PBS IPhone App Brings Full Video, Previews

Looking to get your fill of public broadcasting? The free PBS app for iPhone allows you to access full episodes, video segments, and previews of programming from the network. Included are such popular shows as Frontline, Masterpiece, Nova, and the PBS NewsHour.

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In addition to video content, you can view the schedule of your local PBS station, set reminders for episodes of your favorite shows so you don't miss them when they air, and bookmark favorite programs. And since no app is complete these days without some sort of social networking integration, you can share videos with friends via Twitter, Facebook, or e-mail. In addition, there's a quick link to PBS content on the iTunes Store, in case you're looking to purchase an episode for posterity.
PBS also released an iPad app in October of last year; that software brings access to a lot of full content that isn't necessarily provided in the iPhone app.
The PBS app is a free download and requires an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or later.

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Intel Demos System Based on 48-Core Processor

That's a lot more cores than we've got right now in our systems.

                           

Last month Intel announced that it was shipping systems with its experimental 48-core processor. Now we get to see what a system with the radical chip looks like.

X-bit labs caught the supercomputer on chip (SCC) system on demonstration in Europe, which runs on an experimental "Copper Ridge" motherboard with integrated I/O and graphics and eight DIMM slots. There's no SATA ports, instead an Intel USB flash disk is used for storage.

According to the report, the SCC contains 24 tiles with two x86 cores per tile, each of which has its own L2 cache and can run a separate OS and software stack and act like an individual compute node that communicates with other compute nodes over a packet-based network. The SCC also has four integrated DDR3 memory controllers.

                        

The 48-core chip features 24 small routers between the cores, which facilitate faster data exchanges across the chip. Each core also has on-chip buffers that can instantly exchange data in parallel across all the cores.

Intel also says that the 48-core chip has a more advanced on-die power management system that can vary the power draw between 25 watts to 125 watts. It can also reduce clock speed and shut down cores.

As far as clock speeds go, current desktop and even laptop offerings outpace this 48-core wonder. Intel revealed that its experimental chip runs at about the same frequencies as the Atom CPU, so we're looking in the neighborhood of 1.2GHz to 1.83GHz.

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Windows Phone 7 leaves a Microsoft fan in angst

The good people over at Samsung sent me a wonderful pair of gifts (well, loans) recently: a Samsung Galaxy Tab, which I will be writing more about next week, and a Samsung Focus with Windows Phone 7 on it. I was thrilled to have some new toys to play with and immediately started working with the smartphone.

The Samsung Focus is a sleek smartphone, and it blew away my existing Android (which is understandable, considering I'm in need of a mobile update). The screens flowed smoothly from one to the next, and the color of pictures and the screen resolution was amazing. I also found the Windows Phone 7 OS to be much more polished than my Android's OS. As we say in the South, it was pur-ty.

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Mobile Management Deep Dive

The first "uh oh" is about Office

Once I got my bearings, I started to investigate the apps. Naturally, I went to games first -- what little boy doesn't? Then I checked out all the calendar and email options and finally settled on the Office Hub.

What a huge disappointment.

It would have been fine if they called it something different, but to call it Office when it was more like a version of the 1990s Microsoft Works (if that) was quite misleading. Microsoft labels it a "smart" design, but I couldn't get any work done with it. However, there is real value in the SharePoint connection, where you can easily connect to your SharePoint documentation. In that sense, the Office Hub features allow for editing and interaction with SharePoint nicely.

Then I realized that Windows Phone 7 inexplicably doesn't have a copy-and-paste feature. It certainly is an odd omission, given that copy and paste is a basic and necessary attribute. Where is it? I asked the folks at Microsoft, and they said it was an oops. Not literally, but Microsoft does plan to rectify this omission with an update in the next few months. That amounts to an oops. Hey, we all make them, so I was not overly concerned.

Next I began to wonder about multitasking. Windows Phone 7 does support multiple processes running simultaneously; for example, you can listen to music and browse the Web at the same time. But the multitasking is limited. When I asked why, Microsoft responded, "For all of their power, mobile devices still have limited resources. The more functions a device attempts to support at one time, the greater the impact on performance and battery life. Ensuring a great end-user experience was a primary engineering goal of Windows Phone 7. Microsoft spent thousands of hours testing native applications to try and deliver the best performance and user experience. This depth of testing simply isn't possible for all third-party applications; therefore, Microsoft made the decision to not allow third-party applications to run as background processes." OK.

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WHAT IS IT

Information Technology - Definition and History

We use the term information technology or IT to refer to an entire industry. In actuality, information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary. 

History of Information Technology:

In relative terms, it wasn't long ago that the Information Technology department might have consisted of a single Computer Operator, who might be storing data on magnetic tape, and then putting it in a box down in the basement somewhere. The history of information technology is fascinating! Check out these history of information technology resources for information on everything from the history of IT to electronics inventions and even the top 10 IT bugs.

Modern Information Technology Departments :

In order to perform the complex functions required of information technology departments today, the modern Information Technology Department would use computers, servers, database management systems, and cryptography. The department would be made up of severalSystem Administrators, Database AdministratorsChief Information Officer (CIO). and at least one Information Technology Manager. The group usually reports to the Chief Information Officer (CIO).

                              

Information Technology - Trends :

Information Technology Departments will be increasingly concerned with data storage and management, and will find that information security will continue to be at the top of the priority list. Cloud computing remains a growing area to watch. The job outlook for those within Information Technology is strong, with data security and server gurus amongst the highest paid techies. Check out the Information Security Certifications andHighest Paying Certifications for more information. In order to stay current in the Information Technology Industry, be sure you subscribe to toptechnology industry publications.

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