4. Read the text again. Say if the following statements are true (t) or false (f) according to the text.

According to Peter Wilson:
l most countries are connected up with undersea cables.	□
2 many countries have unreliable mobile phone networks.	□
3 recently bandwidth costs have risen dramatically.	□
According to Jenny Lane:
4 Moore’s predictions have been fairly accurate.	□
5 a typical chip can now hold 3 billion transistors.
6 both data storage capacity and power consumption have gone up.	□
According to Sanjay Ravi:
7 fewer people are going to computer stores to buy software.	□
8 SaaS will require ordinary users to have more powerful computers.	□
9 software development needs the support of a big corporation to succeed.	□

Match the words on the left with the words on the right to make pairs of words that often go together. The word on the left must go with all three words in the set. See the example.

1	access	a	chip, wafer, valley
2	download	—— b	an application, a network, an account
3	go	c	online, offline, on holiday
4	mobile	d	phone, telephony, broadband
5	silicon	e	a file, an image, a demo version

~J Complete the sentences using pairs of words from exercise 6. Make any changes that are necessary.

1. Everyone has , so payphones are becoming redundant.

2. Many internet entrepreneurs from in California are now turning their

attention to alternative forms of energy.

3. Before you buy the program, you can just to see how you like it.

4. With a mobile broadband connection, you can any time and anywhere.

5. Internet banking allows users to and check their balances.

6. How many transistors can you fit onto a ?

TALKING ABOUT CHANGE

We can use the present continuous to talk about change.

Manufacturing costs are falling significantly

More and more experts are producing Open source software.

We often use one or more comparative adjectives to talk about change.

Broadband is getting cheaper and cheaper.

Open source software is becoming more and more papular.

Complete the sentences with the words in brackets, making any changes that are necessary.

D

1

igital radio sets arg becoming (become) less and less popular.

(get)

2. More and more people

3. Laptops are getting

4. Handheld devices are becoming

5. Battery life

6. In some areas, VoIP

7. Mobile broadband speeds . (listen) to radio over the internet.

(cheap).

(sophisticated).

(long)

(take over) from PSTN.

(increase) dramatically.