THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION.

____FOR YOUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT BUILDING, IMPLEMENTATION,etc LOG ON TO :- www.metro-consulting-group.com/ A WHOLLY USA BASED COMPANY INCORPORATED IN USA DOING BUSINESS SOLELY IN USA SINCE 2003. INFORMATION STARVED WORLD WAS AT THE MERCY OF THE OLD AGED GRAND PARENTS AND THE CHURCH TO KNOW VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LIFE AND ABOUT WORLD MATTERS. IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE BOOKS IN THE FORM OF ENCYCLOPEDIA GATHERED INFORMATION TO FEED KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION TO THE STARVED PUBLIC. INTERNET AND COMPUTER WITH WHIRLWIND SPEED SATISFIED THIS STARVATION AND HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION. Internet and Technology. Item Worldwide in US $ Asia Pacific. (in US $) 1. IT Spending 800 Billion 80 Billion 2. Internet Commerce 1.5 Trillion 180 Billion 3. Telecom Services Revenue 900 Billion 120 Billion In Nos In Nos 4. No. of Cell Phones 1.5 Billion 800 Million 5. No. of PCs 900 Million 400 Million 6. No. of Internet Users 900 Million 550 Million 7. Mobile Internet Users 200 Million 25 Million 1. “Give me enough medals, I will win you the wars.” Napolean Bonaparte 2. “On the horns of a dilemma? Grab dilemma by the horns.” 3. “One chance in I.T. industry is an eternity.” The ‘Time’ magazine in the first issue of January 1983, conferred, “Man of the year” honor to “the Machine of the year “the PC, Personal Computer.” The same week, Internet was launched in USA. The personal computer and the Internet allowed a gateway to world “ information, never envisioned 23 years ago. It changed the way, we did business, the way we bought; the way we sold; and the way we were getting entertained. Now after 23 years, we have digital world creation “ we have reached there almost. Many billions worth product sales await, not to mention services. Several things happened that every home have a digital TV. This led to video and web-conferencing by us all. We got a few new generations of cell phones and hand-held computers (palm computers) combined with widespread broadband wireless. The advancement proved very interesting and lively. Let us examine the chronological sequence of events. 1. Radio and telephone we know had changed our life. 2. Tape recorder had a leading edge in the year 1946. It was regarded with awe, on par with today’s web-phones. Tokyo Tusin Kogyo (now Sony) had done it. In USA, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (now 3M) made magnetic tape that recorded sound and were in their way to making the tape recorder. Tokyo Tusin were fumbling with the idea of using plastic to make magnetic tape for recording but it was scarce in Japan. Tokyo Tusin (Sony) oxidized oxalic ferrite which when burnt turned into Ferrous Oxide. They had the recorder. Only the tape was the problem which got solved. History is a story of winners. History is written by winners. Brain is a muscle like any other muscle in the body. It can be trained, taught, worked upon and improved; charged, recharged, over-charged, pressurized, taxed, burdened, used, reused, over-used in order to bring it to a level of perfection. Rigorous exercise to the brain cells has caused wonderful results. For example, let us begin with a simple illustration. You want to remember the name of a place you have visited. It has disappeared. You do not find it, howsoever you try to remember it. Do not worry. When you are free, devote it ten minutes; for remembering name of the place you’ve visited. Sit tight, only exert your brain cells to remember it; do not allow any other thoughts to enter the mind. Ten minutes are over. Leave it. Resume your normal activity. The sub-conscious mind is already working on it and like a lightening; the name of the place you wanted would appear in your memory screen, within 24 hours. Computer is an improved version of our brain. Computer knows how the mind works; how the mind forgets etc, etc. computers are intended to assist the mind of a human being anticipating his follies, his short-comings; 3. Intel introduced world’s first microprocessor in 1971. 4. French company ‘Micral’ introduced first commercial microcomputer, (personal computers were so termed then) and priced it at US $ 1400/- per piece. 5. USA made computer kit hit market in 1976. 6. Apple, IBM sold one million computers in a year. There is no question PC has become the most valuable business tool; rather a significant media tool for individuals. The number of PC makers vaulted from two-dozen in 1980 to 100 in 1982 and total sales of computers of 2 billion to 5 billion pcs. Stories of fortune and failure are many and often dramatic. Gary Kildall made the first computer operating system; but was outwitted by bill Gates and his Microsoft struck technical deal of the century; licensing disk operating system (DOS for short) for use in IBM personal computer. The Time magazine (article aforesaid mentioned) 20 years ago, predicted there would be 80 million pieces of computers worldwide by the year 2000. That projection was 520 millions pieces short; as worldwide sale ran into 600 million pieces of computers. 7. Next step in the digital revolution was the wide spread use of TV digital sets and advanced cell phones and hand held systems from Nokia. 8. Digital cards. Digital reforms. Digital signature. Digital business. Digital customers. Digital bank. Digital currency. E-Bank, E-Economy, E-Business have revolutionized our way of life. 9. It took Marconi radio 40 years to reach 40 million customers. It took Internet 6 years to reach 400 million customers. USA, England, Canada have made full proof laws to make E-commerce a success. They have created a huge force of commandos to combat any emergency at the hands of hackers and unwanted elements. Records are kept of what is coming and what’s going. Careful scrutiny of the records is a must for every nation. 10. Sign of recovery is evident in the Asia Pacific side with the Information Technology market grew by 12% this year on account of infrastructure upgrade and market is expected to grow by 12% over the past year in constant US $ terms and will be worth USA $80 billion by the end of the year 2016. 11. Hardware segment PCs low and mid-range servers and LAN hardware rebound, compared to their low profile in 2002. Converged hand held phones and such devices and network-attached storage rapidly grew. Digital imaging; printing is on a rise. Wireless LANs gained significant traction in enterprises. 12. Growth in software was driven via modular implementation and by software that simplifies operations. Resource optimization, virtualisation and need for enhanced security; business community drove market growth. Focus was more on smaller projects. Top companies rode wave of cost cutting and emerged on the global scene as a formidable challenge. 13. Tele-communications services in the country continued its growth momentum driven by more and more deregulation and bent-up demand, in other countries. 14. VOIP services gained traction and were seriously evaluated by organizations. 15. Broadband continued to proliferate driven by lower prices, competition and exploding online gaming phenomenon in the country. The industry entered a new decade of growth. 16. Tele-communication services grew up to 12% over the past year despite global melt down in this sector. Wireless LANs gained traction continued demand from enterprises segment as well as proliferation of hot spots drove growth in this year. 17. Top companies such as TCS, Infosys, Vipro L&T, computer services emerged as key global players riding on the global wave of cost cutting. 18. Network storage market in the country crossed US $ 10 billion. 19. Linux gained acceptance in enterprises and will sit into the space dominated by Unix. 20. Online gaming emerged as a major application that drove demand from broadband services. 21. Merger of handset converged handheld device. Market witnessed mass emergence and adoption and grew by 88% in terms of shipments over past year. 22. By the end of the year digital images captured per day by scanners, cameras and devices surpassed number of images captured on film; but the industry will still center on film. 23. Focus on business continuity and security solutions escalated given the threat of terrorism, virus, and cyber war, cyber terrorism.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------