... expansion of bandwidth is what is making two-way communication, or interactivity, possible. Neither digitization nor fibre optics is new. But it was only this year that America's two biggest cable-TV owners, TCI and Time Warner , said they would spend $2 billion and $5 billion respectively to deploy both technologies in their systems, which together serve a third of America's 60m ... cable homes. Soon, some TCI subscriptions will be wired to receive 500 channels rather than the customary 50; Time Warner will launch a trail full-service network in Florida with a range of ... ...

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... installed into expansion slots, and are sometimes built right into the motherboard of the computer. Different types of NICs are designed to accept certain types of transmission medium or network cable, which in turn determines the amount of information and the speed at which the information can be sent. They are also designed for different purposes. One type of card can ... ...

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... consumers via the Internet and telephone. Dell's product is build to order computers including desktops, workstations, network servers, and laptops. Dell offers a wide range of optional peripherals such as monitors, cable, video, modems, and data storage. Dell also includes several vendor options such as Kingston Technology, Microsoft, 3COM, Cisco Systems. Dell is the world leader in direct sales of computers. Gateway ... ...

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... labs and computers that exist in the dormitories for student use. Furthermore, every faculty member who wants one has a computer that, along with student terminals, is wired via fiber-optic cable to the main university computer. In addition, the university tries very hard to keep software such as word processors, spreadsheets, and database programs as up to date as possible. All ... ...

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... 65% of households in Singapore had a personal computer in 2002, an increase of 20% compared to ten years ago. 52% of the households have access to Internet services, 32% have Cable TV and a majority of 85% of households had at least one mobile phone in 2002. Moreover, 98.6% and 96.9% of all households have television and telephone service respectively (Ng 2001 ... ...

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... concept of the internet is based off this old BBS system. Replace the BBS with a server the modem with an ISP to give you access and the phone with your cable or DSL and you have a modern day BBS or internet. The main difference's being instead of just one person a server can have hundered or thounsands of people accessing it all ... ...

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... innovation of the common set of technical protocol, TCP/IP, cannot be overlooked for the rapid growth in Internet. This software enable computers using various carriers such as telephone line, cable TV and satellite channels to send different form of data like text messages, sound file or an image to each specific computer (Lee, B, 1999). Without this software, Internet may not ... ...

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