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Links Between Today’s Technology and Envisioning The Future

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Everyone remembers that video Microsoft showed off last week that gave us a peek into the future of productivity right?

It has been viewed on YouTube over 1.5 million times since it was posted on 25 Oct – certainly obtains the status of viral in my opinion.

Well as you watched that . . .

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Sneaking A Peek At The Future of Productivity

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Technology is always evolving.  If we had seen a video of how we used technology, say 20 years ago, which showed us the access and connectivity we enjoy today we might have thought it was science fiction.

Now let’s take that time frame down to the next 5 to 10 years and . . .

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Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 22

Welcome to our 22nd Episode of the Observed Tech PODCAST! After letting you listen in on the crowd at Space View Park in Titusville, Florida during the final shuttle launch in the history of Human Space Flight for NASA we get down to business talking planet based technology. Items we discuss include 60% of Adobe users which use vulnerable versions of the software; Microsoft banning common passwords and introducing a new hacking alert system; Using a Microsoft FixIt to address power consumption problems on your laptop; the final 1,000 days of Windows XP; Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins; Versace’s censoring of comments on their Facebook page; websites to check if your credit card is stolen (not); Harley Davidson Museum and technology; Dropbox and Skydrive Terms of Service; Spam dropped by 82% in the past year; Office XP and Windows Vista SP1 retired. We then wrap up with a review of what we have been discussing on WindowsObserver.com. . . .

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Social Media Keeps Us Social

I have been on Facebook and Twitter for a while now and I will admit I do enjoy the social (as well as the family) aspects of this brave new world.  While many say that social media is somehow isolating us from the outside world, I think it’s like any other form . . .

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Who Needs A Wallet When I Have My Smartphone

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Wow, talk about the digital age.  It’s amazing to think how we are able to record television shows right from our smartphones, but nowadays if you own a smartphone, you don’t even need to carry your wallet, either.

Turns out, there is a very cool application out . . .

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Buying Coffee? Pay With Your Smartphone

In this day and age we don’t use our mobile smartphones for just talking and text messaging anymore.  Did you know you can now make purchases with it as well?

It wasn’t that long ago when shopping transactions were done by either cash, check, or credit card.  People then started shopping . . .

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