History of 10 famous names of technology products
Develop the characteristics of a great product or service - is only half the work required to achieve success in the market. A major challenge is to come up with the correct name, which would be unique, easy to remember, but it did not possess defiant and screaming character. Much depends on the product positioning and target consumer groups, but as a rule the so-called naming, which is part of branding, suggests the involvement of an increasing number of clients. Technology companies are no exception. Manufacturers of iPod, BlackBerry, Firefox, Twitter, Windows 7, ThinkPad, Android, Wikipedia, Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux had enough share of marketing ingenuity, practicality, and insight, which gave them names. Intriguing, surprising, and sometimes mediocre history of the emergence of
many familiar phrases.
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iPhone as a sports instructor
British company Appnoose Ltd UK has developed and released an interesting application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, which is definitely likely to appeal to all those who in any way associated with sports. Annex entitled ITGO is beautifully decorated athletic player who can make you deal with pre-calculated signals, which are served at regular intervals. Sounds complicated, but in reality it just - it sounds a signal and you start to engage, sounds different - completing the exercise.
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J. River Media Center 14.0.71: all multimedia content
The new version of the program, which is a multimedia center for working with photos, video and audio recordings. Using the program, you can connect your PC to your TV, digital camera, stereo, scanner, MP3-player. J. River Media Center also supports remote control. The program is a tool for organizing your files for transfer to other users, as well as for recording on CD. Besides, you can synchronize audio with the Apple iPod and record video from TV tuner. If your computer has two sound card, then using the program can play different music in different rooms.
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Apple refreshes the design of the iMac and MacBook
Apple updates the traditional music players and computers. The new iPod were submitted in September, and before the holiday season the company presents the iMac and MacBook.
In addition to changes in the characteristics of desktop and laptop buyers can expect a refreshing design. In the iMac will be a card-reader format SD (like a MacBook Pro), and the older model will boast processor Xeon. There is talk about making the format of Blu-ray.
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Owners of iPhone and iPod touch have downloaded 2 billion program
Company Apple happy to declare another impressive accomplishment App Store. According to recent data from the shop owners of the iPhone and iPod touch (whom there are 50 million people) have downloaded more than 2 billion applications.
OJOsoft Total Video Converter 2.7.1: Mobile Converter
The new version of the converter based on the conversion of video for viewing on portable devices. The main feature of this utility - ease of use. The program window contains a panel with buttons, with which selected compression format. After the compression format to be determined, in the drop-down settings profiles of mobile video leaving only those presets that are valid for the chosen format. Compression profiles can be edited and renamed. It supports all the most common video formats including 3GP, 3G2, MPEG, MPG, VOB, AVI, ASF, WMV, FLV, H.264, MJPEG, TS, etc. For the compression of any video formats supported by the program is not required search for and install additional codecs - they are automatically installed during the installation of Video converter.
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Free SMS with the application Ping
Ping application for iPhone and iPod Touch - is a small program, a cross between SMS and instant messaging. What we really need to know is the fact that the program is quick and free. Work and appearance of the application similar to exchange SMS, the only difference is that the message you sent, the recipient comes instantly, as it happens in instant messenger.
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By purchasing Placebase, Apple fell out with Google?
In July, unnoticed by the industry Apple absorbed the young company Placebase. She worked on the development of online maps for navigation.
Analysts believe that Apple is working on their own cards, which will be used in the iPhone and iPod touch, and gradually be able to abandon proprietary applications Google. It is impossible not to recall as “apple” company has denied Google’s release of the App Store program Latitude.
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ILuv i1166 player reads all possible formats
ILuv i1166 multimedia player will be available soon - information about the beginning of its deliveries to the U.S. in late October, was leaked to the network. For the first time this truly omnivorous in terms of format player with a large 9-inch screen was shown at CES 2009, at the same time was announced and its cost - 270 dollars. iLuv i1166 can play files from the connected the iPod, as well as CD-and DVD-ROM drive, memory card formats, SD / MMC and USB-drives.
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Spy Camera in the form of iPod shuffle
Who for fun, and who for the cause, but is increasingly gaining popularity for a variety of gadgets hidden video. This can be watches, fountain pen, an ordinary mobile phone or even a tie. The basic rule of “spy stuff” - not to cause suspicion of their primary function. However, to deceive the supervisory individual is becoming harder and the Chinese company Hiangyun integrated a 1.3-megapixel sensor in the MP3 player iPod shuffle, where the very presence of the camera is not expected a priori.
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