... only in OSS industry but in international software community (http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press_fast500.html, January 2003). Linux Debate and Problem Analysis Although the choice of using the term between "free software" and "open source" is still widely debated but generally in Linux community, the term "open source" somehow is more acceptable. This re- ... towards the traditional closed source development method, represented by Microsoft Windows platform and to a certain extend, conventional variants of UNIX. Linux has definitely provided many benefits to various parti...

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... have been put forward about this issue, especially, the issues of decency and morality. In this essay, I will consider arguments for having the right to free speech on the internet and point to some of the problems with these views. I will then state why laws which prohibit ... protection from governmental intrusion." CNET News.com. Seeing as there are very little restrictions on the internet, most of which a ten year old could get around, it is understandable that people want to protect their children from content on the Internet that they might find objectionable. ... The Court's opini...

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... discuss the main external factors that affect firms in the industry. The PEST analysis stands for Political, Economic, Social and Technological. These four factors have a great impact on all businesses. The reason for carrying out a PEST analysis is to discover what external factors' effect a business and to determine the success ... with all current legislation and that they are aware of future legislation. Firms in this industry may be faced with increased costs if for example, the packaging of computers contravenes the consumer safety act of 1978, whereby the packaging may be harmful ...

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... Cisco products that work seamlessly across all networks. As a result Cisco's primary goal is to help their customers increase their competitive advantage and profitability via their networks. EXTERNAL ANALYSIS By applying Porter's Five Forces Model it is possible to analyze competitive forces in the industry environment in order to identify the opportunities and threats challenging Cisco. First, it must ... to others. However, there are few products outside of the industry that provide similar solutions to similar problems. INTERNAL ANALYSIS Quality products are goods and services that a...

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... on this matter, and Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, probably said it best when he said, "Information just wants to be free (Platt 11)." If one were to take this viewpoint and apply it to the usage of computers, they would get the hacker ethic. The ... Platt 31). Jackson operated a legitimate business through a bulletin board system, or BBS, yet when it was seized by the Secret Service, Jackson successfully sued for damages due to the violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (30). This humiliating mistake made it evident that the government needed a comp...

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... turn on people's lives. People in today's society constantly use the internet, cellphones, and social media to update and upload many aspects of their life for the world to see. This allows people to constantly know what others are doing, decreasing privacy from all of the people who are associated with online ... becoming to have a negative effect on the environment and the world around us, because the world is starting to relay on social media and technology for everyday life aspects. In an article written by S. Srinivasan, he makes a very valid point when he states that "an innate pro...

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... , enterprise consciousness surrounding disasters has significantly risen, and it has become increasingly clear that disasters of unfathomable sizes can occur at any given time. Therefore, companies must be prepared for the worst. These myriad events have launched a high anxiety over data protection and recovery among IT professionals across the globe, in particular among Database Administrators (DBA). This concern is ... bank account. Backing up with disk instead of tape will undoubtedly give a company a chance to get better performance and data protection at a lower price. As technology ...

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... one another and to harbor relationships in a group. Before the advent of the written word, the oral tradition of story-telling served as a means for cultures to pass down history, folklore, and anecdotal stories that demonstrated the proper way to conduct oneself in a society. Today story-telling is just as ... have a more positive view of the value of close relationships. Conversely, if an individual spends too much time on the internet at home or for these purposes at work, he or she will exhibit more depression than an individual, who has the opportunity to relate with others through...

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... access. A dedicated Internet connection makes a business a permanent part of the Internet on a full-time basis. This type of access is usually provided for a flat rate well within the reach of most large- and medium-sized businesses. Even smaller businesses may find a dedicated Internet connection to be a ... their customers. In some areas, businesses may reduce the cost of going online by leasing the use of a dedicated line from a local access provider for their World Wide Web site. Some providers now make this service available with a dial-up connection. The World Wide Web can be used...

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... while the corporate opponents of privacy are well organized. ZeroKnowledge.com is a privacy-enhancing technology that allows individuals to browse the web and send e-mails anonymously or pseudonymously in order for people to cover electronic tracks. Genuine Privacy Enhancing Technologies limit or eliminate the collection of personally identifiable information. Even though we can employ these measures in an attempt to protect ... to that site the cookies reveal that he has been there before and may offer products or ads based on the data in the retrieved cookie. A potentially valuable sou...

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Critical Analysis The report done by Ronald J. Deibert titiled Edemocracy: Current Trends and Future Prospects outlines the impact of how information communication technology will influence a variety of sectors from privarte business to ... to the Internet and how 88% of them access their email multiple times weekly. Diebert shows how ICT has influenced Canadian industry by how most public libraries in Ontario have free Internet access. This has only been a recent change, whereas five, six years ago it would of been impossible. Diebert beleives that more Ontarians are getting connected ever...

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... 1998), argued, that it is principally concerned with the expansion of trade over the oceans and airspace, beyond traditional alliances which were restricted by old political spheres of influence. Thus, it presupposes the "making or remaking- of the world (Diagne and Ossebi. 1996) by creating "a basic ... of their equity holding in NAL merchant bank. Information technology in the banking sector has made major changes to this sector especially from the old conservative style of banking to a new form of banking. This is as a result of huge investment on information technology and in ... ...

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... and from outside that firewall. 4. The protection of the privacy and integrity of both real-time and store-and-forward applications such as e-mail. (Computer Reseller News PG). Part C -- Analysis of Impact of Issue The impacts of insecure data transmission over the Internet are massive in their potential impacts. Our world is making a very fast transition from one of television ... and radio to one of the information age. We transmit and receive a massive amount of information through the Internet, which by its very nature is insecure and wild and free. Some information we transmit and ...

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... the marketers to understand the business in depth. Review of past and current strategies, identification of organizational strengths and weaknesses as well as constrains and strategies is a necessity for the company's self-analysis. A preliminary picture of what segments to target that the most would enjoy the product or service appearance in the market and what is the most efficient way to reach ... be kept in the memory of every child. Promotional products are divided into four categories, which are ad specialties, business gifts, premiums, and recognition awards. Ad specialties usual...

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... changed during the development process. This problem itself will result in raising costs and delaying the system's development. The need to have the old and new systems running concurrently could be another problem since this will result in parallel running costs in the early stages. Both systems will be ... in order to support the new system, adding to the cost of the new system. The issue of no one person taking responsibility for overseeing the analysis and design process could result in training needs not being met and the smooth transition to the new system being unsuccessful. Syste...

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... in today's global environment. It is a complex fusion of business processes, enterprise applications, and organizational structure necessary to create a high-performance business model. This paper will discuss the value chain analysis, legacy systems and the organizational structure as it relates to the formulating and developing of an eBusiness strategy. One of the most common fears companies are facing when investigating eBusiness ... . The value chain begins with the data resources. Information is developed from the data resource to support the knowledge environment. Knowledge is the ...

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... the internet, as is the case with the news, music and, film. The internet as an entity is not like radio or TV waves- limited, its bandwidths are broad enough for everyone (~six billion) on earth to have an email/web-page plus five times that. Consequently, with time current computer technologies have improved exponentially, our generic sensibilities have been improved ... as we have an easier/user friendly mac or pc to give us the information we desire at all times and free of charge. With a simple skill like typing, our fundamental learning process may propel us away from old constrai...

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... enforcing physical force. In the introduction of Alexander Galloway's book, Protocol, he explains the notion of control by extending the knowledge of history, specifically, the French history. Building on his analysis, Galloway aims to pick up where Foucault left off (he repeatedly mentioned Foucault and his theories). Contrastingly, Galloway focuses on topics such as the Internet, computers, and protocol. However, the ... forces," (Foucault 607) such as raising the whole human community into a better civilized community. On the other hand, Galloway lacks to demonstrate how technology c...

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... definition two aspects of sovereignty attached to the notion of state are born; internal and external sovereignty (Lansing, p. 297). Internal sovereignty is based on the principle that each state free to practice its rights without outside interference. Internal sovereignty theoretically means that the government of any state has supremacy over the people, resources and all other authorities within the territory ... may increase the expression of individual preferences; thus an image of representative democracy. Secondly, far form being the friend of the expression of individual will and...

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... like-minded individuals can go and chat about anything at all that interests them. A message board I frequently visit, and the subject of my analysis in this report, is the message board for a band called Sparta, from El Paso, Texas, USA. It is fairly obvious that I am a fair way from El Paso, and ... coming from both angles. The most common form of expression on a message board is to simply start a topic about a subject, or a question, and wait for others to respond to it. In Figure 1 there is an example of a post I made on the Sparta message board, asking a question about people's thou...

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... commerce. It simply facilitates the process by offering information more quickly, more timely, and more accurately. However, there may be an opportunity with B2C to do more than just facilitate old processes. 2.2 B2C (Business to Consumer) The advent of B2C has created a new competitive landscape. The strength of the Internet is dispersion and dissemination of information on a large expedited ... cash flows and the discount rate. There are numerous things to consider regarding cash flows, which include dividends, plowback ratio, and earnings. For the purposes of reviewing eCommerce compan...

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... America, Clinton once stated in a whitepaper in 1997 that until 2000, every classroom and library in the United States of America will have access to Internet, every 12-years-old child could access the Internet. As we can see that deploying Internet to education has already been noticed and studied since years ago. At present, almost every university has set ... a whole, through the ways of integrating information both active and static, and interacting, it presents the teaching content three-dimensionally in front of the learners, and provides various external stimulations for learners....

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... business practice to be unavailable, we are expected to be networked round-the-clock. Many employers have embraced new mobile technology providing their employees with laptops and cellular telephones. For example the Ford Motor Company announced they would provide their employees with computers and internet access (Streitfeld, 2000, p.A1). This self-serving corporate generosity should come to no surprise ... , since the hours of free labor will quickly return the investment. The common North American expression not enough hours in the day has become a true phenomenon. A recent survey of ...

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... is the key player; the U.S. can work towards collaborative efforts, to change workforce and education policy and ultimately increase the labor pool for IT (Skinner, 2000, p. 52-5). The National IT Workforce Convocation, the federal government, and academia held the first National Information Technology Workforce ... current workforce. The Office of Technology Policy and the U. S. Department of Commence prepared a detailed analysis of the technology workforce problems. The publication America's New Deficit: The Shortage of Information Technology Workers, points out the gap between the ....

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... hair, straighten or permanent wave hair, or lighten or darken hair color. Additionally, cosmetologists may train to give manicures, pedicures, and scalp and facial treatment; provide makeup analysis; and clean and style wigs and hairpieces. A growing number of workers offer specialized services. The largest and fastest growing of these are manicurists and pedicurists, called nail technicians in some ... work can be physically demanding due to long hours of standing, working with arms outstretched or sitting at a Nail Technician's station; a personal investment may be required for adverti...

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