... and Technology in USA (Lemos, R., Feb 2003). 4 Linux OS has lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with cost only 35% of Microsoft Windows over 5 years (www.netproject.com) Linux's tremendous free redistribution with its massive distribution channels is proven effective, shown in Appendix G Inferior or no software technical support due to "free" characteristic, compare to competitive support structure ... Linux and commercial market addressed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Further segmentation also is done to ensure deliverables can meet different corporate markets, divided into the followi...

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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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... then be forwarded to a supervisor for review. Changes in the delivery of books, music and television were extending these technologies of surveillance beyond the office (www.britannica.com) In 2000 Amazon.com created controversy when they changed their privacy policy without warning. They announced that customers were no longer allowed to obstruct the distribution of personal data. Globally Unique Identifiers, ... and PowerPoint 97, which implanted distinct identifiers into every document. Americans increasingly seem to agree that Congress should save them from the worst excesses of onlin...

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... be forwarded to a supervisor for review. ?Changes in the delivery of books, music and television were extending these technologies of surveillance beyond the office?? (www.britannica.com) In 2000 Amazon.com created controversy when they changed their privacy policy without warning. They announced that customers were no longer allowed to obstruct the distribution of personal data. Globally Unique Identifiers, ... 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 ...

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... a metaphor used in business to business eCommerce for providing customers with an online method of placing an order, Submitting a purchase order, or requesting a quote. (Internet, www.readygo.com) Basically put, eCommerce is the online selling component of a web site. An example of eCommerce actions would be when an individual or business reviews information on products or services on ... address and credit card number. These are the fundamental processes of online shopping and online purchasing. These processes are the actions that are referred to as eCommerce. (Internet, www.readygo.c...

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... HR professionals: job boards, professional or career sites, and employer sites. Job boards are the most common and well known. Popular job boards like www.monster.com, www.jobs.com, www.hotjobs.com, and www.careerbuilder.com make it easy for job seekers to search available positions and easy for recruiters to advertise those positions. Although job boards are free to job seekers companies ... must pay a fee to utilize these services. Bill Warren, former CEO of www.monster.com, developed an alternative to traditional job boards when he created www.directemployers.com. This site is a 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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... , http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/practices1.html mirror: http://www.geocities.com/lavlesh/practices1.html Ritual of Seppuku, http://www.aikidofaq.com/essays/seppuku.html Seppuku Ritual Suicide, http://victorian.fortunecity.com/duchamp/410/seppuku.html CBS News, Suicide For Honor and Country, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/07/21/sunday/main217634.shtml Sarraj, Eyad, Why We Have Become Suicide ... ...

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... of a search engine list, drawing higher traffic to that site - even if the site has nothing to do with the search request (Wordspy.com). In 'Shaping the Web' Introna and Nissenbaum (2000) stated that search engines "systematically exclude certain sites and certain types of sites, ... the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's "natural" or un-paid ("organic") search results (Wikipedia.com). SEO may target different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, video search, academic search (Beel et al. 176-190), n...

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... the economy of brick-and-mortar retailers. In addition, there will be a surge of emerging businesses (due to the decreased barrier to entry) and new technology. Companies like EMusic.com, Listen.com, and Liquid Audio have seized this opportunity to offer such services as providing software that would make downloading easy and piracy difficult. Other companies like Sony have invested their time ... , digital downloading is a better way to deliver music than CD. However, examples and data provided within the case study have illustrated the downfall of digital music providers such as EMusic...

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... frequencies to transmit data to computers throughout workspaces. WLAN eliminates the need for miles of cable and plug-ins. This allows workers to stay connected longer, increasing productivity (www.cisco.com). This new technology comes with a price, security. Because radio waves are boundless, traveling through walls and doors, anyone with a receiver can intercept them. Cisco is continuing ... executives say driving e-business deeper into the company is central to its recovery. The company saved $1.5 billion last year through increased operational efficiency and cost avoidance (www.cisc...

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... develops automated anti-piracy technologies for the Internet. As with the RIAA, the IFPI also engages in litigation against violations. The consumer-sponsored mp3.com is a good example of an organization solely responsible for acquiring consumer appreciation. Mp3.com has fought a few court battles in the past and has come to terms with the relentless pursuits of the recording industry. They have ... tried to rationalize with the industry groups only to be cast into the spotlight. More recently, the mp3.com organization has agreed to offer digital music services to up-and-coming labels a...

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... can be distributed to every part of the globe accessible via a PC and modem. There are many web sites devoted to tourism such as the British Tourist Authority's www.visitbritain.com site. The number of Internet users shopping online for travel and leisure services doubled in 1999 to 27 million. Travel has beaten computer software to the number one spot as ... the same holiday, they may have completely different reasons for going there, depending on their situation before the holiday, and therefore achieve different gratification. The Visit Britain Website - www.visitbritain.com (Fig4) T...

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... is unfit for minors." The library discontinued the complete filtering system and now has unfiltered internet and parents of minors may choose filtering options for their children (www.yakima-herald .com). Closer to home, in Washington the Yakima County Public Library came under scrutiny from the city for its internet policy that made the parents responsible for monitoring their children's use ... not they wanted their child to have filtered or unfiltered access to the internet and the child would then be led to either a filtered or unfiltered terminal.(www.yakima-herald.com) Blanket fil...

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... engine. ECommerce and Trademarks Today's hot topic in e-commerce law is whether a domain name constitutes a valid and recognisable trademark. Domain names have become powerful tools in a company's success. Yahoo.com and Amazon.com is classic examples of how small start up companies can successfully compete with multi-million dollar corporations over the WWW. A domain name gives a company an identity and a symbol for ... UK there was a case where a trademark owner was successful against ill-motivated "cyber-squatters". "Cyber-squatting" is where a person registers the domain name of a we...

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... transport voice over their Frame Relay devices, while equipment vendors worked overtime to make the promise of quality voice over Frame Relay (VoFR) a reality. According to the http://www.protocols.com/voip.htm site, as the public Internet exploded in the mid-1990s and users began implementing IP-based networks, thus the need and desire for Voice Over IP networks grew ... . The key IP QoS protocol was RSVP, which allowed the sender to request a certain set of traffic-handling characteristics for traffic flow, but was not widely adopted. (http://www.protocols.com/voip.htm) The next proces...

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... worldwide conversation. The government may not . . . interrupt that conversation. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the internet deserves the highest 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 ... of the on-line medium and establishes the fundamental principles that will guide judicial consideration of the Internet for the 21st Century. Here are some interesting facts from...

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... ) The companies entering into BtoB (business-to-business) or BtoC (business-to-consumer) online commerce receive an instant access to communicate with its customers directly. "Pete Blackshaw, CEO of Planetfeedback.com says that the Internet is one of the world's most powerful focus group." (Promo staff, Research: Reaching Beyond Scanners) He also points out that "marketers will end up spending far ... telecommunications equipment." (Promo, The Modem or the Mailbox?) Up to now, the company generates good sales through traditional direct marketing. Today, the catalogue is also available on...

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... Supply is a company that for the past 70+ years has built its business through its "brick and mortar" sites. In 1995, Grainger moved into the digital world and established grainger.com. In 1996 Grainger began taking orders online and fully immersed itself in e-commerce. Still, it was not until 1998 that the company recognized the need for different marketing strategies for ... . This marketing approach has served the branch-based business well and the company continues to be successful on this front. In June of 1995, Grainger launched its web site, grainger.com offering little more than ...

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... Newspaper Association of America Study found 19% of all recent homebuyers used the Internet as their main source of information. (Carlson, "Nibbling on Newspapers") Job seeker sites such as, Monster.com have taken the biggest chunk out of newspaper-classified revenue and hence waged an unexpected battle with the publishers of newspapers around the world for the almighty advertising dollar. The ... New York Times Company, Times Mirror and the Times Tribune Company have joined together to form Careerpath.com to bring the battle to the home of online foes. (Carlson, "nibbling") The newspap...

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... feel that the Google website invades their privacy to an extreme extent. The users have discovered that if you type your phone number, including your area code, into the Google.com search engine, very personal, reserved information is given out. After approximately 3-5 seconds, the results show on to your screen as you sit there rather surprised. Because you have typed in ... it to their advantage. In my opinion, not only is internet privacy important, privacy in general is significant. Invading ones privacy by getting road maps to their homes from Google.com and the findings of the "Co...

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... exists even after the combined efforts of both franchised dealers represented by NADA and manufacturers to limit them only to lead generators and direct sellers. Internet companies such as CarOrder.com who haven taken the route of buying local dealers and have them serve as distribution centers where their new and used car inventory would be kept. This was a way around ... the laws banning new car sales by non-franchise dealers, because the newly bought dealers were franchised dealers controlled by CarOrder.com. Bargaining Powers of Suppliers and Buyers As stated earlier in the Potentia...

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... customers to respond and communicate openly with the company. It has been proven that a large number of people prefer to communicate using email because of these positives (http://www.justbetterwebsites.com). Furthermore, email is reliable, the information is not likely to be lost in postage or discarded by indifferent postal workers. Advertising using emails is an extremely successful form of marketing ... , it is said to be more successful than radio or TV advertising in some cases (http://www.bulk-email-supermarket.com). Using opt-in mailing lists is a great benefit for the company, f...

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... websites that share political information. Such as government websites, social media websites, and a lot more. In September of 2008 two students from University of Massachusetts created a website called Localocracy (Locolocracy.com). Localocracy is a website that brings together citizens, government officials, and journalists to learn and exchange ideas for better government. On Localocracy citizens are able to say the issues that matter ... ...

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... websites to whether or not they are addictive to Generation Y are currently scarce; therefore a clear process had to be designed. A descriptive survey was created and distributed through a website called SurveyMonkey.com, a company that provides people web-based survey solutions and the ability to create, analyze, and collect data from individuals. The survey consisted of six close-ended items where participants were ... ...

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