INFORMATION

COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Information Communication
Technology (ICT) is a modern branch
of technology that influenced and
modified almost all realms of social
life. The ICT accelerated its
development as it successfully co-
ordinated independently existing
media like computer,
telecommunication, the internet etc.
INTERNET
The Internet is a global system of interconnected
computer networks that use the standard Internet
protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices
worldwide. It is an international network of networks
that consists of millions of private, public, academic,
business, and government packet switched networks,
linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and
optical networking technologies. The Internet carries
an extensive range of information resources and
services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents
and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the
infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer
networks for file sharing and telephony.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (abbreviated as
WWW or W3,
[1]
commonly known as the
Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext
documents that are accessed via the
Internet. With a web browser, one can view
web pages that may contain text, images,
videos, and other multimedia and navigate
between them via hyperlinks.

ELECTRONIC MAIL
Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as email
or e-mail since ca. 1993,
[2]
is a method of exchanging
digital messages from an author to one or more
recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet
or other computer networks. Some early email systems
required that the author and the recipient both be
online at the same time, in common with instant
messaging. Today's email systems are based on a store-
and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward,
deliver, and store messages. Neither the users nor their
computers are required to be online simultaneously;
they need connect only briefly, typically to a mail
server, for as long as it takes to send or receive
messages.
CHATTING
Chatting- Online chat may refer to any kind of
communication over the Internet that offers a real-
time transmission of text messages from sender to
receiver. Chat messages are generally short in order to
enable other participants to respond quickly. Thereby,
a feeling similar to a spoken conversation is created,
which distinguishes chatting from other text-based
online communication forms such as Internet forums
and email. Online chat may address point-to-point
communications as well as multicast communications
from one sender to many receivers and voice and video
chat, or may be a feature of a web conferencing service.

BLOGGING
A blog (a truncation of the expression web log)
[1]
is a
discussion or informational site published on the World
Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts")
typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most
recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the
work of a single individual
[citation needed]
, occasionally of a
small group, and often covered a single subject. More
recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with
posts written by large numbers of authors and
professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media
outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups and
similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of
blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging"
systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into
societal newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb,
meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
ATM
An automated teller machine or automatic teller
machine

(also known as an automated banking
machine cash machine, cashpoint, cashline, is an
electronic telecommunications device that enables the
customers of a financial institution to perform
financial transactions without the need for a human
cashier, clerk or bank teller.
On most modern ATMs, the customer is identified by
inserting a plastic ATM card with a magnetic stripe or
a plastic smart card with a chip that contains a unique
card number and some security information such as an
expiration date or CVVC (CVV). Authentication is
provided by the customer entering a personal
identification number (PIN).
MOBILE PHONE
A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone,
cell phone, a hand phone, or even simply a phone)
is a phone that can make and receive telephone calls
over a radio link while moving around a wide
geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular
network provided by a mobile phone operator,
allowing access to the public telephone network. By
contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the
short range of a single, private base station.
TOUCH SCREEN
Touch screen facility is available at
places like railway stations to get
information regarding train time,
status of trains, etc. One soft touch on
the screen with your finger will bring
you all the information. Govt. and
Public Sector Offices also make use of
this facility.
ViCTERS
India's epoch making first broadband network on EDUSAT for
schools ViCTERS (Virtual ClassroomTechnology on Edusat for
Rural Schools) - inaugurated by H.E. A P J Abdul Kalam the
President of India on 28th July, 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram has
revolutionized classrooms through interactive IP based
technology. Kerala has since demonstrated how EDUSAT could
be used to successfully empower teachers. The scheme which is
being executed by IT@School Project of Government of Kerala,
is mainly intended to meet the demand for an Interactive
Satellite based Distance Education system for the country. It
strongly reflects India's commitment to use space technology for
national development, especially for the development of the
population in remote and rural locations. ViCTERS offers
interactive virtual classrooms that enable the school students as
well as the teachers to directly communicate with the subject
experts and educationists. It also ensures the dissemination of
high quality education to the students and teachers from the
original source.