Question:What are internet telephony Internet Telephony (Voice Over Internet Protocol - VOIP) is the technology used for

making telephone calls over the Internet. Using An internet telephony service means that you can make cheap calls anywhere through a fast Internet connection. To get started you will need either a piece of internet telephony hardware such as an IP Phone, a VOIP adaptor, a VOIP router or a softphone.
A category of hardware and software that enables people to use the Internetas the transmission medium for telephone calls. For users who have free, or fixed-price Internet access, Internet telephony software essentially provides free telephone calls anywhere in the world. To date, however, Internettelephony does not offer the same quality of telephone service as direct telephone connections. There are many Internet telephony applications available. Some, like CoolTalk and NetMeeting, come bundled with popular Web browsers. Others arestand-alone products. Internet telephony products are sometimes called IP telephony, Voice over the Internet (VOI) or Voice over IP (VOIP) products.

various kinds of multimedia,

Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, or interactivity content forms. Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance.Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine art; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application. Multimedia may be broadly divided into linear and non-linear categories. Linear active content progresses without any navigational control for the viewer such as a cinema presentation. Nonlinear user interactivity to control progress as used with a video game or used in selfpaced computer based training. Hypermedia is an example of non-linear content. Multimedia presentations can be live or recorded. A recorded presentation may allow interactivity via a navigation system. A live multimedia presentation may allow interactivity via an interaction with the presenter or performer.

Major characteristics of multimedia

Multimedia presentations may be viewed by person on stage, projected, transmitted, or played locally with a media player. A broadcast may be a live or recorded multimedia presentation. Broadcasts and recordings can be either analog or digital electronic media technology. Digital online multimedia may be downloaded or streamed. Streaming multimedia may be live or on-demand. Multimedia games and simulations may be used in a physical environment with special effects, with multiple users in an online network, or locally with an offline computer, game system, orsimulator. The various formats of technological or digital multimedia may be intended to enhance the users' experience, for example to make it easier and faster to convey information. Or in entertainment or art, to transcend everyday experience.

A lasershow is a live multimedia performance.

Enhanced levels of interactivity are made possible by combining multiple forms of media content. Online multimedia is increasingly becoming object-oriented and data-driven, enabling applications with collaborative end-user innovation and personalization on multiple forms of content over time. Examples of these range from multiple forms of content on Web sites like photo galleries with both images (pictures) and title (text) user-updated, to simulations whose co-efficients, events, illustrations, animations or videos are modifiable, allowing the multimedia "experience" to be altered without reprogramming. In addition to seeing and hearing,Haptic technology enables virtual objects to be felt. Emerging technology involving illusions of taste and smell may also enhance the multimedia experience.

Multimedia marketing is a marketing draw near with the aim of uses media other than the in black and white word to communicate a marketing message. Examples of multimedia formats include audio, capture on tape, and the function of photography or sideshows. Multimedia could be deployed in a variety of ways as well as both off-line and online. With the growth of the Internet, the function of multimedia as a marketing vehicle will go on with to grow by the side of a arithmetical rate.

The following put on record extensions commonly used to lay up multimedia documentation: MOV, MP4, FLV, M4A, 3GP, TORRENT, WMV, VOB. File augmentation MOV was shaped designed for Adobe Quicktime product. Files with augmentation MOV are used to lay up capture on film and song in order. Advantage of this format is to it allows to lay up in order compressed by out of the ordinary algorithms. Though it right away creates a disadvantage. You need to exhibit a exclusive codec installed on your PC to have fun roughly of the MOV documentation. MP4 put on record augmentation stands designed for MPEG-4. It is fundamentally identical to MOV format and lone differs by provided that roughly added metadata. MPEG is a align of compressions methods designed for audio and visual data. MP4 put on record augmentation is supported by multiple applications with Apple ITunes, XBox 360 (support added in 2007), QuickTime and other multimedia players. File Extension FLV is used to deposit Macromedia Flash Player collection. This is the the largest part widely held format in support of multimedia in sequence on the internet. It can assign vector graphics, spill videocassette, audio and text. One great big improvement of it is with the aim of it has a brainwashing language embedded in it and sotware developers may well code very forward-thinking internet applications using it. M4A store annex is merely a deviation of MP4 store annex used by Apple Corporation to bring multimedia content. This store annex became widely held due to widespread sread of Apple IPods and ITunes. 3GP on PC may perhaps be viewed by following applications: VLC media player, RealPlayer, QuickTime, GOM Player and Media Player Classic. Even though categorizer increase TORRENT is not used without delay representing multimedia documents it is very often associated with multimedia content. It is for the reason that TORRENT software is very trendy representing transfering multimedia content on peer-to-peer networks. If you experience problems with several of the format more than try judgment an relevance which corresponds to your format. File Extension VOB stands representing Video Object. You can commonly locate such documents in DVD-Video media. This format is based on MPEG-2 river format. One more odds is to you experience a windows registry slip-up. To check representing registry errors you may perhaps download registry cleaner.
Based on the technology that webcast support services use to deliver the content or information to the audience, there are three major types of webcasting: 1. 2. 3. Push On-demand Live

Push Technology In this instance, the content is brought to the computer screens of audiences without specific requests for them on each occasion. The content may appear as pop-ups, wallpapers or screen savers on a receiving computer. The transmission of the data is usually based on some level of knowledge about the viewers interests in particular subjects. Some advantages of push technology are that useful programmes can be downloaded by customers without actively searching for them. Similarly, they can get updates of news, and interact with the webcaster without having to make any effort to locate them. In this way, webcasters get more control over the information they provide to users and when. Since effortless reception of information is available, customers are saved the time of searching for the material. On-demand This is webcasting done depending on the requirement of the consumer, at the time of usage. The user can control both the scheduling and the appearance of the webcast. The audience chooses what they want to see and when to view it. Instant zooming in and out of pictures, multiple camera angles, instant replay of events and provision of interactive devices like chat rooms, question and answer tools are some of the additional ondemand webcast features provided. On-demand webcasting can show the event in real time, or make it downloadable. Viewing of virtual events and virtual conferences are possible using this technology. Live Streaming In streaming, there is no need to wait till a complete file is downloaded to a computer to view the playback of the contents such as online events or online seminars. The content may either be live or on-demand. When streaming is live, the schedule of the broadcast is fixed, so that viewers can access time sensitive broadcasts instantaneously. Users who wish to receive the broadcasts have to adhere to the schedule. In live streaming, some level of interaction is possible, such as clicking on a picture to view it in more detail. The basis of streaming technologies is the ability to compress both audio and video into a stream. This is essential for video webcasts.Webcast solutions providers uses various software to compress the signals before transmission and then decompress the signals continuously in the correct order so that it can be viewed on the receivers computer screen in the proper sequence and without gaps. Real-time streaming does not allow for webcast recording. Nor is it copied or retransmitted. Streaming does not involve any file cache or storage.

A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log)[1] is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are themed on a single subject. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web.)

The Different Kinds of Blogs

When discussing about blogs, most people are not aware that there is great variety of genres, and that homogeneity is unheard of in the blogosphere. Just because the interface looks somewhat similar does not mean that the content is as well. In fact, as the blogging phenomenon exploded, its uses and styles have followed suit every inch of the way. Hence, this section samples just a small flavour of what is out there in the blogosphere. Political Blogs

When discussed in the news, the term blog is often understood to refer to a "political blog." Political blogs may take a number of forms. Often an individual will link to articles from news web sites and post their own comments as well. Others focus on long essays about current political topics. Most news, activism, and issuebased blogs follow the same format. In fact, a recent trend in politics is that candidates are incorporating blogging into their own campaigns, tying blogs into the world of politics. In fact, in the current 2005 Chilean presidential election, the four candidates are currently using their own blogs as part of their campaign mechanisms (Blog Herald, 2005).
Personal Blogs

The term personal blogs is often used to describe an online diary or journal, such asXanga. The weblog format of an online diary makes it possible for users without much experience to create, format, and post entries with ease. People often write their day-today experiences, complaints, poems, prose, illicit thoughts and more, allowing others to contribute.
Business Blogs

A number of entrepreneurs are establishing blogs to promote their businesses. Often business blogs act as a showcase for entrepreneurs to provide a window into the behind-the-scenes activities at their business, presenting a more personal "face" to the public rather than a cold corporate persona (Wikipedia, 2005). In some cases the blog itself is the core of the business bringing in revenue from advertising, selling products or information.

Topical Blogs

Topical blogs focus on very particular niche. An example is Google Blog, which covers nothing but news about Google. Another example is a soldier blog, also known as a military blog, or "milblog." Many blogs now allow categories, which means a general blog can be reshuffled to become a topical blog at the user's need.
Health Blogs

Blogs written as personal accounts of living with a specific health issue, sharing information about the experience with others who have an interest in that health issue and providing mutual support. A major category of health blogs are medical blogs, which themselves generally fall into two categories. One type is a blog written by a health care professional about his or her work experiences, medical news or other personal thoughts. A more recent trend is a blog that deals with actual patient cases. This latter blog allows other physicians to submit cases to the web site. Physicians can then offer comments or help with the case.
Literary Blogs

A "litblog" as it is sometimes called, is a blog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature. There is a community of litblogs in the blogosphere whose authors cover a variety of subtopics within the realm of literary matters. Litbloggers write about the publishing industry, writing, current fiction, poetry, literary journals, reader's diaries, criticism and genres of literature, including science fiction and mystery, just to name a few.
Travel Blogs

Famous explorers wrote their journeys down on paper. Blogging has opened the forum for everyone, thus allowing modern-day travelers with blogs as a way to share their stories and photos, even while they are traveling around the world.

Research Blogs

An increasing number of scholars and students blog their research notes, combining the traditional scholar's private notebook with public discussion. A related genre is the anonymous professor's blog, where the various issues related to academia are freely discussed.
Legal Blawgs

Blogs by lawyers or law students, which discuss law and legal affairs are often referred to as "blawgs." By extension, the creator of such a blog is a blawger, sometimes spelled blawgger. In fact, legal scholars and celebrities such as Denise Howell and Richard Posner post legal commentaries and case analyses on their own blogs.
Educational Blogs

Students often use blogs as records of their learning while teachers use them as records of what they taught. For example, a teacher can blog a course, recording day-by-day what was taught, including links to internet resources, and specifying what homework students are required to carry out. This application has many advantages: (1) a student can quickly catch-up if they miss a class; (2) the teacher can use the blog as a course plan; and (3) the blog serves as an accurate summary of the course that prospective students or new teachers can refer to. The collaborative features of blogs can be used to permit several students to contribute to the blog. One excellent example is Justin Halls course blog. (Hall is regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of blogging).

However, these are but a sample of the blogs that are being used by the online community. There almost a countless, unimaginable variety of other blogs waiting to be read. Forbes Magazine has recently compiled a top-ten list rankings of the best blogs according to different blogging categories