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TRENDS IN ICT

1. CONVERGENCE- technological convergence is the combination of two or more different entities of technologies to create a new single device.

2. Social Media- is a website, application, or online channel that enables web users to create, co-create, discuss, modify, and exchange user generated content.

SIX TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

⁘ Social networks- these are sites that allows you to connect with other people with the same interest or background. It enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc. Facebook and Google+ are examples of social networks.

⁘ Bookmarking sites- sites that allow you to store and manage links to various website and resources. Most of the sites allow you to create a tag to others like Pinterest and StumbleUpon.

⁘ Social news- a website that features user-posted stories. Such stories are ranked based on popularity, as voted on by other users of the site or by website administrators. An example of this are Reddit and Digg

⁘ Media Sharing- sites that allow you to upload and share media content like images, music and video.

※ Microblogging- focus on short update from the user. Those are subscribed to the user will be able to receive those updates. An example of these sites are Twitter and Plurk.

※ Blogs and Forums- allow user yo post their content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic. Blogger, Wordpress and Tumblr are some example.

Ⅲ. MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

the popularity of smartphones and tablets has taken a major rise over the years. This is largely because of the devices capability to do the tasks that were originally found in PCs. Several of these devices are capable of using a high-speed internet. Today the latest model devices use 4G Networking (LTE), which is currently the fastest.

MOBILE OS

1. iOS - use in apple devices such as iPhone and iPad

2. Android - an open source OS developed by Google. Being open source means mobile phone companies use this OS for free.

3. Blackberry OS - used in blackberry devices

4. Windows phone OS - A closed source and proprietary operating system developed by Microsoft.

5. Symbian - the original smartphone OS. Used by Nokia device.

6. Web OS- originally used in smartphone; now in smart TVs.

7. Windows Mobile - developed by Microsoft for smartphones and pocket PCs

Ⅳ. ASSISTIVE MEDIA

is a nonprofit service designed to help people who have visual and reading impairments.

assistive Media is an Internet-delivered audio reading service for people with visual or perceptual reading impairments.

the purpose is to heighten educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standards through the pure enjoyment of reading via the good and useful work of not-for-profit service.

Ⅴ. CLOUD COMPUTING

distributed computing on internet or delivery of computing service over the internet.

EXAMPLES : Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail

instead of running an e-mail program on your computer, you log in to a Web e-mail account remotely. The software and storage for your account doesn’t exist on your computer – it’s on the service’s computer cloud.It has three components

1. Client computers – clients are the device that the end user interact with cloud.

2. Distributed Servers – Often servers are in geographically different places, but server acts as if they are working next to each other.

3. Datacenters – It is collection of servers where application is placed and is accessed via Internet.

TYPES OF CLOUDS

• Private cloud - allows systems and services to be accessible within an organization. It offers increased security because of its private nature.

• Community cloud - allows systems and services to be accessible by group of organizations.

• Hybrid cloud - is a mixture of public and private cloud. However, the critical activities are performed using private cloud while the non-critical activities are performed using public cloud.