Oct 27, 2009
A Case of Identity Theft Margot Somerville, a retired Wells Fargo Bank vice president, was the victim of identity theft in 2008. Two years after her wallet was stolen on a streetcar in San Francisco she was arrested and claimed to have mastermind a scam to steal $60,000 from Wells Fargo customers. Margot Somerville faced [...]
By Laura Aldama Category: Ethics and Information Security
Oct 27, 2009
Selling to Today’s Teen-Shopper Retail stores are visited by about 80 percent of online teenagers between the ages of 12-17. This percentage represents 12 to 15 million teen shoppers. What approach does the retail industry use to sell to teens? The following three fundamentals are applied when marketing to a teen audience: Teen behavior identified [...]
By Laura Aldama Category: E-Business
Oct 27, 2009
An Artificial Intelligence Known as Buddhabot Buddhabot is a two year old artificial intelligence. In the course of those two years Buddhabot’s inventor, Ron Ingram, has invested an average of more than 20 hours per week in programming and approximately $30,000 into his development. Ingram quotes, “For the price of a home in Malibu I [...]
By Laura Aldama Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 27, 2009
Zipcars the Equivalent of Netflix An article from Fortune Magazine entitled, Zipcar – The best new idea in business, brings a whole new meaning to driving a vehicle. Initially this idea was considered a counterculture movement, but since then has gone mainstream and is utilized in major U. S. cities such as San Francisco, New [...]
By Laura Aldama Category: IS in Business
Oct 27, 2009
This article talked about how the wireless phones and companies have all these plans for the customers to sign up for. It talks about how T-mobile is trying to get ahead of the game by offering its services with no contract. Verizon and AT&T both have a contract that has to be upheld by the [...]
By VeronicaEsquivel Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence
Oct 27, 2009
ArrowStream is a supply chain solutions provider for foodservice. They made a respectable name for themselves since being founded in 2000. Many companies have looked to them for their expertise such as Wendy’s, Steak and Shake, and now Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (ENRGI). The ENRGI is a casual restaurant that is located primarily under the [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: Operations Management and Supply Chain Management
Oct 27, 2009
The article, VTech Use of Bluetooth to unite landlines and cell phones, introduces VTech Communications new DS6321-3 product that will hit stores this month. The DS6321-3 is the first cordless phone system of its kind. VTech aims to use this system to unite the separate mobile office and home landline worlds. Basically, the system will [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
Oct 27, 2009
The article that I choose to represent chapter 6, Database & Data Warehouse, is article Beam Global Spirits & Wine Raises the Bar with Netezza and Aperity. Netezza is a company that gives services of data warehousing and analytic appliances. They are well known around the country for their service to companies. Beam Global Spitrits [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: Databases and Data Warehouses
Oct 27, 2009
The article that I choose to touch on is “IDrive Updates IDrive Lite, the Online Backup App for iPhone and Blackberry”. This article caught my attention since I am an apple and blackberry user. To summarize, a service by the name of IDrive Lite just announced an upgrade on their application. “IDrive is a free [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: Enterprise Architectures
Oct 27, 2009
The article that I decided to discuss is “Twitter Hacked, Secrets to be revealed?” The article discussed the situation Twitter had during the summer with getting hacked by a French hacker that goes by the name of Hacker Croll. He was reported to have hacked into Twitter’s employees personal accounts and distributing detailed lists of [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: Ethics and Information Security
Oct 27, 2009
Chapter three discussed the types of services provided by the internet, the ebusiness model, a business’s success, benefits, and challenges. There are three types of services that the internet provides; internet service providers, online service providers, and application service providers. Through using these internet providers there must be an approach to conducting the business on [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: E-Business
Oct 27, 2009
The article that I chose for chapter two is “RMI sings New-Five-Year Agreement with BNSF Railway.” RMI is an independent rail information services that process carloads regularly for railroads. They were in a contract with BNSF for the past five years. BNSF (Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation) operates rail networks throughout 28 states. Just Recently, [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: Strategic Decision Making
Oct 27, 2009
On August 17th the Cayman Island’s emergency service introduced a fleet management system that will help save seconds within an emergency vehicle response. The system uses the new GPS (Global Positioning System) technology to detect where units are located. The program will have technical support by its company provider Sat-Trak. And the capability of a [...]
By Lissette Manriquez Category: IS in Business
Oct 27, 2009
The company Accenture has taken full use of the videoconferencing technology out there for businesses. It has installed 13 of the videoconferencing rooms at its offices around the world. The company decided to use the technology to conduct meetings because it saved over 240 international trips and 120 domestic flights in the time span of [...]
By JonathanRader Category: ERP and Collaboration Systems
Oct 27, 2009
Operational planning is very important when it comes to managing systems to create goods and services out of resources. One of the three types of planning within operational planning is something called tactical planning. It focuses on using the strategical plan as a model, and producing goods and services in an efficient way. Things are [...]
By Monique Echevarria Category: Operations Management and Supply Chain Management
Oct 27, 2009
Mobile and wireless technologies are two of the most recent technologies that have greatly c hanged the way we do things, with a great emphasis on business. Mobile technology allows us to use email, PDA’s, laptops and other devices to communicate and work. Wireless technologies use connections without a “hardwired” connection. The article I read [...]
By Monique Echevarria Category: Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
Oct 27, 2009
We use database models for a number of different things. These databases, within data warehouses, allow data information to be maintained. Some of the types of this information include: objects, events, people and places. In the article I read form CNN.com titled, “Microsoft Researcher Converts His Brain into E-Memory”, I found the idea of what [...]
By Monique Echevarria Category: Databases and Data Warehouses
Oct 27, 2009
Nearly everyone has a myspace. The popular networking website has been the “IT” thing for quite some time now. But there is a new player in the game, and its name is facebook. Similar to myspace, facebook began to get a lot attention because it was said to be less invasive than myspace. On myspace [...]
By Monique Echevarria Category: Enterprise Architectures
Oct 27, 2009
here are rules for nearly everything. Wherever you go, there are certain guidelines you must follow in order to stay within the ethical conduct standards. In business settings, information and the technology that goes along with that information, is monitored with a great deal of ethics and morale. The way in which we create and [...]
By Monique Echevarria Category: Ethics and Information Security
Oct 27, 2009
Driving to a friends house to speak with them or going to a local department store to go shopping are now a thing of the past. Nearly everything we can possibly need or want to do today can be done online. This is the reality of our advanced world and the phenomenon of the Internet. [...]
By Monique Echevarria Category: E-Business