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In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg started FACEBOOK from Harvard University and expanded University by University. It had sleek, easy-to-use interface. It could keep updating its users’ home page with information about their friends by continuous searching of the data base. Today Facebook contends with 30 billion shared updates a month. Today Facebook has 540 million users who spend 700 billion minutes on the site every month.
With the advent of Smartphones and Cloud computing, we are heading into the third phase of the Web. In first phase we had webs between humans and machines. Then we had web around humans and people they trust. And now we are having the web spun around our physical world and virtual world.
These digital tools such as Facebook and Twitter have been used by the people of Tunisia and Egypt to organize peaceful democratic protests which have led to regime change in a bloodless manner.
Technology 3_VOICE OVER IP(VoIP)
Timeline of Internet Telephony.
| Year | Evolution of Internet |
| 1970 | ARPANET experiments with digital signal processing. |
| 1974 | The IEEE publishes a paper titled “A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnections”. |
| 1995 | VocalTec launches iPhone, the first commercial VoIP application. |
| 1999 | Mark Spencer creates Asterisk. Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange (PBX) originally created by Mark Spencer of Digium . A PBX, is a type of phone switch, that allows multiple attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network ( PSTN ). Not totally unlike routers that connect multiple computers to a network. |
| 2002 | Vonage is launched. Vonage is a publicly-held commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network and SIP company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection. The company's name is a play on their motto "Voice-Over-Net-AGE". [ |
| 2003 | Skype is launched. Skype (pronounced /ˈskaɪp/ ) is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet . Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phone can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging , file transfer , and video conferencing . The network is operated by Skype Limited , which has its headquarters in Luxembourg and is minority owned by eBay . Most of the development team of Skype is situated in Tallinn , Estonia for cost reasons and outsourced by the Luxembourg parent company [1] |
| 2004 | Microsoft Xbox Live is launched. REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 20, 2005 — Coming off one of the hottest holiday seasons for video game software sales in history, Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Xbox Live (TM) online gaming service has set a new standard with more than 1.4 million members, exceeding expectations and cementing its leadership position in the digital entertainment landscape. This additional news comes on the heels of 14 consecutive months of increased market share for Xbox® , the only console to see an increase of market share in 2004. |
| 2007 | VoIP over Wi-Fi applications appear for smartphones. |
| 2009 | VoIP over 3G applications appear. |
| 2010 | First LTE deployments take place. LTE or Long Term Evolution , is a a 4th generation ( 4G ) mobile broadband standard and is aimed to be the successor to the 3G technologies GSM / UMTS . It is currently in development and is considered the competitor to WiMax . Carriers will include Verizon , T-Mobile , Vodafone , AT&T, and many more worldwide. This technology will provide broadband services wirelessly (like EVDO), and will transmit signals via radio platform. You will need an LTE modem to access the network, which can be in USB format, ExpressCard, PCMCIA, or embedded in a laptop. It will also likely be featured as the internet connection on PDAs and phones. This network, which is promising peak download rates of up 100Mbps, will provide an alternative to DSL, cable, satellite, and dial-up internet. It will free people from the burden of having to find a WiFi hotspot when they are on the road – as long as you have an LTE modem, you can connect to the internet anywhere in the service provider’s coverage area. |
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