TE Connectivity completed the sale of its broadband-networks business to CommScope Holding Co. for about US$3 billion. TE Connectivity’s product portfolio is focused on connectors and sensors that are made to withstand harsh environments. The company operates three primary segments: TE Connectivity’s Communications Solutions segment supplies electronic components for home appliances, including products for washers, dryers, refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, cooking appliances, water heaters, and microwaves. TE delivers connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things, virtual reality applications, smart phones, tablets and anywhere customers need solutions for data and devices, including networking equipment and wireless infrastructure. The Transportation segment includes four business
Sociology of the Internet of the Internet in the stricter sense concerns the analysis of online communities (e.g. as found in newsgroups), virtual communities and virtual worlds, organizational change catalyzed through new media such as the Internet, and social change at-large in the transformation from industrial to informational society (or to information society). Online communities can be studied statistically through network analysis and at the same time interpreted qualitatively, such as through virtual ethnography. Social change can be studied through statistical demographics or through the interpretation of changing messages and symbols in online media studies. The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon. As Robert