Where is cellular technology and WIFI going?

You tell me!

With the advent of the iPad and it's me-too followers using me-too operating systems and me-too retail technologies, we see Apple leading the way. That's not surprising given that it takes several generations to get a technology economy on the move. Well, we are abbot to see loft off.

When I am highly emotional, I come out with profound comments such as solid state technologies will take over and revolutionize the electronics industry once more. My approach is always very long term and my analysis focuses on the core of technologies which were the subject matter of my university readings many decades ago.

I was greatly disappointed by Microsoft's pathetic efforts over the past thirty years even though they came to spawn and dominate the industry and leave IBM in the dust. Will Apple also disappoint. I think not given what I know about the philosophy of the company and it's depth of understanding about where people and user groups are driving the industry.

Our world is dominated by the fear of terrorism, which like the need to spend money on defense is very harmful to consumer product development over the longer term. Sure technology companies will design products to fight terrorism, but much of what we could see will be deferred until more secure times.

Obviously, we are witnessing a volume upscaling of information exchange though rather belatedly as we allow consumers to be suckered into buying obsolete technologies. That's ok, since there is a need to pace technology innovation and development in order to string out employment opportunity over time. Going slower helps give slower communities jobs. By obsolete, I would include the plethora of USB 2 technologies currently finding sales.

We are just not geared up to the notion of USB 3 and it's multiplicative effect on information exchange volumes. More information to hide terrorist messages being exchanged and reason enough to slow down the pace of technology revolution somewhat so that security agencies can catch up. We don't want to move too fast.

That raises the question, however, that we may be playing into a economic game in which size of firm and end market really does matter, but speed of development and spawning rates for new divisions matters even more. Why pick all the winners when you can play hopscotch? That's the Japanese business expansion strategy of yore which seems not so much in evidence now, but which is probably very much in effect. Don't try to do all the technologies. Just pick those that you know will produce economies of scale. Get in there early by all means, but recognize that rate of obsolescence is accelerating.

So we see the French trying to sell USB 3 devices in Paris while me-tooers elsewhere are not in evidence. So how is this an opportunity for the next generation of Apply light weigh fully incoblock products. Put a terabyte memory into a device instead of gigabyte and ram up production to grab the deflation opportunities in the market and what have you. You have a new WIFI demand making existing devices operating on 3G and USB 2 very much obsolete. So watch memory get rammed up several more notches to takes right into the video age. There is so much to do!

http://www.techgadgets.in/peripherals/2010/30/lacie-rolls-out-new-hub4-usb-3-0-devic/

http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/internet-cafes-might-spy-to-help-combat-terrorism

http://www.sellmymobile.com/news/terrorism-threats-could-end-wifi-on-planes-2032/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905174.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/11/29/ST2010112905192.html?sid=ST2010112905192

http://views.washingtonpost.com/post-user-polls/2010/11/do-you-know-how-much-data-you-are-using-on-your-cellphone.html

http://news.techworld.com/mobile-wireless/3245337/4g-world-conference-goes-mad-for-wimax-and-lte/?olo=rss

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NYTimes: Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea

From The New York Times:

Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea

American intelligence assessments say that Iran has obtained advanced missiles from North Korea based on a Russian design that are much more powerful than its other missiles.

http://nyti.ms/emmoqa

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Starbucks Author

Take out a quill pen and draw your story of your trip as this man
does! Seen at Paddington Station Starbucks having a latte. Famous
author or just a traveller makes no difference until the book comes
out. Uses a iPad and large self created solid pad/book to enhance
creative moments.

Two screen laptop from Acer

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8156710/Acer-unveils-Iconia-dual-screen-laptop.html

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The Market Economy and then there is the Trader Economy - Manachean Devil or Just Intelligent Opponent

Some activities are ideal for specific personalities. Human personality can define what you are good at based on how you have self selected your specialisation. The problem is that many money making activities require personality, energy, resilience, intelligence, adaptability, resourcefulness, endurance, canniness, and persistence. Markets that involve strategy are much too difficult for modelling as yet though the best brains have tried.

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-econophysics-will-never-work-though-traders-may-dream-2010-8

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A World Without Work

Rick Bookstaber theorises about the influence of economies of scale in technology and the implications of falling costs on consumption.

Bookstaber's discussion is pretty close to what What we are seeing and not so far off the mark. It would be interesting to put his hypothesis in a more general economic model. He, nevertheless, has pulled out two of the more fascinating influences operating within our modern economies. Power to him:

http://www.businessinsider.com/secular-deflation-2010-11

A similar model results in the deflation of the housing market which receives the benefit of over expansion of the money supply, but this leads to deflation as there is insufficient consumption demand for the second cycle of demand that results from too much money. The inflation of too much money can offset the deflation of technology providing the money supply growth is in balance for long term consumption capacity, normally seen as the long term income or permanent income as per Milton Friedman. This can explain why a well designed combination Keynesian, Schumpeterian and Friedman's models will work together but leave one out and none will work. All three together provide a reasonable framework of analysis as first suggested in the 1930's bynthe economist and mathematician, Professor Moore.

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Article: Going Dutch - Why Women in Holland are Happy!

If you are a woman and very career oriented, perhaps you would find this discussion of Dutch women interesting. Going Dutch

http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2274736

(via Instapaper)

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Lately ... IPad Apps that RT Lake Likes

This is a scratching of the surface of the iPad apps. The thing to remember is unlike a PC many are shared software and shared data based, which means they probably work with an outside server that needs to communicate with your iPad via 3G, wifi, or similar system.

Subnetinsight
FXWare
Instapaper
Photo-sort
Maxjournal
Inbox-touch
Crop Suey HD
Sketchbook
Television
VBookz
NYTimes
Infinijournal

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Tara and Jeff

Science Jury of Cell Phone Affect on Brain Tissues is Stlll Out

This one may sneak up on you!

http://www.businessinsider.com/cell-phone-cancer-2010-11

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Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma is not the country to release political prisoners yet Aung San Suu Kyi is freed.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aung+san+suu+kyi+biography&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/13/AR2010111300971.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert

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Why Humans Lost Their Fur

Have you ever wondered why humans have so little fur? If you can think of the reason, you might be able to look back in time to our collective past.

My feeling is that it was because for much of our history, we lived in the dark.

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The Strengths of the American Economy and the Ebb and Flow of Economic Change

It's easy to say that current economic policies of America may weaken it's competitive position as a producer of goods, but it would be wrong to say the economy is weak. My comments are generally that economies with weak exchange rates tend to slacken their competitive edge on the productivity side as measured by value of output per worker. It's too easy to develop behind a wall of price protectionism that does little to spur productivity or innovation. Stagnant product improvement because of price weakness does nothing to train the next stage of consumption. America paid the price of a weak exchange rate with the crises of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Texas banking crisis was also a consequence of loosening the shoelace of competition by making money to easy to come by. Thus, weak monetary policy and weak exchange rates do not auger well for employment over the longer term as a country's manufacturing base ups and leaves when the going gets tough again. Witness American industry migration to China and India.

China does not do itself any long term favors by a weak exchange rate since this reduces the pressure in China to innovate. Sooner than expected there is overcapacity. Money driven inflation will come, wages and incomes go up, interest rates rise, money harder to come by, and Chinese firms will not be that competitive. A large internal market will be China's salvation, but it needs competitive forces to really spur it on as the public sector demands more and more.

Our reality is that not only do products themselves need to incorporate more and more price insensitive aspects to maintain or increase market size, qualitative improvement by specification of more and more market branches with derivation of scale economies. But also, the mix of products needs to be further fine tuned and technologically designed to match income growth or decline. The strength of America is it's huge internal market. This is a lesson China needs to take on board.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/11/growth

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Motion Gaming Competition is Stepping Up Before Christmas... What's in Store ....

The three leaders in gaming; Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are now equipped to capture your motion in new gaming technologies.

http://blogote.com/2010/gaming/good-sonys-ps3-move-against-nintendo-wii-and-microsoft-kinect-controller.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37716557

http://kotaku.com/5684384/nintendo-sony-microsoft-are-finally-competing-on-common-ground

Nintendo Wii:

http://www.eetimes.com/design/industrial-control/4004631/Under-the-Hood-Inside-the-Nintendo-Wii

Microsoft:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210649/Kinect-s-BOM-roughly--56--teardown-finds-?cid=NL_EETimesDaily

Sony:

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4209688/Teardown--Sony-s--Move--into-motion-gaming-

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The Mad Hatters Tea Party in America that is Driving the World Bonkers Needs to End

If you followed American politics, you might be forgiven for thinking they are all mad, both sides! Nevertheless, some sanity is perhaps emerging be it ever so slow:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704756804575608262106372530.html?mod=djemITPE_h

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Spot On - Whether You Like it, Shoreditch style projects are What is Needed - but what about Education?

At a time when the UK Prime Minister is raising the ante for students who want to enter the workforce of the next century, he appears to be thinking of creating a technological dynamo in London at Shoreditch. This is great news as the rag trade center of the seventies transforms itself to serve the creative needs of a future London that could take on the creative centers of the giant economies. Yes, get out of banking and rags and get into technologies. Too little thinking too late in my thinking. Too much Gordon Brown and not enough Maggy has lead to poverty and dependency, excessive risk taking, obsession with property, and silly financing.

So much sour thinking that has come out of the previous administration with Gordon Brown giving people what the country really did not have and so much spending we now see as a big waste of money. Rather than give people hope, the Social Democrats had a way of sapping at the roots of the British economy's vitality focusing the country on consumption rather than creative marketing, innovation and new job production in the technology sectors.

As Britain has slipped further down the league tables in technology innovation, it has registered a disappointing growth in real terms when one subtracts all the waste in property. Focusing on beer, gambling, and football the country has caused it's own slump and smashed the world records for dismal performance. The decline was obvious to all but the previous government.

A new effort to redirect the economy is badly needed, but it does not auger well that the potential for progress is being cut off at the knees with the pressure on the Lib Dems to abandon their push for further education and support of tuition at higher levels of achievement in education.

The backbone of long term economic growth is a sound and extensive education system growing from within and the Tories could be making their biggest mistake by not getting behind the push by the Lib Dems to strengthen and encourage the education base that Britain needs desperately.

It will be the students that make the future of Britain, but many will digress into real estate, dependency on large corporations and banking because that is becoming their only hope of ever owning a home. Worse still they might leave for education and employment elsewhere in Europe.

Why reinforce the mistake of Gordon Brown when the coalition government could give the youngsters a solid hope of a bright future.

Cut other stuff and give targeted support to tuition fees. David you should rethink the overall direction of the cuts. Don't work against creativity when that is where employment will come.

What do others think?

http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=1115&doc_id=200104&

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He kept guard over the mump, knoll, and tor

The Strangeness of the Chinese Property Bubble ...... a Bubble of Bricks and Mortar

Build and leave empty seems strange and it's consequences may auger in the next financial crisis, one beginning in China! What the Chinese need to understand is the relationship between income an value.

Forget labour theory of value or a money theory of value.

It's the system working smoothly that allows for real success not speculation on future domestic incomes which just may not be realized. It will be interesting to see whether the speculators have their numbers correct or are they behaving according to addictive processes of gambling and unrealistic assumptions of habit persistence in the housing market.

This is communism and capitalism mixed together in a very strange way. More communist than capitalist? No!

Will household balance sheets of future China be strong enough to sustain the value of the property built above sale price, or will too many homes be built and left empty?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/

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The Burden of Poverty from Restructuring Economies in Photographs by Chris Killips

Woooosh wrote:

Nov 11th 2010 10:18 GMT

I think that it is easy to point the finger at politicians and say they are responsible for many of the sad scenes that we witness. To say that Thatcher is in any way responsible for poverty and the misery that impoverishment brings is just opportunist clap trap. More to the point is that we know companies need to be reshaped to survive international competition and we know this produces unemployment of people who cannot be lucky at the time change happens. Those fortunate enough to weather the storms of restructuring economies are richer beyond all imaginings and some would turn around to say thank you. Many scenes in black and white conjure up our understanding that most of us are the lucky ones who have time to ponder photographs rather than pick through rubbish tips in search or morsels. Thatcher was right however to point out that reinforcing success is the best way to combat weakness. The photos of people succeeding should encourage us to take on greater burdens for our friends and neighbors.

I had a look at the following column in the economist and then added the words found above.  Read for yourself.  Do you think it is right to blame those politicians such as Margaret Thatcher that have done so much to restructure weak economies even though it causes pain?  The banking crisis of today would not have happened under Maggy's watch,believe me!  

In my view, the decision to restructure an economy that Maggy took is like that one one saying two groups are going to suffer over time and one has to choose which group to spare.  The youth of Britain were spared.  That takes courage and that is what Maggy had despite the consequences.  The route Gordon Brown took us to is much less courageous and damns many more people to poverty and pain.  The youth of Britain have to suffer because of Gordon Brown not being watchful enough and enjoying the housing boom.  The present coalition for all it's courage should be supported despite the sadness of austerity that results from earlier sleepy governance.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2010/11/chris_killips_photographs

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The Alarm Bells of Our Failing International Institutions

Watching the English police in the street maintain a semblance of law and order in leading democracies such as London who never fail to preach about the importance of free speech and association, should remind us of how frail the international progress with our international UN institutions of the last fifty years really is. The League of Nations failed several decades before world war. Will we witness the fall of the United Nations and an international disarray that few can imagine?

It's one thing to say that the world wide web and improved communications are a force for peace, but they can also be abused. Who would want to think about how horrible that would be; the rise of a political force determined to put forward a strong program of hard toothed solutions to our present discontent!

No! What we really want is our bumbling democracies to muddle through amid protest and change without those people of a harder bent taking control. But, we are very close tom the tipping point towards that Platonic wheel of political change that predicts chaos.

It's very conceivable that we will fail to introduce a substitute for oil before the stress of a fluid world energy shortage results in serious clashes between the forces for stability and the lack of responsibility that emerges through desperation.

The problem arises because of debt that one generation accumulates and attempts to pass on to the next. When a new generation does not assume the burden of the excesses of a previous generation, the rapid transformations and adjustments needed for stability tend to erode respect and trust in the legal system.

Gradually, the new generation forces the issue seeking an advantage not by democracy but by fierce and by fighting amongst themselves. Bam! you have the instability everyone wants to avoid but few of the previous generation did much to address let alone understand.

It's not good enough that we don't know how to solve our present predicament. The spring is wound tighter and tighter as disagreement between influential parties becomes more fierce. Whoa betide the individuals that come in the middle, the innocents and the weak of the current and new generations who are dragged into a conflict between extremes willing to do more and more at the edge of violence in order to succeed.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/government_debt

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