Basic Internet Concepts

Internet
Interconnected network of thousands of networks and millions

of computers
Links businesses, educational institutions, government agencies,

and individuals

Browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving,

presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

Web Server
A web server is a computer program that delivers

(serves) content, such as web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), over the World Wide Web. The term web server can also refer to the computer running the program.

HTTP
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

A protocol used to request and transmit files,

especially web pages and web page components, over the internet or other computer network.

HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
It is the language in which web pages are written. It

allows the images to be combined with text and offers wide range of formatting capabilities. One of the most important features of HTML is hypertext, that allows web pages to be liked one to each other.

ISP
Internet Service Provider

Your ISP is the company you use to use the Internet.

ISPs offer different services, for instance, email, space to post web pages, a connection to browse the web, etc.

Role of Technology
Technology has the potential to impact the world not

just at the individual level but also at the enterprise level.

The dynamic nature of technology leads to constant

innovation.

India Outlook
India semiconductor consumption is projected to total

$8.2 billion in 2011, a 15.5 percent increase from 2010 consumption of $7.1 billion Gartner
PC sales are expected to grow by 13.5% in 2011 to 11.2

million units, thanks to demand from the education sector and the coming festive season. Around 9.9 million computers were sold in India in 2010 - IDC

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Internet Statistics
India will see its number of internet users triple to 237

million by 2015, from 81 million registered in September 2010 Boston Consulting Group
Internet penetration rate in India is expected to reach

19 per cent by 2015, up from the current 7 per cent BCG

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 Total number of active internet users in rural area will

rise by 98 per cent to touch 24 million by the end of 2011 from 12.1 million in December 2010 IMRB

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Trends in IT
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Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a general term for anything that

involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services are broadly divided into three categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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Cloud Computing
Revenues from cloud services in India will grow to over

$3 billion by 2015 from the $534 million expected in 2011 IDC

Business in India will be driven by SMEs & Individual

users.
Global revenues from cloud services will grow from

$29 billion to over $70 billion - IDC

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The Post PC Era

Combined shipments of web-connected smartphones and

tablet computers are likely to exceed those of desktop and laptop computers for the first time this year. Gartner
10 billion mobile devices to be in circulation by 2020 -

Morgan Stanley
Volume of data set to increase with proliferation of mobile

devices.
By 2015, 6.3 exabytes of mobile data will be flowing each

month, a majority of which will be contributed by videos Cisco

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Mobile Applications and Media Tablets

53.5 million units to be sold in 2011 IDC Apple will sell 26 million iPads in 2011 - Merrill Lynch Smartphone market: Android phones -48% Iphone 19%

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 44 Billion: Number of mobile apps to be downloaded

by 2016.
Revenue from app stores owned by Apple, Google,

Nokia, and Research In Motion is set to grow 77.7 percent, reaching $3.8 billion by the end of 2011 and eventually rising to $8.3 billion in 2014. iSuppli

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Social Communications and Collaboration

Social networking Facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn Social collaboration wikis, blogs

Social publishing Youtube, flickr

Social feedback StumbleUpon, Digg

By 2016, social technologies will be integrated with

most business applications. - Gartner

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Video
Its use as a standard media type used in non-media

companies is expanding rapidly.

By 2013, more than 25 percent of the content that

workers see in a day will be dominated by pictures, video or audio. - Gartner

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SEZ
As on July 15, 2011 381 notified SEZs were functioning

across the country out of the 585 approved SEZs so far.

Exports from its Special Economic Zones (SEZs)

registered a robust 43 per cent growth in the fiscal 2010-11 at Rs 3,15,867.85 crore, against Rs 2,20,711.39 crore in the previous year.

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Where does the world go on the web??

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Internet Audience 15+ accessing Internet from Home or Work

Source: comScore Media Metrix, March 2010 and

March 2011

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Average hours spent online by Indians

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