Computer and mobile services: the battle of ecosystems is preparing

The Mobile World Congress 2012, which closed its doors a few days ago, was less opportunity for sensational ads that brilliant paradoxes. Unavoidable as a manufacturer Samsung introduced products disappointing, while a troubled company like HTC has surprised everyone.

Computers in cars

Many of us may have built up the computers in cars, but they may be looking odd! These high power systems can only able to run during the ride. There are disadvantages like these, makes these types of systems get vanish and leave its place to the innovative means of today’s car computer systems. The main objective of this present car computer system is to make our vehicle live and get connected to the Internet all the time (even when you not in a drive). These car computers takes low power to run and the main advantage with these machines is they do not flattening the car battery.

A friend of mine named Jonathan told me that he has recently equipped his car with an excellent car computer system which he can access and monitor his car remotely! This machine can let him know all the information the includes the engine data and also the location of his vehicle in google map. It is really quite impressive to hear that he can stop, start or lock his car remotely by means of a cell phone outfitted with 3g network. I recently found an online site at planetgargoyle.com, which is an exclusive place to get lot of information about the car computers like software programs, car entertainment systems and so on. I am pretty much impressed with this online site and would like to suggest this site for the people who want to know about the car computer systems. For more details please log on to planetgargoyle.com. Thanks!

HTML5 video: they redid the game?

Google has decided to remove the H.264 support in its browser within two months. The reason stated for this choice: the promotion and support of open formats to the detriment of the open standard (but not least the owner) what is H.264.

Here is another episode in the long battle that pits two camps around the HTML5 video tag. WebM supporters are surprised to dream that such support is crucial to switch things ... The Free Software Foundation does not hide his enthusiasm after the announcement. But despite the undeniable weight of Google, it will take much to tip the current balance of things.

Let's start by estimating the forces in place. In the field of computer browsers, only Safari and Internet Explorer remain in the camp of H.264, while Firefox, Opera and now Chrome (which was previously the only browser to support both formats) are in the camp WebM. Regarding the effective support of HTML5, only IE9 (0.46% market share), Safari 4 + (5.41%), Firefox 3.5 + (21.09%), Opera 10.5 (2%) Chrome and 3 + (9.8%) support the video tag, at least among the browsers on your computer. This still represents a minority of all browsers currently used.

Because we must not omit mobile devices, particularly iOS, whose inability to read from Flash was one of the drivers of the adoption of H.264 on the web. If not iOS assumes "only" 1.69% market share of operating systems (all machines together), it is nonetheless the backbone of mobile platforms, a highly strategic area. Other mobile OS also offer all native support for H.264, with hardware acceleration that makes reading more energy efficient.

The output of the Macintosh

This event took place January 22, 1984. It was a success until Christmas, when buyers began to hesitate, unconvinced by the lack of connectivity to hard drives. In 1985, disagreements between Sculley and Jobs were getting worse. At that point, following an unsuccessful ploy to Jobs, the board spoke in favor of Sculley. Jobs resigned. The months that followed were not financially profitable.

Sculley capacity to lead a software company was then questioned. The first conflicts with Microsoft appeared: the release of Windows 1.0 was subject to a compromise which indicated that Microsoft would not use technologies utilized by Apple. The Mac came out of the shadows with the emergence of tools and software for desktop publishing (PostScript, PageMaker, ...).

In 1987, the Mac II confirmed this resurgence, to the point that the idea that Windows could not disturb the development of Macs was rapidly expanded (1989). But PC clones appeared, and the release of Windows 3.0 in May 1990, capable of running on all these clones, was a major concern for Apple, which remained only manufacturer of Macintosh.

History of Macintosh

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were two high school buddies and friends to whom we owe the creation of the first Apple machines. Their first steps in building computers were Hewlett Packard (Wozniak), and Atari (for Jobs). This is Steve Wozniak, who had the first inspiration, creating what would later become the Apple I (we are then in 1976). Jobs motivated his friend, and on 1 April 1976, they created the company Apple Computer, in order to sell the Apple I. This first machine was not a success, and it will take until 1977 before the Apple II is not the first success of the company.

The Apple II

In 1980, the Apple II, and the firm at the apple already had several thousand employees. Jobs began work on the project Lisa.

But the leaders, not being satisfied, withdrew the project. So he became interested in another project: the Macintosh, a personal computer at $ 500.

Alas, all development has an end, and in 1981 the company experienced its first crisis as sales diminished, Wozniak suffered a plane crash questioning his professional life ... and to top it off, the first IBM PC came out, prompted by the sheer size of IBM, Apple machines quickly surpassed.

Jobs quickly realized that Apple needed a direction at the height of its commercial competitors. Also, it Sculley (President of Pepsi-Cola) who took the helm of the company in 1983 (by the way, "Think Different" appears both on Macs than on Pepsi commercials ... or randomly. ..?). The cohabitation between the two men was not the easiest.