Oct 28, 2009
After reading the article it talks about how technology is impacting business in a negative way. The company RealNetworks mentions wanting to increase DVD sales by allowing customers to make duplicate copies of the movies that they buy. Movie companies do not want that to happen because they are already hurting in DVD sales of [...]
Oct 28, 2009
After reading the article I realized that big companies hired immigrants to work as high-tech workers. I would have never guessed that they brought people over to work in the large companies. But many of these immigrants are leaving because legislatures have put in fine print how the companies will be punished if they continue [...]
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 [...]
Oct 27, 2009
A few months ago, IBM paid $1.2 billion to buy SPSS Inc. SPSS Inc. is the maker of software that is used to analyze statistics and predict models. It has been common lately for software companies to purchase a lot of software to help improve business intelligence. In fact the software companies have spent over [...]
Oct 21, 2009
The article that I read related to chapter 8 by talking about a certain company’s supply chain. The company mentioned was Wal-Mart and it talked about how they adjusted their supply chain. Wal-mart adjusts its supply chain based on several different factors. Wal-Mart has stores in fifteen countries all around the world and each country [...]
Oct 21, 2009
The company Verizon Wireless wants to bring venture capital firms as well as network equipment vendors in order to make the impossible come to life. This Long-Term Evolution business is soon to be released in Boston and Seattle later this year. The Long-Term Evolution is Verizon’s 4G mobile data network. It is supposed to be [...]
Oct 21, 2009
After reading this article I learned that scientists are close to finding a way to read a person’s brain. If this was to develop further, it would lead to dream readers and thought-controlled computers. The research that was conducted was by a Berkeley researcher was an addition to previous research they had conducted. In the [...]
Oct 21, 2009
This article talks about how it has become easier to back up your files at home and not just in the offices at work. People need to back up their files at home because once you lose it, it’s gone for good. Mistakes are likely to happen because technology is supposed to be reliable, but [...]
Oct 21, 2009
After reading this article I choose it because it relates well into chapter 4. The article is about how smart cards are being used on a daily basis to help improve business purposes. As defined in the book, a smart card is a card around the size of a credit card that has multiple functions. [...]
Oct 21, 2009
Now most parents all across the world are worried about their children having access to the internet. Now what if there was an internet just for kids? Ten percent of all online users are between the ages of two and eleven. That number has grown rapidly over the past five years because the number of [...]
Oct 21, 2009
A month ago in Italy when Zack Ajmal was on vacation the first thing he needed was a map of the country. He didn’t want to spend hundreds of dollars it would have cost him to get a digital map placed on his Garmin GPS device. Instead he looked at Open Street Map to help [...]
Oct 21, 2009
Since the release of the iPhone, users have taken full advantage of the unlimited internet features that AT&T has offered to come with the phone. Earlier in the year at a music fest in Texas, so many of the attendees had iPhone’s that the network took a huge hit. Both voice and data services were [...]
