Dec 1, 2010
Wireless Payments – paying with the ‘Square’ iPhone credit card reader Carrying cash around is becoming more and more unpopular – the trend is towards using credit or debit cards payments when going on all kind of daily errands. The Payments Council, a British organisation that sets strategy for payments in the UK, even announced [...]
Nov 30, 2010
Huy Nguyen Nanotechnology Businesses are constantly striving to establish competitive advantages using different technologies. In this world of information technology, we are constantly pushing to obtain the latest advances in science to apply to businesses. The computer revolution gave forth amazing applications that pushed efficiencies to maximum levels. However, with the rise of breakthroughs in [...]
Nov 30, 2010
Social networking has become a craze across the country and around the world in the past decade. It has almost become a necessity in everyday life for many people. This growing dependency for instant communication and networking has opened up an entire new world to businesses everywhere. Social networking websites such as Facebook have become [...]
Nov 30, 2010
While the World Wide Web users are more and more numerous, the internet we know today is reaching some of its limits. The IPv6 comes to enhance these limits, and makes the internet enter a new dimension. The Internet Protocol version 6 is the communication protocol developed in order to succeed to the actual IPv4. [...]
Nov 30, 2010
Tracy Cardoza RFID tags in Retail Stores Don’t you just hate going to the store and finding that the product you were looking for wasn’t on the shelf or out of stock? RFID is an aspiring technology that is being implemented in our everyday lives and is now being used to help retail stores. Companies [...]
Nov 30, 2010
With the invention of the internet more and more businesses began popping up. The internet gave them a virtual store front to showcase their products to consumers around the world. Businesses are always searching for the next new thing or way to get their name out to the masses. With the explosion in popularity of [...]
Nov 30, 2010
Noland Chum 11/26/2010 IS 130 SAP in Business Use Data is vast information that is crucial in the world of business simply because data is relevant to how businesses run and perform. A major player that is used widely is a system that originates out of Germany. That system is known as SAP and many [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Elizabeth Fraire IS 130 Research Paper November 29, 2010 The Evolution of Telecommunications During the past 10 years, there has been an extreme global change in the way people communicate. It started out with writing letters and sending them through the mail then landlines were installed in the U.S. and people became amazed with telephones. [...]
Nov 29, 2010
And how they revolutionized business. The world as we know it is relying more and more on technology. This technology is becoming smaller and faster than many of us may have ever imagined. When I was in middle school I would have never dreamed of having a phone that could get on the internet, keep [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Leslie Murillo IS 130 T/TH 9:30am 11/30/2010 Netflix is the world’s leading Internet subscription service for watching movies and TV shows. It has successfully established itself as a popular entity in the video rental and entertainment industry. Since its beginning in 1997, Netflix has evolved from offering DVD rentals by mail to developing software that allows [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Technology has become a major aspect of our daily lives, so much so, that we often take it for granted. Aside from giving us way to communicate and contact each other through the internet and wireless ways, it also provides us a way to determine “where are we” in the world, through the use of [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Katlyn Garcia Professor Henson Tues/ Thurs 930-1045 Smart Phones: What Do They Bring to the Business Table? Smart phones are everywhere, it seems like a majority of the people walking down the street don’t even notice the other person is there; everyone has their gaze directly at their screen. Most people carry their whole lives [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Kimberly Doi IS 130, TTh 9:30-10:45 Henson VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has the potential to be a beneficial tool for modern firms and businesses. Communicating across long distances can be made easier with the help of VoIP. Businesses can also save money in the long run by using this technology. Privacy is a concern [...]
Nov 29, 2010
New open source technologies are allowing businesses to decrease overhead costs and improve their web presence at the same time. In 2006, a new javascript library called jQuery was envisioned by John Resig, a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation (“John resig -,” 2010). John Resig proposed the idea of creating a javascript library [...]
Nov 29, 2010
In today’s business industry, the use of information system is important in expanding and improving how a company works. The important factor in managing a business is storing information. There is an increase of data that makes it essential to have an information storage management within the industry. The storage technology assists businesses to control [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Alan Serrano Myron Hatcher IS 130 Second Life People have always looked to take a break from the rigors of life and to escape reality. They accomplished this by reading a book, listening to stories, watching plays, films, television shows and playing video games. There is a new format that allows a person to take that [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Disruptive Technology Advancement in technology has been a long part of the history of humanity. Today more than ever, technology is increasing by leaps and bounds. It has come a long way from the first simple pieces of hunting tools to today’s hot new gadgets and gizmos. Everything from the way companies are doing business [...]
Nov 29, 2010
What is social networking and how is it beneficial? This was probably a more common question a few years ago, but yet today it might be one of the easiest to answer by most people. The most common social networking sites consist of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and YouTube. A good question to ask yourself is [...]
Nov 29, 2010
Nov 29, 2010
By Marina Schweizer Google Earth is well known by many internet users for its ability to observe the world from above. But how can we use and benefit from 3D models of a city as a tool implemented in Google Earth? In the following essay, I’d like to answer this question. Firstly, I will explain [...]
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