Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a wireless technology created in 1994 that allows computers, phones and other devices to talk over short distances with a range of roughly 100 meters. Bluetooth uses radio waves, and is designed to connect to each other  and be a secure and inexpensive way of connecting and exchanging information between devices without wires. This is useful if you are wanting to send some media or a certain file which isnt that large to another device in close range.

 

MSM- MultiMedia Short Messaging Service

MMS is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It was created after SMS to allow users to do more than simply send text to eachother. main uses of MMS is to send photographs from camera-equipped handsets, although it is also popular as a method of delivering news and entertainment content including videos, pictures, text pages and ringtones

W3C

W3C Was originally created by Tim Bernser-Lee back in 1994, W3C is the company that orginally created the "WWW" (World Wide Web) under Tims leadership. W3C also control the internet they sell the web pages and they also check to valiadate websites

Broadband - ADSL

Broadband in telecommunications refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range (or band) of frequencies. In general it means an internet type which is pretty fast. AKA Broadband internet



ADSL is a kind of modem used by the Broadband internet, if you have a broadband internet you need to use an ADSL modem, before the ADSL we had normal modems, which converted analog telephone line signals to digital and digital signals to analog telephone signals.

VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol

VOIP is a means of allowing users to talk over the internet, one of the most popular ways this is used is "skype", skype is a program that allows users to make calls to landline phone users and to other skype users on their pc allowing people to speak through the internet.

The actual protocol for Internet-based telephone calls was published in March 1999 by the Network Working Group as "Proposed Standard--Request for Comments 2543 (RFC 2543)." Although the phrase "voice over Internet protocol" (VoIP) is not actually used in the document, this is origin of the VoIP standard.

video Confrencing

during this lesson we had a guest speaker who introduced us to a social network program he had uploaded to moodle which allows users to send and view webcam aswell as chat.

the idea behind this was to show us that it could be possible to have a completely online lesson
if we all loged in and had webcams the lecturer could show use text documents via the tools and could also select one of us to be the presenter if he wanted us to answer a question.

there is however some set backs, video sessions cant be recorded and presentation files cant be shown through the software.