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  Internet telephony |Remote access to PC | Internet TV |  Instant messaging services and chat system |  VideoMail and Video Phone | Web-based mail

From its founding, Internet technologies have changed everything, from how we communicate and get our news, to how we do business, play, shop, and so on. Life continues to change every day. Now, we have streaming video on our desktop computers, television shows on our cell phones, and video game consoles which allow us to play with competitors located all over the world. Today, we speak about the “high-tech Internet” like a huge virtual world, which includes wireless internet, perfect video and audio communication tools, nearly endless data banks with information on any subject, various kinds of search engines and much, much more. Let’s take a look at these high-tech technology achievements, to better understand the Internet applications of Artificial Intelligence.

 Internet Telephony and Conferencing

Internet telephony is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet, or through any other Internet Protocol (IP) based network. The protocols used to carry voice signals over the IP network are commonly referred to as “Voice over IP” or “VoIP” protocols. Internet phone service is a technology that converts a voice message from a user’s phone into a digital signal, which can then be sent through a high-speed broadband internet connection to the receiver’s phone, where it is converted back to the original message. These calls can also be made from the user’s computer to a regular landline telephone, or mobile phone. Today, Internet phone services offer great advantages over existing telephone systems, enabling callers to save money as they make and receive calls around the world, using high-speed and broadband services.
This Internet telephone system facilitates tasks that may be more difficult to achieve using traditional phone networks:
• Incoming phone calls can be automatically routed to the user’s VoIP phone, regardless of where he or she is connected to the network. If you take a VoIP phone with you on a trip, wherever you connect to the Internet, you can receive incoming calls.
• Free phone numbers for use with VoIP are available in the U.S.A., UK and other countries, from organizations such as VoIP User, Phone Power, and so on,  see: http://voipusercompare.com
• Call center agents using VoIP phones can work from anywhere with a sufficiently fast Internet connection.
A telephone call can be made for free, through a service provider, from computer to computer, or from computer to phone. Most VoIP companies provide the features for which traditional phone companies charge extra. Here are just a few of the free features included with most VoIP Providers:

• E-911
• Call Waiting
• Call Forwarding
• Voicemail
• Call Return
• Operator Services
• Caller ID
• Call Blocking
• 3-Way Calling
• VoIP on the Go
• Web Call Logs
Internet video phone technology is based also on VoIP protocols.
The Internet video phone comes with free video calling, voice and video mail, call blocking, instant messaging, and the capability to transfer files and pictures while participants talk. If a client has a virtual phone number (http://www.voipvoip.com/virtual-phone-number/), than he or she can take a call, even while on the road. There are many internet phone service providers, including Vonage Holding Corporation , Packet8 Internet phone service , and so on.

Talk Fusion makes it easy to create professional-looking Video Emails   using web camera or video camera to shoot a new video or simply upload a pre-recorded one    .
Skype, from Skype Limited (an eBay company), is a very useful Internet telephone tool that can be downloaded at www.skype.com. The Skype Group is headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices in San Jose, California (USA), London, Tallinn, and so on. With Skype’s software, any user can chat away with free Skype-to-Skype calls anytime, and never worry about cost or distance. Calls between users of the service, and to toll-free numbers are free, while calls to other landlines and mobile phones can be made for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing.

 Conference Group  is a browser-enabled Chat/Conferencing/Messaging server application that allows companies to interact with clients or staff, dissolving geographical barriers, customer support without the aggravating wait, sales worldwide without expensive international offices, product development when the team is spread out geographically, distance learning… Whenever and wherever people need to work together or when people just want to chat.  Other  video collaboration products  Avistar, Cisco Unified Meeting Place, DimDim , VSee  and so on.

Remote Access to a PC

If a computer has an Internet connection, it can be accessed remotely. For this purpose, the user must install special software on his computer. After that, any user can access the remote computer from any other computer connected to the Internet. When the user connects to the remote computer, a window displays the desktop of this computer, as if he or she were sitting right in front of it.
This system enables the following tasks:
1. Access a work computer from a home computer:

• Securely access work files from home, or a friend’s home, no matter where it is physically located
• Simultaneously search all users’ computers and all the content within them

2. Access a home computer from a work computer:

• Instantly access personal files stored on a home computer, when the user is at work or on the road
• Listen to personal digital music from anywhere
• View photos and home videos from anywhere
• With the help of a remote, in-home webcam, monitor domestic situations and security, check up on elderly family members, or watch the kids or pets from anywhere

3. Sharing photo and media:

• Share photos and documents without having to e-mail big files, or upload content to a web site
• Share content safely, because everything remains on the user’s personal computer, and he or she can simply invite people in to view it

 Internet TV

Internet Television (TV) is a general term that covers the delivery of television shows and other video content over the internet by video streaming technology, typically by major traditional television broadcasters.
Internet TV can:

• be watched on a regular TV, on a computer, or on devices such as a mobile phones
• receive and view video
• allow the viewer to select a channel or program to watch “on-demand”

With the exception of Internet-connectivity costs many online-television channels or sites are free. Recent research has shown that advertising on Internet TV is nearly 50% more attractive for consumers, as compared to advertising on traditional TV. Current providers of internet television use various technologies to provide a service such as peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, VoD systems, and live streaming. BBC iPlayer makes use of the Adobe Flash Player to provide streaming-video clips and other software provided by Adobe for its download service
 

Online Social Networks

Online social networks are becoming  a true growth trend of the Internet. As individuals constantly  desire to contact  each others, the ability for the Internet to deliver this networking capabilities growth stronger and stronger. There are a plenty of excellent resources available to anybody  24 hours per day.

Facebook is the world's largest social network, with  about one billion users worldwide.. More than any other company, it has defined what some see as the "social'' era of the Internet, in which connections made among people replace algorithm-driven searches. In addition, its policies, more than any others, seem to be driving the definition of privacy in this new age. Every day, Facebook users comment or press the “like” button more than 2 billion times and upload more than 250 million photos. The McKinsey Global Institute has estimated that the network's users post 30 billion pieces of content every month.
The company, founded in 2004 by a Harvard sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg, began life catering first to Harvard students and then to all high school and college students. It has since evolved into a broadly popular online destination used by teenagers and adults of all ages. In country after country, Facebook has cemented itself as the leader, often displacing other social networks.

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 300 million users as of 2011,generating over 300 million tweets and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day

Internet Fax services

 

Instant Messaging Services and Chat Systems

In 1996, four young programmers from Israel (who later founded the company, Mirabilis) launched the first version of ICQ. Today, practically no one can remember who came up with the name of the program. Many people agree on the interpretation that the abbreviation was intended to sound like “I seek you”. ICQ became one of the first Internet-wide instant messaging (IM) services, where each party in a text communication typically sees each line of text right after a new line is started.
This was a great technical revolution in the area of communication services. With the ICQ program, the Internet made strides toward a truly real-time two-way, interactive, person-to-person global communication system.
Instant messaging differs from e-mail because communication is in real time. In some ways, IM is less intrusive and more convenient than a phone conversation. Most IM services also offer the option to see the participants during a communication, through the use of a webcam.
In addition to ICQ (www.icq.com), which services more than 700 million instant messages sent and received every day, other popular instant messaging services include AOL Instant Messenger (www.aim.com), Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com), Qnext (www.qnext.com), Windows Live Messenger (http://messengersays.spaces.live.com), and others.
Based on IM systems, a chat room (or chatroom) is an online environment, whereby groups of people can talk by broadcasting messages in real time to each other on the same web site.
Chat rooms usually set rules that visitors are required to follow, in order to maintain the integrity and safety of their users. Particularly in chat rooms for children, the rules typically do not allow the use of offensive language, the promotion of hate, violence, and other negative issues. Also, chat rooms often do not allow advertising. Chat systems come in a variety of styles, ranging from text-only messaging systems to fully-immersive 3-D environments. The most popular environments allow users to create or “build” their own spaces. However, some find these types of environments cumbersome to use, and actually an impediment to chatting.
Various versions of Yahoo! Messenger, for example, include the following features:
• Instant Messaging
• Chat Rooms
• Photo Sharing
• PC-to-PC Calls
• PC-to-Phone Calls
• Messaging to Mobile Phones
• Conferencing
• File Transferring
• Games

Web-Based Mail

Web-based mail (webmail) is a web application that allows users to access their e-mail through a web browser, as an alternative to using a special mail program, such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla, Thunderbird, or Eudora. The most notable of these are Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail.
Otherwise, to have a web-based mail service, the user must run webmail software (client agent) on his web server. This can be one of several notable open source software programs, such as OpenWebmail (http://openwebmail.org), RoundCube (http://roundcube.net) or SquirrelMail (http://squirremail.com).
Many Internet Service Providers offer webmail for their customers.
Webmail services have the following advantages:

• E-mail is stored remotely on a server, which means that it is accessible anywhere
• Centralized maintenance of the e-mail system — upgrades and security fixes are done by the administrator, and there is no need to install, update and patch local e-mail clients
• The Internet service provider typically organizes a free antivirus mail protection for their users
 

Cloud data storage

Cloud data warehouse - a model of an online repository where data is stored in multiple, distributed servers on the network provided for the use of clients, mostly third party. In contrast to the model of data storage on its own, dedicated servers, purchased or leased exclusively for such purposes, or any number of internal structure of the server to the client, in general, is not visible. The data is stored, and processed as well as in the so-called cloud, which is, in terms of the client, a large virtual server. Physically, such a server can be located quite remotely from each other geographically, down to the location on different continents.