WEEKLY UPDATE: Making the Wookie Happy

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WEEKLY UPDATEMaking the Wookie Happy

• Vickie Gorzelsky
• Lauren Gwaley
• Isaac Rooker

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TODAY, ON WEEKLY UPDATE

• TOP STORY
• Company, Co-founded by IUP Alumnus, Celebrated
• Check Out Them Apples Two New Mac Products
• Business AnalystIsaac Rooker
• Viacom to Buy Facebook
• Googles New Product Direction
• Chinas Censorship of The Internet

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TODAY, ON WEEKLY UPDATE

• Technology ConsultantVickie Gorzelsky
• Hot New Gadgets and Gizmos
• E-Ink
• Princeton Laptop Orchestra
• New Trends in Photo Storage
• Voice-Activated GPS
• Other News
• Media May Change Driving Habits

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TOP STORIES

• YouTube.com
• 25 Million Views and 35,000 Uploads Daily
• Creators, Chris Hurley (IUP, 1999) and Steve
  Chen
• Foreseeable Problems

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TOP STORIES

• Check out Them Apples

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TOP STORIES

• Apple Aperture
• Positioned for Professional Photographers
• Facilitates use of RAW format
• Enables photographer to not harm original work
• Recently updated to be PC-Friendly

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BUSINESS NEWS

• Facebook to be Sold to the Highest Bidder.
• Private owners turned down a 750 million dollar
  offer, holding out for 2 billion
• Seventh most heavily trafficked site on the
  Internet
• 5.5 billion page views for the month of February.
• Viacom seen as a potential buyer.

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BUSINESS NEWS

• Chinas Censorship of the Internet
• Developed technology for intercepting and
  censoring Internet content.
• Government monitors all content to ensure it is
  consistent with Communist Party ideology.
• Every citizen must be registered with police
  authorities to use the Internet.

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BUSINESS NEWS

• Googles New Direction
• Developed Internet word-processing software
• Gives Microsoft Word heavy competition
• Allows users compose documents on the web and
  share them with others

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HOT NEW GADGETS AND GIZMOS
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E-INK

• Support wider viewing angles
• Clearer displays
• Environmentally friendly
• Used in many new products

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E-BOOK READER

• Made with E-Ink screen
• 60 Mb storage
• Up to 160 books
• 6 display

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ROLL-UP LAPTOP

• Cutting edge laptop technology
• Made with E-Ink screens
• Even more portable
• Still in development

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VOICE ACTIVATED GPS

• Novogo V Series Car Navigator
• First Portable voice activated GPS system

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NEW TRENDS IN PHOTO STORAGE

• eStarling LCD Frame
• Wi-Fi enabled
• Google and Fickr enabled

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PRINCETON LAPTOP ORCHESTRA

• Developed a completely computerized orchestra

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OTHER NEWS

• Media May Change Driving Habits
• New Company, DUB has created customizable lighted
  rims.
• Signal is generated via a Wi-Fi connection
• Price 12,000 and up

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