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E-society

What are you going to do today?Perhaps you'll email your friends, watch a DVD or listen to your MP3 player.It's likely that sometime soon you're going to surf the Net. Today, we take new technology for garanted, so you may be surprised to learn that 50% of the people in the world have still never even used a telephone!

There is a new gap between those who have access to new technology and those who don't.It is called the 'Digital Devide'.The truth is that fewer than 17% of the people in the world can actually use the Internet.

To go online, you need a computer, the right software, a phone line, a modem and a subscription to an Internet service provider.These aren't cheap and a lot of people, especially in poor countries, just can't afford them.
Then there's the language barrier. Four-fifths of all websites are in English and many people around the world cannot even read or write in their own language, let alone a foreign language.If people can't read, it will be hard to teach them how to use a computer.
The technology gap also exists simply because many people do not understand how  technology can help them.They have an old-fashioned way of thinking and cannot imagine the difference technology will make to their lives.
Education is the key.  Goverments,   IT industries and educational institutions should work together to educate people and train them and at computer usage.When we bridge the digital divide, then everyone will have equal opportunities and the power that technology brings.

Facts

• Only 3.6% of nearly a billion people in Africa have Internet access.
• 0.1% of these have broadband.
• Almost 70% of the people in North America have Internet access.
• Africa, parts of Asia, South America and the Middle East are the least connected.
• 77% of the world's population has access to a mobile phone network.

56.5% of the world's population live in Asia, but only 10% of them have internet access.             

Nokia

Nokia Corporation, stylised as NOKIA, is a Finnishmultinational communications andinformation technology company, founded in 1865. Nokia is headquartered in Espoo,Uusimaa, in the greater Helsinki metropolitan area.In 2014, Nokia employed 61,656 people across 120 countries, did business in more than 150 countries and reported annual revenues of around €12.73 billion.Nokia is apublic limited-liability company listed on theHelsinki Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange.It is the world's 274th-largest company measured by 2013 revenues according to the Fortune Global 500.The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50stock market index.

The company has had various industries in its 151-year history, originally founded as a pulp mill, and currently focuses on large-scaletelecommunications infrastructures, and technology development and licensing.Nokia is also a major contributor to themobile telephony industry, having assisted in development of the GSM and LTE standards, and was, for a period, the largest vendor ofmobile phones in the world. Nokia's dominance also extended into thesmartphone industry through its Symbianplatform, but was soon overshadowed by competitors. Nokia eventually entered into a pact with Microsoft in 2011 to exclusively use its Windows Phone platform on future smartphones. Its mobile phone business was eventually bought by Microsoft in an overall deal totaling $7.17 billion.Stephen Elop, Nokia's former CEO, and several other executives joined the new Microsoft Mobilesubsidiary of Microsoft as part of the deal, which was completed on 25 April 2014.

Since the sale of its mobile phone business, Nokia began to focus more extensively on its telecommunications infrastructure business, marked by the divestiture of its Here Mapsdivision, its foray in virtual reality, and the acquisitions of French telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent and digital health maker Withings in 2016.From late 2016, Nokia's name will return to the mobile phone market through HMD global

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Sony

Sony Corporation  Sonī Kabushiki Gaisha, commonly referred to asSony and stylized as SONY ) is aJapanese multinational conglomeratecorporation headquartered in Kōnan, Minato,Tokyo, Japan.Its diversified business includes consumer and professionalelectronics, gaming, entertainment andfinancial services.The company is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets.Sony is ranked 116th on the 2015 list of Fortune Global 500.

Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group, which is engaged in business through its four operating components – electronics (video games, network services and medical business), motion pictures, music and financial services.These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal business operations include Sony Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment,Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Mobile (formerly Sony Ericsson) and Sony Financial. Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and as of 2013, the fourth-largest television manufacturer in the world, afterSamsung Electronics, LG Electronics andTCL.

The Sony Group Sonī Gurūpu^?) is a Japan-based corporate groupprimarily focused on the Electronics (such as AV/IT products and components), Game (such as the PlayStation), Entertainment (such as motion pictures and music) and Financial Services (such as insurance and banking) sectors. The group consists of Sony Corporation (holding and electronics), Sony Interactive Entertainment (games), Sony Pictures Entertainment (motion pictures),Sony Music Entertainment (music), Sony/ATV Music Publishing (music publishing), Sony Financial Holdings (financial services) andothers.

The company's current slogan is BE MOVED. Their former slogans were make.believe(2009–2014), like.no.other (2005–2009) andIt's a Sony (1980–2002).

Sony has a weak tie to the SMFG keiretsu,the successor to the Mitsui keiretsu.

Samsung

Samsung ; Korean pronunciation:is a South Koreanmultinational conglomerate companyheadquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul.It comprises numerous subsidiaries and affiliated businesses,most of them united under the Samsung brand, and is the largest South Korean chaebol (business conglomerate).

Samsung was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next three decades, the group diversified into areas including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities and retail. Samsung entered theelectronics industry in the late 1960s and the construction and shipbuilding industries in the mid-1970s; these areas would drive its subsequent growth. Following Lee's death in 1987, Samsung was separated into four business groups – Samsung Group,Shinsegae Group, CJ Group and HansolGroup. Since 1990s, Samsung has increasingly globalized its activities and electronics, particularly mobile phones and semiconductors, have become its most important source of income.

Notable Samsung industrial subsidiaries include Samsung Electronics (the world's largest information technology companymeasured by 2012 revenues, and 4th in market value),Samsung Heavy Industries(the world's 2nd-largest shipbuilder measured by 2010 revenues),and Samsung Engineering and Samsung C&T (respectively the world's 13th and 36th-largest construction companies).Other notable subsidiaries include Samsung Life Insurance (the world's 14th-largest life insurance company),Samsung Everland (operator of Everland Resort, the oldest theme park in South Korea)and Cheil Worldwide (the world's 15th-largest advertising agency measured by 2012 revenues).

Samsung has a powerful influence on South Korea's economic development, politics, media and culture and has been a major driving force behind the "Miracle on the Han River".Its affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea's total exports.Samsung's revenue was equal to 17% of South Korea's $1,082 billion GDP.