the 1980's to the mid 90's. DOS is shown as a list of code when it loads on your screen. Based on the floppy disks you put into the machine, it reads the code and converts the code through the DOS software and puts it back on the main computer. DOS brought the idea of saving memory to a computer to life. DOS was a long lasting program until Windows created their own DOS system and took them almost out of buisness.

Pong was a gaming phenominon coming out in 1972. The game Pong is based on the game of ping-pong where you try to hit the ball across the screen and try to make your opponent miss. Pong created the want for new video games. The difficulty of play change as the points go on. The longe the volley lasted, the faster the ball would move, and the harder it was to hit it back. Pong's creater Atari wanted to manufacture it because it was a great success, but Midway didn't want to give up this great technology.

Prodigy was an online service that allowed its suscribers new information such as weather, news, message boards, polls, and stocks. Prodigy's two biggest uses by customers were email and message boards. Since email and message boards were used for advertisements for the company to make money and with the mass amount of messages; they began to raise the price for their services. AOL came out with the same products plus real time chatting. with the creation of the internet and world wide web; it ended prodigy altogether.

CompuServe was the first major commercial internet service in the USA. CompuServe network incorporated Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Frame Relay, Internet Protocol, and X.25 Technologies. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">CompuServe created screening and reporting tools that were used by every investment bank on Wall Street. CompuServe had the largest selection of local dial up around the world. CompuServe charged $30 to connect to CompuServe, with a hourly charge of $5 to $6 per hour. CompuServe carried millions of authorization transactions each month with their partnership with Visa. CompuServe was the first to offer internet connectivity with email, along with real time chat. Fonts, colors and emoticons were encoded into 7-bit text-based messages in email, forums, or instant messaging. CompuServe was acquired by AOL and is almost defunct. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">WebTV was used a TV instead of a computer to access the internet. WebTV converted <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> the downloaded web pages to format to you TV screen. Even though WebTV allows you to get internet, it still isn't qualified as an computer. You can't do such word documents on WebTV that you could do on a normal computer. You can still use your email and other internet activities that a normal computer allows. Nowadays, MSN took WebTV over; and RCA took over production duties for the new MSN TV.

SUPERBOWL COMMERCIAL I think that the best Superbowl commercial in terms of advertizing was the Coke Zero. They included an all star football player Troy Polamolou in the commerical in the recreation of a past superbowl commercial. What I really liked about this commerical was that it really brought out the name of the product. Most of the funny commericials in the superbowl make you laugh, but you can not remeber what product they are promoting. With Coke Zero, the bottle is shown throughout the commercial, they have a mini jingle promoting the product, and you have comedy when Troy Polumolou tackles the Coke representative. In my opinon Coke Zero did the best job promoting their product. They used all the essential to make a good promotion; a jingle, product recognition, and a pro football star to make the commercial stand out.