Tech Article 10/21

Why Google shouldn't care about tablets yet

Tablets are supposed to be the devices that bridge phones and PCs. They're all anyone can talk about. Everybody loves tablets now. Apple millions of ipads last quarter;

Manufacturers tripped over themselves to pump out tablets before a tablet-optimized version of Android was even ready and continue to do so, even though google thought about making Honeycomb's source code available. Amazon is coming out with kindle fire 

HP incited tablet fever when it slashed prices to clear Touchpad stock; So Google will not have a lot of sells since its compition has already taken the customer

Tech Article 10/14/11

Google's Revenue Soars!

Google +

10 million to 40 million Users

 

Google's Google plus has increased to 40 million users increasing its revenue. That's a big increase from the 10 million users Google+ had in its last quarter. The network opened to the public in late September. Google said it earned $9.72 per share. Analysts estimated earnings of $8.74 per share. Google plus alone comes out to 388,800,000 dollars. Right now Google's revenue is 7.5 billion dollars. I personally thought Google plus was not going to do well but clearly I was wrong.

Tech Article 10/6

Hot Air for fuel in the future

For centuries, architects have taken advantage of rising heat to help cool some structures. Solar chimneys allow the rising air to go out of the building, taking the heat with it. Today, Australian entrepreneur Roger Davey wants to take advantage of that phenomenon. He wants to create, capture and control hot air to help power cities. He plans to build a huge solar updraft tower, 2,600 feet tall, in the Arizona desert. As the hot air moves into the tower, it would turn 32 turbines, spinning them fast enough to create mechanical energy, which generators convert to electricity.His company, EnviroMission, says such a tower can create up to 200 megawatts of power, enough to power 100,000 homes. He says they don't intend to put coal or nuclear or alternative power out of business, but want to be a strong, no-carbon source.