... burst. Since then, 4,854 Internet companies have been either acquired or have shutdown (Webmergers). TheStreet.com's Internet Index , which was widely thought of as the best proxy for the Internet industry has dropped a staggering 93% since March ... clear on their gross margins. Instead they would use costly tactics, such as waiving delivery fees (pets.com) to attain a greater market share and in turn, hurting profitability. On the other hand, the surviving dot-com's would offer discounts on future purchases as not only an incentive to purchase now, but to return ... Companies who outl...

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... www.eonline.com www.thecelebritycafe.com www.people.aol.com/people/index.html www.ew.com/ew www.variety.com www.starmagazine.com www.mag4you.com www.icompamagazine.com www.FHM.com www.entertainmentdesignmagazine.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/index.jsp www.undercover.com.au/main.html www.priemiere.com/priemier/index.html www.flatiron.mag.com www.barfly.com.au www.nowtoronto.com www.filmthreat.com www.caranddriver.com www.askmen.com www.wwe.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/hollywoodreporter/index ... .jsp www.geocities.com/hollywood/boulervard ... ...

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... largest package handler in the world, and continues to develop the frontiers of logistics, supply chain management and e-Commerce . . . combining the flows of goods, information and functions (http://www.ups.com). United Parcel Service offers many services to our customers, these services are implemented quickly, efficiently, and securely which in the end provide for a really reliable and on time delivery. Jim ... with fewer than 2000 different products and now they are offering over 10,000 products. They are located in Las Vegas and are considered to be a small size business. Electronic...

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... questions erupted that include such characteristics as product presentation, order entry, payment, and product distribution. I found it necessary to break down each company and answer these specific questions. AMAZON.COM I found that Amazon.com had a very nice Web site. The product presentation is very well thought out. Each section of the Web site, such as books, electronics, toys & games, etc, is spread ... ship. Lands End shipping includes US and International such as Canada, Japan, and all other countries. Im assuming they can ship effectively to virtually any address worldwide such...

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... done has undergone a massive change. An example of both these changes in effect has been the emergence of online recruitment agencies. 2000 saw companies such as monster.com and jobsonline.com come to the forefront. Also within company websites people can apply for jobs or submit their personal details. Companies such as Vodafone and Virgin have recruited many ... advertise to different countries with different languages it may be best for them to have different parts of their websites with different languages. An example of this is easyjet.com. The Internet gives the Marriott several ex...

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... found on our Web site at http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=16.) The first major resolution in the copyright fight came when MP3.com, a firm whose Web site allowed Internet users to access a vast online music library, settled copyright infringement suits this summer with Warner Music Group, ... Napster's service to millions of Internet users. Media attention and word-of-mouth have driven huge numbers of Internet users to the Napster and MP3.com sites as their legal struggles played out. Media Metrix, a firm that tracks use of Web sites, reports that the use of the Napster...

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... does it work? What is SDI? What is push technology, and when is it used? 2. Selective Dissemination of information: 2.1 What is Selective Dissemination of Information? According to Dictionary.com selective dissemination of information is: " A current awareness system, which alerts you to the latest publications in your specified field(s) of interest. A user registers at such a system with ... Marimba with both Netscape and Microsoft to use push technology to automatically update software applications without having to go through the lengthy download process. BackWeb BackWeb's (www.backweb...

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... does it work? What is SDI? What is push technology, and when is it used? 2. Selective Dissemination of information: 2.1 What is Selective Dissemination of Information? According to Dictionary.com selective dissemination of information is: " A current awareness system, which alerts you to the latest publications in your specified field(s) of interest. A user registers at such a system with ... Marimba with both Netscape and Microsoft to use push technology to automatically update software applications without having to go through the lengthy download process. BackWeb BackWeb's (www.backweb...

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... cheaper on the net has created this unwillingness. Key suppliers of the industry i.e. the popular artists want to be part of sites like mp3.com. But music companies don't allow this. Popular artists have major bargaining power especially when their contract gets over. Therefore building better relations with artists ... of separate division can be easily monitored which is very important at this stage. o They should create a site on the lines of mp3.com and allow even popular musicians to be part of it under a different contract. This will add to the personal relations of company with a...

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... and future customers will need to be taken into consideration. The Internet is a world market. Who are the most prospective buyers now and in the future? Advisor.com (2001) quotes the e-Business Communication Association's (eBCA) report, on a country by country listing of e-business readiness, published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The ... H.M., Deitel, P.J. & Nieto, T.R., 2001. E-Business & e-Commerce - How to Program. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. E-Business Strategies. (2001). Top Countries for E-Business Expansion [online]. Advisor.com. Available from: http://advisor.com/articles...

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... other. One website that is trying to build a link between the music hungry consumers and the artists who deserve credit for their work is MP3.com. Rather than being pirated, like many of the music files you can get over the net, artists can put their music here as a way ... of introducing and promoting their work to listeners. Michael Robertson, the founder and CEO of MP3.com, started the site after learning what little amount of money artists actually received from CD sales (often less than 10% of the price of the ... 10%, but when other factors are considered the numbers just aren't t...

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... society. It is therefore clear that in such an environment, most consumers will be skeptical that a click on a computer screen will result in a completed financial transaction. (http://www.citibank.com/nigeria/gcib/ebusiness/ebreart5.htm) Under such circumstances, banks need to develop security features for their Internet sites, which adequately address their customers concerns and must educate their customers on ... the protection that the Internet sites provide. http://www.citibank.com/nigeria/gcib/ebusiness/ebreart5.htm The final major challenge for the future of Internet banking in N...

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... nation wide. New companies were looking to cash in on a new business idea. These companies had no brick and mortar shops. They would maintain inventory where houses only. These dot-com companies thrived in the mid 1990's. Many venture capitalists backed their business plans with millions of dollars, allowing them to have surging upstarts. As, it would turn out it would ... take years for most dot-com companies to turn a profit, many did not. The unsuccessful dot.com's closed their virtual doors as quickly as they opened them. Amazon.com is an example of what many would call the most suc...

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... is accurate and useful. In this paper, I will analyze and evaluate three WebPages (www.food first.org, www.soros.org and www.thenewamerican.com) assigned by my lecturer, Miss Bhavanee. I adopted several strategies and techniques to assess the information found in these sites. www.food first.org ... on the issues affecting the nation. Articles are written from a conservative perspective and are an alternative to the liberal, mainstream media. (www.thenewamerican.com/website/tour/stop2.htm). The coverage of the site includes the breadth which covers: weekly features, back-dated features fro...

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... all that contributed to its demising state today, but also the effects of a declining advertising economy that AOL so heavily relied on as well as the bursting of the dot-com bubble that was driving the merger. These two economic factors only contributed to making a difficult deal exasperating. If AOL had any chance of making its merger an instant success, it ... : Turmoil at AOL Shows Need for More Changes WSJ January 21, 2003 • To Make Time Warner Happy Again, Speed Up AOL WSJ July 24, 2002 • http://www.ebstrategy.com/mobile/case_studies/aol_anywhere.htm • "There Goes The Status ...

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... was able to shop around for the best deal easier than riding in a car from store to store. She just went to different websites differing from half.com, textbookx.com, classbook.com, powells.com, barnes&noble.com and amazon.com. She found a website that sold her books for an average of 10 dollars cheaper than the bookstore. This may come harder to people that are not ... ...

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... Database administration, Web Design Specialists, and Networking Professionals. During my search for post-graduation employment, database administrator positions seemed to outnumber all others. Below is a job posting found on Monster.Com for a Database Analyst/Administrator: "Must have a working knowledge of relational database concepts. Have database experience with Sybase or MS Access, Oracle, DB2. Strong SQL skills in both Data Definition ... the popularity of the Internet and the obvious need to support IP at a minimum. Below is an excerpt from a job posting for an entry level netwo...

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... can entice people to the detriment of the family, home, career and health". An article taken from the Center for Online and Internet Addiction (netaddiction.com), states that nearly 6% of over 17,000 respondents in an online survey met the criteria for compulsive Internet use and 30% use the Net to ... ). Not everyone gets addicted to the "Net". It is difficult to say who should shoulder the blame. In an article printed by Computer Weekly.com, issue dated Sept 23,1999, psychologists say that "Constant use of the Internet creates high levels of the adrenaline-like chemical dopamine which g...

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... the destination and education provider. The most trustworthy information usually comes from family member. Parent - Child Interaction From the source of "Journal of Cereal Science-, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn, a survey shows the parent and child interaction when make a decision to buy cereal products. In this survey, child initiates account for 66 percent, and parent ... (23%): - Child Agrees (19%) - Child Denies (2%) - Child Declines (2%) Direct Selection (11%): - Child Agrees (7%) - Child Declines (2%) - Child Suggests other (2%): Source: Journal of Cereal Science http://www.e...

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... . The good web site and the one I really liked seemed as if it was easier to write about http://www.rollingstone.com . The bad site I refer to is the site I do not like and is located at http://www.pinkmonkey.com . For my first critique I have chosen the web site from the magazine, Rolling Stone to which I have subscribed to for over ... 20 years. The site http://www.rollingstone.com is one of my favorite web sites to visit in my spare time. The designer of this web site certainly optimized their talent and tools. The page loads very quickly ... because they do not know what they are d...

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... JCP is the most shopped-at chain store, followed by Sears. Wal-mart wins among mass merchandisers, followed by Target (http://www.lycra.com/Lycra/knowledge/retail/consumer_research/teen_spending.html). One major challenge of marketers today is staying current with the fickle fashions of teenage girls. ... Converse has recently put a spin on the classic Chuck Taylor shoe with a low-top, back-less hot pink version (http://fashion.about.com/library/weekly/aa080102a.htm). Throughout the years, technology has been one of the most important mediums by which marketers reach their target audien...

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... Internet Content Selection (PICS). Other software out to aid in the process is called "Censorware." Several of these programs include NetNanny (www.netnanny.com), Cybersitter (www.solidoak.com/cysitter.htm), X-Stop (www.xstop.com) and Cyber Patrol (www.microsys.com/cyber). They basically do that same thing previously mentioned by effectively screening any activity on the computer and filtering out anything deemed unnecessary by ... ...

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... good website is hosted by the Gibson Research Corporation and has several helpful feature like "Shields Up", the address for this site is www.grc.com. Another popular site with many useful utilities would be www.dslreports.com. If these sites show you some holes in your security they will recommend several actions. One of the easiest and most effective would be ... can be either automatically configured of manually. Hardware involves connecting your computer into another device. Two of the more popular software firewalls are Zone Alarm (www.zonelabs.com) and Norton Personal Firewall (ww...

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... the usual questions. 4. Re-boot computer 5. Configure download --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 ZoneAlarm Firewall Installation Cited Works 1. Goncalves, Marcus. "Firewalls: A Complete Guide", McGraw Hill, 2000: pages 253, 2. BlackICE Defender. http://www.black-ice-firewall.com/ 3. ZoneAlarm vs. BlackICE Defender. http://cws.internet.com/reviews/lannet-zonealarm5.html 4. Four Personal Firewalls Reviewed. http://www.computerworld ... ...

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... servers and distribute them on a monthly fee basis. The advantage of the second approach is that the email address uses your company's domain name rather than a domain name like hotmail.com. Another would be a fax provider. One like Efax provides a free fax service that delivers faxes to your email box. This is an example of a free ASP. The huge advantage of ... ) MIE-YUN LEE. Entrepreneur Dec 2000 v28 i12 p58 2. The ASP model hits the hut. (Company Business and Marketing) Hazel Ward. Computer Weekly Nov 2, 2000 p18 3. ISPS. (Computersathome.com) http://www.computersathome.com/content/ne...

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