Video 2000 offered several innovative features unmatched by the competing standards, VHS and Betamax: All Video Compact Cassettes store video and audio on one side of the tape. The V2000 scans half the tape, and by flipping the tape it scans the other half of the tape, thus doubling playing time. Because of its Dynamic Track Following (DTF) technology (involving an advanced, movable video head tip), V2000 did not require video tracking control. Note that a few V2000 models lacked DTF. All V2000 VCRs sported an ...

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Video 2000, Video 2000 - Technological innovations, Video 2000 - Construction of the Video Compact Cassette, Video 2000 - Video 2000 and the videocassette format war

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2000s, 2000s - The decade as a whole, 2000s - Names of the decade, 2000s - Criticisms of the decade, 2000s - Events and trends, 2000s - Technology, 2000s - Science, 2000s - War peace and politics, 2000s - Economics, 2000s - Culture and religion, 2000s - Other, 2000s - Trends and Fashion, 2000s - United States, 2000s - Music, 2000s - United States and Canada, 2000s - Europe, 2000s - Latin America/Caribbean, 2000s - Film, 2000s - Internet, 2000s - Video Games, 2000s - Television and Radio, 2000s - Sports, 2000s - People, 2000s - World leaders, 2000s - Entertainers, 2000s - Sports figures

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2000s - Technology. A huge jump in broadband internet usage, from 6% of U.S. internet users in June, 2000 to what one study predicts will be 62% by 2010. Boom in music downloading and the use of data compression to quickly transfer music over the Internet, with a corresponding rise of portable digital audio players typified by Apple Computer's iPod. Digital cameras become very popular due to rapid decreases in size and cost while photo resolution steadily increases. Sales of film reel came ...

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This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2001, see the links below. 2000s - The decade as a whole. The 2000s decade refers to the years from 2000 to 2009, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. So far, the 2000s has been marked generally with an escalation of the social issues a ...

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• 2000s - Criticisms of the Decade
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• 2000s - Science
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• 2000s - Other
• 2000s - Trends and Fashion
• 2000s - United States
• 2000s - Music
• 2000s - United States and Canada
• 2000s - Europe
• 2000s - Latin America/Caribbean
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• 2000s - Television and Radio
• 2000s - Sports
• 2000s - People
• 2000s - World leaders
• 2000s - Entertainers
• 2000s - Sports figures

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The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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Vellore Institute of Technology (formerly Vellore Engineering College), or VIT, located in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, is one of a growing number of private educational institutions in India. Mr. G. Viswanathan founded this institution in the year 1984 and is currently its chancellor. VIT currently holds the status of a deemed university but was affiliated to the University of Madras until the year 2000. Vellore Institute of Technology - History. The institution was founded in the year 1984 as Vellor ...

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Avaya Inc. NYSE: AV designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Avaya specializes in business telecommunication solutions, including VoIP, Contact Center and Mobile voice and data technology. Avaya's existence as a standalone company began October 2, 2000, when it was spun off from Lucent Technologies. Since that time, Avaya has achieved leadership positions in the following markets: No. 1 worldwide i ...

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Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) mobile phone technologies. It uses W-CDMA as the underlying standard, is standardized by the 3GPP, and represents the European/Japanese answer to the ITU IMT-2000 requirements for 3G Cellular radio systems. To differentiate UMTS from competing network technologies, UMTS is sometimes marketed as 3GSM, emphasizing the combination of the 3G nature of the technology and the GSM standard which it was designed to succeed. Univer ...

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• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Preface
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Features
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• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Technology
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Interoperatibility and global roaming
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Spectrum allocation
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Other competing standards
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System - Problems and issues

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A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). All masses that are part of the solar system, including the Earth, are satellites either of the Sun, or satellites of those objects, such as the Moon. It is not always a simple matter to decide which is the 'satellite' in a pair of bodies. Because all objects exert gravity, the motion of the primary object is also affected by the satellite. If two objects are sufficiently similar in mass, they are generally referred to as a binary syste ...

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1G (or 1-G) is short for first-generation wireless telephone technology, cellphones. These are the analog cellphone standards that were introduced in the 80s and continued until being replaced by 2G digital cellphones. One such standard is NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone), used in Nordic countries, Eastern Europe and Russia. Others include AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) used in the United States, TACS (Total Access Communications System) in the United Kingdom, C-Netz in West Germany, Radiocom 2000 in France, and ...

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BS 7799 Part 1 was a standard originally published as BS 7799 by the British Standards Institute (BSI) in 1995. It was written by the United Kingdom Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and after several revisions, was eventually adopted by ISO as ISO 17799, "Information Technology - Code of practice for information security management." in 2000. ISO 17799 was most recently revised in June 2005. A second part to BS7799 was first published by BSI in 1999, known as BS 7799 Part 2, titled "Information Securi ...

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Angeles City is a 1st class city in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. It is near to the Clark International Airport and Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) (formerly Clark Air Base). It also has a significant red-light district in the Fields Avenue area. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 263,971 people in 55,769 households. Angeles City - Economy. The economy of Angeles City has accelerated in the past decade driven by advances in global communication technology and the ...

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Devilles are sometimes converted for limousine use and often features leading-edge automotive technology. For example, it was one of the first cars to feature airbags, night-vision technology, XM Satellite Radio, OnStar roadside assistance, etc. The Deville's Raytheon night vision system was particularly notable. It was the first thermal imaging night vision system offered as original equipment by an auto manufacturer. It was introduced in the 2000 model and sold well with over 7,000 buyers. Sales fell quickly, however, and only 600 systems were sold for 2004. It was dropped in September of that year ...

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Cadillac Deville, Cadillac Deville - History, Cadillac Deville - 1994, Cadillac Deville - 2000, Cadillac Deville - 2006, Cadillac Deville - Technology

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Sony - Digital rights management. In August 2000 Sony Pictures Entertainment US senior VP Steve Heckler ominously forshadowed events of late 2005. Heckler told attendees at the Americas Conference on Information Systems "The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams...It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what...Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster a ...

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Sony - Digital rights management. In August 2000 Sony Pictures Entertainment US senior VP Steve Heckler foreshadowed events of late 2005. Heckler told attendees at the Americas Conference on Information Systems "The industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams...It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what...Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source ...

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See also: List of Sony Trademarks Sony - 1950. Reel-to-reel tape recorders (1950-??) Transistor radios (1955-) Sony - 1960. Trinitron (1968-) Sony - 1970. U-matic (1971-1983) Betamax (1975-1998) Elcaset (1976-1980) Walkman (1979-) Sony - 1980. Mavica (1981-??) Betacam (1982-) Compact Disc (1982-) < ...

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The Mondeo is produced at Ford's European plants in Germany and Belgium, as a sedan (saloon), a 5-door hatchback or a wagon (estate). It replaced the Ford Sierra in Europe, and the Ford Telstar in a large portion of Asia and other markets, while the Contour and Mercury Mystique replaced the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz in North America. Unlike the Sierra, the Mondeo is front wheel drive. Instigated in 1986, the design of the car cost Ford dearly — at $6 billion, it was one of ...

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Ford Mondeo, Ford Mondeo - Background, Ford Mondeo - Technology, Ford Mondeo - Mixed sales success, Ford Mondeo - New Mondeo 2000–, Ford Mondeo - Replacement, Ford Mondeo - Image, Ford Mondeo - Ford Mondeo in popular culture

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A large proportion of the incredible development cost was due to the Mondeo being a completely clean-sheet design, and used Ford's then-new Zetec engines, all-new manual and automatic transmissions and a sophisticated suspension design which gave it class leading handling and ride qualities. Subframes front and rear gave it executive car refinement. The automatic gearbox featured electronic control with sport and economy modes plus switchable overdrive. Safety was a high priority in the Mondeo design with driver's airbag, side-impact bars, p ...

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Ford Mondeo, Ford Mondeo - Background, Ford Mondeo - Technology, Ford Mondeo - Mixed sales success, Ford Mondeo - New Mondeo 2000–, Ford Mondeo - Replacement, Ford Mondeo - Image, Ford Mondeo - Ford Mondeo in popular culture

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COBIT - COBIT and ISO/IEC 17799:2000. The two international standards used today are COBIT and ISO/IEC 17799:2000. COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology) was released and used primarily by the IT community. In 1998, Management Guidelines were added, and COBIT became the internationally accepted framework for IT governance and control. ISO/IEC 17799:2000 (The Code of Practice for Information Security Management) is also an international standard and is best practice for implementi ...

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COBIT, COBIT - COBIT Product Family, COBIT - Executive Summary, COBIT - Framework, COBIT - Control Objectives, COBIT - Audit Guidelines, COBIT - Implementation Tool Set, COBIT - Management Guidelines, COBIT - COBIT Structure, COBIT - Planning and Organization, COBIT - Acquisition and Implementation, COBIT - Delivery and Support, COBIT - Monitoring, COBIT - COBIT and Other Standards, COBIT - COBIT and ISO/IEC 17799:2000, COBIT - COBIT and Sarbanes Oxley, COBIT - COBIT and other Standards, COBIT - Reference

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The 2000 model year saw the first major redisgn since 1997 and the introduction of the last generation of the Deville. The exterior was completely redesigned featuring a sportier and more aerodynamic design. The revamped interior featured completely new door panels and seats, while the dashboard and radioface only received minor facelifts. ...

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Cadillac Deville, Cadillac Deville - History, Cadillac Deville - 1994, Cadillac Deville - 2000, Cadillac Deville - 2006, Cadillac Deville - Technology

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