Nov 11, 2009
This week’s chapter 11 discussed systems development and how those systems are developed from the planning phase to the finished product and all the steps in between. The seven steps that are embedded in the life cycle include: planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. I picked an article from CNN.com/Technology that discussed the [...]
Nov 8, 2009
This week’s chapter 12 discussed globalization and the 21st century organization trends and how each of these concepts is important to society today. A major technology that has taken off is the virtual world and Second Life is one of the new well-known worlds that have people and organizations participating in it. According to CNN.com, [...]
Nov 5, 2009
This week’s chapter 10 discussed enterprise resource planning systems and how information technology can help organizations share and use information through departments to better their business. Most organizations are set up with huge databases that contain customer and consumer information that are organized nicely in every department. The article that I have picked for this [...]
Oct 28, 2009
This week’s chapter 9 discussed customer relationship management and business intelligence and how they help companies succeed in today’s society. The article that I read this week that was found on CNN.com, talks about the e-reader market providing smartphone users with the ability to have digital books. These new choices include the Amazon’s Kindle, Sony’s [...]
Oct 25, 2009
This week’s chapter discussed operations management and supply chain management and how it these concepts support most businesses in operation. The article that I found was from CNN.com and was about Ford recall’s on vehicles hitting 4.5 million vehicles, which is the largest single recall that they have ever called in their history of an [...]
Oct 25, 2009
For this week’s article I picked an article from CNN.com/Technology that talk about Microsoft’s Window’s phone hitting the market. According to CNN.com, the new Windows Mobile 6.5 is expected to be debuting between now or the coming holidays. These new types of phones have a new operating system that allows Microsoft users to carry their [...]
Oct 25, 2009
This week I picked an article that pertained to Chapter 6: Databases and Data Warehouses in Business Driven, about the new iPhone app that helps track sex offenders and spot crime. According to CNN.com, there is an app available to the iPhone called the Offender Locator, which allows you to obtain information about sex offenders [...]
Oct 25, 2009
How would you like to go to Google and search for something and it comes up sorted into image catalogues? According to CNN.com, Microsoft and Google are launching expanded versions of their already popular search engine sites. Bing’s new version lets Web users browse through image catalogues instead of multiple Web pages when users would [...]
Oct 25, 2009
According to CNN.com, on August 28, 2009, Facebook has decided to update the system and make changes to their privacy policy. Facebook is a social networking site that has taken the Internet by storm since and become the largest social networking system online since Myspace. When you have a Facebook account you can add all [...]
Oct 25, 2009
Today in San Francisco, California, CEO of Apple Steve Jobs has returned to the company after a liver transplant and has brought some new, upgraded products along with him. According to CNN.com, the famous CEO of Apple, is back to work and has a new lineup of products whose features are upgraded and at a [...]
Oct 25, 2009
According to John Sutter in an article found on CNN.com, phones and Internet are not going to be the only things that are wireless in the future, wireless electricity is going to be the next big thing added to the group. Eric Giler, CEO of WiTricity, whose company produces light bulbs that use wireless electricity, [...]
Oct 25, 2009
According to John Sutter, in an article on CNN.com, our mobile phones will be the wallet of our future within the next five years. Analysts in the United States, think that in 2012, we will lose our wallets and keys and our mobile phones will be able to do everything from electronic payments at grocery [...]
