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- 351: Computer Mediated Evnvironment
- ... flight schedules and make reservations, purchase a wide variety of products, and discuss product performance with other consumers, are becoming very popular. Households in Chicago and San Francisco can purchase groceries from home using computer software marketed by Peapod, Inc. This latter service allows consumers to search within a product category using attributes such as price, calories, sugar content, and package size. Car manufacturers such as BMW regularly mail CD-ROMs ... other alternatives. In the current shopping environment, it is very difficult to form such frontiers and make efficient choices. However, with CMEs (where we assume that such data manipulation could actually be performed by the software), the nature of the marketplace would change dramatically as inefficient brands are either driven out or re-manufactured to be on the frontier. CMEs also provide the opportunity to study the dynamics of processing strategies ...
- 352: Networks And Connectivity
- ... that network in a great rate so as to satisfy their needs for data communication . Terms Talking about our days , when we are referring to the term computer connectivity we have a complex of hardware , software and physical appliance, and we mean the way and how computers can communicate and share common sources with the use of an intelligent or common network . With the term Data Communication we mean the exchange ... the communication devices . ? The Data Terminal Equipment ? The interface of every DTE that is responsible for the connection with the physical appliance . ? The communication protocols or else the mechanism of the transmission checking . ? And the software . In our days the most common networks are these that use the client / server computing environment . The most common physical appliance that we use in a LAN are the cables of twisted pair , coaxial cables ...
- 353: Melissa Virus
- ... company said 500,000 e-mail messages were floating around in its system. Although it is hard to find the source of the the e-mail. A man named Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap Software, a firm that makes operating systems and software tools, thinks he knows who made the e-mail virus. He had found clues linking the virus to a still-unidentified writer who uses the computer handle ``VicodinES''. He thinks the virus writer distributed it ...
- 354: Managing Information Systems
- ... of others who hack their way into certain information that is not meant to be seen by those outside of the corporation. With this growing network of electronic messaging and communication there must be different software available in order to best utilize it. The most widely used is word processing software where memos are written and the basic part of communication is typed out and standard letters can be saved for future use. Spreadsheet programs are being used to perform calculations in a couple of seconds ...
- 355: Internet 2
- ... are a wide variety of goods and services available intended to enhance internet security. These range from accessory devices for physical security, identification, authentication and encryption. However, the slow growth of the market for secure software and systems do not give vendors any incentives to engage in this venture. The high development cost and the preceived small market made security software appear as a risk to vendors. Moreover, vendors who introduces a security before his competitors only have at least one year before the technology become obsolete. Also, some retailors avoid offering security products because they ...
- 356: Information Management
- ... an explosion of activity on the world wide web. Today, there are more than 400m PCs in the world (Financial Times survey, Jan.13, 1999), supercomputers forecast the weather and simulate nuclear blasts, and sophisticated software programs fly aircraft and run multinational companies. Presently, the United States is the most technologically advanced country in the area of telecommunications with about; 126 million phone lines, 7.5 million cellular phone users, 5 ... Capturing new types of information, such as transaction data, processing it and storing it in a data warehouse, will offer business new opportunities for data mining and spotting trends through the use of business intelligence software. However, most senior IT executives also acknowledge that as they collect, sift and process data, enterprises will need to deal with growing public concerns about privacy and security. As Eric Schmidt, Novell's chief executive ...
- 357: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates and by about 7% for those with some college education. Only the wages of college graduates are up. Of the fastest growing technical jobs, software engineering tops the list. Carnegie Mellon University reports, "recruitment of its software engineering students is up this year by over 20%." All engineering jobs are paying well; proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! "There is clear evidence that the supply of workers in the ...
- 358: History And Development Of The Internet
- ... also called "The Father of the Internet", a graduate student working at UCLA began to take interest in the 4 node APRAnet, and in 1973 developed the first TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) software. (Leiner, 4). TCP/IP software converts messages into streams, transmits them across different nodes or networks, and reassembles them at the destination point. In 1977 Cerf began working for APRA and played a major part in the first long distance ...
- 359: Electronic Commerce
- ... explained that wherever she uses her credit cards they too use the phone lines to transmit the numbers for approval just as the Internet would. Also, most reputable online companies use some type of encryption software that was made especially for electronic commerce. A spokesman from IBM says that Internet security is the best is has ever been. If the banks trust it, why shouldn t you. (Segal 45-46) Be ... Works Cited Duncan Group. American Electronics Survey. Wall Street Journal 14 November 1998. 34-34E. Sparkman, Guy. Shopping this Holiday Season, Watch out! Sun- Sentinal Special edition 23 November 1998. 24. Segal, Hy. IBM Security Software is hot stuff. Byte August 1998. 45-46. Thomas, Jan. Online commerce in he 90 s. Are you ready? E-Com September 1998. 34.
- 360: Data Warehousing
- ... daily, performance problems have become a major concern of both the Information Systems staff and the users. Many options have been tried in an attempt to solve the performance problems - from bigger hardware to different software or database tuning and redesign using star schemas or snowflake data structures. However, all have limitations - either in functionality or in terms of cost - and their strengths are almost inevitably outstripped by users' demands. During ... to measure the success of a promotion in a timely way. Now, all Longs stores feed information nightly to a corporate data warehouse that runs on programming supplied by Red Brick Systems Inc., a pioneering software maker in the field. That means promotions can be measured, and altered, on a daily basis. Before this, they didn't know what was sold, as a corporate entity, although their store managers knew, and ...
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