People in the computer industry love to hear themselves talk. Specifically, they love to throw around complicated computer acronyms and multisyllabic terms. This can be intimidating to outsiders, especially new computer users trying to educate themselves on the ways of the computer world. Read more
Carrying the hopes of tomorrow’s mobile phone is 3G - the next generation of mobile phone technology.
>>Short Message Service: (SMS) was initially offered on digital GSM networks allowing text messages of up to 160 characters to be sent and received via the network operator’s message centre to a mobile phone, or from the Internet, using an ‘SMS gateway’ website. Fast forward 150 years or so and enter ‘texting’ - Short Messaging Service (SMS) on mobile phones.
One computer is a computer. Two or more connected and able to exchange data, make a network.
>Before the Internet came about there were other solutions to the need for data exchange and computer networking.
Bob Kahn was co-designer of the system for handling data communication between computers known as TCP/IP.
Kahn shone as a computer genius at Princeton University. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) was expanded later to include Internet Protocol (IP), and this software underpins the Internet we use today
For decades the telephone kiosk - or telephone box as it soon became known - was not so much the telephone you used when you were out and about.
For people who didn’t have their own telephones at home - in other words, most people - the kiosk was their only path to the telephone. The classic red K2 telephone box designed by Gilbert Scott was installed throughout London.
The next main target in future mobile communications is the Universal Mobile Telephony System - UMTS - a third generation (3G) technology that will underpin full-function mobile multimedia networks based on broadband wireless technologies.
If 3G proves too expensive, some networks may decide to provide mobile data service using General Packet Radio Services (GPRS). However, enhanced modulation technologies such as Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) could increase network capacity