Informações do dispositivo

Unit 2 Information

2.1 About business: It solutions

Speaker 1: I’m not sure all this technology is a good thing. Take these BlackBerry smartphones, for example. I was at a meeting last week where three of the six attendees spent most of the time doing email! People get really addicted to it – It’s a drug! I heard about one executive whose wife got so fed up with him checking his emails all weekend that she flushed his BlackBerry.

Speaker 2: It? Oh I love it! As soon as there’s a new gadget, I have to have it. I think it’s just amazing what you can do nowadays. Of course, you don’t really save time, but you get so much more done in a day. I just cannot imagine how anyone can manage without a smartphone and iPad.

Speaker 3: As far as I’m concerned, information technology is just another weapon in the class war. Management will use any way they can to exploit the workers, and increasing productivity with computer systems is just another way to get as much as they can. Not to mention the untold damage that the radiation and microwaves from all these electronic devices are doing to our eyes, our backs and our brains!

Speaker 4: Well, I have to use the computer at work sometimes, but wouldn’t have on in the house. All those viruses, spam and computer crime! Anyway, a lot of people at work seem to spend more time fixing computer problems than actually doing any work. I think we’d be better off without them!

2.2 Vocabulary: Information systems and communication

Speaker 1: Hello? Mr. Skopelitis? Oh. This is Ebony Brooks in Accounts. Something went wrong with the systems when I was in the middle of a backup. Everything just stopped. It wasn’t just my computer. Do you think you could call me? Give me a ring as soon as you can.

Speaker 2: George its Maurice. I’m still having that problem making appointments on the website. I log in, then everything seems to freeze, and when I try escape, I get the famous blue screen. Can you give me an update on what progress you’ve made on this problem? Just a quick report.

Speaker 3: Yeah George, its Martha here. Listen, could you contact me? I want to replace my department’s laptops with something more modern. Our old ones are getting pretty tired, know that I mean? Please that in touch as soon as you have a moment.

Speaker 4: Hello George. This is Lincoln Thigpen. I hope you can help me out. I seem to have done something stupid. I was cleaning up my hard disk, and well, now some very important presentation slide seems to have disappeared. I hope you have some way of rescuing them. If you could get back to me with an answer sometime today, I’d appreciate it.

Speaker 5: Hi. Mr. Skopelitis. This is Camilla Ramsey from Customer Services. It’s about that little software thingy you sent me. I’ve copied it into the database program like you told me to, but it doesn’t seem to work. I know some other people were having the same problem. Do you think you could include me in the group of people to inform? You know, keep me in the loop. Thanks.

Speaker 6: George, Maurice again. Where are you?! Marketing are hassling me every five minutes because they still can’t work without my music! I guess you’re working on it, but can you keep me informed, maybe a regular progress report, ok?

Speaker 7: George, Marvin. Remember how you said you could get that software from the Internet to make my sound card work? I can’t work without my music! I guess you’re working on it, but can you keep me informed, maybe a regular progress report, OK?

Speaker 8: Good morning. Mr. Skopelitis. This is Cara Bickerson in Marketing. I’m looking for a quicker way to get information from our market studies into the database – typing it all in is just too slow. I’m interested in voice recognition software. I wonder if you could fill me in