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Ecommerce
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... to sell their products. General Electric sold machine and appliance parts using a new business to business technology called "extranet". GE used its successful "extranet" to roll in 1996 online sales of one billion dollars. Another very successful type of business on the net is the coming of services backed by research, such as discount stock trading, including e.Schwab and a Web-only company called E*Trade. Travel services have been very promising because the transactions can be supported by extensive computer databases of useful information.
The Web is particularly effective at selling services ...
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The Year 2000 Problem
Number of Words: 2118 / Number of Pages: 8
... is unlike any other problem in modern history for several reasons. William Adams points out some of the most important ones. “Time is running out- the Year 2000 is inevitable! The problem will occur simultaneously worldwide, time zones withstanding. It affects all languages and platforms, hardware & software. The demand for solutions will exceed the supply. Survivors will survive big, losers will lose big. There is no ‘silver bullet’ that is going to fix things” (Adams 2). “It is too big and too overwhelming even for [Bill Gates and] Microsoft” (Widder 3). Separate, any one of these points makes Y2K ...
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Internet Site Evaluations
Number of Words: 2253 / Number of Pages: 9
... of the source, probably the most important criterion one must use in evaluating the effectiveness of a website, is sometimes debatable. The author of a website can be anyone. It can be ones next door neighbour, someone whom was met last week at a bar or a world renowned open heart surgeon who was on television just three days ago. Before beginning to delve into a site, make sure that authorship meets one of two sub-criterion: if reviewing a site in ones own general area of expertise, be certain that the author is a trusted and well recognized name in the field; or, if visiting a site by an ...
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Satellites
Number of Words: 482 / Number of Pages: 2
... crews of ground
controllers. They watch over the temperatures and voltages of the craft's
electronic nervous system and other vital "organs", always critical with
machines whose sunward side may be 300 degress hotter than the shaded part.
Once a satellite achieves orbit--that delicate condition in which the pull of
earth's gravity is matched by the outward fling of the crafts speed--subtle
pressures make it go astray. Solar flares make the satellite go out of orbit.
Wisps of outer atmosphere drag its speed. Like strands of spiderweb, gravity
feilds of the earth, moon, and sun tug at the orbiti ...
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Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon
Number of Words: 1716 / Number of Pages: 7
... business. The words "online,"
"network," and "surf the net" are occuring more and more frequently in our
newspapers and on television. If you're like most Americans, you're feeling
bombarded by Netspeak. Television advertisers, newspapers, and
international businesses have jumped on the "Information Superhighway"
bandwagon, making the Net more accessible to large numbers of not-entirely-
technically-oriented people. As a result, technological vocabulary is
entering into non-technological communication. For example, even the
archaic UNIX command "grep," (an acronym meaning Get REpeated Pattern) is
beco ...
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The Growth Of The Internet
Number of Words: 555 / Number of Pages: 3
... laboratory) named Tim Berners-Lee started to work on hypertext. By using hypertext he could link together all the different kinds of information available on the Internet.
Berners-Lee called the software pack the World Wide Web.
For the World Wide Web to work, each page has it’s own address that the web recognizes using a system called HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol). Each page has to be written with a special language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). This language tells the computer how to display a page.
Now with the invention of the web, Businesses can use pictures to help sell the ...
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Network Security And Firewalls
Number of Words: 1777 / Number of Pages: 7
... Passwords are the most common forms of computer and network security. They are the most common because of three main reasons. First of all, passwords are cheap to implement. Virtually all computers have a password system built into it already. Every home computer can have a password to lock out certain programs from users other than yourself. Even networked computers and systems can have an elaborate password system at a minimal cost to the company. Passwords are also fast. When a computer prompts you for a user identification and password, you simply type it in and away you go. There is ...
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DNA Technology
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... purposes what may be ethical and positive to one may not be to another. So, specific restrictions must be made on the uses; such as, it must only be used on a life threatening disease or life altering problem. However, even these restrictions could be used to ones discretion, obstacles such as these are problematic and must be dealt with carefully and monitored closely.
Human cloning is a major ethical problem. There are many issues in the arena of human cloning. One argument against it is that there is absolutely no need for human cloning, why would one need a duplicate of themselves? Another a ...
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The Internet Contributes To The Process Of Globalization
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... to span the globe and in essence create a unified sense of shared memories. Furthermore it is immutable proof that the Internet is perhaps the most powerful tool of globalization
It has been argued that the opening presumption that there exists a "coercive, sometimes wholly unconscious force of American imperialism over the Net." It's a statement that depends on some obsolete notions about the nation-state, propaganda, media, and imperialism. The Internet doesn't promote imperialism - it eradicates it. The underlying force threatening the paranoid enemies of so-called American Imperialism i ...
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“How To Computerize Your Accounts”
Number of Words: 1628 / Number of Pages: 6
... must allow time for installation and training.
When evaluating the need to convert from a manual accounting system to a computerized accounting system you also need to forecast the future demands of your company. After all to survive in the business world you must anticipate the future and not react to the past. How do you know when it is time to make the critical transition? “It is when management finds itself unable to keep track of its business. Which products are profitable? Which are not? Which customers pay on time ? Which are delinquent? Having easy access to this data is essential to runnin ...
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