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Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is a generic term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are several methods of identification, but the most common is to store a serial number that identifies a person or object, and perhaps other information, on a microchip that is attached to an antenna (the chip and the antenna together are called an RFID transponder or an RFID tag). The antenna enables the chip to transmit the identification information to a reader. The reader converts the radio waves reflected back from the RFID tag into digital information that can then be passed on to computers that can make use of it. RFID is not necessarily “better” than bar codes. The two are different technologies and have different applications, which sometimes overlap. The big difference between the two is bar codes are line-of-sight technology. That is, a scanner has to “see” the bar code to read it, which means people usually have to orient the bar code toward a scanner for it to be read. Radio frequency identification, by contrast, doesn’t require line of sight. RFID tags can be read as long as they are within range of a reader. Bar codes have other shortcomings as well. If a label is ripped or soiled or has fallen off, there is no way to scan the item, and standard bar codes identify only the manufacturer and product, not the unique item. The bar code on one milk carton is the same as every other, making it impossible to identify which one might pass its expiration date first. RFID is therefore definitely the better technology, depending the needs of the users.

But every new technology brings with it apart from the obvious advantages, some serious disadvantages too. Thus Albert Einstein never could have imagined that his equation E=MC2 could one day be used to manufacture nuclear bombs. RFID too brings with it serious considerations that RFID tags could invade individual privacy and security. Already Hospitals in the USA are considering the implanting of RFID chips inside the patients’ bodies, to track them and post-treatment health trends. Many American Agro companies are using RFID tags to track animals like cows, pigs etc.Soon major companies could think of implanting RFID chips and tags in their employees to track them in and out of office. If this is not invasion of privacy, then privacy invasion has to be redefined. The possibility of the governments planting these ’spychips’,as RFID chips are called, in the bodies of citizens and tracking their every single movement and action, is clear and distinct.Enemy Nations could implant these spychips inside persons handling sensitive portfolios in National Defence and the Armed Forces. Spying and spying techniques could undergo revolutionary changes, eliminating the need for physical presence of the spies inside enemy terrirtory. A combination of spy satellites and spychips could render privacy as a thing of the past. These are real concerns.

Laws must be enunciated to counter these possibility, ensuring the sovereignty of personal privacy and limiting the use of RFID tags and chips.

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Light Middle East was inaugurated by Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, H.E. Saeed al Tayer, who was accompanied on the official walk through by senior government and industry figures, managers and industry professionals as well as management of German organiser, Epoc Messe Frankfurt. Speaking to reporters after the tour Al Tayer said: “We are trying to do our best to protect the environment by promoting green innovation technology.”

“With ecological and environmental concerns high on the agenda for governments and institutions in the region, considerable interest is being expressed by delegates and partners in new trends and developments that are impacting the industry worldwide,” said Ahmed Pauwels, Chief Executive Officer of Epoc Messe Frankfurt, organiser of Light Middle East. “Leading manufacturers and service providers are leveraging the event’s region wide reach to launch their offerings into the market place. It is a market which is quickly realising the cost benefits and ecological advantages offered by innovations in lighting design and technology,” he added

BetaLED, a division of Ruud Lighting Inc is amongst the internationally renowned exhibitors launching products at Light Middle East. The company has introduced the LEDway SLM IP-66 – a new addition to their line of LEDway streetlight products. The new luminaire uses new generation technology coupled with advanced design techniques.

Christopher Ruud, President of Ruud Lighting Inc., said: “Light Middle East was the obvious platform for us to launch our latest product in the region. At the event we can reach out to some key clients as well as potential new customers working in this field.”

He added: “The induction of LEDway SLM IP-66 offers communities an economical and more aesthetic option when converting traditional systems to LED throughout their neighbourhoods. Amongst its benefits is the fact that it uses less energy, it controls light pollution, it helps to eliminates hazardous materials and lowers greenhouse gas emissions.”

Exhibitor InnoGreen is featuring its range of LED lighting solutions for industrial, commercial and residential clients. Dr. Mo-hammed Fatemi, President of InnoGreen, said: “Climate change is upon us, whether due to man’s continuing innovations and their effects on the environment or due to a natural long term cycle of our earth’s warming and cooling, the result is that we find ourselves in a warmer environment. In this age of increasing environmental knowledge, InnoGreen is providing environmentally greener and more efficient solutions including LED products in the lighting sector. Light Middle East is an ideal platform for us to reach out to our regional customers and also to further expand our client database.”

Light Middle East 2011, which runs until Wednesday, September 14th, is well established as a key trade event and conference for the region’s lighting design and technology industries. After the first day, this year’s event has already attracted a large number of trade professionals from across the region.

Rashid Mohammed from the UAE has been a regular visitor to Light Middle East over the years. “I run a lighting business setting up lighting and stages for various concerts and events in the UAE. I find the event to be a great source to scout out new products and developments,” he said.

Another visitor in search of new products and developments was Nazieh Khaled from Lebanon. “I have come here to discover new trends prevalent in the lighting industry as I am planning to revamp my showrooms with the latest technology,” he said.

Running alongside the event is a comprehensive three day programme of conferences and workshops featuring leading international and regional lighting designers providing insight on the hot topics and challenges facing the industry the world over. A special emphasis has been placed on implementing international lighting designs within the region, with a focus on lighting Sacred Islamic and Avant-Garde architecture.

The Green Middle East Conference, co-organised with Sesam Business Consultants got underway yesterday. The Light Insight Arabia Conference, which is jointly organised with the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association and takes place Tuesday, September 13th, focuses on the shape of things to come in the industry and features speakers such as Enrique Peiniger, Prof. Ing Andreas Schulz, Abdulaziz Al Azem and Ziad Fattouh amongst others, while the last day of the event, taking place tomorrow, Wednesday, 14th will see a series of workshops conducted by international experts.

The winning projects of the GE Best in Class Lighting competition by talented students of lighting technology and design are being showcased at Light Middle East. The competition, supported by the Professional Lighting Designers’ Association, featured outstanding contributions by participating students from the American University in Dubai and was adjudicated by a panel of experts within the field.

Tamer Al Shaer, Regional Channel Manager, GE Lighting, said: “Promoting student talent with a focus on promoting aesthetics and energy savings in lighting is central to GE’s approach for the region. The GE Best in Class Lighting Competition contributed several compelling designs and energy saving options, which draw on the diverse array of lighting options provided by GE Lighting. The creativity and innovation demonstrated by the students are of high standards and through the competition, we hope to encourage them further.”

In general speaking, 12V LED has become more and more affordable, therefore auto LED bulbs have been used widely.

As VoIP traverses the path to mainstream, new developments in Internet technology continue to impact the growth of broadband telephony. One such new technology that is expected to sustain, if not help, VoIP to gain a wider acceptance is the fourth generation (4G) in cellular wireless technology, which succeeds the 3G systems currently in use. The competing 4G technologies are expected to provide secure broadband connectivity with giga-bit speeds that are perfect for demanding applications that require high-bandwidth and top-speeds, such as online gaming, multimedia streaming and IP-telephony.

Some mobile carriers have rolled out the infrastructure and equipment necessary to deploy the new technology, such as the 4G system implemented by TeliaSonera in Stockholm and Oslo in Scandinavia. Moreover, the market release of the first ever 4G mobile phone – the HTC EVO 4G – this year signals the beginning of a new era in mobile connectivity.

Competing 4G technologies

The most striking aspects that define 4G technology are the high-throughput requirement (up to 1 Gbit/s); the ditching of the CDMA radio technology used in 3G systems in favor of multi-carrier transmission using frequency-domain equalization schemes; and the use of multiple intelligent antennas for transceivers. Although there are quite a number of implementations proposed for 4G, two candidates have so far succeeded in attracting the most number of investors and adherents: WiMax and LTE.

WiMax stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, a telecommunications protocol that delivers ‘last-mile’ wireless broadband access. The current version of WiMax (802.16e) offers up to 40 Mbit/s, still way below the 4G standard, but the imminent IEEE 802.16m revision is expected to ramp up the speed to up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed connections.

LTE stands for Long Term Evolution, a standard that improves on the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) that was part of the 2008 revision of the 3G systems. The first release of LTE also falls short of the 4G standard on throughput – and for this reason the release was called 3.9G. The two largest mobile carriers in the US – Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility- have announced that they will convert their existing systems into LTE beginning 2011.

VoIP and 4G

One or both of the competing 4G protocols are expected to provide all-IP networks with high-bandwidth and low-latency. The 4G standards are expected to integrate voice services on top of the data stream, to give voice calls made via cellular or VoIP connections unmatched clarity and quality.

WiMax is a form of wireless Ethernet like WiFi, but the former offers more in terms of reach (WiMax signals can cover several kilometres), sustained throughput and quality of service. However, Wimax runs on the licensed radio spectrum unlike WiFi which is on the unlicensed and unregulated bands. LTE, on the other hand, is more similar to mobile cellular systems but it does offer mobile broadband capability that is useful for packet transmissions.

Both these technologies would be great for mobile VoIP calls, although it remains to be seen if the cost per call in either system will be reasonable compared to current costs of cellular calls.

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In low tech local environment where an overwhelming majority is still struggling to access and find required information, there are some high end-users who are already complaining of information overload.

Busy executives, decision makers and other people taking advantage of computing in work and meaningful pursuits need all the quality information they can get. They turn to the web because it has amassed huge amounts of information in almost all areas of human activities. But what is information in the first place? Technically speaking, “information is stimuli that have meaning in some context for its receiver. When information is entered into and stored in a computer, it is generally referred to as data – information translated into a form that is more convenient to move or process. When information is packaged or used for understanding or doing something, it is known as knowledge – to an enterprise or an individual, the possession of information or the ability to quickly locate it.” For the purpose here, I think the term ‘information’ is the correct description of some of what is available on the web, rather than knowledge or wisdom.

Advances in web technologies and their growing usage have made the production, distribution, and sharing of information so much easier than what it was only a decade ago. It has reduced the time span of business practices and processes, which would otherwise have taken very long time to be implemented on ground. But information comes with an additional excess of irrelevant junk, unclear and inaccurate data, even conflicting, making it becomes difficult to sift what is important from what is not. This “excess information beyond what is desired or needed by any user requiring non productive processing” is called information overload. The number of work hours available and the inherent human capacity to absorb information have remained almost same over years whereas the need to access, understand and digest information had gone up many times.

Local market scouting reveals that most economic concerns have yet not fully appreciated possibilities offered by IT. Notable exceptions apart, computer technologies have not been integrated within corporate systems as of yet.

For many a CEO, president and chairman of companies the connected computers set on their tables are just another part of office equipment only to be used by others. But for inspiring examples that have taken the initiative and employed the technology, information is moving from being a marginal, specialist responsibility to being a central part of every business operation. Demand for executives, managers and employees, in these futuristic organisations, to become more aware of and prepared for handling the opportunities being offered by growing information has increased.

In this milieu, high end users are getting overwhelmed by the magnitude of information from multiple sources. What is more, sometime the required information is not at the surface. It is often difficult to understand if a web article is just a sales-pitch, self-serving opinion, a research study skewed by producers and sponsors with something to gain or is it factual. There is a lot of crap in other forms. Even search engines are selling result placements.

Having quality information in time is good and productive. With more and more information coming from so many different sources, users must be able to determine the quality of information before putting it to use. But determining quality can be tough. Many users are not particularly good at managing and filtering information that comes their way. Technologies so far can handle quantity but are still not mature enough to recognize quality of information. Which is why information overload gets unhelpful for those who are facing it? The avalanche of information, as per experts, in extreme cases may lead to unwanted results in the form of stress, frustration or physical illness.

“The situation is worst where organizations are in transition – changing from the old style of handling information to IT or where IT dependent new generation of executives is taking over family business enterprises,” says Dr. Norbert, an architect who uses the internet to do businesses in field of call centres. “I have to keep up to date on the technology sector. I have to review feedback from clients and also see what competitors are doing by visiting their web sites, reading online press releases and newsletters.

The information that I get is one of the most important tools in my sales game but I am afraid that I miss so much,” he adds.

David, an astute businessman running a money-changing concern in Lahore, has two computer screens on his work desk (also a number of telephones and mobile phone sets). Sometimes his assistants bring yet other mobile for him to answer when he is trying to focus on the rapidly rising and falling currency rates in the world money market. He also has to answer chat signals from fellow money changers and continuously watch what is coming in his inbox, sometimes firing off instant replies. He says, “Given the nature of my business and rapid fluctuation in currency rates I have to keep a constant watch on the global money market. This is what I do last thing before going to bed and first when I get up in the morning before coming to the office.

In addition, I also have to follow important events in the world that can cast tangible effects on economies of the world. But it is difficult to keep track of it all. I want sometime to myself but it is really not possible in this line of business.” Before employing IT, the first piece of paper Senta Kurt used to face each morning after coming in his office was a previous day inventory report from three different tent and canvas products manufacturing and exporting units he is managing in Kot Lakhpat.

“Before we employed IT, night staff used to produce required inventory report. Now my inventory is on networked computers and is up-to-date all the time. I can see it any time. Basing on this I can shift resources from one unit to another and control production. But when it comes to information required for running my business in global market, it sometime is daunting to find what I am looking for and to weed through the junk.” There must be an equilibrium point somewhere. Users have to define precisely what they need and in how much detail. There are technological fixes like using filters, email managers, favourites and the like to prioritize the coming information. Some other intriguing technologies to how people mine the Internet for information are in the pipe. But technical solutions alone may not be enough. “They can sometime aggravate the overload problem, because instead of how much one needs, they make it possible to get more. But given enough time and practice, one gets wise in distinguishing what is important in any particular field,” thinks Umar Manzoor.

In response to a query, Tatiana Andronache, Canadian Information Systems Professional emailed, “Information Overload is a fascinating phenomenon every web user experience at least some of the times. I have no idea what humankind is going to do with all the information: writings, analysis, images, sound tracks, movies, websites, you name it. People do not seem to be healthier, richer or happier because they have them. At a personal level, I deal through prioritizing, time-boxing and, when possible, multi-tasking.

What gets done, gets done, what not – oh, well! I avoid time suckers such as surfing the internet (I go to sites where I have business and finish quickly), no forums, chats, very little TV. Radio is a favourite because does not tie me up.” The first step to combat possible information overload is to identify the needs and take control. There is no universal formula fitting for users of different areas of interest therefore everyone may make own road map and shortcuts. “Knowing what is needed and cutting out unnecessary clutter outside the desired scope saves a lot of time,” says Dr. Norbert. Then users should decide what is manageable while taking into account time availability, ability to absorb and retain information. This involves establishing limits to the information hunting process and allows doing first thing first. The users should also realize when to stop gathering information and move on to making use of it. And acknowledge that none can get to know everything.

Information has made a huge difference in the world of business in particular, and chances are that it will continue to. Those who are using it purposefully can sure make their way with it and combat the information overload.

The essential requirements for comfortable and healthy indoor environments are adequate ventilation and humidity control. In the humidity rich regions of the world to solve the above problems the key solution is the air conditioners based on liquid desiccants technology.

Liquid desiccants are solutions that have a high affinity for water vapor. This property is the key to creating cooling systems that dehumidify air without over-cooling. Liquid desiccants used in the systems commonly are very strong solutions of the ionic salts lithium chloride and calcium chloride.

These ionic salts have the attractive characteristic and have essential zero vapor pressure. Because of such reason, vapors of the desiccant will not appear in the air supplied by the LDAC (liquid decissant air conditioner). This technology can enhance heat transfer by a mechanism that is the inverse of vaporative cooling. When air flows over a surface wetted with water, evaporation from the film of water will lower the temperature of the water-air interface toward the wet-bulb temperature of the air. This wet-bulb temperature is a function of the air’s initial temperature and humidity.

A line of constant enthalpy that passes through the air’s state point intersects the saturation line on a psychrometric chart at approximately the wet-bulb temperature.

A liquid-desiccant air conditioner (LDAC) has three major components: (1) the conditioner, which dries and cools the process air, (2) the regenerator, which heats the weak desiccant to drive off the water that was absorbed in the conditioner, and (3) the interchange heat exchanger, which uses the hot, concentrated desiccant that leaves the regenerator to preheat the cool, weak desiccant that leaves the conditioner. The conditioner is a water-to-air heat exchanger that is constructed from plastic plates. Cooling water flows within the plates and films of liquid desiccant flow down the outer surfaces of the plates. When air flows over a surface that is wetted with a desiccant, the desiccant can either absorb or desorbs water, depending on whether the desiccant’s equilibrium relative humidity is above or below the air’s relative humidity.

Introduction

•            It is almost impossible to find a business leader in the global marketplace who does not operate, or at the very least, is not exploring opportunities with or within emerging market countries. Even those entrepreneurs who prefer domestic markets experience competition from companies based in these regions. During the last 20 years, the global business world has gone through drastic but mostly positive changes. In the 1980s, international business was essentially an exclusive club of the 20 richest countries. This changed as dictatorships and command economies collapsed throughout the world. Countries that once prohibited foreign investment from operating on their soil and were isolated from international cooperation are now part of the global marketplace.

The Idea in a Nutshell

•            All strategists, analysts and executives try to understand and evaluate emerging market countries. This process is complicated by the pervasiveness of misleading statistics and studies.

•            An emerging market country can be defined as a society transitioning from a dictatorship to a free market-oriented economy, with increasing economic freedom, gradual integration within the global marketplace, an expanding middle class, improving standards of living and social stability and tolerance, as well as an increase in cooperation with multilateral institutions.

The Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Competing in Emerging Markets

1.Push to perfect the technology, improving quality and attractive performance.

2.Consider merging with or acquiring another firm to gain expertise and resources strengths.

3.Technology Try to capture any first-mover advantages by adopting it quickly; however, it can be costly and it can quickly move in surprising new direction.

4. Acquire or form alliances with companies that have related or complementary technological expertise.

5. Pursue new customer groups, new applications, and entry into new geographical areas.

6. Make it easy and cheap for first-time buyers to try the industry’s first-generation product.

7. Products becomes familiar to a wide portion of the market, shift the advertising emphasis from creating product awareness to create brand loyalty.

8. Use price cuts to attract the next layer of price-sensitive buyers into the market.

9.Form strategic alliances with key suppliers whenever effective supply chain management provides important access to specialized skills.

10. Strategic efforts to win the early race for growth and market-share leadership.

The Video Lounge

The term emerging markets is used by investment analysts to categorize countries that are in a transitional phase between developing countries that are just beginning to industrialize and countries that are fully developed. The main significance of the use of the term is that investments in emerging markets are assumed to carry greater risk and offer less safety in investment. The term is often used interchangeably with developing markets, though this is somewhat inaccurate. In this Video he tells us about the changed in this century. Emerging markets are characterized by strong economic growth, resulting in an often-marked rise in GDP and disposable income. As a result, people in emerging countries are often able to buy goods and services that they previously would not have been able to afford. This provides international companies with the opportunity to tap large, new customer bases, potentially driving significant growth for a number of companies and industries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eUbxJAud5w

My Take

•Multilateral institutions cannot ignore the need for clear definitions of emerging markets, as well as of developing and underdeveloped countries. It is important not only for the global business community but also for the poorest people and countries, which need special attention from political and business leaders of the world.

References

Michael Pettis, The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse (2001)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_markets

http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/22/women-talent-workplace-china-india-brazil-forbes-woman-emerging-markets.html

http://www.forbes.com/emergingmarkets/.

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Contact Info: To contact the author of “Top Ten Management on Competing in emerging markets,” please email Gerardo A Trejo at gerardo.trejo@selu.edu.

Biography

David C. Wyld (dwyld.kwu@gmail.com) is the Robert Maurin Professor of Management at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. He is a management consultant, researcher/writer, and executive educator. His blog, Wyld About Business, can be viewed at http://wyld-business.blogspot.com/. He also serves as the Director of the Reverse Auction Research Center (http://reverseauctionresearch.blogspot.com/), a hub of research and news in the expanding world of competitive bidding. Dr. Wyld also maintains compilations of works he has helped his students to turn into editorially-reviewed publications at the following sites:

Management Concepts (http://toptenmanagement.blogspot.com/)

Book Reviews (http://wyld-about-books.blogspot.com/) and

Travel and International Foods (http://wyld-about-food.blogspot.com/).                

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In the new  millennium, computers have assumed as strategic importance in this corporate world. Today there is a great demand of highly qualified IT professionals. The responsibility of an IT professional is to involve in data management, computer hardware, database and software design, management and administration of the entire system and much more. In Bachelors in computers, there are two branches of engineering i.e. Computer science and Information Technology. In computer science, we study the principles of engineering that involve in the design, engineering, development, integration and testing of a computer system at almost all levels.  This branch of engineering also involves applied areas of Maths and science, electrical and electronics theory, materials engineering and programming fundamentals. On the other hand, in Information technology, we study the usage of computers and similar devices like electronic and communications for processing and distributing information by many different means. Here, we are trying to provide you some information about these engineering branches that may help you in selecting the right branch for you.

B.Tech (Computer Science) is basically a study of computers where we learn about hardware and operating systems like multitasking kernels, data buses, registers, address buses etc. On the other hand, Information technology involves in information manipulation and the business requirements.

B.Tech (computer science) concerns with the principles and concepts that are essential for the growth of IT and it is an academic study of software and hardware concepts. In B.Tech (information technology), some specific purposes may have to be studied.

With computer science, we can better understand how to solve the computer problems and information technology is the study of technology which drives information systems for business.

Computer science actually tells what is a computer and how it works whereas information technology is what and how can I do with computers.

Article by Sarah Russell

Today, there are a number of new methods being developed to help prevent identity thieves from successfully preying on unwary victims. While some of these new technologies have sparked heated debates on personal privacy, others are based on sound forensics methods that have been in use for decades. Regardless of where you stand, chances are we’ll witness the implementation of one – or all – of the following technologies in the next decade.

Fingerprint Scanning

Even though most stores don’t yet have fingerprint scanners, they are rapidly becoming less expensive and more readily available. Already, in a number of large corporations, employees clock in and sign onto their computer terminals using a scanner that compares their thumbprint to one on file. This technology could be used to help prevent identity fraud if it were installed in everything from home computers to telephones – but the expense of doing so might outweigh the potential benefits.

Retina Scanners

Similar to fingerprint scanners, there are also devices that can scan the retina of your eyes and match them with images on file. Even though this may seem dangerous – or more like science fiction than reality – many researchers feel that the technology is both safe and economically viable. Implementing this type of technology would also be expensive, but could be used in limited, high-risk areas like personal banking and credit requests.

Disposable Credit Card Numbers

Some researchers have developed a chip that ensures that your credit card number changes after each transaction. Basically, this means that your credit card must always be synchronized with the bank’s computer. Using this technology would prevent identity thieves that manage to steal a static card number from doing any real damage. On the other hand, this technology may not be of much use if someone manages to physically steal your credit card – depending on how the how the information is transmitted.

Implantable Radio Chips

Many dog and cat owners are already familiar with identity chips that are implanted in their pet’s ear. Typically, these chips transmit information to a GPS system, which reveals where the animal is should it be lost or stolen. Similarly, implantable chips for humans can do everything from store medical information to banking codes. While this may have some benefits in terms of protecting sensitive information, there are religious groups and privacy advocates that are strongly opposed to these technologies.

Even though identity thieves always seem to be one step ahead of their victims and law enforcement, new technologies are currently begin developed to stop them. Some of these technologies are aimed at making any information you divulge useless in the hands of a criminal, while others aim to strengthen security measures already in place. Regardless of which method becomes the takes off, it’s safe to assume that we’ll see some major changes in the ways transactions are handled in the coming years.

However, it’s also important to realize that technologies designed to protect your personal information can be compromised. Hackers and thieves intent on stealing your private information will more than likely find a way to get around almost any type of technology that emerges. For this reason, it’s important to take steps to protect your personal information and avoid identity scams besides resorting to technological means. Being responsible with your own identity is half the battle in stopping identity theft.

Article by MsBetter Netter

Globalinx is setting the decade off with a bang!

Globalinx just released the CU 3000 wireless video phone January 15, 2010. The CU 3000 is a new emerging technology that is positioned to revolutionize the way everyone in the world communicates. Evolution is a natural process.Writing and sending letters was the first means of communication. Communication changed in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell with the invention of the telephone. The telephone allowed communication to journey across many miles and every ocean. The mobile phone was created almost 100 years later. The ability to be reached and communicate on the go was made possible with the mobile phone.

A cartoon I would watch when I was a youth was the Jetsons. I remember Mr. Spacely appearing on the videoscreen to talk to Mr. Jetson. Hearing and seeing the person you’re having a conversation with seemed so futuristic. Visual conversations were made a reality in the beginning of the 21st century when Globalinx, a VoIP service company, released a video phone. No matter where they were in the world, grandparents could see their grandchildren, because of the video phone. The video phone allows many first generation immigrants the ability to keep in touch with their traditions by making a way to communicate with family in their native country. Today’s economy is a global economy, with business be transacted 365 days a year world wide. When business associates have a video phone business video conferencing can take place at the touch of a button. The first video phone that Globalinx released was an internet, broadband videophone. In order to have service it had to be connected to a router or modem

Globalinx’s new tech gadget is at the forefront of the shift in telecommunications. Globalinx is stepping into the new decade with the release of its wireless video phone, the CU 3000. Mobile technology has been given a whole new meaning because of this wireless video phone. The live video conferencing capabilities leave Skype in the dust. In addition you need a computer to use Skype and this video phone is smaller than a laptop.

Features of the CU 3000:- wifi capability- speaker phone- touchscreen capability- 7′ LCD screen- 3-way live video conferencing AND MORE!

This video phone keeps college students from being home sick because they can have their family where they are. If multiparty video conferencing is need between business associates this is a great video conferencing solution. Athletes who travel a lot or play a sport overseas can keep in touch with family and friends. Or if you like cool new gadgets this phone is a must.

Video phones will be the primary means of communication very soon. Why live in the dinasour age and limit yourself to only hearing the people you talk to when you have the ability to see them. This video phone is not only touch screen but has web browsing capabilites. In my opinion, this is the best video phone on the market. The only question is how long is it going to take for you to get one? The calling plan comes with unlimited local and long distance calling to the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and more and unlimited landline calls to 75 calling areas around the world. Not to mention it is free to call other Globalinx customers. Voicemake, call forwarding, caller ID and many other calling features are also included. An additional bonus is that Globalinx has very low international rates as well.