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- 221: PRIVACY
- ... personal information about them is circulated and used by companies (Summers, 23). Some of the most powerful companies and corporations are powerful because of their ability to obtain private information at anytime. Microsoft, the computer software company, is powerful because it designs the operating system that millions of people use to organize and transmit data. The Washington Post is powerful because it screens, sorts, and defines "the news" for influential readers ... supercomputers could cut through it like butter (Elmer-Dewitt, 1). However, this has now changed. Cryptography is now used to authenticate retail transactions, secure electronic funds transfers, the military, email, to protect the integrity of software and stored data, and to authenticate the identity of network users (Summers, 45-46). Although, the export of encryption outflow is still regulated by the government. By using encryption you can disguise the message so ... sent to the receiver, where it is decoded back to plaintext (Pfleeger, 22). This simple method of cryptography is very efficient in securing peoples privacy. Hacking an encrypted message is virtually impossible to achieve. Encryption software due to its highly mathematical nature, resists giving up its secrets, even to exports, because the output of the program is entirely dependent on a key value given to the program when it runs ( ...
- 222: Multimedia
- ... Warner, Turner Broadcasting, and Paramount have set the stage. These companies continue the race to be the first to lay solid infrastructure, and set new industry standards. Following in the shadows will be mergers between: software, film, television, publishing, and telephone industries, each trying to gain market share in the emerging market. So far, most firms have rejected the hostile takeovers that marked the media business in the 1980s. Instead, they ... stimulate the senses and enhance information retention. Multimedia uses a powerful combination of earlier technologies that constitutes an extraordinary advance in the capability of machines to assist the educational process. Interactive multimedia combines computer hardware, software, and peripheral equipment to provide a rich mixture of text, graphics, sound, animation, full-motion video, data, and other information. Although multimedia has been technically feasible for many years, only recently has it become a major focus for commercial development. Interactive multimedia systems can serve a variety of purposes but their great power resides in highly sophisticated software that employs scientifically based educational methods to guide the student through a path of instruction individually tailored to suit the special needs of each person. As instruction progresses and intelligent systems are used, the ...
- 223: The Evolution of Apple - January 1976 to May 1995
- ... hard disk, priced at $3,499. In November of 1983 AppleWorks, an integrated package containing word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications all in one, is introduced and will soon become the worlds best selling software. In February of 1985 Jobs and Wozniak receive National Technology Medal from President Reagan at the White House. The ImageWriter II, HD-20 hard disk and Apple Personal Modem were also introduced this year. In January of 1987 Apple introduced a new desktop communications products including the AppleShare file server software and AppleTalk PC Card. They are priced at $799 and $399. Also introduced in 1987 is the AppleFax Modem, priced at $699. Now you get a fax modem with the purchase of an Apple computer ... also unveils more than a dozen new networking and communication products this year to increase Macintosh compatibility in multi vendor environments, including DEC, IBM, OSI and TCP/IP. In July of 1989 Apple IIGS System Software 5.0 is announced. It is the first 16-bit operating system for the Apple IIGS that operates over the AppleTalk network system. In the early year of 1991 Apple petitions the Federal Communications ...
- 224: Local Area Networks
- ... do business that it has become essential with an ever-growing need for improvement. LANs give an employer the ability to share information between computers with a simple relatively inexpensive system of network cards and software. It also lets the user or users share hardware such as Printers and scanners. The speed of access between the computers is lighting fast because the data has a short distance to cover. In most ... if the computer has no packet to send, it passed the token to the next computer.(Local Area Network Microsoft 2000) I know that it is complicated to understand, but for the actual user the software takes care of most all of the management for you. There are seven things that a LANs can do that you cannot with ease do with non-networked stand-alone systems. First sharing files A ... Transferring files A LAN enables you to copy files from machine to machine without having to exchange floppy disks.(Understanding Data Communications 1993) Access information and files A LAN enables anyone to run the accounting software, for example, or other application software from any of the workstations(Introduction to Networking 1992) Share applications A LAN enables two people to use the same copy of the Microsoft Word word processing program ...
- 225: A Look Into The Computer Virus
- ... and so on. Viruses often have damaging side effects, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not. (Microsoft Encarta 1996) Most viruses are created out of curiosity. Viruses have always been viewed as a well written, creative product of software engineering. I admit there are many out there who create them out of malice, but far more people are just meeting a challenge in software design. The people who make anti-virus software have much more to benefit from the creation of new virii. This is not a slam, just an observation. A common type of virus would be a Trojan Horse, or a destructive program disguised ...
- 226: Linux Operating System
- ... operating system. (Linux.org) (Using Linux) The Internet features of Linux make it more popular. Linux was developed on the Internet so it has a wide support for Internet tools and protocols. Free e-mail software called Pine comes with Linux. It was developed at University of Washington and it has all features of a mail program. There is also free software called Telnet. With telnet you can connect to a computer with its IP number through Internet. Also, the famous web browser Netscape comes with Linux free. It has all properties of the Windows based Netscape ... is the most common protocol that is used to get files from Internet. IRC (Internet Relay Chat), one of the most popular protocols on the Internet, is supported by Linux. You can download famous IRC software's Mirc, Pirch or ICQ from the Internet. It is more secure to chat on Linux than Windows. You cannot be banned or nuked on Linux because there is a firewall in Linux and ...
- 227: Internet Security 2
- ... The book claims that hackers can easily access extremely important information or data. This does not only happen on the government s computers but businesses, corporations, non-profit organizations, and more. Only computers running certain software, which allows users on the Internet access to their information, are susceptible to hackers. A majority of hackers do not affect anything important; although, only the most knowledgeable and experienced hackers can affect anything important ... be missing anything in the future. If a hacker changed something on a company's computers, the systems administrator would be able to restore the information from the back- up the computer automatically created earlier. Software companies have made extensive research into security issues on networks, the Internet being one colossal network. These companies specialize in security software for Internet servers. They hire hackers to program and test their software. Although they go through such great attempts at security we are lacking that one great breakthrough that sends us into the next ...
- 228: Grace Murray Hopper
- ... honors. Grace Murray Hopper spent a lot of time tring to prove that something that's never been done before isn't impossible. This lead Hopper to invent the first computer "compiler" in 1952. This software made the first automatic programming of computer language easier. Before, programmers had to write lengthy instructions in binary code for every new piece of software. Because binary code consists solely of 0's and 1's, it was difficult for programmers to get through their long tasks without a lot of mistakes. Hopper knew there had to be a solution. She wrote a new program that helped software developers from having to write binary code. Each time the computer needed instructions that were common to all programs, the compiler would have the computer refer to codes in its own memory. The compiler ...
- 229: Econimics-Merger Between AOL A
- ... AOL.COM, Digital City Inc., AOL NetFind, ICQ, and others. Netscape was founded in April 1994, and currently employs more than 2000 people in 17 countries. The organization has been described as "the fastest growing software company in history." Scores of individuals and companies large and small use Netscape software to host and manage Internet sites on the World Wide Web. More specifically, companies are now using Netscape for their intranets. The Netscape software line includes four families of products: · Netscape Communicator client software suite · Netscape SuiteSpot and FastTrack servers · Netscape Development Tools · Netscape Commerce Applications At the present, Netscape Communications is a supplier of AOL Inc. Netscape ...
- 230: Electronic Money
- ... the newest form of electronic cash. It is designed to allow Internet users to shop on the net without using a credit card. There are many concerns with this new technology. Several companies have developed software systems that allow shopping on the net. They each claim benefits unique to their own systems. I have chosen to discuss CyberCash's service that allows Internet shopping. The Internet has become so much more ... my paper. CYBERCASH AND IT'S CYBERCOIN SERVICE CyberCash created the CyberCoin service which allows a consumer to use an existing bank account to transfer money to an electronic wallet. The wallet is a graphical software program installed on a personal computer. The wallet supports multiple credit cards including Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. A log is part of the wallet which records all activities. CyberCash offers their services totally ... found that some examples of typical purchases are using the CyberCoin service are: business research, micropublishing (newspaper articles), pay-to-view or pay-to-play transactions such an on-line gaming or on-line chat, software distribution, and so on. I think it sounds very interesting and would be very helpful. I have often found articles I would like to read, but are unable to because you must pay for ...
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