Nov 19, 2009
This article is about Sony’s announcement that they will be opening an online store front, similar to that of the iTunes store, which they will use to sell music, movies, books, applications, and other digitical content. It has been suggested by Sony’s analysts that their best hope for increasing their fortune is to impliment [...]
By PhilGarvin Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 19, 2009
This article is about the going green that is definitely nowadays trends. We can learn through the textbook that business industries try to innovate in everything and enhance the going green and social networks. According to this article, one of the most important topics among business people is how to increase profits by being environmentally [...]
By junkilee Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 19, 2009
The Newsweek article, “ Now Green Means Business” talks about how companies are taking steps toward saving money by reserving energy and staying green. “U.S. companies led by behemoths such as General Electric, Wal-Mart, Google, Dupont Chemical and others have been launching new green initiatives. These two realities—of the largest companies in the world adopting [...]
By Rupinder Aujla Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 19, 2009
Flush with cash, credit, and the ambition to become global players, leading Chinese firms are taking advantage of the fear stock markets in America and Europe to increase their international presence. In the last few months, the China Market Research Group, has conducted more than 500 interviews with senior executives from 100 leading Chinese companies [...]
By Jung Sook Baek Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 19, 2009
This article is called the “Perils of Outsourcing,” it discusses a story of a business owner who chose to outsource his web design and the plan backfired in its results. Last year, a business man, Fan Bi, opened a web business that manufactured men’s shirts with the ability to create a custom label. Bi had [...]
By PhilipKrikorian Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends Tags: outsourcing, web design, web development
Nov 18, 2009
APC is a known face in the world of servers and protection in the computer world. In this article is talks about how they plan to put a new technology out there. It is known as UPS. It stands for Uninterruptible power supply system. This system is to offer better ways to conserve energy and [...]
By VeronicaEsquivel Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 18, 2009
This article is about Apple’s efforts into becoming a more environmentally conscious company. In the past apple has received a lot of criticism from critics who claim that Apple is not an environmentally friendly company, and in response to this Apple has set up a microsite that details the impact of Apple’s products on the [...]
By lalmelvin Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 18, 2009
In this article, it talked about how Dell is going to enter the smartphone market. The smartphone that they are going to bring to the table is going to be called the Mini 3. The two first carriers that are going to sell this phone is going to be China Mobile and Brazil’s Claro. This [...]
By NicholasSahatdjian Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 18, 2009
I found this article to be very interesting and relating to chapter 12 in that it talks about how Chinese companies can improve as they are taking there businesses globally.Chinese firms are in the hunt to use their cash to make acquisitions, as Industrial & Commercial Bank of China did with Standard Bank in South [...]
By Humera Idrees Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 18, 2009
Now teenage boys and even men up to there 30’s will be even more locked down to their Xbox 360 after the new download that is available. When Xbox 360 had the Internet available on it to go online and play your favorite game against your friends or some random people, males all around the [...]
By kmarques06 Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 16, 2009
Facebook Dominates Global Social Nets – For Now This article discusses social networks across the global and how important it has become to businesses conducting business internationally. The reason these social networks such as facebook and Myspace have become so dominate and important is because of the amount of users it has managed to draw [...]
By EricaMendoza Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 16, 2009
Many of us have wondered or have even heard that in the future everything will be done with our gadgets, through the Internet and with technology. This reality may be true soon, especially with our payment methods. According to nytimes.com bills, coins, and plastic cards may soon cease to exist. instead of our wallets we [...]
By AngelaBarrientos Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 13, 2009
In the 21st Century we have seen cell phones turn into much more than just a cell phone. The iPhone, BlackBerry, and Black Jack are a few cell phones we as consumers have seen perform task that once were unheard of when relating to cell phones. These phones perform much more than a call, they [...]
By Jacob Gonzalez Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 12, 2009
In this article, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive not too just got established in the UK on January of 2007. WEEE is an EU legislation that serves the purpose of having businesses and consumers dispose electronic waste in a responsible matter. One of the key points they point out is to increase usage [...]
By ThippyKhamsiri Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Nov 12, 2009
Chapter twelve Globalization, Innovation, and 21st Century Organizational Trends addresses the idea of globalization and how it relates to Information systems. The main challenge comes from cultural differences. It is hard for one site to be universal. There are many things to consider such as language, context, and many other issues. I know personally when [...]
By KatieMajors Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
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, [...]
By LaurenMayfohrt Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
Oct 29, 2009
As technology progresses that mean electronics become outdated faster than we think. What are we doing with the “old” electronics that has been newly upgraded with modern electronics? Well, this kind of waste has a name, E-waste, which is the discarding of old computers and other electronics that will no longer be used. Large electronic [...]
By nicolelclark Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends
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 [...]
By JonathanRader Category: Globalization, Innovation, and future trends