The effect of ICT on the way we CommunicateICT has had a big impact on the way that people are communicating in everyday life. It is had the biggest impact on business people and the way can they can now efficiently communicate with others, although it has had a big impact on business workers it has has always impacted the way the youths/teenagers are communicating. This is now done in a variety of different ways now such as Email, sms, chat, digital voice, video calling this allows people to do a wider variety of calls. Because of these vast improvements it has allowed people to do this from wherever they are and work and play where they are.
ICT has had the biggest impact in the phone industry which is allowing to still develop with every phone they make. Mobile Phones have now advanced to letting anyone send sms text or mms texts wherever they are, or even call people wherever they are. Phones also allow people to take photos or videos the cameras are developing in each phone to become better. Some of the latest phones such as the iPhone4 have touch screen technology this is very popular to the public as its a very advanced piece of technology. With certain phones now they allow you to connect to the internet this allows people to stay on top of emails or even to search things online whilst out and about. With the internet people will also download apps such as skype an IM this allows them to communicate with people other the world for free, there may be a price to download some apps but this 1 instalment.
1. Video Calls
The most touted feature of the iPhone 4 is a video calling mode called FaceTime. Just one tap on the screen will connect you with any other iPhone 4 user for a virtual face-to-face conversation using the device’s new front-facing camera — provided you’re both connected to Wi-Fi hotspots.
3G calling capability is expected next year, though it’s not clear whether or not you’ll have to buy a new model to do that. We’re guessing you won’t; it should just be a software update once AT&T’s cellular data network is up to the task.
Talking to clients or partners face-to-face instead of just hearing one another’s voices can be a major boon if you’re trying to build and maintain strong relationships, especially over long distances. Sure, you could do video calls on services like Skype before, but it just got a lot easier with the new iPhone.
2. Unified E-mail Inbox
Depending on what kind of business you’re trying to run, you might end up with multiple e-mail addresses to check. Even if it’s just your personal and your work account, it’s hard to keep it all straight sometimes. Previously the iPhone wasn’t very helpful on this front, because it wouldn’t display e-mails from different accounts in the same inbox.
That’s changed with iOS 4, the new operating system software freely available for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4. Now you can view your account inboxes individually or all together in one.
Additionally, e-mail conversations are sorted by “thread.” That means that when you receive 20 replies to a single e-mail, your inbox will have a link to a thread of messages in the conversation instead of throwing all 20 out in front, drowning out other e-mails.
Both new e-mail features are welcome additions for business users who deal with a lot of e-mail coming in from many different places.
3. Better Battery Life
The iPhone 4’s battery life is significantly better than that of the iPhone 3GS or either of its predecessors. The 3GS would run out of juice after a long day of flights, layovers and meetings. Not so with the iPhone 4, which gets an astounding 300 hours of life when on standby, and 9 hours of 3G talk time.
Apple accomplished this despite added features and increased performance by installing a much larger battery in the device. It won’t be a night-and-day difference, but you’ll still be happy with it on long trips.
4. Better Enterprise Support
Apple has updated the iPhone operating system with improved enterprise features that its customers in the business world have requested time and again.
Those updates include features like wireless app distribution and mobile device management, along with SSL VPN support. Further, data protection of business-critical information is improved by protecting e-mails and attachments stored on the phone by using the device passcode as an encryption key.
Perhaps most notably, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now supported, and the phone can handle multiple Exchange accounts, which quite a few executives and medium business owners use.
It’s still not a BlackBerry, but the iPhone is closer than it has ever been. Note that these enterprise features will also work on the iPhone 3GS or 3G if you upgrade them to iOS 4.
These new features have certainly enhanced the iPhone’s appeal to business owners. Will these new offerings persuade you to purchase an iPhone 4 for your business needs? Let us know in the comments below.
The diagram above shows the development of phones since 2000 - 2010.
This article is about how blackberrys have been introduced to some smaller firms for them to be used within the uk aswell as china.
How ICT has helped laptops change the world
How ICT has helped laptops change the world
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| One of the first laptops created. |
The term “laptops” started from here because these mini computers could be used, apart from one’s desk, by simply putting it on one’s lap. The laptop was then used to refer to smaller portable computers as opposed to “desktops” which were the regular computers that sit on desks in many offices and homes.
A laptop is manufactured with some usual components of personal computers. No sooner had it launched in than some major computer companies such as Dell, Toshiba, Sony, HP-Compaq and others like Acer, Lenovo etc. made a huge profit.
This was a welcome relief because it equipped buys with the power to choose exactly what they wanted to be included in their new computer in terms of memory size, hard-drive size, processor speed and more. All this could be done right from the Dell company website. Other companies followed suit and the era of customization was here.
Customization was initially brought in so that the users can select components to increase their system’s performance, but now the customization concept has been extended to change the appearance of the system as well.
While most computers come in black and grey, the top computer manufactures have began to crank out laptops that come in different colors. One of the colors is pink and this is one of the most popular laptop colors now in the open market.
Today laptops are not only confined in business domain or education. Computer is much used by Researchers projects or to any other educational system. This is because of the one and only fact that computers are day by day becoming cheaper and cheaper. Today, a computer penetrating in almost any industrial field you think of is quite certain.
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| An example of how laptops have developed to recent times. |
How Email has had an impact on the way we communicate
The most significant development of the recent technological advancements, as many business managers have recognized it as the single most important part of today’s information technology (Currid, 1993). It is more convenient that the old methods of face-to-face meetings, “snail mail”, and telephone calls. It allows more precise communication, as well as allowing for various attachments to drive that message home. E-mail allows us to reduce our use of paper, thus being environmentally friendly. Most importantly, there is a tremendous time savings with proper e-mail use, which is a big factor for any manager. You take all these facts together, and the picture becomes very clear about how e-mail has changed business communications.
All businesses depend on communication. This communication can be across the room, across the country, and even across the world. There was a time when it would take costly measures to overcome the distance barrier. Now it’s as easy as logging on to your Lotus Notes, typing up what comes to mind, and pressing “send”. Do you need to send a message to Jim down the hall, or Hans out in Europe? E-mail has allowed us to traverse these distances without thought. Not only can you send each one a note almost instantaneously, you can also send them the exact same message, and anyone else in your phone book, all at the same time. This type of communication wasn’t even dreamed of 100 years ago, but now has become a standard that businesses have come to depend on.
E-mail has also come to be a very convenient tool for businesses. No longer does the sender and receiver need to have the same time available on their schedules, like with a phone call. The sender will get his message out when he has the time, and the receiver can read that message at his leisure
All businesses depend on communication. This communication can be across the room, across the country, and even across the world. There was a time when it would take costly measures to overcome the distance barrier. Now it’s as easy as logging on to your Lotus Notes, typing up what comes to mind, and pressing “send”. Do you need to send a message to Jim down the hall, or Hans out in Europe? E-mail has allowed us to traverse these distances without thought. Not only can you send each one a note almost instantaneously, you can also send them the exact same message, and anyone else in your phone book, all at the same time. This type of communication wasn’t even dreamed of 100 years ago, but now has become a standard that businesses have come to depend on.
E-mail has also come to be a very convenient tool for businesses. No longer does the sender and receiver need to have the same time available on their schedules, like with a phone call. The sender will get his message out when he has the time, and the receiver can read that message at his leisure
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