### electronic communication:

Digital communication
* allow our computers to talk to each other in a binary language.
* depend on bandwidth and compression.
* has the potential to be the most democratic form of communication ever.
* have the potential to be the most democratic form of communication ever.
* is electronic communication.
* mean digital horizons that far out-span traditional boundaries.
* relies heavily on effective stimulation of the senses.

### electronic communication:

Messaging
* are electronic communication.
* communications tool that helps connect large groups of people.
* has many forms.
* is an approach to integrating applications.
* is one of the major driving forces behind mass-market mobile telephone usage
  - more economical ways of using a mobile phone
  - most important applications that use images
  - synchronous, asynchronous or asynchronous request-response
* is the application that pushes adoption through the threshold
  - foundation of the value chain
* total communications package handling e-mail and faxes.
* uses messages to communicate with different systems to perform some kind of function.

### electronic communication | messaging:

Electronic messaging
* allows users to correspond directly with the financial institution.
* creates new opportunities for groups to work together.
* goes beyond the sound of someone's voice, fax machine or computer on line.
* reduces boundaries between business and personal life
  - geographical distances

Express messaging
* is used to transfer a caller directly into a voice mailbox.
* provides a quick way to leave messages for people without ringing their phones.

### electronic communication | messaging:

Instant messaging
* alleviates the time delay of e-mail.
* allows Internet users to communicate with each other using text
  - communication faster than e-mail but more personal than a chat room
* allows computer users to carry on quick on-screen conversations with one another
  - quick on-screen conversations with one other
  - one to chat or talk almost in real time
  - people to communicate in real time over the Internet
* allows people to send real-time text messages and files
  - text messages to each other in real time
  - real-time online communication
  - users to send short notes to each other in real time over the Internet
* amounts to a kind of live email.
* bears significant similarities to e-mail.
* fast and fun way to chat with friends, send pictures and play games.
* involves downloading a software program onto a computer.
* is an alternative to a browser, in a sense
  - increasingly popular form of instant communication between individuals
  - as common among Internet users as picking up the telephone
  - important for real-time messaging communication
  - more like instant paging
* is more than a way to ping a pal to see if they're online
  - ping pals to see if they're online
* is the fastest growing Internet service
  - third 'killer app' on the Internet, after browsing and email
* kind of gateway drug for other applications.
* rapidly developing technology, and is becoming more and more sophisticated.
* technique for sending quick messages to other Internet users.
* technology that's becoming very pervasive and very viral.
* uses presence information to deliver instant communications.

Text messaging
* feature that is underused with certain wireless service plans.
* is for people who are too lazy to check their email or voice mail
  - one of the most popular applications on a cell phone

### electronic devices:

Optoelectronic device
* are electronic devices
  - the key components in both image acquisition and display
* have several applications.