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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Which Billionaire Will Win The Space Race

There has been a lot of interest in space travel and ventures since NASA stopped their shuttle program. Much is coming from the private sector. Three main contenders that have emerge are billionaires , Amazon  founder Jeff Bezos ,  C.E.O of Tesla Motors Elon Musk and Virgin Group founder Sir  Richard Branson



Blue Origin
This  is a privately funded aerospace company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos . The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal of dramatically lower cost and increased reliability.
 It is employing an incremental approach from suborbital to orbital flight, with each developmental step. building on its prior work www.blueorigin.com/





Virgin Galactic
 This is a company owed by Sir Richard Branson Virgin Group which plans to provide suborbital space flights to space tourists, suborbital launches for space science missions, and orbital launches of small satellites. Further in the future, Virgin Galactic hopes to offer orbital human spaceflights as well Virgin Galactic's spacecraft is launched from a large aeroplane, giving the spacecraft more initial speed and altitude than if it were launched from the ground. www.virgingalactic.com/



















Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX 
is a space transport company headquartered in Hawthone Carlifonia. It was founded in 2002 by former Paypal entrepreneur Elon Musk, with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars www.spacex.com/

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

ARE CHROMEBOOKS REPLACING WINDOWS





Chromebook is a personal computer running Chrome OS as its Operating system. The devices are designed to be used while connected to the Internet and support application that reside in the web, rather than traditional applications that reside on the machine itself. All the data is stored in the "cloud" accessed by an internet connection. they are thin client



The first Chromebooks for sale, by Acer Inc and Samsung, were announced at the Google I/O conference in May 2011 right now it seem like every one has joined the bandwagon, every manufacturer want a piece of this market and they have been eating windows market slowly 



Google is doing a good job by targeting learning institution with the Chrome project.
Apart from been light they are fast and affordable .Google is making both their operating system and Chromebooks more offline friendly.



the disadvantage of chromebook is since they are cloud based they dont come with a large disk space and processing power. We will wait and see if they will take over the like Android did