Some communication is up close and personal—such as when you’re talking face to face with someone. However, it is possible to “speak” to somebody who is far away (sometimes right across the world). This “distance communication” is called telecommunications. Today, there are many gadgets and mediums...
Experts have predicted a upcoming Solar Katrina with a devastating economic fallout expected to cost $2,000 billion dollars. Scientists have warned that a long overdue intense electromagnetic storm could strike Earth cause massive destruction on worldwide economies, global positioning satellites,...
Telecommunication technologies such as the telephone and the internet have enabled people to send messages across great distances. Here they can exchange ideas, send proposals and strategies, provide updates—in fact, they can do everything they would normally do at the office. This is called...
When a business is set up, costs are always part of its operations. Those costs are what are called business expenses. These expenses include anything that are related to running the business. Some common examples of business expenses are rent, salaries, and utilities. Business expenses can...
A conglomerate is a business entity which is made up of at least two corporations. One defining characteristic of a conglomerate is that the corporations involved in it deal with businesses that are of totally different natures from each other; that is, the corporations are in industries that have...
The UK's royal Prince Andrew and the U.S. are the hardest hit by the Wikileaks latest cache release. It seems that included in the 271,000 international diplomatic disclosure is revealing information regarding a profanity filled tirade by Andrew. The Duke of York presented "unmitigated patriotism,"...
Genetic Algorithm: A heuristic search technique used in computing and Artificial Intelligence to find optimized solutions to search problems using techniques inspired by evolutionary biology: mutation, selection, reproduction [inheritance] and recombination. 1. Automotive DesignUsing Genetic...
NASA researchers from the Space Weather Prediction Center have issued an ominous warning regarding the sun's cycles and possible "Solar Max" eruptions and coronal mass ejections. After two centuries of observation, scientists have discovered the Sun goes through 11 year long cycles marked by...
The FCC or Federal Communications Commission loses to Comcast in a lawsuit filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. This is a landmark case which decided the FCC lacks the authority to require equal treatment of broadband providers over internet...
The term “UMTS” is the abbreviated form for “Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.” This is a type of mobile phone technology, often classified as “third-generation” (or “3G” for short). Aside from “typical” phone features such as calls and voice mails, most 3G gadgets also allow users to...
