Technology is a word with origins in the Greek word technologia (τεχνολογια), techne (τεχνη) "craft" + logia (λογια) "saying". It is an encompassing term dealing with the use and knowledge of humanity's tools and crafts. Technology as tool-In its most common usage, technology is the tools and machines that help to solve problems. In this usage, technology is a far-reaching term that can include both simple tools, such as a wooden spoon, and complex tools, such as the space station. < ...

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Technology - Technicism. Generally, Technicism is an overreliance or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society. Taken to extreme, some argue that technicism is the belief that humanity will ultimately be able to control the entirety of existence using technology. In other words, human beings will eventually be able to master all problems, supply all wants and needs, possibly even control the future. (For a more complete treatment of the topic see the work of Egbert Schuurman, for example at [1].) Some, such as Monsma, et al., connect these ide ...

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Technology - General characteristics. With all of the technology in use in modern society, it may seem futile to attempt a generalized list of common characteristics. Many authors, such as McGinn (1991) and Winston (2003), list the following: Complexity refers to the characteristic that most modern tools are difficult to understand. Some are easy to use, but difficult to comprehend source and means of make, such as a kitchen knife, or a baseball. Others are both difficult to use and difficult to comprehend, su ...

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The history of technology is at least as old as humanity (certainly by the time of homo habilis); some primitive forms of tools have been discovered with almost every find of ancient human remains. Nevertheless, other animals have been found to use tools— and to learn to use and refine tools— so it is incorrect to distinguish humans as the tool-using or tool-making animal. The history of technology follows a progression from simple tools and simple (mostly human) energy sources to complex (high-technology) too ...

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Visual technology is the engineering discipline dealing with visual representation. It includes: Photography Printing Video Other related archivesPhotography, Printing, Video, technology

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Technological escalation describes the fact that whenever two parties are in competition, each side tends to employ continuing technological improvements to defeat the other. Technology is defined here as a creative invention, be it an object or a method of using an object. This is a natural result of mankind's use of our brains, and the nature of science and technology that understanding and innovations build on each other. Escalation is usually a negative term, meaning to make bigger in a bad way. However, if two companies ar ...

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Assistive Technology (AT) is a generic term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices and the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. AT promotes greater independence for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. According to disability advocates, technology, all too often, is created without regard to people with disabilities, and unnecessary barrier ...

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Computing is a very broad topic that has become pandemic to modern uses of technology. Computer hardware computer Home computer Mini computer Mainframe computer Routing Software or computer program Firmware Operating systems Application Software Databases Geographic Information System Spreadsheet Word processor Programming languages interpreters compilers

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Zend Technologies Ltd. is a world wide web infrastructure software company with headquarters in Ramat Gan, Israel and has offices in Japan, Germany and the United States. Zend is best known for its founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who, along with other Israeli graduates of the Technion and Rasmus Lerdorf, have created the PHP web programming language. The company's operations are currently centered on the development of products relating to the development, deployment and management of business critical PHP based web applications, including Zend Studio. The name "Zend" is a portmanteau of t ...

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Agilent Technologies NYSE: A is the actual descendant of the instrument company founded by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in 1939. After 60 years of existence as part of Hewlett-Packard it was spun off from HP in 1999. In that year, Agilent was an $8 billion company with about 30,000 employees, manufacturing scientific instruments, semiconductors, optical networking devices, and test ...

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Wipro Technologies is the global technology services division of Wipro established in 1980. It has 30 offices worldwide, 45,000 employees and over 300 customers across USA, Europe and Japan including 50 of the Fortune 500 companies. Some of its customers are Boeing, Cisco, Ericsson, IBM, Microsoft, Prudential, Seagate, Sony, and Toshiba. It is listed at New York Stock Exchange and is part of the TMT (technology-media-telecom) index of it. In 1995, it received ISO 9001 quality certification. In 1997, Wipro received CMM level 3 c ...

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Appropriate technology in a most basic sense means suitable technology. In practice, it is often something that might be described as using the simplest and most benign level of technology that can effectively achieve an intended purpose. Definitions differ, however, among those theorists, writers, and practitioners who use the term. The term has often, though not always, been applied to the predicaments of developing nations or underdeveloped rural areas of industrialized ...

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Zing Technologies makes proprietary collaborative software for meeting and learning. First developed in Sydney, Australia, Zing software is now used throughout the world in Education, Community, Business and Government. Zing has a patented multi-cursor interface. Intended to promote team formation Zing software is designed to support teams to create new knowledge together. Part of a subset of Information and Communications Technologies ( ICT ) called Groupware, Group Support Systems ( GSS ) or Decision Support Systems ( DSS ), Zing is also referred to as a Team Learning System ( TLS ), T ...

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Acacia Techologies is used loosely to refer to Acacia Research Corporation and its subsidiary Acacia Media Technologies. The company specializes in acquiring and enforcing patents. The company controls over 30 patent portfolios in a wide variety of media, internet and technological industries. Acacia Technologies - Controversy. Acacia has been frequently accused of using 'bully' tactics in conducting it's business. After it secures its broad-based patents, it then forces small companie ...

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Best Available Technology (or just BAT) is a "spare no expense" doctrine which prescribes the acquisition of the best technology available, without regard for traditional cost-benefit analyses. This can be the result of a future-oriented business strategy, or reflect concern for other factors, such as environmental impact. Other related archivesanalyses, business, doctrine, environmental, technology

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Creative Technology Limited (SGX: C76) NASDAQ: CREAF is a listed manufacturer of computer multimedia products based in Singapore where the firm was initially founded by Sim Wong Hoo (born 1955) on July 1, 1981. It has more than 5000 employees worldwide. Sim still acts as CEO of the company. The US subsidiary of the company is known as Creative Labs, Inc. The company began as a computer repair shop, where Sim developed an add-on memory board for the Apple II computer. Later, they started creating customized ...

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Cognizant Technology Solutions NASDAQ: CTSH began its software services business in 1994 as the in-house technology development center for The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (D&B) and its operating units. In 1996, the Company became a division of Cognizant Corporation, after the split-up of the D&B Corp. In June 1998, Cognizant Corporation was again spun-off into many independent companies, and Cognizant Technology Solutions was formed as a division of IMS Health, the world’s leading provider of information s ...

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Biomedical technology involves the application of engineering and technology principles to the domain of living or biological systems. Usually biomedical denotes a greater stress on problems related to human health and diseases. Biomedical engineering combined with Biotechnology is often called Biomedical Technology or Bioengineering. It has got two wings: Biomedical Engineering (dealing more with the Biophysics), and Biotechnology (dealing more with the Biochemistry). ...

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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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