... is verbal, written, graphic or coded (Parker [1998]). In Digital Business, information is the medium of all transactions, and it is presented in various forms. eg. a customer's private information, e-mail, an Internet web page, description of a particular product, credit card details. Although Information is distributed every second unknowingly in Digital Business, it is both precious and fragile ... is verbal, written, graphic or coded (Parker [1998]). In Digital Business, information is the medium of all transactions, and it is presented in various forms. eg. a customer's private info...

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... of which are usually subject to criminal sanctions everywhere ("Electronic Crime"). Also included in the description or computer crime is the unauthorized invasion or trespass of data base systems of private companies or government agencies. According to Schamalleger (1999) computer crime is also described as any violation of a federal or state computer crime statue. Colorado State statue defines computer ... same criminal act. However, what remains the same in all computer crimes is the dependent use of modems, telephones, and some sort of unauthorized entrance into a government, commerc...

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... of which are usually subject to criminal sanctions everywhere ("Electronic Crime"). Also included in the description or computer crime is the unauthorized invasion or trespass of data base systems of private companies or government agencies. According to Schamalleger (1999) computer crime is also described as any violation of a federal or state computer crime statue. Colorado State statue defines computer ... same criminal act. However, what remains the same in all computer crimes is the dependent use of modems, telephones, and some sort of unauthorized entrance into a government, commerc...

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... result, our industry is facing a national labor shortage of historic proportions and IT companies cannot find enough workers with the requisite skills. This serious growing shortage of skilled information technology workers throughout the United States is severely affecting the competitiveness of the industry and restricting its growth. As the IT industry rapidly increases, both domestically and globally, the ... computer science, engineering and disciplines critical to the continued growth and health of the IT industry. In order to foster a more comprehensive understanding of the dynam...

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... their homepages and have pop-up ads that are not suitable for young children to view. Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. Users who wish to view their ... improve his site for the people that return often (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 2). There is a much more devious way that someone can gain access to information on a user's hard-drive. In the past, the user did not need to be concerned about the browser he used; that changed when Netscape Navigator ... more r...

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... their homepages and have pop-up ads that are not suitable for young children to view. Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. Users who wish to view their ... improve his site for the people that return often (Boyan, Codel, and Parekh 2). There is a much more devious way that someone can gain access to information on a user's hard-drive. In the past, the user did not need to be concerned about the browser he used; that changed when Netscape Navigator ... more r...

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... or in breaking the rule of privacy and property. On the contrary, they followed the hacker ethic, which tells that "the search for information and expertise is vital and sharing this knowledge is the hacker's duty to the community" ("RedHat," par. 4). Steven Levy was one of ... Computer Revolution" Levy recorded the original hacker ethic: q Access to computers should be unlimited and total. q Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative. q All information should be free. q Mistrust authority -- promote decentralization. q Hackers should be judged by their hacking. q You can create art and bea...

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... or in breaking the rule of privacy and property. On the contrary, they followed the hacker ethic, which tells that "the search for information and expertise is vital and sharing this knowledge is the hacker's duty to the community" ("RedHat," par. 4). Steven Levy was one of ... Computer Revolution" Levy recorded the original hacker ethic: q Access to computers should be unlimited and total. q Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative. q All information should be free. q Mistrust authority -- promote decentralization. q Hackers should be judged by their hacking. q You can create art and bea...

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... ambiguous and vague and there's no standard definition for it. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has defined cyber-terrorism as "the premeditated, politically motivated attack against information, computer systems, computer programs, and data which result in violence against noncombatant targets by sub national groups or clandestine agents". Given this definition, we must also understand that ... protection. They are composed of a set of related programs located at a gateway server, which protects the resources of a private network from other networks. The use of e-mail ...

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... of bandwidth devoted to that segment. Switches are smarter than hubs and offer more bandwidth. A switch forwards data packets only to the appropriate port for the intended recipient, based on information in each packet's header. To insulate the transmission from the other ports, the switch establishes and temporary connection between the source and destination then terminates the connection when the conversation ... to help spot unauthorized activity before it becomes a full-fledged security breach. Firewall is something that stands between two entities and controls access between them....

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... possible reasons for a knowledge gap. a. There is a difference in communication skills between those in high and low socioeconomic status - difference in education. b. There is a difference in the amount of stored information or previously acquired background knowledge. c. People of higher socioeconomic status might have more relevant social contact. d. The mechanisms of selective exposure, acceptance, and retention might be operating. e. The nature of ... a new kind of learning community where young people and adult mentors work together on projects, using technology to explore and exp...

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... EDI. Whether execution of EDI was in the area of purchase orders, advanced shipment notification, or automatic invoicing, several immediate advantages could be realized by exchanging documents electronically. Information moving between computers moves more rapidly, and with little or no human interference. Sending an electronic message across the country takes minutes, or less. Mailing the same document will ... turn to third party network services, commonly referred to as "Value Added Networks" or VAN's. The VAN functions as a clearing house for electronic transactions, in effect servin...

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... nematic, color super-twist nematic, and High-Performance Addressing (www.handheldcomputerdepot.com). Technology problems solved by PDAs There are many things PDA's can do. They can manage personal information such as storing contact information, making to-do lists, taking notes, writing memos, doing calculations, planning projects, keeping track of expenses, etc. They can also send or receive emails, do word ... of a meeting room since they may facilitate tasks such as note taking and scheduling. The theft or misplacement of these devices may reveal trade secrets, confidential informatio...

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... utilized to mislead an entity whether it be an individual, organizations, or a government. It is a subtle approach typically used in corporate and country espionage. It makes use of inappropriate information to damage the credibility of the target. Some of the examples include slander, libel, propaganda, espionage, and stock manipulation patterns. The most common semantic attacks are on Uniform Resource ... is still not protected against cyber-attacks and is vulnerable to more sophisticated attacks. The disruption of online and other services along with the theft of critical and confide...

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... technology development. They promote industrial growth, and enhance the social well-being of the people. Normally, companies, especially those with enough resources, accept research contracts from the government and the private-sector to undertake the research of: - Medium and long-term applied research in development of generic, forward-looking, and advanced technologies; - Short-term research to improve processes and to ... is finally achieved, superconducting wires will be at the heart of so many applications. Modern materials, instead of being used for building things, are often used...

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... of the following: income, race, gender, location, or education. The term "digital divide" became common after publication of the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration's "Americans in the Information Age: Falling Through the Net". These reports refer to the digital divide that exists in U.S. households, but the term also applies to education, according to the U.S. ... the disparity between those with access and those without-if not addressed-will "establish an impenetrable barrier not only to quality jobs, but also to educational opportun...

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... to view brain synapses as mechanistic constructs. "Cybernetics," the study of communication and control in biological and mechanical systems, became a well-known word. Claude Shannon pioneered a theory of information, explaining how information was created and how it might be encoded and compressed. Vannevar Bush's wrote an essay predicting that networks around the world could be linked. For 1945 this was huge ... assistance. They could check work error free, check attendance, and clean, everything with out the use of a human being. Artificial intelligence could help the students out dire...

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... formed. In the 1980's the National Science Foundation took over responsibility of the Internet and in the 1990's, it was turned over to the private business sector. Evolution In 1962, Paul Baran conducted a study for the U.S. Air Force on how to maintain militant control over missiles and bombs ... Nuclear Research), Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW (World Wide Web). The idea behind the "Web", was to be able to share scientific information between universities all over the world. In the early 1990's a www system was made available to the energy physics institutes through the CERN ... be...

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... government could not function without computers, and there are many others. Hackers are people who illegally gain access to, and sometimes tamper with, information in a computer system. Due to recent media coverage and corporate interest, hackers activities are now looked down on by society as criminal. ... term hacker can have many meanings. The most visible to the public is the person pirating software, and breaking into corporate networks and destroying information. This is the public misconception of a hacker. Back in the Unix days, a hack was simply a quick and dirty way of doing .....

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... enrolled at Chowan. (Semmones) It offers the following majors: Art, Graphic Design, Studio Art, Biology, Allied Health/Laboratory Technology, Environmental Science, General Biology, Business Administration, Accounting, Computer Information Systems, Marketing, Small Business Management, Communications (minor), Criminal Justice, Drama (minor), Elementary Education (K-6), English, English Education (7-12), Graphic Communications, History, Liberal Studies, Mathematics, Mathematics Education ... Sallie Mae Corporation assists U.S. residents in financing their higher education needs through pri...

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... a year in sales by 2002 (with current figures of) more than 100 million shoppers a week (and as of 1999) it became the first (private-sector) company in the world to have more than one million employees." Why? One reason is that Wal-Mart has continued "to lead the way in ... sophisticated cash registers" and a computer system "dedicated to keeping track of merchandise, sales, and orders. By 1973, the computer system could collect some sales information from terminals at 22 stores. By later standards, the system was crude: the data couldn't be transmitted instantly, but (it) had to be coll...

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... the United Way and the United Negro College Fund use their respective mission statements in their commercials. Computers are also extremely useful for the storing and processing of demographic information concerning target-based marketing. It seems apparent that most nonprofit organizations can benefit greatly from having leadership that truly understands the power of the computer in regard to ... computer programs available on the market today that are capable of reliably analyzing financial statistics and assisting in the creation of sound and viable projections. This type of informat...

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... in on their market. The July 3 1995 article of Time magazine featured a cover story labeled "CYBERPORN". Spanning eight pages the article tries to expose the "red light district" of the information superhighway. It was the publishing of this article in a high- profile magazine that sparked the whole cyberporn debate. When Time published a cover story on Internet pornography a certain amount of ... the computer networks when the story was published soon gave way to a full-blown and highly political conflagration. The main focus of discontent was a new study, "Marketing Pornography on the...

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... through the sharing of values, language, ritual and icons. Cyberculture is used to refer to the concept of a group, or groups of people achieving cohesion by means of 'the information infrastructure' - which currently means the Internet (Clarke 1997. Sv "Encouraging Cyberculture"). Housed in the framework of the computer and linked to thousands of networks worldwide, an estimated 150 million ... Among the first institutions to get a site on the Web were museums and galleries, with scanned images and navigable itineraries. Today, art sites, homepages, galleries and museums - both public a...

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... calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). Since the population of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool for managers in tabulating the totals (Hazewindus,1988). These ... advantage of these improvements appeared in 1947. This group included computers using random access memory, RAM, which is a memory designed to give almost constant access to any particu...

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