Review: The Social Network

The Social Network is a dram film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and battle with lawsuits resulting by the creation. The film was directed David Fincher, and the script was written by Aaron Sorkin.  The screenplay is an adaptation of the Accidental Billionaires. The film was produced under a budget of $50 million, and grossed over $130 million. This is a critical success; gaining high ratings from well know critiques.

The plot of the film is as follows. The film starts in a nosy, where Zuckerberg and his girlfriend are having a conversation. At the end conversation, his girlfriend dumps him. Fuel by anger Zuckerberg stomps to his dorm. Then he hacks the college network and obtains pictures of every female student. The he set up a site called Facemash, a site which student can give rating to girls based on their hotness. This was instant hit. He then catches the attention of Winklevoss twins, who have a great idea of setting up social media site only for Harvard students, Harvard Connect. He takes this idea, and with help of his best friend, Ecuador Saverin, set up the site TheFacebook. Sean Parker, founder of Napster came across the site when Zuckerberg expanded the site to other colleges. Zuckerberg met Sean Parker while he was in New York searching for advertising offers. Sean Parker gives ideas, which makes Zuckerberg move to Silicone Valley, with funds from Ecuador. The site became very successful. After few months, Ecuador loses his shares in the company, as he was not directly involved in its operations. Zuckerberg has to fight against two lawsuits during the film, one for Ecuador losing share in the company, and the other for stealing Winklevoss twin’s idea. At the end Mark loses the court battle, and has to pay $68 million to Winklevoss twins, and an undisclosed amount to Ecuador. Ecuador also gets his status as founder restored. This is the plot in the movie.

This is a great film. Even though, the film does not portray the accurate events happened during Zuckerbergs’s first year in Harvard, but it is almost like a biography of his first year in Harvard. Zuckerberg is portrayed as a sociopath in the film, but he may not be a sociopath in real life. The performances of actors portraying real life characters are as accurate as it can be. The film has dramatized the actual events to more interesting and exciting ones. The screenplay is very funny for a drama film. There are intense conversations in the film. These are the features that make this film great.

Chinese PSP phone

China, a country famous for cheap electronics, and knockoff gadgets has grasped the knockoff version of the  rumored PSP phone, that is supposed to be announced by Sony. This is named Unmei Q5, and can be found in stalls of Shenzen. This has 3.5inch touchscreen, front and rear cameras, dual SIM card slots, a NES emulator, 3.5mm audio jack, and a mini-USB port. All this is packed into a casing that is similar to a PSP Go. This costs only $60.

Introducing the New Controller from Microsoft

 News about this controller has been spreading around the media for the past two years. The Computer savvy people got to know about this big release from an information leak from Microsoft in May 2009. During 2009 E3 conference, Microsoft announced this as Project NATAL, a new gesture based controller for XBOX 360. After that there were occasional information leaks on this on the Internet. In June 2010 Microsoft unveiled its final name with its features. Kinnet, new gesture based controller for XBOX 360, is a unique controller unlike any other controller on the market. Today (November 4^th) it has finally gone up for sale. This how the information has spread.

Kinnet is a very advanced, state of the art controller for a game console. This is a controller, which a user does not have to hold to use. It has three cameras; the middle one is a RGB camera, that captures video at a resolution of 640*480, the other two cameras are depth sensors. All three cameras combined form a 3D image of the user. The console uses this to detect body movements, with the direction of movement. Then the console uses this to find out how the user wants to control the interface, and it responds to it.  The user can do this by selecting an item on the menu just by pointing their hands; or the person playing can play a boxing game just by pretending to play a real game of boxing in the user’s living room. This also has voice and facial recognition, which allows users to talk to the console, and play with up to four players simultaneously. This is a new innovation, that incorporates cutting-edge technology.

Connectivity on Mount Everest

Ncell, a subsidiary of a Swedish telephone giant has set up a Third generation phone base station, 5,200m above sea level, in the Everest region. The network coverage can be reached up to the summit of Mount Everest, which is 8,848m above sea level. Now climbers can stay connected to the outside even at the summit, which was earlier not possible or difficult. Climbers can communicate with families and friends, request for help in an emergency, surf internet and keep an online log of their ascend to the summit. This is considered a great milestone for mobile communication.

Microsoft to Focus Beyond PC

 Microsoft operating systems hold about 90% of the personal computer market, but it losing the market share. The company has been dominent is the PC market over a decade. While Microsoft was enjoying it dominance, its competitors have been able catch a significant portion of the market. Microsoft's market share is decreasing to Apple and Linux, while Apple being the next major player. People are increasingly going to other operating system due its price, and reliable. Even-though, Windows 7 is the most reliable operating system in Microsoft's history, but many people consider Apple's Mac OS X, or Linux as more reliable.Microsof will be losing its market share in the next few years.

Microsoft has currently focused on its new mobile operating system-Windows Mobile 7. They have developed this from scratch. Microsoft has spent billions of dollars on this.This operating system is facing major competition presently dominant Apple's IOS and Google's Android operating system. This is their last bid in mobile operating systems market.

Microsft has also focused on its gaming division. This year, Microsoft has release an updated version of Xbox 360, and will be introducing kinnet-a gesture based controller for Xbox 360. This will give Sony PS3 a run for its money. Their gaming division has been successful.

Even though, its market share for its operating system is decreasing, they will still generate large amount of revenue from other markets. If it do not focus on other markets, its revenue will go down greatly.

Nintendo suffers from losses

For about six months, Nintendo has been running on losses. The computer game giant had reported, that it had incurred $24 million worth of losses during the past six months. This is mainly due to the high value of yen, which reduced its overseas sales. The company also said that their annual profit will drop to the lowest in past six years. The firm will also lose Christmas sales, as it had delayed Christmas sales.

Blogging

A Blog is a website or part of a website, which an individual posts description of events, pictures of an event, videos or reviews. This is free and easy to create. Sites like Blogger offers free services for creating blogs. There are also paid sites that offer many features.

Blogs are very popular on the internet. There are millions of blogs on the internet, and millions of people read these blogs. They are of various genres. Two of the popular ones are The Huffington Post and Engadget. People tend to read blogs because they provide interesting and useful information. They sometimes provide detailed and up to date information of certain events that were not covered by the media. For example when Apple announced iPhone 4 during their July press conference, news about it, with details of the conference, were posted on blog sites-few minutes after the announcement and before the media could tell it to the general public. Also blogs are popular because it is free and easy to set up; therefore many people create blogs so that they can spread information. Very popular types of websites are blogs and their popularity will tend increase over next few years.

People create blogs for various reasons. Some create these to share personal experience with other. They do this to show what kind of life they are living, what they are enjoying, and their bad experiences. These blogs can give advice to others on certain things. Some create these to share information on certain items, such as gadgets, movies, vehicles and food. These provide good reviews on these items which can recommend people to buy or not. Some create blogs to provide news on certain events such as war. These are the sites which people can refer to when they want up to date information on certain events. Blogs are created for fun of sharing knowledge. People usually create these anonymously so readers do not know who created these, therefore they can share very personal information or information that is not supposed to be leaked to the general public. People also create blogs to earn money. They earn money from advertising revenue. Companies usually pay popular blog sites to advertise their products on the sites. Companies also create their own blogs for marketing, branding or public relations purposes. There are various reasons for creating a blog, but they are created with the common aim of sharing knowledge.

Blogs are a popular kind of website on the internet with over 100 million of these existing. These are free and easy to create which make them popular. People create this with the common aim of sharing information, but for various reasons.

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Introduction

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