Practical implementation of goal line technology

Tennis uses it, Rugby uses it, Basketball uses it, American football uses it, most modern sports in fact have embraced technology to ascertain the outcome of critical sporting decisions, and from the aftermath of the Germany vs. England world cup match, die hard soccer fans and critics all over the world are now crying out for FIFA to finally implement goal line technology into the beautiful game.

As seen by millions of television viewers, the ball had clearly crossed the line, but the referee had still decided that it was not a goal, bad refereeing decisions like this as seen in the Germany vs. England match had so many of times affected the outcome of the game, and in this modern age of science and technological advancement, it is simply unacceptable to let so many bad refereeing decisions go by when something could actually be done about it.

The implementation of goal line technology into modern soccer is not really a complicated matter. For so many years now, television audiences had the luxury of viewing instant replays but unfortunately, this is something which the most important decision maker does not have.

So what is in fact needed is for the referees to simply be able to view instant replays and make critical decision.

With advancement in mobile technology, small handheld devices like the iPad of the iPhone would be able to do the trick, and from the main broadcasting console, video feeds of instant replays, could be sent to these devices via a secured wireless channel, in this manner, referees could simply refer to their handheld devices and watch the instant replays when critical decisions are needed to be made.

This simple solution if implement effectively could so much aid the referees when it comes of decisions like determining if the ball has crossed the line, offside decision and most importantly it could prevent the tons of shenanigans that happen behind the referee's back.

And if such solution does get picked up by FIFA, I'm sure the likes of CISCO, HP, SONY, SAMSUNG and even APPLE would be lining up to be the first ones to endorse and implement it. We have 2 more years till the next major international tournament; would we finally see a change?

Apple: Revolutionizing Technology

About a week ago, Apple Inc surpassed Microsoft to become the World's most valuable tech company. Apple has certainly came a long way in becoming number one; as many would have expected this news to come sooner rather than later.

Let's take a look at some of the milestones which Apple has set over the last decade or so.

Personal Computing

In the late 1990s, Apple developed a range of proprietary personal computing systems called the Macintosh; consisting of the Macbook, Macbook pros, iMac and many others. The core of the Macintosh was the state of the art operating system, the Mac OS.

Not only does it have an out of the world user interface, the Mac OS was also an incredibly stable platform.

Wowing the computing world with its beautiful aesthetics and its amazing stability, the Macintosh successfully changed the face of personal computing.

The Macintosh was also a predominant feature in movies and television; making them a de-facto for coolness; cool kids and celebrities were seen owning a Macintosh, making it an integral part of American pop culture, which eventually spread on to the rest of the world.

Digital Music Revolution

In the year 2001, Apple introduced to the world the iPod, at that point of time no one would have imagined that there was a device that could contain one's entire music collection, and the iPod was more than capable of that.

The first generation iPod was capable of holding up to 10 GB of music (estimated over 2000 songs) ; the later generations of the iPod had improved capacity of up to 160 GB and it eventually became capable of storing and playing other multimedia files such as pictures and videos and even games.

To further monopolized on the success of the iPod, Apple released its own online media store called the iTunes Store, allowing users to purchase music that can be downloaded to their iPods.

The iTunes store was itself another revolution; with its intuitive user interface, it made purchasing of music easy, and ignited a whole new paradigm in the distribution of digital music. Being a robust platform, the potential of the iTunes store was exponential; and eventually it expanded from a music store to providing podcast, vodcast, videos, applications and even ebooks.

Mobile Technology

If you think Apple was already contented, you are so wrong. In the year 2007, Apple decided to redefine the mobile phone when they released the iPhone.

Although the iPhone had a very breathtaking user interface and some very advance features, the fact is, the market was already saturated with tons of smartphones What made the iPhone truly stand out were neither its aesthetics nor its features, it was the applications.

Riding on the success of the iTunes store, Apple added the App store to iTunes and this paved the way for developers to develop their and sell their own iPhone applications. These apps, which are available on the app store for free or at a reasonable pricing, opened up a world of possibilities for the iPhone, enabling the iPhone to do almost anything, be it using it to check the train schedule to using it as a multimedia player or even using it as a music tuner.This became the best reason for everyone and anyone to get an iPhone; and in a few years, the iPhone became the most popular mobile phone in the world.

A new shift in mobile computing: the portable touch screen?

Wherever they went they conquered and excelled, with the recently launched iPad, Apple certainly looks like they are going to reach another milestone in revolutionizing mobile computing with their touch screen technology.

Having already sold more than 2 million units in less than 2 months, will Apple do it again this time?