Cloud Music - What do you really want?

Cloud music is a new thing in the industry. Cloud music started ever since cloud storage existed. The idea sprang up, but was never done. Amazon has launched the fully fledged service with Google launching one soon. Apple is playing catch up to this though. The big question is, is this really convenient?

Would you like to upload tons of music you downloaded or pirated to Amazon which could take hours considering how big your music collection is. It would take a long time to do so even for just the sole benefit of the fact your music might finally be organized.

It costs cash. Amazon offers 5GB free of music storage. I don't think that's enough for most people. You can pay per year for extra storage like any other storage provider, but get upgraded to 20GB automatically if you buy an album. They also claim if you buy music from them, they'll add it to your cloud folder automatically. That sounds nice, but when did consumer stupidity come to play? Consumers don't know everything in the world, but they don't like an inconvenience.

Cloud music has a lot of work to do, but the war for music has just only started.

The iPhone, Is it a Gamechanger

The iPhone has led to many things over the years. It has just recently been released to Verizon and was originally released to AT&T. T-Mobile and Sprint have never been in on this action and have felt left out. They don't seem to happy, especially since they're losing customers because of the iPhone anyways. It's like whoever has the iPhone, is the carrier that gets the most customers. Now that might seem unfair, but everyone's network is different and one thing can't support all.

T-Mobile and Sprint are just the networks that Apple's iPhone just doesn't support. T-Mobile runs on the new spectrum known as AWS or 1700. Sprint runs on CDMA and WiMAX which doesn't relate to the iPhone. The iPhone runs on GSM and CDMA, but only works on Verizon and AT&T. It could work on Sprint, it's just Verizon won't let them. You want more customers, well you got to get rid of the competition. That may not be fair or legal, but that's the way things are. Look at the AT&T merger with T-Mobile that's has come up. Is this the return of the monopoly days where one company controlled everything. Will innovation turn to a standstill?

Let's just wait and see. Will Google trump the iPhone. We just don't know yet.

What happened to the Blackberry?

The Blackberry, the pride of Canada, is not so popular as it was in the olden days. Apple and Google seem to have taken everything from them. Their customers and money and loving fans. Look at it this way, RIM has lost almost everything and is not even a good seller of phones compared to Microsoft. People only buy it because of BBM, which in my opinion is weird, but now it's on iOS and Android, so RIM wake up!

RIM seems to have a failure already before it started. RIM's Playbook looks like garbage the moment I saw it. RIM must really want to be the pioneer of innovation, because it's OS has a long way to go. RIM is what you call a "late goer". RIM is like the guy who's last invited to the party. RIM is dying in my opinion, a company struggling to survive and find ways to buy its products even though it can't. iPad and it's competitors are still better than the Playbook. It also has low apps and not the best specs you could wish for.

RIM has just lost its game.

Is the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger A Good Thing?

AT&T aka Ma Bell is coming back again. It's giving an offer for T-Mobile about 39 billion dollars to be exact. It's owner, Deutsche Telekom, is selling it because it can't make money out of it anymore due to the iPhone. Sprint and T-Mobile have been suffering ever since the iPhone came out, losing customers as people just wanted the latest gadget so it's owner got desperate. DT wants to sell T-Mobile USA. Why should it concern you? Well, you should be worried. T-Mobile and Sprint are the only ones standing up to AT&T and Verizon and those two big companies care about money not innovation.

T-Mobile was the first company to bring Android phones to the market. They sparked innovation and a true iPhone competitor and this has brought Android across all carriers, because of it's popularity. Sprint has announced it will support number porting with Google Voice natively and will give it's users the option to. Sprint and T-Mobile are needed to make the mobile atmosphere changing otherwise we will be stuck in the Ma Bell days where everything just seemed to stay still and boring.

Get rid of T-Mobile? If you do, you're getting rid of innovation and change here.

Would you like a nuclear reactor in the neighborhood?

Nuclear reactors are everywhere as the world tries to look at ways to make energy without oil. Japan is one of such countries. A country with no oil whatsoever so what could it resort to, nuclear plants. Sure people complain but what choice did they have? These plants make 24% of Japan's energy. That's about a quarter and a lot. Right now countries express fear as they fear the same fate as Japan and will they? This I don't know, but would you like to live right beside one?

Say your in a country with no means of oil. I mean no oil at all and no coal. Imagine your a carbon free country. What would you do? Would you import all your oil? Nonsense that would be crazy and expensive. Renewable energy? Bah! Like that could ever generate enough electricity to power a country. What do we have left? Hydroelectric dams and nuclear energy. I would choose nuclear energy first, don't you think. It's makes a lot of energy and requires uranium which is a whole lot cheaper than oil. Also, it seems safer. The accident risk is less. The ability to make energy is so desperate that you build tons around the country. You then realize your on an island where earthquakes come like as if they're a habit. Why do we build then? Demand always bests safety in a fight to the death.

Demand may have brought nuclear haven to our countries. The catastrophic consequences of nuclear power plants over the decade are low, but when one happens. it is unthinkable what will happen and how many lives are lost and how embarrassing you feel addressing the worried public like you have never done before showing the world your country has a poor reputation for something it always had pride in: dependability. The effects are more powerful than any oil spill can ever cause in it's lifetime. Sometimes great power comes with great risks.

Japan - Is the Government Keeping a Secret

Japan has been struck by disaster many times before, but none like this. This disaster has destroyed the nation and has ruined lives. It has shocked the nation into what seems to be likely called Haiti's Big Brother since it has the same effect, but worse it comes with a tsunami. There's an old Japanese saying that lies come in 3's and 8's. The Japanese said a 30km radius from the reactors, but now say you should be 80km away from the reactor. Three's and eight's isn't it. Don't you think.

The nuclear situation is something the government shouldn't be counted on. When the guy in trouble says no and many other smarter people say yes, they are probably not trying to show fear and that they are stupid. They also might feel embarrassed if the ask for help. Japan is a well developed country, it's not Haiti.

Japan has felt the disaster of it's reputation.

Japan's Nuclear Reactors - A Taste of What's To Come

Japan is a country previously ravaged by a 8.9 magnitude earthquake and a devastating tsunami with devastating aftershocks. Japan hasn't recovered yet, because it's nuclear reactors are going out of control. Fukushima Dai-ichi and Fukushima II have both suffered fires, but Fukushima III is the one that changes everything.

It uses a combination of plutonium and uranium making it even more deadly than its siblings. It has suffered an explosion and cooling using sea water has been cancelled. The reserve pool has been used up and the plant is in worse shape compared to its siblings. They are trying to inject water, but so far with not much success.

Lets let the story play out and lets see where it goes. Will it Chernobyl again, this is something that I don't know, but it won't come back fast and may leave the area devastated for more than a century.