Communication Technologies : Societal Perspectives, Strategic Management and Impact on Business

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to create, access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. In this book, the authors examine the societal perspectives, strategic management and impact on business of communications technology. Topics include information and communication technologies in world class universities; ICT used by businesses on purchasing orientation; ICT and their impact on customer patronizing behavior; the using of and attitudes toward ICT in different age groups; optoelectronic switch arrays for communication networks; and factors affecting eco-driving through a web-based information provision system. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to create, access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. In this book, the authors examine the societal perspectives, strategic management and impact on business of communications technology. Topics include information and communication technologies in world class universities; ICT used by businesses on purchasing orientation; ICT and their impact on customer patronizing behaviour; the using of and attitudes toward ICT in different age groups; optoelectronic switch arrays for communication networks; and factors affecting eco-driving through a web-based information provision system