信息技术专业英语-第3章.pptx

信息技术专业英语 English for Information Technology 第三章 Chapter 3. Satellite Positioning and its Application Passage A. Tracking Someone else’s Every Move, with Permission Lead in Passage A (Text, Words and Phrases, Notes, Chinese Version) Exercises (Exercises 1, Exercises 2, Exercises 3, Exercises 4, Exercises5, Exercises6) Passage B. GPS: A Revolutionary Breakthrough Guided Reading Passage B (Text, Words and Phrases, Notes, Chinese Version) Glympse: Glympse is a free app used to share GPS location with friends and family members. You can send a Glympse to your friends to let them know your position. Besides, you can also request a Glympse of your friend who is always running late. Lead in T-Mobile G1: The T-Mobile G1 is a smart phone developed by HTC. It was firstly released in the year of 2008 and was the first commercially released device to use the Linux-based Android operating system. BlackBerry: BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1999. SMS: Short Message Service (SMS) is a text messaging service component of phone, Web, or mobile communication systems. E-mail: Electronic mail, most commonly referred to as e-mail or  email since 1993, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.  Satellite: In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon. The world’s first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Since then, thousands of satellites have been launched into orbit around the Earth. Cell tower: A cell site or cell tower is a cellular telephone site where antennae and electronic communications equipment are placed, usually on a radio mast, tower or other high place, to create a cell (or adjacent cells