... that a reputable, recognizable organization is willing to attest to that (Martinez). Certified individuals also earn more than their non-certified counterparts, according to several studies. A 1998 survey by Lotus Development Corporation showed that 64% of Certified Lotus Professionals saw an average 30% salary increase within six months of their certification. A more recent Microsoft Corp. study, Financial ... Benefits to Supporters of Microsoft Certification, reported that companies pay 12% more to certified workers. In each of those studies, as well as another by Novell Corp., employ...

• Word Count: 2510
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... complete integration, the company perceives itself through the eyes of its customers. Customers actually become a part of the organization. Their preferences dictate production and marketing operations. By internalizing the perceptions of their customers, businesses validate what communications experts have always known: becoming other-oriented is the key to successful relationships Communication is a two-way ... eyes of their customers, businesses can improve all aspects of the communication mix they experience. Tom Duncan identified four sources of brand messages. 1. Planned Messages....

• Word Count: 2624
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

... TIME Time magazine is a well read and respected form of media. It is known to be a trusted source of information and generally regarded highly by those of intelligence. Those they present, both businesses and individuals, they are said to considered to represent in an ethical manner to the best of ... the Time company. Fortunately, back then the Internet market was not nearly the size it is today which means fewer readers truly felt impacted by this story. On the other hand this article could have been responsible for forming many first impressions regarding the Internet and who exactly...

• Word Count: 3511
• Approx Pages: 14

... Hence the emergence of a cyber-community, which in effect appears to live in the 'online' space of the Internet unlike that of the physical space presented by reality (Allan 2000. Sv "Cybersocieties"). As Beniger notes: "Cyberspace does not merely consist of material objects (such as the computer, modem or telephone line) but also has two major non-material components: relationships ... (McCarthy 2003. Sv "Basic questions"). The emphasis of Artificial Intelligence concerns itself with mapping 'intelligence', in a computed environment in terms of studying the problems the world presents. ...

• Word Count: 3117
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... contract formation practices and requirements; consumer protection including privacy and local language requirements; and protection of databases and other information on web sites. International Legal Rules The internet, by its very nature, is borderless. This is a big plus for communications and for disseminating knowledge around the world, but it poses considerable difficulties for businesses trying to ... 3D games with proprietary graphic engines who have broadcast their work online during the construction phases of a game. In satisfying the online gaming community's demands for cons...

• Word Count: 2877
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... category includes attacks whereby an intruder gains access to some area or set of resources that are intended to be off-limits. Classic examples are a web site being vandalized or confidential data from a mainframe being stolen by illegal access. The hackers is using a well-based knowledge of the system he is using and possess the necessary programs to achieve ... Architecture includes the following components: Network Segmentation Firewalls Classification Authentication Encryption Intrusion Detection Host-based Security 3.1: Network Segmentation The deployment of at least one Demilitar...

• Word Count: 2550
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the international legal community. The lawful aspects of the internet and the dynamics through time from a historical perspective will be reviewed. Finally, the ramifications of an internationally regulated internet by exploring the challenges, pros and cons and future intent of the international governmental organizations and the control for cyberspace. History of the Internet The internet like many other dynamics of ... had the responsibility of managing many of their own infrastructure concerns. As the international community has grown closer, a need for standardization in many thing...

• Word Count: 6425
• Approx Pages: 26
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... recruitment (Hardy, 1993). The creation of CSNET was evidence that the use of networks had become more focused on interpersonal communication between individuals rather than the intended collaboration between scholars. "By the second year of operation, however, an odd fact became clear. ARPANET's users had warped the computer-sharing network into a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized electronic post office. The ... main traffic on the ARPANET was not long-distance computing. Instead, it was news and personal messages. Researchers were using ARPANET to collaborate on projects, to...

• Word Count: 4375
• Approx Pages: 18
• Has Bibliography

... the path of the White House without some emotion of envy or awe. This building epitomizes world leadership and unprecedented power. This renowned leadership may be the only association made by certain countries, while in the United States many see an other significance: Watergate, Whitewater, Kennedy's brutal and mysterious assassination, and today, Clinton's "zippergate" scandal. When the President of ... JFK has been linked," University of Virginia government professor Larry Sabato writes in his book "Feeding Frenzy," "not to mention a healthy dose of anonymous airline stewardesses, se...

• Word Count: 4649
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

... a phenomenon of capital mobility. Its two prongs are: (i) Foreign direct investment and (ii) international portfolio flows. Thus, a global economy is one which is dominated by transnational firms and financial institutions, operating independently of national boundaries and domestic economic considerations. The implication of deterritorialisation for African countries is that world goods, factors of production and ... for example it considers neither the country culture, nor the management skill aspect of corporate strategy (lynch 2000 pg131) In the economic sense, the model assumes a cl...

• Word Count: 17126
• Approx Pages: 69
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... initial stages of each new mass communications medium (3). Different studies have focused on the uses and gratifications perspective to determine the motives for using the Internet and the needs met by using it. Flaherty, Pearce, and Rubin have investigated the use of the Internet as a functional alternative to face-to-face communication (250). Their study examined the relationships ... , and creatively appropriate the Internet in order to integrate it into the relevance structures and activities of their everyday lives (67). They have identified "use genres- that were invented by users ...

• Word Count: 3136
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in developer communities but also for corporate markets 4. Encourage free redistribution of derived works, for instance KDE and GNOME, both are X Windows desktop for Linux. 5. Embraced mostly by globally distributed developer communities, collaborating primarily through internet voluntarily. There are estimated around 750,000 developers working on Linux-related projects (referred Appendix C for some Linux vendors). Same as ... different from those traditional software development methods, referred as Cathedral Model. Linux development has implicitly divided into two majors, there are kern...

• Word Count: 5602
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the United States alone Average cost per hire via the web was $183 vs. $1383 for traditional methods Spending for online recruiting is expected to increase by 52% and print ad spending to decrease 31% by 2004 74% of people with internet access 18 years of age and older have used the internet to search for a job in the past 12 months ... ,2002) the Internet allows for a greater reach or sampling of the general public. The Internet also allows localized, global and tailored searches to look for specific types of potential employees by the posting of jobs to certain web sites and corporate ...

• Word Count: 2679
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... television impact youth minds and behaviors? 5. Is it to late for change The paper will refer to different satistics and facts that were gathered by professors and researchers to discuss the five questions. Where Did Violence Come From In the 1950's the development of the television was huge . ... have their own television. There is an average of 2.3 televisions in American Television Violence 4 households( Murphy & Tucker 1996, pg . 15 ). By the time your child reaches the end of grade six, he/she will witnesses 100,000 acts of violence from television, and who knows how much ... conseq...

• Word Count: 2853
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... web pages that are only for adults. It may not seem like it but it is completely possible to build a personal profile on someone just by tracking him or her in cyberspace. Every action a person does while logged onto the Internet is recorded somewhere (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 3). ... some but not all of the two dozen holes in the program. Many people do not realize that they often give information to websites by doing something called direct disclosure. Direct disclosure is just that, the user gives the website information such as their e-mail address, home address ... , phone number, a...

• Word Count: 3264
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... web pages that are only for adults. It may not seem like it but it is completely possible to build a personal profile on someone just by tracking him or her in cyberspace. Every action a person does while logged onto the Internet is recorded somewhere (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 3). ... some but not all of the two dozen holes in the program. Many people do not realize that they often give information to websites by doing something called direct disclosure. Direct disclosure is just that, the user gives the website information such as their e-mail address, home address ... , phone number, a...

• Word Count: 3424
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... short-term one. With technologies like dedicated-bandwidth VDSL, DSL threatens to erase cable's speed advantages even before overcrowding occurs. The acronym "WWW" known by all to represent the World Wide Web has lately been thought of as the World Wide Wait. Fortunately, for most the wait has ended. In ... from Westell Adapted to the line, 640 Kbps to 2.2 Mbps downstream; 272 Kbps to 1.088 Mbps upstream Not provided Similar to ADSL UDSL Unidirectional DSL proposed by a company in Europe Not known Not known Similar to HDSL VDSL Very high Digital Subscriber Line 12.9 to 52.8 Mbps downstre...

• Word Count: 2987
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

... and WANs, EDI, and now the Internet and eCommerce . B2B eCommerce does not change the majority of business models developed for intra-business 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 ... potentially lower inventory holding costs based on augmented demand predictability • Companies can reach more and more potential customers because the customer's ability to purchase is not bounded by geographical par...

• Word Count: 2785
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Charles Xavier invented the Arithmometer. Mostly banks, insurance companies and other businesses used the Arithmometer. Before it they had to have mathematicians do the calculations by using tables and they were not always accurate. The tables were used to map out square roots, cube roots, interest rates, hyperbolic, exponential functions ... . The size of ENIAC's numerical "word" was 10 decimal digits, it could multiply two of these numbers at a rate of 300 per second, by finding the value of each product from a multiplication table stored in its memory. ENIAC was about 1,000 times faste...

• Word Count: 2656
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... ten times faster than they do for tape, disk is quickly winning favor as the preferred medium for backing up primary storage. This increase in speed has been made possible by servers that are saving data to Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) arrays that have an "average seek time of 8.5 milliseconds and 100 megabytes per second data transfer rate" (Connor). ATA ... be as doubly fast. A disaster recovery plan to restore lost or corrupted data is the most important strategy that a company can put into effect. According to a recent national survey conducted by Imation Corp, "about thirty ...

• Word Count: 2947
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the domain as a whole. The problem arises when there is network congestion - too many users retrieving information at once. ISPs can contribute to this problem by signing on vast amounts of users, when they are unable to accommodate them. There is a protocol called TCP/IP that handles the order and formation of ... UK, BT Internet experienced problems in 2000 where they had more users than they could provide access to. However, they've turned it around in 2001 by offering customers BT Anytime (un-metered access). The service isn't aimed at online gamers, and is very stable with a good b...

• Word Count: 2876
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... of which have made it where it is today (http://www.ups.com). These principles have guided UPS to where they are today, are summarized by Jim's slogan: "Best Service and Lowest Rates." There are many services that are offered that are all geared toward our customers. Examples include taking ... will manage the production and movement of your business communications mail, saving you time spent in transit, and reducing overall postage and mailing operations costs by up to 25 percent. (UPS Website) We offer services for small businesses that let us take care of their shipping needs so there...

• Word Count: 3388
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

... 1907 off-campus courses became available through the University of Alberta (Srivastana, 2002, ¶ 1), and in 1916 the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art offered five coal mining courses by correspondence (SAIT - Centre for learning, 2002, ¶ 1). It is quite evident that early Canadian educators identified the need of undereducated citizens and realized that the barrier of distance ... Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (Selman and Dampier, 47). In short, this movement devoted effort to improving the oppressed conditions of fisherman, farmers and industrial worke...

• Word Count: 2810
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... 1a) Dial-Up 2 1b) Cable Modem 3 2) Switching 4 3) Routers 6 4) WAN Standards 7 Data Communications Assessment 2 Wide Area Networks & Standards 1a) Dial-Up A wide area network connects LANs that are typically separated by great distances. The best-known example of a WAN is the Internet itself. A smaller-scale example is a network that connects a company's corporate headquarters with branch offices in other cities. What the ... traffic. Cell switching also supports different classes of traffic: loss-sensitive, delay-sensitive, delay-variance sensitive, and various combinations of these. A...

• Word Count: 2573
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... seasons, wholesalers, specials, and direct mail. In traditional travel marketing, we need to make sure that we promote seasonal rates. We do this by advertising our spring rates, summer rates, winter as well as some special packages we might offer. For example, we offered a Valentines weekend package ... Express Reservations, Quikbook and Expedia. Global marketing is also important in the travel industry. HIS will have our site translated into languages spoken by potential visitors. They actually recommend having your site translated because with the introduction of the Internet, you rea...

• Word Count: 3281
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School