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Historical Look at Internet Speed

Cindy — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:06:05 +0000

Many of us use our PCs, Macs or even cell phones to access the internet every single day. But have you ever thought to ask yourself how it all works? The Internet started as a small internetwork of military computers. The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense, laid the foundations for the modern Internet we know today.

By 1992, the network bandwidth of the Internet had increased 20 million times the bandwidth seen in 1964. In November of 1992 Delphi was the first commercial online service offering Internet access, and by May 1995 AOL, Prodigy and CompuServce came online.

Dial up Internet access started the modern Internet speed revolution. It was the only method of Internet access in 1994. Dial up allows a user to access the Internet through an analog modem and traditional telephone system. Dial up speeds began at 0.1 kbits per second. One kbits is equal to 1000 bytes of information per second.

Over the next few years Dial up slowly increased speeds up to 56 kbps. Did you know, in the 1990’s U. S. Federal Law limited Dial up Internet speeds to 53 kbits per second? The U. S. Government feared Hackers could breach U.S. Government networks and disappear before they could be traced by the proper authorities.

Dial up still depends on phone lines for the transporting data, and is used often in rural areas today. Soon dial up may become obsolete and will be replaced by Broadband Internet Access. A broadband connection allows for the transfer of data at a much higher rate than through analog.

Broadband is generally defined as data transfer rates greater than 256 kbit per second. There is not an official minimum bandwidth for broadband. Broadband internet access can range from 64 kbits per second up to 4.0 Megabytes of data per second.

Internet speeds continue to increase to meet customer demands. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are building faster networks with the development of new technologies. By 1996 the first mobile phone had Internet connectivity, and not long after in 2008 studies showed that more people accessed the Internet via mobile phones than PCs. The development of 4G networks, which set peak speed requirements at 100 Mbit/s, help users connect to the Internet at speeds never before seen with a mobile device.

Looking back at the history of internet speeds we can see just how far we’ve come since the 1960’s. Where do you think data speed transfer rates will be in 5-10 years?

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Medical Software Take a Leap Forward

Cindy — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:00:00 +0000

The medical industry is undergoing a quiet revolution in the technology that forms the core of its daily work. The ubiquitous patient record is finally entering the digital age. While some cutting edge doctors and hospitals switched to electronic record keeping years ago, there is a movement underway to get all health care facilities to convert over the next four years.

This has led to an explosion in the development of medical EMR software . These programs create, maintain, and transmit EMRs, or electronic medical records. Because EMRs are designed to exist in a single facility, they do not have to meet the same compatibility standards as electronic health records (EHRs). However, it is an important selling point that quality EMR programs are compatible with EHR and other EMR systems.

An important advantage of an EMR as opposed to an EHR is security. Because the EMR system is only accessible from the point of origin, it is much easier to protect patient confidentiality than on the enterprise systems that use EHRs. Eventually, all EMRs and EHRs will be able to talk to each other. If not directly, they will be able to be copied and attached to each other, to permit patient records to follow them to any medical facility in the country.

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All Game Software Downloads

Cindy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:52:18 +0000

Online video games are popular throughout the world and it is possible to play against people you have never met and who are from countries, or at least cities you may never even have heard of . This is just one of the ways in which the Internet is shrinking the world and global communities continue to increase. The effect this has on international relations has yet to be seen, though it is unlikely to be the top priority on most gamers minds, at least while they are playing. And with the growing numbers of online users and game players, there are also a growing number of game oriented websites and software.

It is possible to have a download program for almost any game out there and this includes online gambling sites. There are various laws that apply to these sites and they should be well known before a gamer participates in any of their options. Meanwhile, poker sites are continually growing in popularity and most of them feature free download software and also have rooms that have no cost or fee to play in. Then of course there are the other rooms where all varieties of poker games are played and they are played for real money. One of the great aspects, and potentially most dangerous, is that you can actually play with some of your favorite professional poker players . The dangerous element is of course that you might lose all your money.

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Medical Software Take a Leap Forward

What is an Android App Developer?

Cindy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:45:04 +0000

Businesses are going from online marketing campaigns that were designated for someone with a computer looking for goods and services to now smart phones looking for the same things. With this new phone technology, there has been a new job created called the app developer.

Every new smart phone has their version of a developer like the Android app developer who creates the new applications on the Android phone.

There is a lot to the answer of what an app is and the developers would give you a definition in code. For the laymen, the answer is that phones are now like little computers that can store computer data and interact with internet websites. The applications are really just the phone version of a computer application.

These applications are like little portholes were the user can find everything they need right from their phone. They can find apps on everything from dog training to stock market trading and they are usually connecting with a website. The apps make it so that the phone can get the web pages that will fit the screen of the phone.

More and more people and companies are learning about apps in places like BellaOnline so they can see how it fits into their life and business. There are business who are making their own applications for their websites to drive more traffic to their business.

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TransGlobe and Social Networks

Cindy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:24 +0000

No one could have predicted the wild success of the social networking sites. In the past five years, they’ve utterly transformed the way we do things in the world. Where at one time, they served as bulletin boards where we could log in and talk to people who had the same interests as we did, we can now connect to a stunning number of people all across the world, sharing interests, news, videos, and a whole generation is learning how to flirt across international borders. It’s a great step forward for cultural understanding, and a great way to take part in the flow of information. It’s not just people who are connecting, either. Far-looking companies like Canada’s TransGlobe Property Management, are using these resources as ways of connecting with their clients in new and meaningful ways.

They’ve always made it easy for their customers, and have a sleek and user-friendly database that allows potential residents to browse through thousands of listings of residential and business properties in Canada’s communities. They can now connect with potential customers on Twitter and Facebook, to provide them with more information, as well as posting splendid videos of the properties on youtube, so they can see more clearly what the buildings and the grounds really look like. It’s stunning to think about how this information can now move so freely. In the past generations, phone calls and meetings would have dominated the calendar, and now these things can be done in a few simple steps. That means that companies like TransGlobe Property Management can use their time and resources for more essential things. Things like taking prompt and courteous care of maintenance calls, and for participating in neighborhood charity events. This way, businesses can use their time to really get to know the communities and the customers they serve, and that’s a step forward for all of us.

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Enhancing the Energy of Wind Turbines

Cindy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:46:50 +0000

One of the most basic of problems for the energy created by a wind turbine, is that the wind does not constantly blow, and this could result less energy production than the standard power plants or nuclear power plants, which harness up to ninety percent of the available energy. One of the best wind turbines, will at its optimum harvest just thirty percent of the energy that is potentially available. This has caused many of the production companies building turbines today to step up and find ways to increase the productivity of each turbine.

One of the aspects that the designers are focusing on is the length of each individual blade. Longer blades can increase the energy stored. Standard wind turbines today are designed with three blades that had before been three hundred and five feet in diameter. The newer designs will reach up to three hundred and thirty feet in diameter. This increases what is called the sweep area, the circular motion of the air that provides the energy for the wind turbine to capture. This increase constitutes an eighteen percent increase in the size of the turbines.

If the wind constantly blew and blew hard, then the size of the blades does not make a difference. Even at moderate rates, the energy output of each turbine is elevated. When the wind blows at the rate of seventeen miles per hour, the larger length blades will have the output go up by almost eight percent, as opposed to the smaller blades. The larger blades do not turn faster, but the energy they capture from the air that passes over them increases.

This is a great new aspect in that this can mean that areas that are not high wind will still be able to utilize this alternative form of energy. But there are some limits to consider, such that when the blades get longer, the more difficult it becomes to transport the blades from the factories in which they are built, to the top of the hills where the turbines are usually placed. And the production of these blades is much more expense. However, the benefits have been seen in the newer wind plants in the US states of Washington and Minnesota, as well as throughout the country of Denmark.

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