...strategic blunders, or even catastrophic failures. Whatever profession one may be in or may wish to pursue, the ability to communicate is a skill that employers would expect employees to have (Courtland & John, 2010). The history of communication starts from cave man’s invention their own way of communicating, evident in the historical relics of cave drawings. The Native Americans used smoke signals for long distance communication while the Native Africans were known to use drums as a means of long distance communication. There are several tongues and languages in the world today and these are all means to the purpose of communication. However, the field of communication has changed drastically since the advent of technology and the modern economy has been adopting these technologies to reap greater benefits and profits. The interplay of forces between communication technology is evident in our day-to-day lives. Such as moving from the heydays of barter trade to being able to purchase goods through telegraphic transfer that can happen almost instantly, with less concern for the physical locality. Today, our lives have arguably been improved with greater convenience as things go electronic and time is saved for each transaction. The economy moves at a much faster speed as we rely heavily on technology today, from the large corporate giants to the small-medium enterprises to the average citizen. Hence, there is a need for businesses to understand the tools which they...
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...years ago, at their age, I had a different answer: I would spend the last day of my life gazing at the face of my dear grandmother until I inscribed every detail of it onto my mind. When grandmother was getting old and weak, my family bought her a telephone so I could save time and the trouble of traveling to her home by making phone calls instead. Later we bought her a television so she could watch modern dramas by herself. Then grandma must have been, we assumed, very contented and happy. But I never really knew how grandma felt. She silently passed away without a word one night. When I heard about her death, a chilling pain pierced my empty heart. The pain grew even sharper as I tried to remember in detail exactly how grandma looked and I failed completely! How could I remember? I had not visited her for ages—it seemed like a century! My memories of her dissolved into thin air and leaked away like water. Even though I have a telephone, can she hear me now? Even though I might be on television, can she see me now? Even though I have modern telecommunications, can she still communicate with me now? With all these “tele”s, I was powerless. Don’t people just love the word of “tele”, which means far away. Indeed this is how modern technology has changed our...
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...switched telephone network The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is one of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks. Originally PSTN is a network of fixed-line analogue telephone systems. Today, the PSTN is totally digital in its core and also includes mobile along with fixed (plain old telephone service, POTS) telephones. Early History The first telephones were in private use, had no network and were wired together in pairs. If a user wanted to talk to different people, he had as many telephones as necessary for that purpose. A user who wished to speak whistled into the transmitter till the other party heard him. Soon, a bell was added for giving signal, and then a switch hook was also added, and telephones took advantage of the exchange principle that was already implemented in telegraph networks. Each telephone was connected through wires to a local telephone exchange, and the exchanges were connected together with trunks. Networks were connected together in a hierarchical manner till they spanned to cities, countries, continents and oceans. This was the beginning of the PSTN, the term PSTN was not known for many decades. Pulse dialling between the phone and the exchange was introduced through Automation, and then among exchanges, followed by more sophisticated address signalling including the multi-frequency. Digital Channel Although this network was made by using analogue voice connections through manual switchboards, then automated telephone exchanges...
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...chose to assess is the hardwired corded landline telephone. Nowadays, just about everyone has a cell phone. However, the batteries in these phones die after only a few hours of talk time, and if the signal goes out these phones become useless. Even if tucked away in a drawer and only used for emergency purposes, every household should have at least one hardwired phone. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2009), “The number of households with cell phones increased from 36 percent to 71 percent between 1998 and 2005. This corresponded with a decrease in households with telephone landlines, particularly households headed by young adults. Householders who were 29 or younger went from 35 percent with cell phones in 1998 to 81 percent in 2005. Over the same period, this same group saw a decrease in ownership of landline phones from 93 percent to 71 percent. Landline phone ownership fell from 96 percent to 91 percent overall from 1998 to 2005. In 2005, 98 percent of householders who were 65 and over had a landline telephone.” The current demographic target for this product is really anybody 18 or older. While older people, say 45 and older, are more likely to still own corded phones, anyone who is able to obtain a phone line is a target consumer. Anyone, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or economic status can use a telephone. And with all the bells and whistles that are added to today’s cell phones, a plain old hardwired phone is so much easier and less expensive...
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... the telephone, radio/TV, the internet, and cell phones. 1. The telegraph (in my opinion) is by far the most important electronic communications development in our history. For millennia societies have communicated over long distances strictly using the physical environment; smoke screens, reflected light, pyres, etc., have been used long before electric technology was introduced. While effective, the physical environment can only “reach” so far; the electric telegraph enabled entire regions, countries, and governments to connect instantly. The ability to send messages- or simply communicate- via electric wires was undoubtedly the fastest leap communications has ever seen; in a matter of decades the world was covered in wires. The telegraph enabled globalization, better government communications, and a widespread need to speak to one another. While the telegraph is somewhat obsolete today, the invention opened the door to the telephone, the radio, and (quite literally) laid the foundation of all electric communications. http://classroom.synonym.com/significance-samuel-morse-inventing-telegraph-10183.html http://history1800s.about.com/od/inventioninnovation/a/telegraph01.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy 2. The second most important electronic development would be the telephone. Founded on the same ideas as the telegraph, the telephone enabled people to literally “send” their voices to one another. While the telegraph was the foundation, the telephone enabled...
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...hard to categorize, we tend to talk about obsolete technologies or obsolete. No need to go to the time of the invention of fire to see technologies that have been replaced by others: that to our grandparents it was technology for our generation can be an anachronism without practical use. There is another concept used today such as new technologies, involving various fields of recent creation as computer science, telecommunications. Anyway in modern society living technology as old as the wheel with newer. The importance of technology is almost always linked to practical applications you may have. In fact, a very expensive or very complicated, technology doesn't succeed, because its implementation is very complicated. That's why sometimes technologies that seem rudimentary trump other much more 'modern'. Either way, technology tends to be in continuous progress, in general being the practical development of new ideas conceived by the scientific disciplines, and is therefore closely linked to the concept of innovation. In the life of modern society, technology is indispensable. In fact, most of the scientific efforts are focused on the creation of new technologies that meet the needs of society and will raise the level of well-being. That on paper, because not always the technology is used for the intended purpose and is designed to improve human life (there are important exceptions, such as military technology), but always a technology meets a need. Without...
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...Matheus Aug/1/2012 Russia Military Notes Russia’s army 1,200,000 (Brooman, Old Europe ) Advantages The third Largest military (Brooman, Old Europe) Had many to recruit, as they had the largest population of over 159 Million(Brooman, Old Europe) Disadvantages They couldn’t move around very effectively that even Germany had plans to attack France before the six weeks in which it would take for Russia to move their army from the east.(Duffy, firstworldwar) They were far from there allies making there supply demands more complicated Weakened by Japan (Smele, BBC) “Masurian Lakes, in 1914, Russia lost two entire armies (over 250,000 men).” (Smele, BBC) Peasants Lack of communication “Most corps did not have working telephones due to lack of wire and consequently received orders hours too late.” (Murphy, Russia Military) Influence The Russian army did not influence the population very well because the Russian military, something so far apart from what was the day-to-day reality, did not have enough “movement”. There was break out happening and Nicholas couldn’t do anything because The Russian military was also occupied on the east side, since there defeat with japan (Smele, BBC) Russia’s Navy 166 ships Coasts were bad Alliance - Britain and France 5th largest (24/7) Military now a days Sentences 1. The Russian army was the third largest army with 1...
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...final date with the manager 5. With the hotel manager. 6. 20 pages for the report. Crystal clear. Assignment 2: Kings Hotel cannot compete with their modernized competition because of their old-fashioned services and interior. Customers complain because they can’t have breakfast in their hotel. The hotel suffers from lack of promotion and extra facilities. Assignment 3: How can Kings Hotel survive the tyranny of their modernized competitors and compete with their rivals while increasing profit again? Assignment 4: 1. Introduction 1 2. Current situation at Kings Hotel 2 2.1 Interior 2 2.2 Services 2 3. Problems occurring at Kings Hotel 3 3.1 Obstacles 3 3.2 Competitors 3 4. Plan of approach 4 4.1 Actions 4 4.2 Solutions 4 5. Financial resources 5 5.1 Budget Kings Hotel 5 5.2 Financial plan 5 6. Future insight 6 6.1 Interior 6 6.2 Services 6 7. Conclusion and recommendations 7 7.1 Conclusions 8 7.2 Recommendations 8 8. Reference list 9 9. Appendices 9 Assignment 5: Kings Hotel cannot compete with their modernized competition because of their old-fashioned services and interior. Customers complain because they can’t have breakfast in their hotel. The hotel suffers from lack of promotion and extra facilities. They could innovate to keep up with...
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...Networks TRUE/FALSE 1. The Internet can transfer conventional data and voice data. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 360 2. It wasn’t until the 1950s that POTS began carrying computer data signals as well as voice signals. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 360 3. Only two wires are required to complete a telephone circuit. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 360 4. A trunk has a unique telephone number associated with it. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 361 5. Subscriber loops usually transmit digital signals, which require amplifiers every few kilometers. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 362 6. Prior to 1984, AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) owned all the long-distance telephone lines in the United States. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 362 7. Telephone systems were originally designed to transmit the human voice. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 364 8. The more information you wish to send over a medium, the lower the frequency of the signal you need to represent that information. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 365 9. When they were originally introduced many years ago, dial-up modems were capable of data transfer speeds of merely 15 to 30 bits per second. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 365 10. A V.92 modem can place a data connection on hold should someone call the user’s telephone number. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 368 11. An asymmetric service is useful for an Internet connection in which the bulk of the traffic comes down from the Internet to the workstation. ANS: T PTS: 1 REF: 369 12. Most residential DSL services are symmetric. ANS: F PTS: 1 REF: 369 13....
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...final date with the manager 5. With the hotel manager. 6. 20 pages for the report. Crystal clear. Assignment 2: Kings Hotel cannot compete with their modernized competition because of their old-fashioned services and interior. Customers complain because they can’t have breakfast in their hotel. The hotel suffers from lack of promotion and extra facilities. Assignment 3: How can Kings Hotel survive the tyranny of their modernized competitors and compete with their rivals while increasing profit again? Assignment 4: 1. Introduction 1 2. Current situation at Kings Hotel 2 2.1 Interior 2 2.2 Services 2 3. Problems occurring at Kings Hotel 3 3.1 Obstacles 3 3.2 Competitors 3 4. Plan of approach 4 4.1 Actions 4 4.2 Solutions 4 5. Financial resources 5 5.1 Budget Kings Hotel 5 5.2 Financial plan 5 6. Future insight 6 6.1 Interior 6 6.2 Services 6 7. Conclusion and recommendations 7 7.1 Conclusions 8 7.2 Recommendations 8 8. Reference list 9 9. Appendices 9 Assignment 5: Kings Hotel cannot compete with their modernized competition because of their old-fashioned services and interior. Customers complain because they can’t have breakfast in their hotel. The hotel suffers from lack of promotion and extra facilities. They could innovate to keep up with...
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...nowadays our society has enjoyed the benefits of having modern technology.We are blessed with modern tools, which could perform to what seemed to be an impossible task in the past like retrieving information in a matter of seconds. However, this often comes with unforseen and undesirable consequences defeating the very objective in the first place. To my mind, modern technology is a bane than a boon. It cannot be denied that the technological improvement brings forth to us some advantages. Firstly, it helps man communicate local or oversea by writing email, telephone or mobile. A student , for instance, who is studying abroad can talk to his family by chatting and web cam rather than waiting for a hand - writing letters. Secondly, the modern tools also support man in business and studying. It makes better condition to fulfill tasks faster and more convenient. For example, a student spend less time searching information and documents by clicking mouse on google rather than is stuck with many books in library. A business man can deal with his job by using laptop and internet whereas he can still enjoy holiday with his family. Nevertheless, for every solution technology provides twice as many problems are likely to cause. The modern technology is to some extent underlying causes of negative things in our society. It's Internet that provides an accessible medium for bad elements such as pornography, crimes and so on. the teenagers who are not conscious enough tend to imitate...
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...nowadays our society has enjoyed the benefits of having modern technology.We are blessed with modern tools, which could perform to what seemed to be an impossible task in the past like retrieving information in a matter of seconds. However, this often comes with unforseen and undesirable consequences defeating the very objective in the first place. To my mind, modern technology is a bane than a boon. It cannot be denied that the technological improvement brings forth to us some advantages. Firstly, it helps man communicate local or oversea by writing email, telephone or mobile. A student , for instance, who is studying abroad can talk to his family by chatting and web cam rather than waiting for a hand - writing letters. Secondly, the modern tools also support man in business and studying. It makes better condition to fulfill tasks faster and more convenient. For example, a student spend less time searching information and documents by clicking mouse on google rather than is stuck with many books in library. A business man can deal with his job by using laptop and internet whereas he can still enjoy holiday with his family. Nevertheless, for every solution technology provides twice as many problems are likely to cause. The modern technology is to some extent underlying causes of negative things in our society. It's Internet that provides an accessible medium for bad elements such as pornography, crimes and so on. the teenagers who are not conscious enough tend to imitate...
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...mobile phone: a boon to modern civilization We are living in an electronic age. The whole world is taking a new turn with every fraction of time. It has given birth to globalization. The world has been contracted and concised at a tip. There are a lot of new means of communication which have made our life so simple and easy going. Mobile phone can be seen as the most used present day phenomenon in this fast growing time. Mobile phone is a revolutionary step in the field of tele-communication. We had the days when the telephones only served the purpose of communication through sound. Mobile phone has completely changed the concept of the telephoning. Now a phone is not only a mere phone but it is a lot in itself. A mobile phone works on a unique networked system which needs no wiring, no fixation and no botheration. Originally it was used in cars, airlines, and passanger trains but increasingly it is becoming ubiquitous. It is basically low- power radio telephone. In this magical system calls go through radio transmitters that are located within small geographical unit which are known as cells. Since each cell's signals are too weak to interfere with those of other cells operating on the same frequencies and more channels can be used than would be possible with high power radio frequency transmission. Narrow-band frequency modulation (FM) is the most common mode of transmission, each message is assigned a carrier, unique to the cell from which it is transmitted...
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...Patrick D. Hopkins’ “Introduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology,” in Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology examines the way in which virtually all forms of technology are gendered. The overall claim Hopkins makes in this section is that, although technology is constantly advancing, it still entails the old stereotypes and polarizing dichotomies that are currently implemented in this patriarchal society in which we live in. Commencing his work, he explains that “[m]uch of the debate over technology in general, and technology’s effects on gender roles and identity in particular, is generated by the fear that new technologies are moving too fast, or too far, or in the wrong direction from traditional...
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...Nowadays our society has enjoyed the benefits of having modern technology.It is used like a daily tool for our lives.We also use it in business and security as well.However,this offen comes with unforseen problem.To my mine,modern technology is a bane than a boon although I’m actually addicted to it. We cannot deny that the technological improvement brings to us some advantages.Firstly,it helps people community local or oversea together by writing email,telephone or mobile.For instance,a student who is studying abroad can talk to his family by chatting and webcam rather than hand writing-letters.Secondly,the modern technology also support businessmans and students.It makes better condition to complete the tasks faster and more convenient.For example,a student spend less time to searching informations and documents by clicking mouse on google instead of reading book.A businessman can deal with his job by using laptop and internet whereas he can still enjoy holiday with his family comfortably.That is a reason why the interner has spread all over the world. Follow the statistic of Internet World Stats that has 2,267,233,742 internet users. Most of them are Asia people with 1,016,799,076 users and also is the most popular as well.Indices of interner user has been increasing non-stop. Nevertheless,the more advanced technology becomes not only does it provide benefits but there maybe hazards as a result of this development.It’s internet that provides people (especially student and...
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