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As one of the most promising platforms to have come about at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was initially greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market (which is at this moment worth many multiples of billions more yearly). These days the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s equally notable Playstation, but just lately the stakes were elevated with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers entirely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen actions. The highly leading-edge motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!

The computer chip maker, Intel, is now trying to stake its claim in the 3G Cell Phones / smart phone industry. They are said to be making an open source operating system for mobile devices known as Moblin, hoping to branch out of its regular business confines of microprocessors. It is just one of many computer and internet based companies that is now trying to get in on the smart phone revolution.

Moblin, which stands for Mobile Linux, offers panel-based navigation to browse running programs, widget based social networking applications as well as a Firefox browser. Intel will allow programmers and developers write programs that will work on multiple platforms as well as different types of computers.

The idea behind the Intel company move is to break into the cellular industry because as 3G Cell Phones become more the standard for accessing the internet it becomes imperative that these once top of the line computer and software makers aren’t left in the dust of newer innovative companies. This marks a stretch in the industry in which software makers must make the leap, whether they like it or not, into the smart phone industry. Inevitably this is where the computing industry is heading. Completely, no. Laptops and desktops are as popular and as essential as ever but to think a company can sit back and watch others take control of the growing 3G cell phone / Smartphones industry is simply ludicrous.

This industry is a money maker and a place where companies can show off innovative creativity and become quite experimental. But those who do not get on board soon I fear will never get another opportunity to join in. It’s nice to see these companies finally testing the waters, and it’s great for us consumers, more competition between the companies and likely better products, too.

Yes, it the innovativeness and the competition between companies that should make consumers happiest. When more companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Intel get into the mix the more ideas are shared and the better products are produced. The technological geniuses that are now competing for our business, and the only way to get that business it make the best products available. So let the innovation take over while we simply choose which we like best. I guarantee by the end of this year we will see things on smart phones that we never thought possible. Remember that. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.