Basics of Information Technology

 Information technology

Description:

Information Technology is the technology that uses computing with high-speed communication links to spread information from one place to another. The interconnection of computers enables people to send and receive information. The communication links are used to communicate with different people in the world world has become a global village due to information technology.
             

The world has become a global village due to information technology. It means that the people living in the world know one another as if they are living in a village. It has become possible due to fast communication links.  Information can be transferred from one place to another place easily and quickly .Information plays an important role in every field of life. Information can be used to improve the standard of life. It can also be used for solving different problems.

 

For example if a person has the latest information about medical field. he can use this information to cure different diseases. Information technology has enabled different types of institutions and organizations to part of digital convergence. The digital convergence means that various industries have electronically to exchange information. This merging is very important in modern world. The information can be transfer in any form like text. photos, audio and video etc.
Application of Information Technology:

 Artificial Intelligence:   It is used to develop machines with human-like qualities such as learning, seeing and hearing etc .
Web-Based Applications:It is a type of software application that is available on the Web. The user can use it by connecting to the Internet.
  E-Commerce:  It is a process of performing business over the Internet.
Mobile Commerce : 
It is a process of buying goods and services using mobile phone.
 Computer animation:It is a process to create moving images using computers.
 Distributed computing: It is a process of running single task on multiple computers.
Multimedia: It is a collection of graphics, animation, audio and video presented by computer.
Hypermedia: It is a process of creating links to files that contain photographs, audio, video and text etc.