IS in Business

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“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, [...]

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Google’s Battle in Business Software Google announced that it is trying to create a software, like Microsoft’s, to compete with the mega giants. Google tried there new software with an agreement with GE, which included a software like excel: they created there own word processing and spreadsheet applications called Google Apps. As time went on [...]

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Sony Is Still Feeling the Recession’s Bite According to the article, the global recession has affected every type of business, but it has hit the Sony Company earnings troublesome. On July 30, 2009 the Sony Company said that it posted a $271 million loss for the quarter of April-June. A year ago Sony posted a [...]

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Amazon’s Cloud Grows in Europe According to the article Amazon Web Services have been offering “on-demand computing and storage capacity”. It has been offering it in the form of its Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) for the past three years now. Now Amazon Web Services wants to make it effortless for [...]

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This article says Facebook is going to service its privacy settings. Facebook wants to make it clearer for users to know who has access to their personal data. Facebook is one of the most popular website all over the world. Once you make your own facebook account, it is really easy to find and keep [...]

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It is not surprising to say that technology has come a long way since it first emerged less than half a century ago. From the first calculators to computers and now the oh-so convenient laptops and even cellular devices, the technological advances just get better. In America nearly everyone carries with them a cell phone. [...]

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Technology of a green future is the perfect way to describe a new product from Sony and only offered by AT&T. With the Sony Reader Daily Edition one can browse wirelessly with a 3G connection speed, but that’s not all! The Sony Reader Daily Edition also has a Library Finder that creates local libraries e-books [...]

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In this weeks article I read about how internet websites affect how business will be operating. Two thirds of all the businesses involved in this article said their business either had a website or was planning to make one in the next year. I found this to be very interesting seeing as we are in [...]

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Albert Gonzalez, age 28, a computer hacker and identity theft, is charged in Miami 2008 for stealing more than 170 million accounts of credit card and debit card numbers. Gonzalez’s case is the largest cases known for identity theft in America. He used to work for the U.S. Secret Service hunt hackers under the government [...]