How is technology changing? How changing technologies are bringing visible changes in work places (as well as life)? What difference it is making? The technology that was hot and hip only some ten years ago seems form stone age today. Look back at what gadgets you have been using in the past and then compare them with what you use today and you will know the differences. Read the rest of this article »

Apple's iPhone is taking the market by force. According to a piece at Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog Apple has sold 8 million iPhone’s to date. But that's not an official stat from Apple, it's an approximation based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording them on a big Google spreadsheet here.

According to the IMEIs Apple has manufactured at least 5,649,000 iPhone 3Gs. When you add to that the 2.4 million first-generation iPhone’s that Apple reported selling in the first six months of 2008, you get a total of more than 8 million iPhone’s. With Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn turning out more than 800,000 units per week, Apple appears to be on a pace to build its 10 millionth iPhone before the end of September.

Revealed sales reports tell that it only took apple 74 days to sell one million of its latest version of the iPhone. At that rate sales should exceed 40,000,000 units within one year. To contrast these incredible sales numbers, you have to understand that it took apple just about a year to sell six million of the first generation of iPhone’s!

Apple has said repeatedly that it hopes to sell 10 million iPhone’s in calendar 2008. It looks like the company may meet that goal with several months to spare.

Walking into the unknown and exploring new sites. Locations and territories might be fun for travelers but sitting at the airports and waiting for delayed flight is not. It is boring to say the least. One wishes to spend all quality time doing something useful and fruitful instead of wasting time in waiting. Which is why tech-savvy travelers are taking advantage of handheld computing as more sophisticated smartphone software are showing up every day. And which is why more than 900 applications for travelers alone have come up in the market. Read the rest of this article »

Apple press release that crossed my desktop lately says that iLife 09 is now available in market. Focused on convergence of different application, this useful package offers some cool features that are worth having a closer look and find out how seamlessly the intuitive and user-friendly technologies are getting into our lives and changing the way we work, live and enjoy life.

As the name suggest, iLife is a pack of applications put together into every new Macintosh and is also available for purchase from Apple. The most recent version is iLife 09 and it includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb. Read the rest of this article »

Exploring a few places online anyone can see how designs change over time. Innovations, newer developments, ergonomics, cost, market demands and many other factors drive the engineers to design. In the process, the better one stay in the market and gain popularity where many more fad away; beaten out by market forces. Question is where is it leading us – the users? Read the rest of this article »

One of the benefits at the Techno Station is that we and the readers here are the first to know about new developments (and rumors).

News is out and it says that Apple will launch an upgrade to its the Mac Mini, at January's Macworld Expo (beginning Jan 5, 2009) in San Francisco, according to one of the Apple insider.

Analysts say that an upgrade to the Mac Mini was long overdue. The product hasn't seen anything new since August 2007, and Apple computers normally have a life cycle of roughly six months. Mac Mini has been selling quite well - the Mac Mini has been among the top 5 of Amazon's best selling desktops. Read the rest of this article »

With everything coming on computers, having and then managing backups and communications is getting vital every day. One of the central places to handle backup needs is Apple's Time Capsule; as a 500GB or 1TB wireless hard drive (using 7,200-rpm SATA drives), it provides central storage as a network drive, plus backup capability, for both Macs and PCs. When used with Mac OS X Leopard's bundled Time Machine software, it's simply easy to back up and restore data. Read the rest of this article »

Stuff Magazine readers have rated Apple's iPhone 3G as the "Gadget of the Year." What followed closely were Microsoft's Xbox 360 console, Nintendo's Wii Fit, and B&W's Zeppelin iPod speakers. All of the products up for this honor were judged in categories including performance, design and value, as well as "cool factor".

So what is iPhone for you? Browsing the web on iPhone is a treat and has made mobile web enjoyable. The visual elements, its ability to render images and graphics is superior than any other device. Fans of iPod will love it too as it packs the popular audio features and capabilities in one sleek gadget. If you are all about email, many consider Blackberry to be much better but the new push capabilities of iPhone are quite appealing. The touch interface is intuitive and easy. The GPS and Google map works quite well with the iPhone. There are many interesting new applications available which utilize GPS. This brings another interesting point: the very profitable Apple Store business model, which has resulted in huge number of interesting applications (some are free) available for download. Both the developers and Apple benefit from this approach.

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How you use your iPhone? Well the answers depend whom you are asking. In addition to making calls and using it as MP3 player iPhone can do much more. What is more, Apple has made it possible for anyone to create their own applications for the iPhone and this special feature is being fully utilized by software developers to create new and innovative uses for the phone. Hence it is no more possible to fully see the possible uses. Only some of them can be surmised here.

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