Dec 17, 2009
Collaboration systems are tools that support the works of teams. They are IT based and they do this by sharing the flow of such information. Businesses can solve a number of tasks they may have with collaboration. Some of these may include but are not limited to: telecommuting, online meetings, deploying applications, and remote project [...]
Dec 17, 2009
This article pertains to the drop in MySpace web traffic. According to Eliot Van Buskirk of wire.com MySpace’s parent company stands to lose approximately 100 million because it can meet its web traffic (advertizing) quota with Google. This is bad new foe News Corp because it covered its 580 dollar acquisition of MySpace; on the [...]
Dec 17, 2009
Oil baron’s wind farm project hits doldrums Social Entrepreneurship: Going Green I tired to find a decent article which talks about globalization but an article about green energy found me first. This article was published few months ago and talks about billionaire T. Boone Pickens’s plan of building the world’s largest wind farm. Pickens is [...]
Dec 17, 2009
This article pertains to the Goggle’s open source Android operating system (for mobile phones) that was released last year. Priya Ganapati of Wired.com says that while the system had a slow start it has become increasingly popular but has run into a few problems. Mainly the problem is that there are three version of the [...]
Dec 17, 2009
This article is a review of the features offer by in Genesys Meeting Center software. It is inexpensive web conferencing software that cost approximately 33 cents per minute per user. This provides a nice alternative to purchasing an allotted time of service. Once you create an account you are give a “credit Card” of sort [...]
Dec 16, 2009
Why are there no Mac Viruses In this article Philip Elmer-Dewitt discusses the reason for the lack of Mac OS X viruses. He argues that there aren’t any viruses capable of infecting the Mac OS X system. He defined a virus as a program that infects a computer and has the ability to spread to [...]
Dec 16, 2009
“Company Offers College textbooks for free” This particular article informs the public of the website flatworld.com, a website where like the title suggests allows students to obtain their college text books for free. There are a few more details than that of course the website also offers printed versions of the texts book for up [...]
Dec 16, 2009
“Cybercrime: a secret underground economy” This article denounces the stereotype of geeks creating and sending out viruses and maintains that it is a growing industry. Cyber criminals steal one’s personal information such as credit card numbers or bank account numbers by way of malware, spyware viruses, Trojan horses etc. And then sell that information online [...]
Dec 16, 2009
On Tuesday September 1, 2009 Gmail, the email service provided the Google search engine, experience a widespread outage. Ben Treynor, a Google vise president said, “it was a big deal and that Google is working identifying and correcting the errors that lead to the outage.” The immediate cause for the outage was that a few [...]
Dec 16, 2009
Review of the article “Disney debuts do-it-yourself thrill ride” and a correlation to the Chapter 8 Much like the Sims City amusement park video game where one can run and design an amusement park, Disney has developed a new ride in where customers are able to customize a ride to their specifications. The new ride [...]
Dec 16, 2009
This article highlight the Motorola Droid, a new phone offered exclusively By Verizon wireless. It was designed for people seeking an alternative to the iPhone and shows that while the iPhone has standard it is not immune to threat or rather “not untouchable” as stated by Straton (www.cnn.com). The Droid offers many similar features and [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The articles is about IBM has improved the Informix Dynamic Server. According to Kevin Brown, IBM’s Lead Architect for Informix Database, “the new tools allow [customers] to transform their data into Star Schema for efficient warehouse workloads, With this offering, we are providing the necessary tools to make their jobs that much easier” (www.eweek.com). Prior [...]
Dec 16, 2009
This article described discussed and compared new technology that was offer in a few vehicles (the VW Touran, the Toyota Prius Spirit, and the Lexus LS460 to be specific). This technology is called the intelligent parking assistant, and it does what it implies (Parks your vehicle). This feature was put to the blind fold test [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The article “Beware, Humans. The Era of Automation Software has begun” published in the New York Times, talked about the use of software systems in business. The article mainly focused on Hp and the computer software they use to help strengthen their business. the article made the point that humans make errors but not technology. [...]
Dec 16, 2009
A new technology that is embarrassing the use of Global Positioning Systems is the GTX Corp who has invented a tracking device used in shoes. This technology is aimed at Alzheimer’s patients, as a way of finding them if they get lost. For a fee of $20 a month a subscriber to the tracking service [...]
Dec 16, 2009
he Article in the New York Times, “ A Page From an Old Playbook” talked about the efforts that have been made at Hewlett-Packard. Recently Mark V. Hurd took over at the company and realized that the technology being used was far from the standards the computer giant should be known for. Mr. Hurd had [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The article, “Should You Worry About Data Rot?” was an interesting article. The article addressed a central issue when it comes to information technology; how do you preserve it? The article was based off of a Sunday morning TV show. The article went in to a brief history of how data storage has changed over [...]
Dec 16, 2009
This article titled “Phone Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over, Security Firm Says”, ran in the New York times last week. The article was about the I-phone and the security problems that it has been facing. The I-phone is a smart phone known for its advanced technology. The phone is basically a handheld device that works [...]
Dec 16, 2009
The article I read was from Prisonplanet.com and the article was titled Video adds in Magazines. The article talked about the new technology being introduced to the marketing industry. This technology is a mini display screen, the size of a wafer, that is inserted in a magazine add. The technology has speakers and visual effects. This [...]
Dec 16, 2009
Artificial Intelligence is a fast growing form of Information Systems. This form of Information systems is highly beneficial to the business world. A recent use of Artificial Intelligence is seen in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge. This challenge was highlighted on MSNBC’s technology section in an article titled “Driverless SUV wins $2 [...]
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