_Technlogical-Issues-and-Globalization
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Technology enables globalization by allowing the movement of goods, services, and capital across borders through increasing economic integration. Information technology and digital technologies like the internet have significantly impacted globalization in recent decades by enabling communication across vast distances. Globalization is unique in this era as technologies now allow not just corporations but individuals to connect and reach others worldwide faster and cheaper than ever before.
_Technlogical-Issues-and-Globalization
- 2. Technology is the creation, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, and systems to solve a problem, improve a pre-existing solution or achieve a goal.
- 3. is a historical process, the result of human innovation and technological progress. It refers to the increasing integration of economies around the world, particularly through the movement of goods, services, and capital across borders.
- 4. Information technology was necessary to enable globalization and this technology emerged from developed countries. It changed the economic relationship between countries because it made knowledge an increasingly important component in the production of goods and services.
- 6. The internet and the development of digital technology (computer-based technology) in particular, have made the most significant impact in the field of information and communication technology in the past decade.
- 7. Communication technology is just one of the factors that has played a major role in spreading globalization, and some experts believe that globalization would have never been possible in the absence of communication technology. While the impact of communication technology has been overly positive, it has led to certain challenges.
- 8. Google’s progress received praise in the form of PC Magazine, which named Google as its search engine of choice in its Top Web Sites of 1998, reporting that Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results” – something that remains true today.
- 9. BlackBerry accounts for 3% of mobile devices sales worldwide in 2011, making its manufacturer the sixth most popular device maker (25% of mobile device sales are smart phones). The consumer BlackBerry Internet Service is available in 91 countries worldwide on over 500 mobile service operators using various mobile technologies. As of September 2012, there were eighty million subscribers worldwide to BlackBerry.
- 10. As the world shrinks, everything is becoming more inter-meshed—economics, politics, culture, traditions and religion. For the first time in history, we humans are forging an awareness of our existence as a single entity. And it’s happening faster than permits many people to adjust.
- 11. According to The Economist, a three-minute call between New York and London cost $300 in 1930. Today it is almost free through the Internet. But what also makes this era of globalization unique is not just the fact that these technologies are making it possible for traditional nation-states and corporations to reach farther, faster, cheaper and deeper around the world than ever before. It is the fact that it is allowing individuals to do so.
- 12. Tablets on the other hand are truly personal computers and they bring the added benefit of only a very small learning curve in order to begin using them effectively. Because of this, many consumers in key emerging markets are finding tablets to be a viable and non- threatening option as their first primary computer.
- 13. Mobile Applications provides scalable globalization services for the best balance of quality, cost, and speed to market, resulting in increased savings and profits, and improved customer satisfaction.