Update from Industry: Optical disc offers 500GB storage

Optical disc offers 500GB storage. BBC. Online April 2009. A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry. But the company believes it can eventually be used in the consumer market place and home players. … 

Update from Industry: Adobe launches free web version of Photoshop

Adobe launches free web version of Photoshop. eSchool News. Online April 2008. Adobe Systems Inc., maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop, has launched a basic version of the program available free of charge online. … Photoshop Express… is easier to learn. Photoshop Express is completely web-based, so consumers can use it with any type of computer, operating system, and browser. … users can upload their photos and then edit them with Adobe’s simplified set of point-and-click controls for removing “red eye,” cropping, adjusting the brightness and color saturation, and other functions. Users can group photos into online albums and can post them to popular social-networking sites, all from within the web-based program.

Update from Industry:The WiMAX way

The WiMAX way. Federico Membrillera, Ingrid Flores, and Matthew Beckner. Itp.net. Online February 2008. The MENA region's low broadband penetration represents a large untapped market that operators are keen to target, …. Numerous WiMAX licences have been awarded to date and several more are expected in countries like Qatar, Egypt and Oman in the near future. …

Update from Industry:UN telecommuications agency endorses WiMax.

UN telecommuications agency endorses WiMax. Victoria Shannon. IHT.com. Online October 2007. The United Nations telecommunications agency ... has given the upstart technology called WiMax a vote of approval… a wireless technology that allows Internet and other data connections across much broader areas than Wi-Fi … opens the way for many ITU member countries to devote a part of the public radio spectrum to WiMax, and receivers for it could be built into laptop computers, phones, music players and other portable devices. …

Update from Industry Cellphones may take banking to the rural poor in the third world.

Cellphones may take banking to the rural poor in the third world. Chris Nicholson. IHT. Online July 2007. … Mobile devices like cellphones have the potential to effectively bring financial markets to the countryside, allowing banks and other lenders in urban areas to provide services like loans and savings accounts to a new population …

Update from IndustryGoogle Gives Apps To Rwanda, Kenya.

Google Gives Apps To Rwanda, Kenya. WebProNews. Online March 2007. . ...African students (and some government officials) will receive Google Apps, which might be described as a sort of Google prize pack: “free communications tools including email, shared calendars, instant messaging and word processing under their institutions’ domain names.” 70,000 people should gain access to the technology in its initial rollout, with more to follow in later stages. …