Dec 14, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Chapter 7: IS in Business An MIT program designated to find inovated ways to capitalize on cell phone abilities has a very interesting vision on maximizing a cell phones capabilities by allowing health workers to take pictures of x-rays and transport the screenshot along with data over seas for a much [...]
By Eric Gomez Category: Networks, Telecom and Mobile Technology
Dec 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Chapter 8: IS in Business Apple is making headlines again. Their fiscal fourth quarter report was up 47% compared to Wall Street’s expectations. The company had substantial amounts of sales with both their MAC Pcs and Iphones. Apple obviously has strong production and operation management implemented in the way their business [...]
By Eric Gomez Category: Operations Management and Supply Chain Management
Dec 14, 2009
Chapter 9: IS in Business The Government Accountability Office said the Federal Communications Commission needs to ramp up oversight in the wireless industry and do a better job at ensuring the consumers are protected under the law. With more focused attention on the wireless cell phone industry due to the capabilities cell phones offer nowadays [...]
By Eric Gomez Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence
Dec 14, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009 Chapter 10: IS in Business Google investors spoke with a disgruntled Craigslist stake holder who owns about 28% of the shares. Officials at Google were only interested in purchasing the shares from this unnamed share holder if they can gain control of the way Craigslist was operated. Of course, they were [...]
By Eric Gomez Category: ERP and Collaboration Systems
Dec 14, 2009
Sunday, December 13, 2009 Chapter 11: IS in Business Craig Gentry, a young man doing an internship for IBM was sitting in a cafe one day and discovered something he had pondered on for quite some time, a breakthrough in encryption. This breakthrough would totally change the way security via the web is handled. Consumers [...]
By Eric Gomez Category: Systems Development and Project Management
Dec 13, 2009
Going to the virtual office in Second Life Remote conferencing is becoming more and more necessary in businesses today. Since travel budgets are squeezed due to the recession, companies can no longer afford to have employees fly across the country as often as they actually need. Second life has been used for some years [...]
By ErendidaMartin Category: ERP and Collaboration Systems
Dec 13, 2009
China Solar Panel Maker Sets First U.S. Plant The largest solar panel installation is at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. It was produced by China’s Suntech Power, and it accounts for about a third of the 15 megawatt solar farm. Suntech is part of the largest, fast-growing global solar market due to its price [...]
By ErendidaMartin Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Dec 13, 2009
How Green Is Apple: Cleaning the Supply Chain Apple like many companies, outsources part of their manufacturing to other countries. By doing so, it makes it harder for apple to keep track of how their products might be harming the environment. What apple does is designs the systems but outsourcing the assembly to contract manufacturers. [...]
By ErendidaMartin Category: Operations Management and Supply Chain Management
Dec 13, 2009
Windows 7 is Microsoft’s new operating system that was launched in early October. Microsoft’s last system , Windows Vista, became known as a bust with many glitches and problems with the software. Software developers for Microsoft has responded to these complaints and shortcomings with Windows 7. Shortly after the launch of Windows 7, complaints started [...]
By jeffreymark33 Category: Systems Development and Project Management
Dec 3, 2009
The article from BusinessWeek coincides with our textbook; India has been the primary destination for tech outsourcing with more than 90%. Reasons are many, for starters its low-cost. However, this article shows how IBM is changing destination by outsourcing at home. As strange as it sounds IBM is turning to Michigan and Iowa when it [...]
By nancyreyes Category: Uncategorized
Dec 1, 2009
To Do More With Less, Governments Go Digital The economic crisis is forcing the government to work more efficiently. Not only will they have to come up with new strategies to work better but they will also have to find new way to provide there services. I.B.M has sponsored a conference in New York [...]
By ErendidaMartin Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence
Dec 1, 2009
Outsourcing in Costa Rica has become a great asset to business. When comparing call centers from the Middle East and Asia to one in Central America such as Costa Rica you can notice that the language and accent barrier is not as bad when the primary language is Spanish. Another asset is the time zones; [...]
By ErendidaMartin Category: Systems Development and Project Management
Dec 1, 2009
The creation of WiMAX wireless technology is in the forefront of mobile wireless technology as the movement begins to move to the 4G realm. With the movement into a different technology, questions arise regarding what the possibilities of WiMAX can be. The paper will discuss the advantages of WiMAX wireless technology, how WiMAX compares to [...]
By hazael.avellaneda Category: IS Research Paper
Dec 1, 2009
Research Report
By KyleBean Category: Uncategorized