Major Applications
- Business Applications
- Home Application
- Mobile Computers, & etc
1. Business Applications
- Resource Sharing
- VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)
- Web application,
- communication medium
- email (electronic mail),
- IP telephony
- Voice over IP (VoIP)
- Desktop sharing
- e-commerce (electronic commerce)
2. Home Applications
Some of the most important uses of the Internet for home users are as follows:
1. Access to remote information
2. Person-to-person communication
3. Interactive entertainment
4. Electronic commerce
3. Mobile Users
Mobile computers, such as notebook computers and Mobile phones, are one of the fastest-growing
segments of the entire computer industry. Although wireless networking and mobile computing are often related, they are not identical, as the below figure shows.
| Wireless | Mobile | Applications |
| No | No | Desktop Computer in offices |
| No | Yes | A notebook computer used in a hotel room |
| Yes | No | Network in old and unwired buildings |
| Yes | Yes | Portable office, PDA for store inventory |