... so-called Usenet groups, which allowed computer users to post messages in bulletin board fashion, developed and blossomed into thousands of "newsgroups" focusing on a very wide spectrum of subjects. Online Communities allow us to chat and argue, engage in intellectual intercourse, perform acts of commerce, exchange knowledge, share emotional support, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, ... it is the primary or normative purpose of the community's existence. * Performance Examples: alt.pub.dragons-inn Story-telling, drama Individuals find friends and groups find shared ide...

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... quality, relevant technology; customized systems; superior service and support; and products and services that are easy to buy and use. Dell Computer Corporation is now the world's leading online computer-systems company, with its award-winning customer service, industry-leading growth, and superior financial performance that continue to differentiate Dell from its competitors. At the heart of this ... paperwork- (Dell, 2000). To add further value to the shopping experience, Dell has collaborated to create EducateU. More than just a simple learning portal, EducateU is a robust online lea...

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... daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded. (www.britannica.com) 81% of Net users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. The greatest threat to privacy comes from the construction of e-commerce alone, and not from state agents. E-commerce is structured on the ... PowerPoint 97, which implanted distinct identifiers into every document. Americans increasingly seem to agree that Congress should save them from the worst excesses of online profiling. (www.britannica.com) A poll conducted in March for Business Week magazine showed that 57% of the respondents sai...

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... daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded.? (www.britannica.com) 81% of Net users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. The greatest threat to privacy comes from the construction of e-commerce alone, and not from state agents. E-commerce is structured on the copy ... PowerPoint 97, which implanted distinct identifiers into every document. ?Americans increasingly seem to agree that Congress should save them from the worst excesses of online profiling.? (www.britannica.com) A poll conducted in March for Business Week magazine showed that 57% of the respond...

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... monitored, searched and recorded. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica 81 percent of internet users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. With today's growing use of computers and the internet a whole new world know has cyberspace has taken shape. This electronic environment ... own service provider and by the system operator of any sites on the Internet that may capture them. There are virtually no online activities or services that guarantee an absolute right of privacy. The federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act makes it illegal for anyone to ... user. ...

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... was Kimberly S. Young, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. She takes it so seriously, in fact, that she founded the Center for Online Addiction, an organization that provides consultation for educational institutions, mental health clinics and corporations dealing with Internet misuse problems. Psychologists now recognize Internet Addiction Syndrome (IAS) as ... site is an excellent way to reduce costs, improve customer service, disseminate information and even sell to your market. A very important fact is that the Internet supports online education. Online...

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... once concealed inside government agencies and universities, has become the largest single form of communication worldwide. With a number of online individuals exceeding thirty millions and the number of networks that act as gateways for users exceeding fifty thousands, the Internet's ... lines used to dial in, all of which can be relatively cheap. One of the recent innovations the internet made available is online commerce, which includes online shopping, online banking, online trading and many more. This opens up a new international world of trading. Consumers, overcoming any kind of di...

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... methods. This paper will review the different aspects of e-commerce security and payment by looking at the different resources, which explain and elaborate their importance and significance to the entire online industry. It is first important to define both Internet security and Internet payment options. Internet security is often referred to the ability to protect the information your computer sends across ... . This is the reason why Internet security is such a hot topic in today's business world, being able to provide a safe and hacker-free environment for customers to use when shoppi...

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... controversial "Think Different- campaign, and the deletion of many products in the Apple line. Furthermore, Apple extended its sale capabilities into the Internet, selling computers on The Apple Store online and over the phone. The introduction of the iMac, " the most innovative PC ever created,"" cemented Apple's success in the 1990s. Innovative, fast and easy-to-use, the ... . 2) By augmenting their product line to include accessories. 3) By increasing the advertising of their online solutions as well as increasing the ease of purchase of the systems. 4) By offering strong online and ...

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... controversial "Think Different- campaign, and the deletion of many products in the Apple line. Furthermore, Apple extended its sale capabilities into the Internet, selling computers on The Apple Store online and over the phone. The introduction of the iMac, " the most innovative PC ever created,"" cemented Apple's success in the 1990s. Innovative, fast and easy-to-use, the ... . 2) By augmenting their product line to include accessories. 3) By increasing the advertising of their online solutions as well as increasing the ease of purchase of the systems. 4) By offering strong online and ...

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... 's mind to absorb. It allows people to socialize in groups on interest based on socialization, technology and global issues somewhat than beneficial. Some even find that new relationships are made online, often resulting in their meeting each other. These new relationships can add new "ties" to existing relations, creating the "global village". The Internet provides entertainment, education, information retrieval, social interaction ... . The World Wide Web can be known to give off a negative effect, leading Internet users to become depressed. Although the Internet provides friendship acr...

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... there are few companies that do not use, in some way, e-commerce. To emphasis the point that the effect of the Internet is so widespread in today's business communities, one online article stated that more that one hundred thousand companies have Internet addresses, and twenty thousand companies have home pages on the Internet as of February of 1999. (DataQuest 1999). These ... things over the Internet. Although this is one description of its possibilities, e-business also may include things such as electronic filing of your tax return, online services such as Prodigy, online billing fo...

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... they are being monitored, the right of privacy is presumptively eroded. Employee productivity is crucial for ensuring that businesses are running at full capacity. According to the "Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management" Organizations should have the right to monitor their employees to protect the company and the fellow employees while still maintaining productivity. Personal ... internet, in particular, has revolutionized the information of the nation's businesses and governments by linking a vast number of business and organizations to each other. Not monitoring the online ac...

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... , B2B E-Commerce will grow at a rate three times that of Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce and thus has the greatest potential for growth. Business-to-Consumer: businesses provide consumers with online shopping through Internet, allowing consumers to shop and pay their bills online. This type of offering saves time for both retailers and consumers. Consumer-to-Consumer: consumers can post their own products ... online through some agent websites for other consumers to bid. Government-to-Citizen: among various kinds of services provided by governments, many of them can be done through elect...

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... of more than 377 million dollars. Monetary losses are due to the theft of proprietary information and corporate secrets, as well as online financial fraud. (Sindell, pg. 13) Computer security is a big issue in today's world because almost everyone shops online for one thing or another. Throughout this paper I hope to inform you of the many different parts of an organization that ... it requires individuals to feel little or no apprehension to give up their personal information. In order for consumers to feel safe conducting business online companies have to step up and take the necessar...

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... of identifying and apprehending actual users led to calls for legislation to specifically deal with child pornography on the Internet" (Bol 2). The government has recently passed the Child Online Protection Act. This act mandates the use of blocking technology on public libraries, however no existing technology effectively protects children against the harmful material on the Internet. Just like ... children's eyes. Where there is pornography there is an open doorway for pedophiles. These pedophiles disguise themselves so they can talk to children. "Pedophiles have easy access to childr...

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... make it easier for us to realize it. People who produce intellectual property and the ones that benefit from it are currently discussing the implications this can have on the online music in the future. There are several main sides to the problem. There are huge corporations that deal with copyright infringement and push litigation. Overall recording industry principles say that ... , they encourage legislation and copywriting to protect their own profits. They are trying to ban websites that carry free online music files that are under copyright protection. In addition, the record indus...

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... because it's the most interactive form and is the most engaging and text based messaging has been the foundation on which modern forms of online communication have been built. The impact of computer mediated communication has long been a topic of discussion among many researchers. It has had its ... close friends. Similarly in another study, Nie and Erbring conducted a survey of 4113 Internet users and found that the more time individuals spend online, the less time they spend with family members in face to face or telephone communication (Knapp and Daly 543). Both of these findings have ...

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... gadgets doing for the educational system? The aforementioned thought is a question that will be looked at throughout this article and hopefully shed some light on the future of education. An online survey conducted by AT&T reports that 68% of parents, 69% of students, and 69% of teachers said that they have personally seen students" grades improve through use of the Internet ... CMC lie largely in technical vocabulary comprehension. If 70% of a group of students does not know what the term "hypertext" means, they have a lesser chance of involving themselves in an online course. Accordin...

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... the course of the day a business computer could be used to send personal e-mail messages to friends and family, purchase goods from an Internet vendor, look for alternate employment, play online games, as well as a myriad of other non-business related uses. Businesses have legitimate concerns about this use. The first and most obvious one is loss of productivity. An ... employee constantly surfing the web, sending e-mails, or chatting with others online may be just about as productive as an employee spending the whole day watching television. Companies are also concerned about the possib...

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... advanced computers systems and the world wide web are used in conjunction to record your school enrollment status and give your course requirements. You can also purchase your school textbooks online at Specialty Books via the web and have them delivered to you within a day or two. A computer system is computer hardware as a system of input, processing, ... extensively different content than an intranet for engineers. Whatever the scope -- organization-wide, departmental, or workgroup -- intranet services promise to grow institutional knowledge and increase employee effectiveness. Online ...

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In December of 2000 Dell launched the Dell Exchange, an online service that helps consumers in the U.S. donate, trade-in, or sell old PCs and related products. Dell Exchange provides consumers with the option of donating used computer systems to the ... the importance of recycling and computer end-of-life options." (www.dell.com). Since the tour's launch in March of 2002, Dell's monthly computer donations to the NCF have doubled. Online donations to the NCF have also dramatically increased since March with 1,888 donations made from March to June. In addition there have been more than 332,000...

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... hold about 150,000 pages of content relating to Dell products and services. Fifty percent of Dell's sales are online orders, allowing Dell to reduce the costs of order management and consumer care and reducing the quantity of errors and returns. Online orders are validated real time to remove incorrect configurations and save order management time. Dell also estimates that it saves ... $8 on average every time a customer uses its online order status ("Dell," 2003). The Premier website, Dell.com, is unique to each of Dell's corporate and public sector customers. The core to Dell's E-busi...

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... changes every day and new definitions and understanding would appear. For example, information obtained from the PACE library in the above category would most likely be out-dated, while through online database give more up-to-date materials but depends highly on how many and what kind of articles are archived. For obtaining information from the Internet will be the most ... widest variety, but the correctness of information are uncertain since basically everyone could put up information of any kind. One other difference between all three methods is cost. Subscribing to online database c...

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... fraud, and creating and releasing a damaging computer program. Harassing and stalking can also occur outside of the computer world, but is starting to grow. A stalker can repeated harass their victim online by sending vicious emails or even sending a damaging virus over the internet. The good thing about an internet stalker is that you can always change your email address. Alternating of ... also a crime that happens outside of the computer-related world. Unfortunately, it is happening inside the computer world. With the use of the internet, users can order and buy products online. Most...

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