INSTANT MESSAGING
CELL PHONES
INTERNET

Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging is a form of communication which involves instantaneous conversing and is usually a private conversation between two people. People who engage in instant messaging do so by logging into a program which allows them to see who is online. People can form their buddy list and then see who is offline, online or away.
AOL Instant Messenger is an instant messaging application that allows all registered users to communicate in real time via text, voice, and video over the Internet. I believe everyone over the entire world is able to communicate with one another through this service. AOL offers everything for everyone. If you like talking to people in different countries, you can. If you want to talk to your friends everyday, you can. If you want to transfer pictures or videos to one another, you can. Many people are shy to communicate in real life and prefer talking to people without seeing them. AOL helps those individuals come out of their shells and express their true selves.

It has many versions that allow you to do what you want to do. Almost everyday, dedicated people try making newer versions of AIM. The newest version at this point is the 6.1 which allows faster communication. Many people have AIM and areconstantly connected to it. They have at least 200 people on their buddy lists who they communicate with on a day to day basis. This is great comparing to real life where an average person communicates with the most 20 people. The more people you talk to, the better your ideas are since listening to someone elses thoughts helps develop better concepts. Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) is a presence enabled messaging service that aims to transpose the desktop messaging experience to the usage scenario of being on the move. While several of the core ideas of the desktop experience on one hand apply to a connected mobile device, others do not: Users usually only look at their phone's screen � presence status changes might occur under different circumstances as happens at the desktop, and several functional limits exist based on the fact that the vast majority of mobile communication devices are chosen by their users to fit into the palm of their hand.

Some of the form factor and mobility related differences need to be taken into account in order to create a really adequate, powerful and yet convenient mobile experience: radio bandwidth, memory size, availability of media formats, keypad based input, screen output, CPU performance and battery power are core issues that desktop device users and even nomadic users with connected notebooks are usually not exposed to. Several formerly untackled issues have been identified and addressed within IMPS, which was developed as part of an early mobile telephone industry initiative to kick off a broader usage of mobile instant messaging. The Open Mobile Alliance has taken over this standard, formerly called Wireless Village, as IMPS V1.0 in November 2002. Since then this standards has been further developed to IMPS V1.3, the latest candidate for release, and is expected to be released before the end of 2006. There are downloadable mobile applications offered by different independent developers that allow users to chat within public (MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, AIM, ICQ) and corporate (LCS, Sametime, Reuters) IM services from mobile devices.

Cell phones

Cell phones do the same job as a regular phone but has more features and is fully portable. Rather than using phone lines like a regular phone, cell phones receive their signal through satellite waves. The extra features that cell phones have over regular phones are a phone book, speed dial, and text messaging. Cell phones also come in a very convenient small size. Cell phones have become a necessity nowadays.
The first "modern" network technology was launched by Radiolinja in 1991 in Finland. Most mobile phones were too large to be carried in a jacket pocket, so they were typically installed in vehicles as car phones. Cell Phones used to be the size of regular house phones. They took too much space and looked fashionably wrong. As years passed, the miniaturization of digital components became popular. It's amazing how much data they can fit in such small phones. The smaller the phone is, the more it's worth. People want to use handy devices that is comfortable to carry around. Today, people control their lives with the help of their cell phones. Some would be lost without the device constantly in their hands. Cell phones are able to do everything that computers can do. Can you imagine having internet service everywhere you go? Well, to use all these creative ideas of course money has to be given. It's not like they're going to hand you anything free. An unlimited plan of Internet, text messenging, and picture messenging costs twenty dollars per month. I think that's an affordable price. If you can afford paying three-hundred or four-hundred on the phone, I'm sure you can pay twenty dollars per month to use such feautures. The iPhone is a revolutionary new mobile phone that allows you to make a call by simply tapping a name or number in your address book, a favorites list, or a call log. It also automatically syncs all your contacts in whatever order you want-just like email. iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy your content-including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies-on a beautiful 3.5-inch display. It allows you to sync the content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac and access it all with a touch of a finger. Also, iPhone features a rich HTML email client and Safari-the most advanced web browser ever on a portable device. Safari also includes built-in Google and Yahoo! search. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read and web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE. iPhone introduces the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse, the most advanced software ever engineered, and true state-of-the-art technology that will change the way you think about a mobile device. With over 300 patents, iPhone is years ahead of any other phone available today. On the other hand, the Sidekick LX offers an integrated and simple-to-use suite of applications including push e-mail, Web browsing,instant messaging, a full featured mobile phone, calendar,address book, and media player as well as a constantly updated content catalog. With the powerful service that supports each device, users are provided with additional benefits, such as an always-on internet connection, free automatic data back-up, and ongoing feature and user-experience improvements. Users also have the option to access all of their data (photos,address book entries, etc.), and applications from any Web-enabled computer. The Sidekick LX included a series of software upgrades to improve how Danger powered devices entertain, connect and inform mobile consumers. Users can now send images and audio clips-including clips they record themselves-with text, to any other MMS-enabled phone. All Danger devices include an HTML Web browser that provides access to the real Internet, not a compromised mobile version of the Web. Danger's platform delivers a responsive, real-time instant messaging service that faithfully recreates most of the desktop experience in the mobile environment. Improvements include updated buddy icons support, links, clickable from chat sessions and support for popular activities such as group chats.

Internet

The internet is a series of linked networks of computers. The world wide web and the internet are different. The world wide web is an area where people are able to go to URLs and webpages to see information. The internet is the physical connection of the networks through optic fiber and other wires and even wireless connections. The internet was first created for use in the U.S. military. The first created network was made in the early 1950s by Project RAND.Aside from the complex physical connections that make up its infrastructure, the Internet is facilitated by bi- or multi-lateral commercial contracts (e.g., peering agreements), and by technical specifications or protocols that describe how to exchange data over the network. Indeed, the Internet is essentially defined by its interconnections and routing policies. As of September 30, 2007, 1.244 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats. Writing in the Harvard International Review, philosopher N.J.Slabbert, a writer on policy issues for the Washington DC-based Urban Land Institute, has asserted that the Internet is fast becoming a basic feature of global civilization, so that what has traditionally been called "civil society" is now becoming identical with information technology society as defined by Internet use. Only 2% of the World's population regularly accesses the internet. The prevalent language for communication on the Internet is English. This may be a result of the Internet's origins, as well as English's role as the lingua franca. It may also be related to the poor capability of early computers, largely originating in the United States, to handle characters other than those in the English variant of the Latin alphabet. After English (31% of Web visitors) the most-requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese 16%, Spanish 9%, Japanese 7%, German 5% and French 5%. The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way analogous to mailing letters or memos predates the creation of the Internet. Even today it can be important to distinguish between Internet and internal e-mail systems. Internet e-mail may travel and be stored unencrypted on many other networks and machines out of both the sender's and the recipient's control. During this time it is quite possible for the content to be read and even tampered with by third parties, if anyone considers it important enough. Purely internal or intranet mail systems, where the information never leaves the corporate or organization's network, are much more secure, although in any organization there will be IT and other personnel whose job may involve monitoring, and occasionally accessing, the email of other employees not addressed to them. Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (or just the Web) interchangeably, but, as discussed above, the two terms are not synonymous. The World Wide Web is a huge set of interlinked documents, images and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. These hyperlinks and URLs allow the web-servers and other machines that store originals, and cached copies, of these resources to deliver them as required using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). HTTP is only one of the communication protocols used on the Internet.Web services also use HTTP to allow software systems to communicate in order to share and exchange business logic and data. Many individuals and some companies and groups use "web logs" or blogs, which are largely used as easily-updatable online diaries. Some commercial organizations encourage staff to fill them with advice on their areas of specialization in the hope that visitors will be impressed by the expert knowledge and free information, and be attracted to the corporation as a result. One example of this practice is Microsoft, whose product developers publish their personal blogs in order to pique the public's interest in their work.

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