Nov 20, 2011
Summary: Hewlett-Packard was planning to buy Stratavia in order to make its company stronger. Stratavia is a company that focused on developing application deployment automation solution for support, coding, configuration management, patching and back –ups. With this company combining with Hp, the business portfolio will make the company portfolio better. It will become a one [...]
Sep 6, 2010
Reports: Google considering iTunes-like music service “GOOGLE Music” Google doesn’t want only to be a search engine as most of youth people us for. Now Google want to explore new ways to satisfy the large demanded of people in the digital world of music. Compact Discs (DC’s) have become old for some of us, now [...]
Sep 6, 2010
Go Shopping; change the world By – C. McCloy Kliener Perkins company founded an iFund that allows people to donated to a charity of their choice via an iPhone. The app can be downloaded for free and the donations don’t cost the cell phone user a dime. The app is paired with a built in navigation unit that when [...]
Sep 6, 2010
Wal-Mart is one of the biggest retailers in the world. They have often been known for using the latest in technology for their everyday operations. Most Retail chains and other companies including Wal-Mart use the bar code system to help them track and distribute inventory. A pallet would have a bar code and a worker [...]
Sep 5, 2010
An Introduction to Business Process Reengineering By Angela Salemme In order to keep up with today’s fast changing business and technology environments, organizations cannot afford to develop and streamline their processes at a slow, incremental pace. Firms must reinvent their processes to see remarkable enhancement to compete in today’s marketplace. This method [...]
Sep 1, 2010
T-mobile beats Version, At&t and Sprint in Customer is an article about t-mobile beating all it’s competitors in customer service. The U.S. Wireless Customer Care Performance Study surveyed 9690 wireless customer which turned out to state that T-mobile came on top with a ranking of 777 out of a 1000 points, which beats out the industry [...]
Sep 1, 2010
Section 2.1: Decision-Making Systems Artificial Intelligence Learns To Play Music My article “Virtual Musicians, Real Performances: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Music” is about a company called Zenph Sound Innovations and how they are developingcomplex software that models musical performances based off of old music recordings. In the simplest of terms, this company is designing artificial [...]
Sep 1, 2010
In the article “Gmail’s new mind-reading inbox” I found on CNNMoney.com by David Goldman talks about one of the many new features Google has come out with is “Priority mail”. I know Gmail does have a Spam box but not all emails are Spam and sometimes you are stuck with a list full of emails in your [...]
Aug 31, 2010
Section 2.1: Decision-Making Systems Siri – An Artificial Intelligence System In the article “Siri launches voice-powered iPhone ‘Assistant’”, Dylan F. Tweney describes a new artificial intelligence system called Siri. Siri is a new iPhone application which is free of charge and is a personal computer assistant which recognizes speech. Siri currently works in the United [...]
Aug 28, 2010
Section 2.1: Decision-Making Systems In the article, “SMARTER THAN YOU THINK; Computers That Listen to You Make Strides in Talking Back,” authors Steve Lohr and John Markoff takes a look at the latest development of artificial intelligence (AI) and what it will mean for our futures. With the advancement of AI technology, future generations will [...]
Dec 16, 2009
This article described discussed and compared new technology that was offer in a few vehicles (the VW Touran, the Toyota Prius Spirit, and the Lexus LS460 to be specific). This technology is called the intelligent parking assistant, and it does what it implies (Parks your vehicle). This feature was put to the blind fold test [...]
Dec 16, 2009
Artificial Intelligence is a fast growing form of Information Systems. This form of Information systems is highly beneficial to the business world. A recent use of Artificial Intelligence is seen in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge. This challenge was highlighted on MSNBC’s technology section in an article titled “Driverless SUV wins $2 [...]
Dec 14, 2009
Chapter 2. IS in Business Information systems such as the Internet help people make key decisions in and out of the business world. There are a wide array of resources one can go to for information . One of the commonly hit resources via the Internet is Wikipedia which many people have a misconception about [...]
Nov 16, 2009
Toyota focuses on the Just-in-Time manufacturing system. ‘Kanban’ concept, which was one of the principles on which Toyota’s JIT was based. The Kanban philosophy is Developed by the Japanese, the JIT production system was one of the most significant production management approaches of the post World War II era. The system comprised a set of [...]
Nov 6, 2009
We have all seen the movies. Humans are co-existing with machines and everyone is happy, until the machines join forces with one another and try to wipe mankind of the face of the earth. Many have thought about the possibility of machines outsmart humans. In Monterey Bay, CA, artificial intelligence researchers, leading computer scientists, and [...]
Nov 5, 2009
In Eliot Van Buskirk’s article, “$1million Netflix prize to be awarded soon,” Buskirk shines the spotlight on the a contest that software engineers and mathematicians have been competing in for the last 3 years that involves Netflix awarding the winner 1 million dollars. The contestants goal in the competition is to develop a movie recommendation [...]
Nov 5, 2009
NVision Solutions: Mapping Data In this article, the author introduces a company that creates decision support software combining geographic information systems and maps. This allows customers to visually analyze data discovering patterns and problems that would be difficult to discern in a database or spreadsheet. The idea is pretty simple. Map the customer’s data to [...]
Nov 5, 2009
Toyota, one of the most famous automobile companies, has decided to have to cut so many jobs that many people have in automobile industry. Because Toyota makes a decision to close the plant in Fremont, CA. In according to California officials, approximately 40000 jobs could be lost due to closing Toyota plant. In this article, [...]
Oct 30, 2009
As I was browsing through the business magazine BusinessWeek it was exciting to find a very interesting article about a Web 2.0 Dashboard called StrategyEye Digital Media. Everyone is talking about StrategyEye, a London-based startup, because of its unique ability to mix Web search services with in-house analysis to offer organizations with business information related [...]
Oct 29, 2009
Elizabeth Landau’s article entitled Therapy online: Good as face to face? delves into the world of psychotherapy using artifical intelligence. She explains how it was started in the 1960′s with a computer program called ELIZA that was designed to actually mimic an actual therapist. It would ask questions and respond the way an actual therapist [...]
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