... 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 ... to complete a full backup or restoration of a ten terabyte file system in twenty-four hours, the backup application must be able to stream data at a rate of approximately 113 megabytes/second for twenty-four hours, to or from local tape drives. With current tape technol...

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... research institutes across the country. In 1966-1967 they got a grant from ARPA to begin work on linking computers across the continent. In July 1968, the IPTO released a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a communication system to connect together a few geographically dispersed computers over a shared network (Hauben, 1995). This network was to become ARPANET, the forerunn The concept was made available and ... expanded. By April 1971, there were 15 nodes and 23 hosts in the network. They were the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), SRI, University of Cal State Berkeley (UCSB), U...

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... Internet growth seems to stem from UniNet, the Internet service offered to the countries major tertiary institutions and steered from Rhod es University. This explains the phenomenon whereby the majority of local Internet entrepreneurs - many of them are under thirty and already multi- ... who speci alise in producing multimedia web pages (such as Adept Internet), Internet commerce, cable companies and modem suppliers (Perlman, 1996). 2.3) Technological Implications for Marketing Joseph (1996, p. 29) concisely described the situation as such: ' Marketing, like most business disciplines, i...

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... into a cooperative network of time-sharing computers. Delegates at a symposium for the Association for Computer Machinery in Gatlingbert, Tennessee discussed the first plans for the ARPANET in 1967. Researchers at four United States campuses created the first hosts of the ARPANET in 1969 connecting Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. Between 1970 and 1973, the ARPANET was a success ... even though it was designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers. Email quickly became the most popular application. ... .) .org Other orga...

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... the Internet provides employers with the ability to filter and prescreen applicants beyond any other method because the Internet provides employers with tools such as automated search agents and online application. There are also widespread databases controlling and organizing these functions. This permits employers to focus on the scope of their company's goals or pursue other activities of the ... your pool of prospective employees and promote your company. Moreover, your company can create a highly personalized and responsive web-recruiting domain that delivers results for the applica...

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... to describe its pioneers, defining their motivation to explore in detail how computer systems and networks function. In the early sixties, small groups of Stanford and MIT's programmers started to call themselves hackers. Interested only in analyzing systems and writing programming code, they never got involved in any ... internet represents a change in history as great as the industrial revolution" and from this philosophy he came about with the creation of a Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace, fearing from the government and lawmakers that want to take over it. In a few words h...

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... to describe its pioneers, defining their motivation to explore in detail how computer systems and networks function. In the early sixties, small groups of Stanford and MIT's programmers started to call themselves hackers. Interested only in analyzing systems and writing programming code, they never got involved in any ... internet represents a change in history as great as the industrial revolution" and from this philosophy he came about with the creation of a Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace, fearing from the government and lawmakers that want to take over it. In a few words h...

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... retrieves information form remote sites using standard Web protocols. 5. Freely Available Filtering Systems SIFT The Stanford Information Filtering Tool includes two selective dissemination services, one for computer science technical reports and one for USENET news articles. The source code is also available. Firefly A collaborative filtering service for music and movies. InfoScan A program, which filters email and USENET News and includes document ... collaborative electronic mail filtering system. Procmail A unix package designed to automatically filter electronic mail. Maildrop A uni...

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... may arise as the development progresses. Increased cost may also be a result of specifications being made by the client after the initial cost estimate was made. A case study from Durham University Business School shows that the process of deciding what software to use, designing the database and testing it thoroughly took an additional two months with running costs of £3,000 ... would be required to apply the approach and a large volume of documentation is produced. The process is also expensive and takes a long time to progress along the life cycle. Rapid Application Development (RAD) ...

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... retrieves information form remote sites using standard Web protocols. 5. Freely Available Filtering Systems SIFT The Stanford Information Filtering Tool includes two selective dissemination services, one for computer science technical reports and one for USENET news articles. The source code is also available. Firefly A collaborative filtering service for music and movies. InfoScan A program, which filters email and USENET News and includes document ... collaborative electronic mail filtering system. Procmail A unix package designed to automatically filter electronic mail. Maildrop A uni...

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... suicide bombings, wherein the terrorist will die in carrying out his mission. Finally, cyber-terrorism has the capacity has to affect a larger number of targets than the traditional terrorism. For example, it was estimated that the I LOVE YOU virus affected more than twenty million Internet users and cost billions of dollars in damage. Cyber-terrorism countermeasures: Pertaining to Large ... be improved and updated as soon as its availability, use security patches when necessary, and report any suspicious activity or system intrusions to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. Some ...

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... intelligent router located between the gate and the external network. Three common gateways used are application gateways, circular gateways, and proxy servers. Despite the solid protection they offer, gateways can be difficult for network managers to configure and since they need to pipe all inbound and outbound network ... and back again. Encryption keys are numbers or strings of secret data that are used to tailor a public algorithm to a particular secret use or application. As a general rule, the longer, less predictable, fewer copies, and fewer uses of a key variable, the more secur...

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... you can enter a channel (Chat room) or chat privately. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) File Transfer Protocol is the easiest way for exchanging Internet files among computers. FTP uses an application protocol ( a special set of rules) to download programs and Web pages from other servers to your computer. FTP is generally part ... physics institutes through the CERN library. CERN did not have enough resources to further develop this system so they asked for help via the Internet. In 1993, at the University of Illinois, software was developed that made the Web easier to use and availed itself...

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... taking them away. Soon after the invention of the Arithmometer, Charles Babbage designed an automatic mechanical calculating machine called the difference engine. The difference engine was a great advance for technology. It was steam powered and fully automatic. It not only created tables but it printed them out. A fixed instruction program commanded the difference engine. This invention saved ... to immaturely launch Vanguard TV-3, it exploded on the launch pad. Immediately after Vanguard TV-3 failed the United States Defense Department approved funding for another U.S. satellite projec...

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... (Pini Jason and Jato Thompson 1995.) These are among the ways banks can fully integrate themselves into the globalizing economy. The necessary skills required for this can be developed through training and practical application to the job. Already banks in Nigeria both local and foreign banks now compete on how long it takes to attend to a customer at ... Yip's globalisation driver (Global competitive moves) in the internet era 3.1 PORTER'S FIVE FORCES A model of industry analysis and the competition According to Michael Porter of Harvard University developed a useful framework for diag...

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... Figures show that e-business is growing very rapidly, Deitel et al (2001) refers to a study by the Centre for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas in which an explosive growth from $322 billion in 1998 to $524 billion in 1999, a 68 ... . The system security administrator decides between these two according to the needs for functionality. There are two main types of firewalls, the packet-filtering firewalls and the application-level gateways. The packet-filtering type examines the originating address of incoming packets ... the data inside each packet is not analyzed ...

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... recognizes that beginning with educating, which 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 convention January 2000. Leadership from Information ... technologies. Eighty-four percent reported their work is interrupted by messages at least three times an hour. Researchers at Carleton University and the University of Western...

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... managed in such a manner. (7) With the ever-changing workforce, it is imperative that companies open themselves up to reorganization that previously had not existed. Such modifications include the continued application of ethical and moral decision-making processes. These changes are not only representative of on-going change they are also indicative of a more compassionate view towards all components of the ... of drinking, and he was able to get it quickly because he was rich and famous. According to Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvan...

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... managed in such a manner. (7) With the ever-changing workforce, it is imperative that companies open themselves up to reorganization that previously had not existed. Such modifications include the continued application of ethical and moral decision-making processes. These changes are not only representative of on-going change they are also indicative of a more compassionate view towards all components of the ... of drinking, and he was able to get it quickly because he was rich and famous. According to Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvan...

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... Intellectual Property rights in1980s prompted many developers into looking for alternatives. In 1985, Richard Stallment founded Free Software Foundation (FSF) as an advocacy group for OSS, devoting its attention to "free" software initiatives called GNU projects, as opposed to closed source software. Then in 1991, Linus Torvalds from Helsinki University started the most popular OSS software today known as ... refer to Appendix G. Although profitability of Linux-based companies still largely remain in question, except for Red Hat and a few more, but most corporate companies is betting more...

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... that is not the only advantage Enschede has on other cities. It is also far ahead in ICT and technology due to the presence of institutions such as the Technical University, the Telematica Institute, TNO and Ndix. These are all companies that focus on the mobile telephony. To facilitate all these institutions, the city needs a very fast ICT infrastructure and their ... own Internet exchange. They also already have glass fibre connections to 10,000 work places and homes for the Technical University. This fibre connection gives the people using this network very fast Internet and at the m...

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... - These services will have the ability to pass through the firewall and should therefore be restricted to the smallest set required for the implementation of the particular application or function. This restriction should be applied separately for each of the networks that the firewall interconnects. Restricted Communications Flow - The direction of communications should be restricted and controlled ... , integrity, availability, as well as criticality to the organization. Therefore, it should be a standard procedure for organizations to document policies and procedures in order to ident...

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... this in the e-commerce environment would be the ability to chat with a live representative while shopping online. There is much potential for an application such as this, however poor implementation of this idea has kept it from reaching its full capabilities. Most sites that attempted to offer this as a new "value added- service did ... ahead it seems that one of the most important aspects of a successful multi-user application will be the technology available. However even more important is whether the technology required for the application is readily available and ideally standard ...

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... physicians at the same time. Transporting them across a network to these physicians requires a great deal of bandwidth. A network must support high-speed, yet reliable, data transmission to support this application. 3) Routers Routers are pieces of hardware that automatically choose the most efficient route for transmitting information. It analyses network outages, capacity and data paths in order to identify the most efficient path ... levels concerned with things like routing and reliability. The benefit that the layered protocol stack gives you is that if you invent a new network app...

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... receiving the same message, i.e., the game is mass communicating the same messages to the various players. Characteristics Five characteristics of mass communication have been identified by  Cambridge University's  John Thompson: "[Comprises both technical and institutional methods of production and distribution" This is evident throughout the history of the media, from print to the Internet, each suitable ... The sequencing of content in a broadcast is called a  schedule. With all technological endeavours a number of technical terms and slang are developed please see the  list of bro...

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