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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Convergence among firms populating a technological environment increases firms’ incentive to search in the neighborhood of current technologies, thereby decreasing the likelihood of pathbreaking innovation.
		Third, when convergence drastically reduces the technological diversity of an environment, firms have reduced possibilities for further recombinations and may be unable to recognize new technological opportunities.
		When deciding to enter a technological path opened by another firm, firms face a tradeoff between early entry, when uncertainty is high and competition is low, and late entry, when uncertainty is resolved but opportunities for profits are lower due to higher competition.
	faculty.haas.berkeley.edu /wakeman/CCC/Polidoro.doc (1114 words)

	Technological convergence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Technological convergence is the modern presence of a vast array of different types of technology to perform very similar tasks.
		A philosopher who has been concerned with thinking the implications of technological convergence, particularly the convergence of information and communication technologies (that is, the convergence of telephonic, computing, and televisual devices), is Bernard Stiegler.
		The greater the degree of convergence in a device, the more vulnerable consumers are to the failure of that device and face more complex user-interfaces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technological_convergence (1192 words)

	Convergence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Convergent boundary is a fault boundary defined in the specialty of geology known as plate tectonics.
		Convergence is the simultaneous inward movement of both eyes toward each other, usually in an effort to maintain single binocular vision when viewing an object.
		Convergence (evolutionary computing) is a means of modelling the tendency for genetic characteristics of populations to stabilize over time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Convergence (785 words)

	REEN PAPER ON THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTORS, AND THE IMPLICATIONS ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Technological convergence rapidly gave rise to market convergence, and to "value-added" services - innovative services which borrowed concepts from both sectors, and which allowed businesses to extend the power of computing beyond the geographical confines of their immediate locations.
		Convergence may challenge current regulatory approaches, particularly, with regard to the licensing of networks and allocation of resources, where such approaches reflect a perceived scarcity of both radio-frequency and of content.
		Convergence may impact on the current basis for window management, and could lead to a greater dependence on non-exclusive electronic distribution as a more effective means of maximising revenues.
	www.bild.net /greenpaper.htm (17769 words)

	Implications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		That said, convergence is absolutely necessary for the continuation of life as we know it.
		It is obvious that convergence not only makes life easier and more enjoyable in general, but it also makes business run more smoothly and effectively.
		Anytime technological convergence allows for the development of new electronic products, these products must be tested and passed before they can be available to public buyers.
	www.bsu.edu /web/jcgoens/Implications.html (332 words)

	Symposium on Multimedia Convergence
		The convergence of the computer, telephone and broadcasting sectors into a communication and distribution industry is paving the main thoroughfares of the global information highway, along which information products and services will travel in the twenty-first century.
		Participants were invited to prepare presentations on the labour issues raised by the convergence process in their specific industries and countries, highlighting the impact of current trends on employment and conditions of work.
		Convergence was likely to be a job creator rather than destroyer, and governments had a vital role in ensuring that such job creation happened.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/sector/techmeet/smc97/smcrep.htm (19779 words)

	SparkNotes: Economic Growth: Convergence
		This convergence signifies that all industrialized nations are approaching a common level of prosperity.
		These are countries that have the infrastructure, government, and education level to utilize the technological advances that can potentially their production capabilities.
		Countries that lack a solid infrastructure, possess an unstable government, or do not possess an educated populace are unable to benefit from the technological advances that are enjoyed by the industrialized countries and are thus not covered under the idea of convergence.
	www.sparknotes.com /economics/macro/growth/section4.rhtml (344 words)

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		1.2 Technological Convergence and Phase II Reforms With respect to outstanding issues of Phase II, several in particular fall within the domain of technological convergence: digitization and new forms of interconnectivity pose questions of new rights and new categories of works, and present problems for administrative policies, jurisdiction, and enforcement.
		Many of the problems of convergence and intellectual property reflect the particular difficulties for a notion of copyright rooted in the non-electronic realm of a literary matrix.
		Technological neutrality seems reasonable in convergence, but the common carrier exemption would become problematic if it was deemed a violation of national treatment obligations in terms of retransmission rights for content delivery via 'enhanced' services.
	www.ifla.org /documents/infopol/copyright/gowg1.txt (6707 words)

	Convergence
		This convergence is ushering in a new epoch of multimedia, in which voice, data and images are combined to render services to the users.
		Convergence is when, for instance, radio and television and other communication systems simultaneously provide service to the consumers.
		Technological convergence points to the way technologies are increasingly converging into one.
	cbdd.wsu.edu /kewlcontent/cdoutput/TR501/page29.htm (997 words)

	Redefining the Home Screen: Technological Convergence as Trauma and Business Plan
		One way to assess the significance of technological innovations such as the PVR is to chart their impact upon traditional assumptions about television and its audience, assumptions themselves informed by specific historical forces within and outside of the television industry.
		Unlike the cultural positioning of cinema in the US since the 1940s, increasingly associated with the possibilities for artistic status, personal expression, cosmopolitanism, and high cultural prestige, American television was generally construed in terms of its domesticity, liveness, and its role as an indispensable agent of national identity.
		The significance of the current period of technological innovation within moving-image culture is suggested by the ongoing erosion of the consensus regarding many of these traditional propositions about the nature and uses of commercial television.
	web.mit.edu /comm-forum/papers/boddy.html (2921 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This Green Paper discusses the phenomenon of convergence in the technological arena and its potential impact on the regulatory framework of the Europe.
		The public policies that are developed must support convergence in order to maximize the potential rewards of these technological trends and to help Europe stay competitive on a global level.
		These convergent industries and technologies mean that regulatory philosophies must be carefully reconsidered in order to nurture them.
	www.com.washington.edu /program/courses/a04/com550/giffard_cwei2.doc (638 words)

	All power to the barons?.
		But the convergence of media ownership is even more striking, and in many respects anticipates technological convergence.
		For most consumers, it’s the convergence of ownership that has probably had the most direct effect on their media experience to date.
		It makes perfect sense technologically, but what it misses—and this is the perceived wisdom on Wall Street—is that new technologies are not going to spawn a wave of commercially viable media entrepreneurs or businesses due to the market power of existing companies.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2001_10/uk/medias2.htm (628 words)

	Convergence and E-Governance*
		in its convergent form, is recognised as the vehicle for social, economic, and cultural transformation of society.
		Convergence is not an issue in the backbone, but in the edge (last-mile problem).
		Convergence of Computing and Telecommunications was perceived as one of the most important trends in ICT.
	waterinfo.nic.in /news/egover_convergence.html (4050 words)

	Water Cooler Games - Review of Convergence Culture, by Henry Jenkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Convergence is an abused media term these days, and Jenkins's primary goal in the book is to replace vague uses of the term in mass media, marketing, and consumer electronics with his own concept of convergence.
		Instead, Jenkins offers another explanation of media convergence, one that is "more than simply a technological shift." Convergence is the set of new practices that emerge out of the proliferation of media channels or technologies, and the increasing frequency with which content flows across them.
		Convergent cultural practices include both the consumption and the creation of media, and Jenkins traces convergence culture in both top-down corporate mass media production and bottom-up consumer reception and creation.
	www.watercoolergames.org /archives/000590.shtml (4773 words)

	The New Technological Convergence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the heart of this transformation is something futurists have long referred to as "convergence"-the melding of television, telephones, computers, and the World Wide Web into a single global communications network.
		Even a few months ago, predictions of a technological convergence would have struck all but the most fanciful as events destined for another lifetime.
		But convergence is no longer the futuristic dreamstuff of technovisionaries.
	www.smartcommunities.org /convergence.html (375 words)

	Technological Convergence and International Trade
		This paper builds on earlier evidence showing that, while most countries exhibit little evidence of unconditional income convergence, countries that trade heavily with one another tend to exhibit a much higher incidence of convergence.
		The first alternative is that the trade-related income convergence is due to a convergence in capital-labour ratios.
		This alternative is corroborated by a high incidence of convergence in total factor productivities among countries that trade heavily with one another – an outcome that is not common between these same countries when they are grouped randomly rather than on the basis of trade.
	ideas.repec.org /p/cpr/ceprdp/1359.html (566 words)

	RBCS - The Convergence of Physical Security and IT: Responsibilities
		This is the first of a series of articles that explores the convergence of physical security technology and information technology, and its impact on Security departments and IT departments.
		The convergence at the technology level is a natural fit, and has resulted in many security technology breakthroughs and an impressive increase in the capabilities of today’s physical security systems.
		They will help you to the degree that your organization obtains the right knowledge in the right places, so that each person can be effective and can easily carry out his or her role in support of the organization’s security objectives.
	www.go-rbcs.com /Convergence_1.htm (2186 words)

	Call for Papers: Convergence and Society
		At this conference, the moral implications of emerging media are addressed at the levels of society, culture, and the media professions.
		It is a forum for scholars, media professionals, and theologians to discuss converging media from the standpoint of competing values.
		Papers and panels may include institutional, content, audience, cultural, political, and technological perspectives on media from the perspective of social responsibility.
	newsplex.sc.edu /newsplex_cfpapers06.html (438 words)

	ConvergencePro Forum Where technological innovations and real solutions CONVERGE
		The telecommunications convergence is a reality in the technological point of view, however there is not yet a compatible measurement basis to judge the potential benefits.
		Thesis points barriers to telecom convergence in the Brazilian market: “Engineer demonstrates that there are some contradictions between potential benefits discussed in the brand new technologies and the reality of telecom service market.
		Telecommunications convergence: Scientific research identifies barriers to technological innovations in the telecommunications services.
	www.convergencepro.org /site/en/content/index.php?local=home (267 words)

	Technological Convergence in Higher Education: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Technological convergence reported by many commentators, particularly electronic networking that facilitates communications and distribution of educational materials, continues to have an impact.
		The paper reports on more recent changes in the technological environment and examines not the willingness of the institutions to adopt such technologies, but rather the readiness of higher education instructors, as influencers and content providers, to utilise these technologies.
		The paper is a 'working paper' that uses survey data gained from the first phase of a longitudinal study into diffusion of technological innovation in the Australian higher education sector.
	ausweb.scu.edu.au /aw96/educn/adam/index.htm (284 words)

	SSRN-Publications and Documents That Reference 'Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth' by Robert Barro, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		"Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth." Journal of Economic Growth 2(1), March, pp.
		Barro, Robert J. and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, 1995, Technological Diffusion, Convergence, and Growth, NBER Working Paper 5151, June.
		Barro, Robert and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (1997) \Technological Di®usion, Convergence, and Growth," Journal of Economic Growth 2, 1-26.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/RefPointingTo.cfm?abid=225215 (254 words)

	Technological convergence can help farm growth: Kasturirangan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rajya Sabha member and former ISRO Chairman K Kasturirangan said through convergence of space science, information and bio-technologies, the country can achieve accelerated farm growth.
		Dr Kasturirangan said the constellation of Indian weather satellites continued to play a significant role in improving the accuracy of weather forecasting, be it to predict the possible drought conditions, floods or cyclones.
		Use of technology had resulted in agriculture not being a blind alley for the farmer any more, he said.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060913/449760.html (160 words)

	EC2 @ USC - Digital Commerce Center - Media Convergence
		Offers business analysis of the direct broadcast satellite industry and the ongoing convergence of the telecommunications, computer, and entertainment industries.
		A communications consultant agency focused on the convergence of information, entertainment, and technology and its impact on both corporate and mass culture.
		A consultant group that helps clients converge and integrate new technologies into existing and emerging voice, data, and video communications, ensuring the conversion goes smoothly.
	www.ec2.edu /dccenter/mc/consulting.html (456 words)

	Symposium on Multimedia Convergence - Activités Sectorielles
		concentration: the proliferation of small firms will inevitably lead to takeovers and mergers as firms seek economies of scale in converging markets.
		The short-run effect on employment is likely to be negative but, in the longer term, there will be gains.
		The nature of employment appears to be slowly shifting as global trade and competition increase.
	www.ilo.org /public/spanish/dialogue/sector/techmeet/smc97/smcrep.htm (20001 words)

	Digital Commerce Center - Media Convergence
		Designed to help businesses harness the convergent forces in
		convergence of Call Center, Internet, intranet, extranet, and
		A consultant group that helps clients converge and integrate
	www.ec2.edu /final/dccenter/mc/consulting.html (190 words)

	Technological Convergence: a Strategic Perspective
		The information and communication technologies (ICT) sectors are in a process of technological convergence.
		Determinant factors in this process are the liberalisation of the telecommunications markets and technological change.
		Our objective in this paper is to study the economic determinants of the strategies of the firms.
	ideas.repec.org /p/udg/wpeudg/002.html (385 words)

	Regulation of the Internet -- Technological Convergence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		he FCC has grappled with the convergence of computers and communications before.
		From a regulatory perspective, some have argued that "a bit is a bit" and "a pipe is a pipe" -- meaning that similar regulatory treatment should be accorded to similar functionalities, regardless of the underlying network technology.
		(Interestingly, on the PSTN data is just another kind of voice traffic, while on the Internet, voice is "just another kind of data.") At the very least, this obviously makes the line-drawing inherent in Computer II increasingly problematic in an era of technological convergence.
	www.manishin.com /iworld/iworld4.html (237 words)

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