ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Wireless Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Provider, Application Service Provider

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: johnlaughseen

Document Summary

The innovator"s dilemma: companies that may have placed too much emphasis on satisfying customer"s current needs, and not adopting new disrupting technology causes those companies to go bankrupt. Internet: a global public network of computer networks that pass information from one to another using common computer protocols. Protocols: standards that specify the format of data as well as the rules to be followed during transmission. Internet not operated by one party, several entities oversee the internet and set standards. The terms internet and world wide web are not the same: in early days, internet was restricted to non-commercial activities, world wide web came along and changed the purpose and use of the internet. World wide web (www): global hypertext system that uses the internet as its transport mechanism. Hypertext transport protocol (http): the internet standard that supports the exchange of information on the www: allows web authors to embed hyperlinks (url)