Unit 7. Future of Communication.
Part 1. Warming up.
A. Keywords.

google, security, mega search, high speed, on-line VCR.
Vocabulary.

haystack, gigahertz, mega hertz, render, Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), Developer Forum, Palm Springs, Willamette, Windows Media Player.
You're going to hear some latest developments in the field of telecommunications. Supply the missing words while listening.
1. And British papers report the latest trend when you meet someone in a bar is to get their number, go home and google them.
Yes, that gorgeous girl or guy you met the other night is probably patrolling a search engine right now to check you out.
So don't even think of trying to tell them you're a famous footballer or brain surgeon or television presenter.
2. The jamming, earlier this month, of several popular Internet sites with a flood of crippling messages sent a weak-up call to those involved with electronic or e-commerce.
One recent suggestion is to form an industry-wide group to share information about security issues.
High-tech executives want to make a coordinated effort to ensure that the Internet becomes a safe place to conduct business.
3. Now home to some 800 million pages, a figure that's doubling each year, searching the Internet can be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But Oslo-based Fast Search And Transfer(FAST) has developed a search engine(www.altheweb.com) capable of scanning more than 200 million pages.
FAST is working on a mega search engine that searches all the web, all the time.
4. This week the Intel Corporation held its semi-annual developer Forum in Palm Springs, California.
The gathering draws more than 2,000 hardware and software developers around the world.
Intel executives opened the event with a demonstration of a high speed chip, code-named "Willamette".
The chip, designed to power person computers, has a speed of 1.5 gigahertz, making it almost twice as fast as Intel's popular Pentium 3 chip which runs at 800 megahertz.
5. An online VCR seems like a bright idea but it's been quickly rendered non-functional by the copyright lawyers.
Not for the first time, the Hollywood studios objected to re-transmitting network television shows, in this case for users to watch via web.
Programs were being made available for visitors to save remotely or record for subsequent viewing via Window Media Player.