Exam 9: Emerging Trends and Technologies

What is Software-as-a-service (SaaS)?

In the F2b2C model, the intermediary business is only involved in the distribution of the purchase.

Wiki is a Web site that allows visitors to create, edit, change, and often eliminate content.

Which of the following can be used to help identify people in a crowd?

What is the use of physiological characteristics (e.g., fingerprints) to provide identification?

A glove is an input device that captures and records hand and finger movements.

WiFi is a standard for transmitting information in the form of radio wave over distances up to about 100 feet.

The great digital divide is marked by the electronic movement of all types of information, not limited to numbers, words, graphs, and photos but including physiological information such as voice recognition and synthesization, biometrics (your retina scan and breath for example), and 3-D holograms.

Which type of storage device will store information on a storage medium of 3-D crystal-like objects?

What are devices that create, capture, and/or display images in true three-dimensional form?

EPC using RFID is the next generation of UPC.

A(n) _____ CPU is capable of working with information stored in more than two states.

What new Web environment features online collaboration, dynamic and customized feeds, and greater control of Web content by users?

Virtual reality is a three-dimensional computer simulation in which you actively and physically participate.

Disintermediation occurs when the travel agent is bypassed if hotel reservations are made directly on the Internet.

Automatic speech recognition systems complete three steps. Which step matches your spoken phonemes to a phoneme sequence stored in an acoustic model database?

_____ interfaces capture and utilize your real body characteristics, such as your breath, your voice, your height and weight, and even your iris.

The _____ refers to the fact that the world is becoming one marked by "have's" and "have not's" with respect to technology.

Data warehouse technology is often used with push technology to notify you of special services.

Most current Internet services are based on push technology.