Technology Essays
Smart cards
Smart cards Smart cards are transforming business around the world from reducing fraud and opening up on-line transactions in banking, personalizing services for mobile phone users, to securing access to PCs and corporate networks, and speeding transportation by using electronic ticketing. The most common uses of smart cards today are: banking and retail, mo-bile communications, information technology, identity and health, park-ing, public telephony, mass transit and campus ID solutions; a...
Software
Software Hardware is the physical aspect of computers, telecommunications, and other information technology devices. The term arose as a way to distinguish the "box" and the electronic circuitry and components of a computer from the program you put in it to make it do things. The program came to be known as the software. Hardware implies permanence and invariability. Software or programming can easily be varied. You can put an entirely new program in the hardware and make it create an ent...
Superconductors
Superconductors Super conductivity is a natural phenomenon in which certain materials such as metals, alloys, and ceramics, can conduct electricity without resistance. These materials are what we call superconductors. In a superconductor, once the flow of electrons begins, it essentially goes on forever, making it an important material to humans. Superconductivity was discovered by a Dutch scientist by the name of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1911. While researching properties of materi...
Power generation in the future what we should do in australi
Power generation in the future what we should do in australi Based on the current technology regarding power sources we believe that Australia�s total power usage should be divided between these four sources using the percentage specified (reasons why are listed below): Nuclear Power � 50% Coal Power � 25% Solar Power � 15% Wind Power � 10% Nuclear Nuclear should generate majority of the power because it is a reliable power source and unlike coal generators, it d...
Privacy and anonymity and information network technologies
Privacy and anonymity and information network technologies We might assume that nothing new could be said about the issue of privacy behond the basic notion that it is something secluded from the inclusion of others, a virtue and right that every citizen of a democratic society might possess. However, if that were actually the case then we would not see our culture involved in debates about the issues regarding privacy and anonymity as they relate to new information technologies...
Radar detector
Radar detector Nowadays, speed-detection technology has become more and more advanced, and not getting a speeding ticket is almost unavoidable. There are a lot of devices around that can help drivers detect the police traps, but these devices are illegal in many states. As people are driving down the interstate with their cruise control set over the speed limit, many get scared of a police car parked on the side of the road. Right after they pass the trap they look at the speedometer and t...
Radio making waves in america
Radio - making waves in america Radio: Making Waves in America Radio-wave technology is one of the most important technologies used by man. It has forever changed the United States and the world, and will continue to do so in the future. Radio has been a communications medium, a recreational device, and many other things to us. When British physicist James Clerk Maxwell published his theory of electromagnetic waves in 1873, he probably never could have envisioned the sorts of things that...
Secure electronic transactions
Secure electronic transactions The Internet is a revolutionary new exciting tool that puts large amounts of information at the click of a mouse. Logging on the Internet is like walking through the biggest shopping mall. It allows you to buy tickets for concerts, reserve a hotel, and even purchase stocks. The Internet allows the consumer to have freedom of choice and convenience. Shopping online offers many benefits that stores cannot offer. For example, the Internet is always open [seven...
Network security and firewalls
Network security and firewalls Network Security and Firewalls In our age of decaying morals, we find the need for security in every aspect of life. There are far to many people that are willing and able to take anything they can that doesn't belong to them. We have security everywhere we look. There are armed guards in our stores and even schools. Police officers patrol the streets trying to keep people safe. We have people to provide security in a world where things are physical,...
Noise reduction in hearing aids
Noise reduction in hearing aids Recently in a local hearing clinic, a client�s concerns were discussed. �I�m afraid I won�t like them. My brother in law bought two hearing aids, and he keeps them in a drawer in the kitchen.� While the number of people dissatisfied with their hearing aids hovers around 50%, the hearing aid industry is hard pressed to decrease the number of returns, and increase the average daily use of each aid. In order to accomplish this, hearing aid manufactu...
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear power plants Nuclear Plants The question of whether the U.S. should have nuclear power plants is very controversial. There are two sides that one can take; however, both sides have their own share of problems. If you chose to not have nuclear plants, then eventually all natural resources will run out. The oil supply will run out relatively soon, and all other sources will run out too. The natural resources that we have now are still harmful to the earth however. The gas which we ...
Osi model
Osi model OSI is a standard description or for how messages should be transmitted between any two points on a network. The OSI model defines seven layers that take place at each end of a communication. It is also valuable as a single reference view of communication that lets everyone have a common ground for education and discussion. Developed by representatives of major computer companies beginning in 1983, OSI was made to be a detailed specification of interfaces. Instead, the committee de...
Media influence
Media influence MEDIA INFLUENCE The media play an important role in our lives and influence us in our choices and things we value in life. We definitely live in an information society, large groups of people receive information and store it. There are many opinions about the mass media of communications served as a vehicle for rational discussion featuring the range of political and cultural perspective. If communications controlled by an elite group, then the given information the people...
Military Technology
Military Technology When the first computer was built some decades ago, it was capable of doing simple calculations and other basic tasks. The engineers had no idea what the future would bring within the world of computers. Their invention was the first step in a major professional and personal transformation in the industrialized world. Computers invaded in the following decades the lives of most people in various worksaving machines and in the middle of the Eighties also in the form of Per...
Multimedia
Multimedia As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent of one another, coming together to form a new technological approach to the w...
Napster vs riaa
Napster vs riaa Napster Under Glass Online, you can find a digital version of any song that your heart desires from classical to hardcore to country in less than 10 � 15 minutes. Terabytes or 1000000000000 (a trillion) bytes of Mp3 files can be found online at peak times, which roughly translates to 330,000 songs in 3100 different collections. A Mp3 is an individual song converted into a digital format and playable on computers. A popular program easily accessible on the Internet is ...
Isdn for small business
Isdn for small business Abstract The following will discuss the application and analysis ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) to the residential and small business user. ISDN is a digital connection of phone lines from the customer to the telephone exchange. Digital communication is able to transmit all types of communication required today. These are voice, data or computer and imaging or fax. Data communications are in high demand today and it is difficult to understand. Th...
It and retailing
It and retailing IT AND RETAILING What is e-commerce? E-commerce is the buying and selling of products and services by both businesses and consumers over the Internet. Such practices have exploded over the last year as security has improved with more and more consumers now buying goods and services online. This coupled with the computer revolution of the late twentieth century has lead to e-commerce now becoming the buzzword of trade and industry as hundreds of companies are now mo...
Linux operating system
Linux operating system Linux is a free Unix-like operating system that was developed on the Internet. Linus Torvalds first created it, and then he put the source code on his web page. After that, hackers and programmers developed it. With time, it became a big organization and now it is a powerful, advanced operating system. It has important features that are not available with other operating systems. You can run Linux with other operating systems such as MacOS, DOS, Windows, Novell, o...
Local area networks
Local area networks LANs: Local Area Networks Local Area Networks also called LANs have been a major player in industrialization of computers. In the past 20 or so years the worlds industry has be invaded with new computer technology. It has made such an impact on the way we do business that it has become essential with an ever-growing need for improvement. LANs give an employer the ability to share information between computers with a simple relatively inexpensive system of network ca...
Internet applications in business
Internet applications in business The Benefits of Businesses that use the Internet Almost all national retail organizations today have an Internet site where anyone can place an order. Most are even able to accept credit card payment for instant processing of your order. In fact, there are some companies that accept orders solely from the Internet. Office Depot has gone one step further than the competition; they have included perks for their contract customers also. Specifically, t...
Internet site evaluations
Internet site evaluations Introduction "Wow, will you look at this website I found, they claim that 9 out of 10 people in America are millionaires. What's more, they claim to be the largest online wealth creation firm. Surprisingly, there is no information regarding the author or the origin of this site." Internet dream or website scheme? If one is easily persuaded by this type of material, it may be time to reassess their knowledge of website criterion. Not all websites are creat...
Internet
Internet This isn�t perfect but it is a good start Who is supposed to be the watchdog on the net? This question will raise the temperature in almost any room. The government already has to many regulations on lots of things, who wants Uncle Sam�s hand in the web. Some of the regulations that are applied are there for specific reasons. Those protect the people before the damage to say a young child posing for porn can be done. Those people that would be trying to regulate the Internet c...
Is the internet bring a new era of american cultural imperia
Is the internet bring a new era of american cultural imperia The Internet has emerged as the most rapidity adopted communication medium in history. The Internet by design is de-centralized, inexpensive, uncensored, and accessible from anywhere in the globe. Bill Gates contends that the Internet is first step along the �Information Superhighway�, which will ultimately create a �global village� that will allow for a more symmetrically distribution of information. The United States, w...
Information management
Information management Executive Summary The report aims to address the issue of information management within Lanway. Information, may feel is the most important resource any firm has, yet many firms have no appreciation of the cost, value or importance of the information they hold. By first outlining the steps and findings of an information audit carried out within the firm, conclusions are then drawn as to what measures should be taken in order to increase the effectiveness of L...