Information technology, development, implementation, management of computer-based information systems, software applications, computer hardware, installing applications, complex computer networks, information databases, data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database, software design, processing, communicating information, convergence of information technology, telecom technology, communication protocols, transmission techniques, communications equipment, media communication, storing and processing information.
Read the text again and mark the following statements as True or False. If false, find the correct answer in the text
1. IT deals only with the use of electronic computers in order to convert, store, protect, process, transmit and securely retrieve information.
2. The term IT has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing.
3. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing computer hardware and information databases.
4. IT professionals are responsible for performing data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database andsoftware design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems.
5. Infotech is a combination of computer and communications technologies.
6. IT is a general term describing special technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate and disseminate information.
7. ICT is an umbrella term that covers some technical means for processing and communicating information.
8. The term has gained popularity partially due to the convergence of information technology (IT) and telecom technology.
9. ICT defines a broad range of technologies, including methods for communication.
10. The term ICT has been associated only with digital technologies.
11. Analogue and mechanical systems are also considered as ICT.
12. The term ‘ICT’ is usually applied with the rest of the technologies that are used in our daily lives cell phones, cameras, satellite receivers, media players, game consoles.
13. ICT is likely to survive in its present form for long.
14. Any technology that requires the masses to own a PC to access the information is sure to be successful in the future.
15. Possibilities appear to exist in the mobile phone technology, which is fast becoming very affordable by the masses, is voice based and can be integrated with the IT at the server end of a computer network.
16. For example, in the field of education people can ask questions through a mobile phone, a database of answers to such questions can be generated using these technologies.
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1. A program that helps you to find information on the Web is called a ________ engine. The best known is ________, which is used a billion times a day.
2. You can buy or sell almost anything on the ________ website.
3. Companies who wanted to _______ on the Million Dollar Homepage paid one dollar for each _________.
4. When ________ first started, people could visit it to get free music.
5. The singer Lily Allen put her songs on ________, and thousands of people listened to them. A lot of people write ________ on this website, telling everyone what they are doing.
6. There is information about more than 6 million subjects on the ________ website, and it is all ________.
Match the following words and word combinations with their definitions. Find the given words in the text and use them in sentences of your own
| 1. Bookmark 2. Browser 3. Download 4. Freeware 5. Homepage 6. Hyperlink 7. Internet Service Provider (ISP) 8. Intranet 9. ISDN 10. Keyword 11. Newsgroup 12. Online 13. Search engine 14. Spam 15. Upgrade 16. Virus | a) a company which gives you an account and access to the internet; b) a high-speed telephone connection; c) a link from an e-mail to a web page, accessed by clicking on it; d) a program like Internet Explorer which allows your computer to download documents from the World Wide Web; e) a virtual location where people can talk and read about a subject of common interest; f) add to a list of favourite website addresses which you keep for easy access; g) an internet application for an internal company network; h) bring up to date; i) copy information to your computer from another; j) damaging software instructions that enter your computer secretly and can change or destroy information on it; k) junk e-mail; l) software you don't pay for m) the first page on a website; n) tool which helps you find things on the Web; o) what you enter in a search engine; p) when you are connected; |