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Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Chapter 1. IS in Business I’m sure its happened to us all, being on the last paragraph of a report working off of your laptop with no charger to supply the power it needs for you to finish or on that important phone call on your cell phone hoping it doesn’t [...]
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Chapter 2. IS in Business Information systems such as the Internet help people make key decisions in and out of the business world. There are a wide array of resources one can go to for information . One of the commonly hit resources via the Internet is Wikipedia which many people have a misconception about [...]
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Thursday, September 10, 2009 Chapter 3: IS in Business Ever since the inception of the Internet its been bound to happen…Being able to download copies of the latest movies, music and software with a couple clicks of the mouse. A recent dvd quality of a sci-fi blockbuster “District 9″ that was posted to file trading [...]
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Chapter 4: IS in Business The time for blogging, chat rooms and message boards online are increasingly popular over the Internet. Many people use these online ways of communicating with people on a daily basis but are unaware of the danger of malicious spam or code one might be opening their [...]
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Chapter 5: IS in Business Microsoft has opened there 550,00 square foot data center in Dublin. The company will run cloud services from the center for consumers, businesses and developers. The database will be able to run applications such as Microsoft’s Live Search formerly Hotmail as well as other Microsoft designed [...]
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Thursday, October 1, 2009 Chapter 6: IS in Business The Federal Communications Commission has a bill in the works to provide affordable broadband service to all, which its expected costs range from 20 billion to 350 billion dollars. Its said that 3-6 million americans do not recieve high speed internet and don’t have the helpful [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
