Nov 30, 2009
Mobile Phone Wallet: The culmination of convenience Researches say that within the next five years, our mobile phones will have yet another use; doubling as a wallet for the ultimate convince. Countries that are usually ahead of the United States in technology, such as South Korea and Japan, are already making these futuristic phones into [...]
Nov 13, 2009
“LinkedIn Works with Twitter, and Vice Versa” By Allen Blue Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot about LinkedIn and had no idea what it was. I heard it described as a Myspace for grown ups and professionals, and also that it is a type of online social network for business activities. I also heard that [...]
Nov 8, 2009
“How Does the Waterfall Development Methodology Play in the Enterprise?” By Tom Mochal July 16, 2001 The text describes the waterfall methodology as a sequence of phases where each output becomes the input for the next. It’s described as an activity based process where each phase of the System development life cycle (SDLC) is performed [...]
Nov 3, 2009
“How Classroom Video Conferencing Works” By Jennifer Horton Two of my best friends are in Nursing School in Livermore, California. The professor teaches the class from Fremont, California. When they told me this, I was so fascinated. What if you have a question? Do you guys cheat on your exams because you can get away [...]
Oct 28, 2009
“Customer Relationship Management, E-CRM” By John Shenton April 30, 2002 Customer Relationship Management is critical for an organization because it has shown a direct impact on a firm maintaining a competitive advantage in its industry. As technology and manufacturing fast become commodities with little difference in product pricing and margins, the customer relationship is the [...]
Oct 20, 2009
Case Study: SABMiller Revamps Supply Chain Management By Bill Goodwin SABMiller is a leading beer manufacture that owns over 200 brands on six different continents, and is also one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products in the world. They operate 139 breweries and 35 bottling plants that product over 230 million hectoliters of beer [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“RFID Helps Women Dress for Success” By Claire Swedberg “Dress for Success” is a non profit agency based out of Pennsylvania, which provides women business attire so they can enter the business workplace with professionalism and style. The organization gives each client one suit for a job interview, and if she gets hired she then [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“Data Analysts Captivate by R’s Power” By Ashlee Vance Data Mining is the process of analyzing data to extract information that is not offered by the raw data alone. This is done through different techniques to find patterns and relationships within the large vast of information provided, and it helps users uncover business intelligence in [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“Three Top Tips for Successful Business Continuity Planning” By John Ferraro Business continuity planning (BCP) is a game plan for how an organization will recover and restore their information systems if a disaster or partial interruption were to occur. This article laid out three tips for a firm to keep in mind when implanting a [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“Don’t Ban Facebook at Work, Researchers Advice” By Jaikumar Vijayan While reading this chapter, I found myself thinking about my own ethics when it comes to information technology. I am addicted to logging onto Facebook while I am at work and feel that my informational ethics might be a little off due to this addiction. [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“The Promise of Private Label Media” Digital Darwinism is vital in establishing and maintaining sustainability within the market place. More and more companies are paying attention to the Darwinism theory and incorporating Private Label Media into their markets to raise the bar by increasing their return on investment and their overall quality. When these companies [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“Singularity Summit Asks, ‘Are You A Believer?” By Priya Ganapati The Singularity Institute held a day-long conference in San Jose, California to explore the Singularity and intelligence explosion. They usually hold these rare gatherings of thinkers to explore the rising impact of science and technology on society. One of their most popular (as well as [...]
Oct 20, 2009
“FCC Puts Wireless Industry under the Microscope” The Federal Communications Commission announced that they were going to launch a broad investigation into the leading wireless companies in an effort to find regulations that could help citizens get better, faster and cheaper connections. This announcement was directed at certain wireless companies, such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, [...]
