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Technological innovations
Change, Technological BIBLIOGRAPHY Technological change refers to the process by which new products and processes are generated. When new technologies involve a new way of making existing products, the technological change is called process innovation. When they include entirely new products,... Read more |
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automated teller machine
automated teller machine (ATM), device used by bank customers to process account transactions. Typically, a user inserts into the ATM a special plastic card that is encoded with information on a magnetic strip. The strip contains an identification code that is transmitted to the bank's central... Read more |
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Prepaid cards
DIGITAL CASH Digital cash, or electronic money, consists of encrypted data that serves as an electronic substitute for regular hard currency. It can exist in the form of a cash Internet transaction or as monetary value stored on a smart card. Descended from the electronic money used in bank... Read more |
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debit card
debit card card that allows the cost of goods or services that are purchased to be deducted directly from the purchaser's checking account. They can also be used at automated teller machines for withdrawing cash from the user's checking account. Increasingly common in the 1990s as an alternative... Read more |
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Online transaction processing
Transaction Processing Transaction process is a term that refers to the adding, changing, deleting, or looking up of a record in a data file or database by entering the data at a terminal or workstation. Most transaction processing systems also include a method of ensuring that all the information... Read more |
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cathode-ray tube
cathode-ray tube special-purpose electron tube in which electrons are accelerated by high-voltage anodes, formed into a beam by focusing electrodes, and projected toward a phosphorescent screen that forms one face of the tube. The beam of electrons leaves a bright spot wherever it strikes the... Read more |
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machine
machine arrangement of moving and stationary mechanical parts used to perform some useful work or to provide transportation. From a historical perspective, many of the first machines were the result of human efforts to improve war-making capabilities; the term engineer at one time had an... Read more |
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Edmund Cartwright
Edmund Cartwright 1743-1823, English inventor and clergyman. He was the inventor of an imperfect power loom that, when finally patented (1785), became the parent of the modern loom. It was the first machine to make practical the weaving of wide cotton cloth. A few of Cartwright's many other... Read more |
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voting machine
voting machine instrument for recording and counting votes. The voting machine itself is generally positioned in a booth, often closed off by a curtain to assure secrecy for the voter. In the case of older mechanical voting machines, when a voter enters the booth and closes the curtain by means of... Read more |
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Calculators
Tabulating Machines Tabulating machines, or punched card machines, were the earliest automated data processing devices. They include keypunch machines, collators, sorters, reproducers, and tabulators. By the late 1980s, virtually all tabulating machines had been replaced by digital computer... Read more |
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DPM: Priority for consumers
...Security, Safety and Fire...security, safety and fire...withdrawals at automated teller machines, interception...portals, using high-tech...responsibility of crime- prevention...premises against ... |