Oct 21, 2009
The article North Bridge Woos Jim Moran as Newest Venture Capitalist by Scott Denne, talked about how companies cut costs in response to the recession. Amongst these cost-cutting strategies is the virtualization of many traditional software including the use of Voice over IP to cut telephone service costs. Jim Moran was recently invited to be [...]
Oct 21, 2009
The article by Ben Worthen talks about a company that has built two new data centers and is currently refurbishing two old data centers in order to hold all of their information in the future. The company, Emerson Electric, Co. built the new data centers that serve as huge warehouses filled with computer equipment that [...]
Oct 21, 2009
The article by Walzer named A Small-Business Guide to Disaster Recovery tries to convince small business owners to implement a disaster recovery plan in case of emergencies and explains how to make one. It states that every business should have a thorough disaster recovery plan but because of the cost and time it takes to [...]
Oct 21, 2009
This article talked about how president Obama is expected to have a hard time passing legislation of a CEO wage limit. That brings up two questions: should CEOs be paying themselves massive amounts of money even though their business may be going under? And should the government use its power to limit the amount of [...]
Oct 21, 2009
The concept of web 3.0 and all of its predicted uses and functions is very interesting. The web 3.0 is a “semantic web” which means that instead of having to access many different web sites to get information, the web 3.0 browser will search the internet and list a few logical results for you. This [...]
Oct 21, 2009
This article was about the morals of artificial intelligence. So far scientists have not found a way to create morals for robots. This has lead many people to tell stories of how the future will be run by evil robots and such. One scientist, however, has come up with a mathematic algorithm to have a [...]
Oct 21, 2009
What is the first thing you think of when you hear a business having a competitive advantage? The first thing I think of is the “dollar menu”. The dollar menu was first introduced by McDonalds and after several years of successful sales other fast food chains have attempted to copy their idea. The idea of [...]
