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There was a period of a few weeks that I was eagerly posting any new announcements Apple made regarding the addition of television shows to the iTunes store. Now that CBS has quickly ditched its relationship with Google Video and is talking with Apple it seems Apple’s blitzkrieg into video delivery is nearly over and they’ve already won. Showtime added three of its shows this week which makes them the first pay network to do so. Now if Apple could get HBO’s award-winning collection of shows I think you could say game over without any argument.
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Will future social scientists looking back on this age be puzzled by what so abruptly changed the economy, society, and the world business climate in just a few short years? If they’re probing for answers, I’ll assume they won’t blame a large heavenly object for today’s cataclysmic reordering. But, similar to the comet that struck earth and wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago, the rapid changes of our present period will likely lead to some business model extinctions.
Technology and the Internet are rapidly altering the business platform for almost all organizations. The changes are swift and deep.
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TV’s keep getting bigger...huge in some cases. Then, Apple comes along and offers the small option...enabling people to access a growing list of TV content on a video iPod. What’s missing here is the middle market: notebook TV. Of course, you can already play DVD movies on many notebook computers, but I’m talking about downloadable or streaming current television shows that go straight to your notebook computer.
Notebook computers are popular for a good reason. They can hold a lot of content. They’re portable, amazingly versatile and the screen size is an acceptable size for viewing comfortably. It can’t be long before notebook TV will be another popular option for what today is mostly only available on the stationary TVs anchored to the floor or wall in Amercian family rooms.
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On Jan. 27, Western Union transmitted its last telegram. While most considered the 162-year-old dots-and-dashes technology quaint, it easily leads the list as the communication medium that had the most dramatic impact on society.
The Internet, the printing press and radio all changed culture in important ways; but they all grew out of previous communication forms. The electromagnetic telegraph was fundamentally different from anything that came before. Once telegraph wires came to town, the community was connected to the world. Messages from across the nation, and eventually around the world, could be sent and received almost instantly. The results of elections, military battles and the Wright brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk were known within hours, rather than weeks.
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The stethoscope is a timeless tool in the medical profession.
But according to a Time magazine article, today’s medical students are often less competent and comfortable with stethoscopes. Instead, they increasingly opt for expensive, high-tech tests to diagnose conditions that could be detected by careful listening through a stethoscope.
A Temple University doctor may have a solution. Time reports that Dr. Michael Barrett, in an American Journal of Medicine study, “concluded that medical students improved their stethoscope skills dramatically if they listened to certain digitally recorded soundtracks that mimic the distinctive vibrations produced by various valve problems and other cardiac conditions.”
Barrett created a recording of stethoscope sounds heard when a patient has an abnormal heart. Students downloaded the recording to an iPod and listened for two hours. The results were impressive: After listening to the iPod recording, students could correctly identify 80% of the sounds (up from 30% without the recording).
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