Sunday 1 May 2011

Which Lates Technology Trends Have You Been Following Lately?

If you have not followed the latest technology news, do not be worried because chances are that at the end of reading this article you will be as updated about the technology around you as a tech geek would be.

In the latest technology news, Microsoft has tied up with the cell phone giant Nokia to jointly create market-leading mobile products and services. In other news related to Microsoft, Microsoft’s Windows 7 has lastly turned out to be the most important computer operating system in the US, overthrowing Windows XP which has extended lingered the mainly required after PC OS in the country and all over the world. Miscellaneous news in short: Google search engine is trailing by 30% of market share in compare to the Bing Powered Search Engine.

The top technology trend these days seems to be tablet PCs. And apple has introduced its new iPad 2. A tablet pc is a must have these days mainly due to the increasing amount of applications.

Let’s now throw in a couple of words about the latest technology, shall we? The latest technology over which the world is musing is a brain computer interfacing device known as the Emotiv Epoc. This neural headset developed by the Australian company Emotiv allows a user to play games or control a device just by sheer thoughts/emotions and without any physical movement of the arms like in traditional devices. And the developer applications are something to watch out for, the Brain Driver car developed by the university of Berlin allows a person to drive a car through his thoughts without even touching the steering wheel or putting a leg onto the accelerator.

The touch screen technology is becoming very popular nowadays. It is a very timely, quite fascinating techno move. The touch screen technology can be classified into two types. Resistive touch screen and capacitive touch screen. Resistive touch screen is an older version of touch screen technology and is not used much these days. If you are buying a new phone/ touch screen device please make sure that it is a capacitive touch screen which has a more friendly and easy to use interface.

There are a lot of new technologies in all the consumer fields. In automotive there’s the brain driver car and Google’s self driver car. Constructed using the most progressive, new technologies, those cars pretty much drive themselves around. In tablets the latest one is the iPad 2 which is 33% slimmer than the first iPad and has a better graphical user interface. Nikon announced a variety of new camera’s and the 12MP Coolpix P500 sports a whopping 36x optical zoom and supports a full HD movie recording! The Nintendo 3DS finally hit the stores on March 27th and is available for a retail price of $249. This new portable device has promised to give a new enhanced portable gaming experience with better graphics. Technology companies: The main technology companies that are making the news these days are the big ones as usual: Microsoft, Google and Facebook. With Microsoft tying up with Nokia a lot of people are looking forward to the partnership which promises better smart phones than those of android with Windows 7 OS. Google is losing its search engine market share due to growing popularity of Microsoft Bing which uses a better technology known as semantic search. It allows a better accuracy in online searching.

Source Link:- http://www.newsformatics.com


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