Technology and Products

Archive for January, 2010

Throughout our history whatever we invent, create or produce has had a life cycle, this cycle could be long lasting or short term. Money is one product that has had the longest product life cycle, so are various agricultural and natural resources. These products have changed, but still exist after thousands of years.Other products become fashionable and then fade away, only to become part of another product or trend. The music industry is one example of this, as Rock ‘n’ Roll in its pure form has evolved into the various genres of modern music today.Gimmicks are products that have a short life cycle, often victims of changing fashions that occasionally make a comeback, and the Internet is often the marketplace were the product life cycle can be short, and forgettable.

So what are the five Stages of a Product Life Cycle?

1). Introduction

A new product is introduced onto the Marketplace, few people know about it, and its success is rarely guaranteed. Much time and money is invested in promoting this product, and there is either no profit or even a net loss during this period.

2). Growth

The product starts to grow in popularity, sales increase as advertising starts working and others start to imitate your product. Profits increase, and your product steadily becomes a success.

3). Maturity

Your product becomes an established part of the Market, but sales start to increase slowly as competition and pricing factors take place. At this stage advertising costs are at their highest, whilst profits may start to drop. The market for your product could reach saturation point.

4). Decline

Sales start to fall, as your product loses its appeal. Profits drop as production is often cut, competition in the marketplace gets stiffer as advertising is cut and plans are made to shelve the product in the future.

5). Innovation

Innovators take your product and may incorporate it into a new product. This has happened to the humble FM radio and Camera which you find as a basic feature on most hand phones. The decline of the original product has just lead onto the use of it on a very new product.

We’ve all seen one of those futuristic movies where the human character interacts (usually by voice) with a supercomputer or robot. The classic science fiction movie,2001: A Space Odyssey is a case in point. If you recall in the movie, the spaceship’s onboard supercomputer, HAL, interacts with its astronauts as the ship travels to Jupiter. Eventually, HAL evolves to a point where it turns on its two astronaut “colleagues” out of self-preservation.Then there’s the Terminator series in which a supercomputer system known as “Skynet” becomes self-aware and begins to propagate other computers to terminate all human life.Hopefully, this is not what we can expect from the future when it comes to our use of computers and in particular, voice controlled technology.

Today, we see voice recognition technology in use almost everywhere. From the voice-dial feature on our cell phones to the OnStar feature offered in newer GM vehicles, voice controlled technology is here to stay, to improve and to make our lives more comfortable and easy.The future of automatic speech recognition or ASR, is still very much on the cutting edge as the technology continues to improve and its practical use expands. In the medical arena, patient history is easily translated from dictation by doctors into a medical record. Meanwhile, in the legal profession, court reporters make use of the technology during courtroom settings.

As I mentioned earlier, the telecommunications industry is already using ARS whenever you make a hands-free call or when you call in to pay your bill. The customer service savvy companies are even using special soothing or sexy sounding voices to assuage angry customers and improve customer feedback.Even the U.S. military has a critical need for this type of technology. “Electronic crewmembers” will reduce human casualties and loss of human life and won’t question a command of a human operator during times of combat. ASR is also becoming a valuable asset to military members during times when an immediate and accurate language translation is required.

Over the next few years, ASR technology will become more prevalent among everyday computer users. Perhaps the standard keyboard will begin its exit much like the horse and buggy? Either way, voice recognition software is here to stay and will help reduce the likelihood of repetitive motion injuries while improving efficiency and productivity.

It was quite a surprise that I would be actually preferring to purchase my Finasteride from an Online Pharmacy called www.generic4u.com. You see I am not comfortable with technology and I would much rather prefer to have dealing live with stores and not with computers as I am quite an old-fashioned person. But when my niece taught me to use the web, I found it quite interesting and so in a short time, I seemed to be adapting quite well to it.

But of course online transactions were a difficult thing for me to understand and so I took a little longer before I was able to start doing some online purchases and that started out with my search for Cialis online as I rand out of medication one time and since I was online, I tried to experiment a bit and found this great online pharmacy selling cheap drugs named the generic4u.com. And while browsing in their index of drugs, I happened to see they carry also this finasteride which I desperately needed for my hair loss.

And since the rates were way cheaper here, I decided to really learn to purchase online and so now, I now how to order from here and I am planning to order all of my medications here from now on and I think this is a good decision as it really helped me have a lot of savings on my med and it even gets delivered right to my doorstep.

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