Thursday, 10 April 2008

Monday, 25 February 2008

Mobile Phones...

Mobile Phones:
Beginning with 1981 to 1983 in USA were created two cellular system.
In the beginning the use of cell phones were used in vehicles such as taxicab radios, two way radios in police cruisers, and the like. A large community of mobile radio users, known as the mobileers
popularized the technology that would eventually give way to the mobile phone. Originally, mobile phones were permanently installed in vehicles, but later versions such as the so-called transportables or "bag phones" were equipped with ciggerette lighter plug so that they could also be carried, and thus could be used as either mobile or as portable phones.
In December 1947 engineers, proposed hexagonal cells for mobile phones. also they proposed that the cell towers be at the corners of the hexagons rather than the centers and have directional antennas that would transmit/receive in 3 directions.
In Europe, radio telephony was first used on the first-class passenger trains between Berlin and Hamburg since 1926. At the same time, radio telephony was introduced on passenger airplanes for air traffic security. Later radio telephony was introduced on a large scale in German tanks during the second world war
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Thursday, 7 February 2008

Continued...

COMPATIBILITY - Is two or more systems come together which work well together.

CONNECTIVITY - When different types of technologies are connected to the internet

DIGITAL - When a type of technology is transported onto data for example Light or sound or pictures.

SYNERGY - Is when you a media institution uses a previous or different product to help sell its current product.

STORAGE - Is a type of technology that can hold certain amounts of data for example; Pen drives, hard drives and Cd roms etc.

MINIATURISATION - Act of making on a greatly reduced scale or the act becoming less.



Wednesday, 6 February 2008

Task one - Key Terms

Portability - Portability is a New media technology in which has a quality of being light enough and small enough to be carried around. Examples of this are pen drives, mobile phones, laptops and ipods.

CONVERGENCE - Is when the occurrence of two different media technologies or more come together. For example Computers and Televisions come together they are able to display the same media. There merged together into a hybrid with World Wide Web style content. For the two to truly converge the content that can be received by both devices should be the same.


INTERACTIVITY - Interactivity relates to new media technologies where humans and animals are able to interact with dialog. For example games are usually thought of as fostering a great amount of interactivity. On the internet, you not only interact with the browser but also pages of which the browser brings to you.