“It’s 10:00 p.m… Do you know where your children are?”

Thomas Gregory was, among other things, a news anchor. In the mid-1960’s, he coined that famous phrase at the beginning of his newscast and, although he passed away in 2006, it still opens every newscast today. At the time when Mr. Gregory first proposed that question, it was likely that the answer from many parents would have simply been “No.” Lifestyles were different then. Things seemed simpler, at least in retrospect. When children wanted to see their friends, they walked to their home or rode their bicycles or met in an agreed-upon location like a park or favorite corner store. Parents knew their children’s friends and, more often than not, they also knew the friends’ parents and siblings. Human nature dictates that children still tried to circumvent curfews and rules but the climate in regards to their safety was less worrisome.

Today, stories of abductions, pedophilia and other crimes against children appear regularly in the media. Sadly, this fosters panic among parents and results in a need for almost constant contact. Parents experience emotional turmoil over such “firsts” as letting their child ride their bike all the way around the block alone for the time or giving permission to walk to a friend’s house unaccompanied. Compound this as those same children age and attend school farther from home or the immediate community or simply acquire a driver’s license. Freedom for young people unfortunately creates a great deal of fear for their parents.

To this end, today’s families may look to technology to assuage some of their worries and insecurities in regards to the safety of their children. It may start with a “nanny cam” to keep a watchful eye on early child care providers. It progresses to a child’s first cell phone – some with just big, kid-friendly buttons pre-programmed to call Mom, Dad or 9-1-1. Then, as those children grow and become independently mobile, a new technology emerges – GPS tracking.

Parents of young children may find security in a locator system such as that offered by ionKids. This system consists of a handheld “base” for the parent and wrist bracelets to be worn by the children. The base can monitor up to four wrist bracelets simultaneously. Each bracelet is on a different frequency and there is no use of cellular signal so the system is intended to work well indoors (such as at the grocery store or the mall) with no lapse in service. The bracelets are designed to be tamper-resistant and require a key to operate the locking mechanism. They also set off a beeping signal when the child moves out of range of the base (purported to be up to 350 feet indoors and up to 200 feet outdoors). Such technology can go far to alleviate the panic that ensues when a child moves out of view in a public setting.

Another heralded option is the Amber Alert GPS. This system requires that the parent has a web-enabled cell phone. The GPS unit can be placed in a younger child’s backpack or attached to a wrist or ankle. With older children and teens, it can be carried in a purse, pocket or even in the car. The parent calls or text messages the GPS unit and, within a few short seconds, receives a text message back with its exact location. The address and map can then be viewed either on the phone or on a computer. Of further comfort to parents will be the SOS button on the GPS unit. If the child is in a dangerous situation or has any kind of emergency, they simply press and hold the button. Parents pre-program the unit with the coordinates of five trusted individuals and all of them will receive text and email notifications every five minutes until the situation is resolved. With certain subscription plans, the Amber Alert GPS also offers what is known as “bread crumbing.” In this case, the unit will send regular messages to the parent, on a schedule that they determine, keeping them posted on their child’s whereabouts throughout the day or evening - without them having to call or text a request.

While some (particularly older teens fighting to establish their independence and freedom) will balk at GPS tracking, it is a technology that offers parents a large dose of peace of mind – and gives them the confidence to answer Mr. Gregory’s famous question with a resounding and informed “YES, I do!”

Almost everyone has a cell phone nowadays. You can do almost anything with cell phone technology. You can play games on your cell phone. You can take photos, and even create a short video with your cell phone. Cell phone technology makes your life easier. If you missed your favorite program on TV, you can watch it from your cell phone. If you go shopping, you can use your cell phone’s calculator to keep up with the prices. Cell phone technology allows you to do almost anything.

Cell phone technology allows you to access the Internet. Using your cell phone’s technology, you can legally download music from the web, and save it to your cell phone, and your cell phone acts as your MP3 player. Because cell phone technology is so advanced, you should know what you want in a cell phone before you purchase one. If you want a cell phone just to keep in touch with people, and you don’t want to do anything other than talk on your phone, you might not need all the sophisticated applications of some cell phones. However, if you are one who wants all the bells and whistles that comes with cell phone technology, every application available is at your fingertips.

Technology has changed over the last 20 or 30 years of mobile phones. Many years ago mobile phones were quite large. Back then only a few people, compared to now, had mobile phones. In those days, before cellular technology, mobile phones were nothing more than radio transmitters and receivers. Each major city had a radio antenna tower that transmitted signals, and if you were too far away from a central tower, your signal could not be picked up by the tower.

Now with cellular technology each city has a series of towers that are called cells. If you are driving around in your car your signal can be picked up by one tower, and then when you start to get out of range from that particular tower, your signal automatically gets picked up by another cell tower. As you leave the vicinity of one tower, that tower switches you to the next tower nearest you.

Cell phone technology has made life easy. It’s almost a necessity to have a cell phone with all the latest applications. Most people have camera phones now. You might not always carry a digital camera with you everywhere you go, but if you have a cell phone with the latest technology, you don’t need a digital camera, because you have a camera phone. The screen where you see your telephone numbers displayed is your viewfinder. Depending on the type of phone you have, you touch a button and you have taken a photograph. You can transmit your photo right away to another phone, or to an email address.

Cell phone technology is getting more advanced every day. For many people, cell phone technology has replaced the personal computer and laptop. With the advent of the computer phone, with all its sophisticated applications, you almost don’t need a big computer anymore.

Communication is a series of action which result to transfer of information from one person to another. As learned from the history, our ancestors communicate through talking personally, writing, shouting from one mountain to another, making signs, or even drawing. But as time flies up towards the modern world, the way of communication has changed extremely beyond our forefather’s could imagine because nowadays, communication has been linked to emails, internet chatting, telephone, and the most famous of all, cellphones.

When cellphones was introduced, it was used only for calling and the hand set was big and old fashioned. But now! Cellphones come in different styles, sizes,colors, cameras and features.

The most popular cellphones today are those with touchscreen features. We can even search up to more than 70 different touchscreen cellphones all over the world. One of the popular all touchscreen cellphones is the Apple iPhone. The Apple offers a 16 million colored touchscreen. It has 3.5 inches screen with multi-touch method, accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, scratch-resistant surface, and an ambient light sensor. It has vibration alert type, polyphonic ringtones, and MP3 ringtones as well. So you can select your favorite song as your desired ringtone. You can also browse the internet, open your emails, and download files here using Wi-Fi or the browser. Tasks such as transferring data through bluetooth and USB, taking pictures through its 3.15 MP camera, listening to songs with good sound quality through the MP3 player, or even playing your favorite videos are included. Its amazing how a handy cellphone could carry the features one would ever want.

Of course, other cellphone companies also release their own touchscreen cellphones. Nokia has produced and battled with their stunning Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It has a handwriting recognition feature. It means that you can write the letter on the screen like in writing it on a paper and the phone will automatically put in the letter you’ve written. The 81 MB storage can be adden with a maximum of 16 GB memory card. WOW! This memory is more than enough to store more than 500 of ur favorite songs and 100 videos. It also supports the features mentioned above. Its primary camera found at the back is a 3.15 MP Carl Zeiss optics camera which can produce up to 2048×1536 pixelated pictures. The camera also has a LED flash and autofocus ability. Aside from that, it doesn’t only feature voice calling, it also has a video calling option! The second camera found in front above the screen is for video calling. The Nokia 5800 expressmusic is also packed with a CPU ARM 11 369 MHz processor, Stereo FM, java games, TV out, video player, voice command, document viewer, T9, and a photo editor. Its battery could last at a talk time of about 8 hours. Nokia is also releasing their latest touchscreen which is the Nokia N97.

Samsung, on the other hand, has released more than 10 touchscreen cellphones. Some of these are the elegant looking Samsung i8910 Omnia HD, Samsung M8810 Pixon12, Samsung M8800 Pixon, Samsung i8510 INNOV8, and Samsung i900 Omnia. Motorola also sends their Motorola A3100 to compete with the other touchscreen phones in the market. We can also select various good touchscreen phones with LG products such as the LG KM900 Arena, LG KP500 Cookie, LG GC900 Viewty Smart, LG KP502, and many more. Sony Ericsson is proud to present their Sony Ericsson Satio, Sony Erickson XPERIAX1, and others of their beautiful touchscreen phones. Though these cellphones are expensive, the technology it offers is really priceless.

The absence of the traditional keypad makes touchscreen cellphones popular and easier to use. You can insert less effort by softly pressing the touchscreen keys. Having a touchscreen phone could add to your self esteem by being proud of your hi-technology cellphone. Aside from that, interacting with this amazing touchscreen cellphones is more fun and much interesting. These cellphones would really entertain you in a way you cannot imagine. But the most important of all, these kinds of cellphones make our modern life easier. Just a few touch away, you can call or email your far away love ones. You can immediately contact the authorities in times of emergency. You can take pictures and videos of memorable moments without bringing heavy or big cameras. You can just have all the gadgets that you want in just one convenient refined cellphone.

Sometimes radiologists get bored, sometimes the day a the office is a little slow -  so what would happen if you put an iPhone under a CT scanner? That’s exactly what a New York radiologist did, and not only was it with an iPhone, but a Palm, iBook, and a few other electronics.

We’re not sure this is the best use of your time at the office, but it sure looks pretty cool. You can check out all of his scans at the website: radiology art.

Asus has let word out on its Eee keyboard which is basically a multimedia PC that is built into a keyboard with a small secondary touchscreen embedded in it. They have not said if it will be released to the public anytime soon, if ever, but from what it looks like, it seems like the perfect home theater tool. The HDMI completes the deal for an amazing home entertainment PC.

Via Gizmodo

Google has been slowly building its influence in the PC technology industry over the years, and now with the use of the Android OS as a desktop OS means they may be well on their way to overtake Microsoft.

Matthaus Krzykowski and Daniel Hartmann who are also the founders of mobile-facts took the Android OS and started using it on an Asus Eee PC 1000H. They were surprised at how little change it took to be able to run Android on the netbook, in fact it only took 4 hours of work to put together everything together. What made this possible is that Android is really just Linux at its heart, so it’s common sense that it shouldn’t be too port over to the desktop.

According to Daniel Hartmann who got the netbook running with Android, they were able to have full functionality including graphics, sound and wireless Internet. They said that they had been expecting Google to use Android for more than just mobile phones for a while now, and this shows where Google might go with it.

So as Microsoft rushes to release Windows 7, Google may be using their Android OS on PCs by the beginning of the summer. It’s finally time for a little change in the PC market.

Via PC World

Supposedly around midnight P.S.T last night, 30GB Zunes all over the world started to lock up then reboot, freezing at the end of the boot process. It didn’t matter what the Zune was doing, as one user reported his Zune freezing while charging it in his computer.

Microsoft hasn’t issued a comment on the issue yet as the problems started happening early last night, but they are expected to provide an explanation or solution early today. Some theories suggest that the time change with the New Year may have caused the problem, some think it’s a hoax, or maybe even a joke put into the Zune’s software.

The frozen boot doesn’t appear to be affecting Zune’s with firmware prior to the 3.1 release from November.

One member of a Zune forum has suggested that Microsoft provide users with broken Zunes with free Zune Passes which are similar to iTunes Gift Cards. Regardless, this doesn’t help the reputation of the Zune, and hopefully Microsoft can get to the bottom of this strange problem.

Via Gizmodo

SnaptureLabs has introduced SnaptureFlash which they advertise as “The world’s first xenon flash attachment for a mobile phone.” The add on provides a flash for the iPhone which is supposedly 100 times brighter than any conventional LED flash accessory.

SnaptureFlash includes red eye reduction and is fully compatible with SnaptureLab’s other iPhone apps. Other features include a continuous ultra bright LED for video recording, iPhone speaker amplification, and a sleek design that fits firmly around the iPhone.

The add on can also detect low light situations where it will automatically trigger the flash. Overall this seems like a very useful attachment, especially as the iPhone is becoming a popular camera alternative on sites such as Flickr. The flash was one thing lacking on the iPhone, and the SnaptureFlash provides all the power you would ever need to take that perfect shot.

Snapture is currently allowing people to sign up on a waitlist for the product, but there has been no projected release date.