Nov 19, 2009
In the article, Facebook Issues Privacy Upgrade, PC Magazine writer Chloe Albanesius, explains Facebook’s new changes to it’s privacy control settings. Facebook was becoming concerned about the difficulty users were having accessing their control settings. Though the security settings offered by Facebook were very good they had become extremely complicated. In the old system users [...]
Nov 19, 2009
In the article I discovered in businessweek the topic is globalization. The article talks about the airplane manufacturer Boeing and how globalization can be both positive and negative for companies. In this article Boeing is on the negative end of globalization. Boeing recently lost a $35 billion contract with the US Air Force to foreign [...]
Nov 12, 2009
It is no secret now that the economy in China is booming. China is experiencing a growth seen only by few other countries before them. With this growth, means more people are required to work all the available jobs. With a population like China has, finding workers isn’t the difficulty in filling jobs. The problem [...]
Nov 3, 2009
In an article I found on the PC magazine website, a tool used for enterprise resource planning is explored. The article was from 2003 a has since been outdated by new technology. I still found it interesting to see the actual tools in place to make successful enterprise resource planning possible. In the article Accware [...]
Nov 2, 2009
I recently found an article on PC magazine that related to customer relationship management. The article wasn’t about a single company and what they are doing to enhance it, but what needs to be done by several types of business’s to further customer relations. The article broke down what both types of companies need to [...]
Nov 2, 2009
I recently found an article written by, Douglas Macmillion, discussing the merger of Whirlpool with Maytag and the effects it has on each companies supply chain. About a year ago, appliance mogul Whirlpool bought out the other appliance major Maytag. The difficulty with this merger was the pure size of the two companies. Maytag was [...]
Nov 2, 2009
On Tuesday, AT&T announced they will make available a application for the iphone and itouch that would allow them to use internet phone services. Before this AT&T banned the use of internet phone services to further their control over users phone use. Skype, an internet phone company owned by ebay, filed a formal complaint of [...]
Nov 2, 2009
Google, who has become arguably the biggest search engine on the Internet, came out with a claim recently stating they were the largest search engine by 3 times any competitor. Though it is hard to prove these numbers since search engines are so discrete with revealing the size of entries in their database. Google claimed [...]
Nov 2, 2009
In the article, Be Prepared, by Karen Bannen the idea of a companies disaster recovery program is explored. In Be Prepared, Bannen discuss the situation Deutsche Bank faced after the 9/11 incident. Deutsche Bank had made it a point of their business to set up a state of the art backup and recovery system for [...]
Nov 2, 2009
In the article, Fighting Phishing, author Sebastian Rupley, talks about what major banks are doing concerning problems with phishing. Recently banks have been experiencing major problems with emails being sent to their customers that are phishing for highly sensitive information. The banks have joined forces to create a web site called; www.antiphishing.org. The website works [...]
Nov 2, 2009
In the article Web 3.0, by Cade Metz, the new idea of what Web 3.0 could be is discussed. The Internet is now being placed in categories such as Web 1.0, 2.0, and now 3.0. Web 3.0 has been called a Semantic web by the original world wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee. The term semantic [...]
Nov 2, 2009
In PC Magazines article, Artificial Intelligence: The Computer Genius, author Matthew Graven explains how close we could be to seeing actual artificial intelligence. In the article Graven explains what artificial intelligence, or AI, could be. AI is based on what our perception of intelligence is. Science Fiction movies have peaked the interest of the world [...]
