The new iPad killer?

The iPad is now the supreme ruler of all handhed PC’s. Its popularity and demand are such that CPU suppliers are finding it difficult to keep the supplies rolling in. But the product still remains out of reach for a lot of people, mainly due to the cost factor. Even then, competitors are finding it difficult to break in to the market or even give a cheaper alternative.

However, a new iPad killer may have just been born. Shift several thousands of miles to the other side of the globe and focus on India. The sensational news revealed by India’s Ministers for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, is that the tablet PC they have developed is expected to sell at $35 (1,500 Indian Rupees). You may think that this is ridiculous or that the device is a clunky old computer, but you would be far from the truth.

The iPad lookalike is touch screen based and has Wi-Fi, a web browser, PDF reader, video conferencing facilities and a multimedia player. It does not contain a hard disk and relies on memory cards instead. The tablet device also features 2GB of RAM. The idea is to use this device to improve education in India by providing cheap access to technology.

The device is still at a prototype stage and manufacturers are being sourced at the moment to get this product out soon. The idea is to find manufacturing methods that will bring the price down even further to the $20 or even $10 mark. Considering that India came good on its promise to build a car for 100,000 Indian Rupees this tablet PC seems set to help students all over the world.

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The Significance of Backing Up Files

The Internet and our computers have become the hub of business and information. It involves a lot of files and data which are very important and because of this, there are a lot of people who are also trying to hack or steal away precious data from one another. Aside from this, data loss is common sometimes due to hardware failurs and other times software glitches.

This is why backing up of important files and data is very important. There are a lot of things that you can prevent from happening when you back up or keep a copy of your files. First, you can avoid data loss during certain fortuitous events and disasters. Because we are not sure of what is going to happen all the time, it is very important to back up files.

At the same time, when there are sudden data losses like corruption of files and non-workability of certain storage devices and hard drives, making extra copies of your important files come in handy. This will prevent you from repeating your work all over again, and in addition, it will save you a lot of time from repetition of work.

Making a back up file of all the data and information you have is vital for your business. It may require an extra investment on reliable storage devices and a little time for scheduling a back up of all the files, but rest assured, it is more convenient than having to lose valuable information instead.

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MySpace Music Wants Money

MySpace Music is in trouble. The service is not making money like it used to and that, even at the best of times, was not much. MySpace owners News Corp appear to have finally thrown in the towel on the issue of advertising revenue supporting the music service.

Chairman of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, has always been critical of free online services. He appears to have got his way with Hulu (which he also owns) and now it seems that the tottering MySpace will be subjected to that will as well. The problem here is that what works (subjective) for Hulu may not work at all for MySpace.

The social networking site has been steadily hemorrhaging users ever since Facebook showed up. A telling factor is that before Facebook became big, Google entered into an advertising deal with MySpace. The value? $900 million. Now Google isn’t even bothering to renew the deal for a lesser price. Finding a replacement is going to be hard and definitely will not be found at that value. This is worrying because in the last five years, running MySpace has cost News Corp $500 million. So it’s little wonder that they are trying to scrape any sort of revenue from wherever they can.

At the heart of the matter is the issue of losing that all important demographic of 18-35 year olds. With no real prospect of them coming back and with rumors about Google Me ever increasing, it maybe that MySpace will have to go the way of GeoCities.

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