Trends in ICT

ICT Trends

The world of ICT continues to grow, the industry has focused on several innovations. These innovations serve to the needs of the people that benefit most of ICT. Whether it is for business or personal use, these trends are current front-runners in the innovation of ICT.

Convergence

is the cooperation of technological achievements to work on a similar goal or task.

Social Media

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

Types of Social Media

• Social Network

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors, sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.

• Bookmarking Site

Social bookmarking is a centralized online service which allows users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmarks of web documents.These are sites that allow you to store and manage links to various websites and resources. Most of these sites allow you to create a tag that allows you and others to easily search or share them.

• Social News

is an Internet 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.

• Media Sharing

Enabling others to view/play someone’s multimedia collection (photos, videos, music). It is most often done via the Web. See media sharing site, photo sharing site and video sharing site.

• Microblogging

Microblogging is a broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging. A microblog differs from a traditional blog in that its content is typically smaller in both actual and aggregated file size. Microblogs “allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links”, which may be the major reason for their popularity.

• Blog and Forum

These websites allow users to post their content. Other users are able to comment on the said topic. There are several free blogging platforms.

Mobile Technologies

is the technology used for cellular communication. Mobile code division multiple access (CDMA) technology has evolved rapidly over the past few years. Since the start of this millennium, a standard mobile device has gone from being no more than a simple two-way pager to being a mobile phone, GPS navigation device, an embedded web browser and instant messaging client, and a handheld game console.

Types of Mobile Technologies

• iOS

is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware. It is the operating system that presently powers many of the company’s mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

• Andriod

is a mobile operating system developed by Google, based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open source software and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. In addition, Google has further developed Android TV for televisions, Android Auto for cars, and Android Wear for wrist watches, each with a specialized user interface.

• BlackBerry OS

is a proprietary mobile operating system developed by BlackBerry Limited for its BlackBerry line of smartphone handheld devices. The operating system provides multitasking and supports specialized input devices that have been adopted by BlackBerry for use in its handhelds, particularly the trackwheel, trackball, and most recently, the trackpad and touchscreen.

• Windows Phone OS

is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune. Windows Phone features a new user interface derived from Metro design language.

• Symbian

was a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. Symbian was originally developed as a closed-source OS for PDAs in 1998 by Symbian Ltd. Symbian OS was a descendant of Psion‘s EPOC, and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed. Symbian was used by many major mobile phone brands, like Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and above all by Nokia. It was also prevalent in Japan by brands including Fujitsu, Sharp and Mitsubishi.

• Web OS

also known as Open webOS or LG webOS, is a Linux kernel-based multitasking operating system for smart devices such as Smart TVs and it has been used as a mobile operating system. Initially developed by Palm, Inc. (which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard), HP made the platform open source, at which point it became Open webOS.

• Windows Mobile

is a discontinued family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.

Assistive Media

is a nonprofit Internet-based radio reading service to serve people with visual and reading impairments.A database of audio recordings is used to read to the user.