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Challenger Explosion

Published on February 10, 2010 in Technology. 0 Comments

Continuing to read the book that inspired the Patriot Missile post, I looked up a YouTube video for the Challenger space shuttle explosion and found the above result. I know that this was a fairly significant moment in our space program and the collective conscious of the United States, but I’m not sure I had seen until this morning.

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Two Bad Ideas

Published on February 9, 2010 in Technology. 0 Comments

According to the FT, Google and Facebook are going to try and compete with one another more directly by making forays into one another’s core territories.

Google is planning to give Gmail users a way to aggregate the updates of their various contacts on the service, creating a stream of notifications that would echo the similar real-time streams from Facebook and Twitter, according to reports.

According to a report on the tech website TechCrunch, Facebook is planning to upgrade this messaging service to compete directly with Gmail and other internet-based mail systems.

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Early in the War & Patriot Missiles

Published on February 9, 2010 in Technology. 2 Comments

For an Information Systems class I am reading a book that has a chapter on the debate about the effectiveness of the Patriot Missile system during the first Gulf War. The chapter is interesting and goes over how different groups presented the effectiveness of the system during and after the war.

After doing a little searching around Wikipedia and YouTube I found this video which shows CNN footage from early on in the Iraq War with a SCUD heading toward a major American base. The Patriot Missile having been improved since the 90’s, automatically recognizes the attack and takes out the SCUD. For something so hotly debated after it’s initial adaptation as a missile defense system, interested parties definitely responded to criticism and improved the system.

The video is about 6 minutes, but worth watching if you have any interest at all.

The iPad

Published on January 29, 2010 in Technology. 4 Comments

Apple announced this week a new device, the iPad. I have been reading reviews over at Engadget and around the web. This comment crystalizes what I think is the most meaningful insight regarding the iPad:

it’s hard not to see it as a pretty bold statement of what Apple thinks general-purpose computing should look like in the future

I’m starting with a positive comment about what I will mostly have critical things to say.

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