... of Standards 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 ... Oracle and Lotus Notes to further convince IT industry on Red Hat ability to deliver high-end capabilities. Some industry-standard benchmarks Red Hat used are TPC (www.tpc.org), SPECjAp...

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... particular company. Each news piece arrives as a separate email message with the subject line clearly defined. A message containing the full text is delivered within minutes. Marimba Marimba (www.marimba.com) is as famous for its implementation of Java, a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, as it is for its own products. Marimba's Castanet offering, designed to ... ). Marimba with both Netscape and Microsoft to use push technology to automatically update software applications without having to go through the lengthy download process. BackWeb BackWeb's (www.backweb.com) te...

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... a massive change. An example of both these changes in effect has been the emergence of online recruitment agencies. 2000 saw companies such as monster.com and jobsonline.com come to the forefront. Also within company websites people can apply for jobs or submit their personal details. Companies such as Vodafone and Virgin have ... countries with different languages it may be best for them to have different parts of their websites with different languages. An example of this is easyjet.com. The Internet gives the Marriott several extra promotional tools in which to advertise their chain ...

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... particular company. Each news piece arrives as a separate email message with the subject line clearly defined. A message containing the full text is delivered within minutes. Marimba Marimba (www.marimba.com) is as famous for its implementation of Java, a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, as it is for its own products. Marimba's Castanet offering, designed to ... ). Marimba with both Netscape and Microsoft to use push technology to automatically update software applications without having to go through the lengthy download process. BackWeb BackWeb's (www.backweb.com) te...

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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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... report, we have gathered valuable information concerning the benefits of online recruiting. Useful references were obtained via the Internet. Several Web sites used are as follows: www.recruitersnetwork.com, www.hrhub.com, and www.shrm.com. The articles from these Web sites discussed how companies can reduce recruiting time and how they can gain global exposure. In addition, it listed major job boards ... and printing costs, it can significantly lower the direct costs-per-hire. Figure 1 Recruitment Costs Per Employee Source: "10 Things You Should Know About Internet Recruiting- http://w...

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... organization of the site is very systematic and easy to browse. The browsability of the site is due to the appropriate and organized system. The last site to review is, www.thenewamerica.com.THE NEW AMERICAN is a bi-weekly magazine, providing in-depth reporting on the issues affecting the nation. Articles are written from a conservative perspective and are an alternative to the ... liberal, mainstream media. (www.thenewamerican.com/website/tour/stop2.htm). The coverage of the site includes the breadth which covers: weekly features, back-dated features from The New American, recent issue...

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... in a communal way. References Considine, J.D. "Reaching Out to the Multitasking Modern Teenager- The New York Times (March 2, 2003) www.nytimes.com Dolfsma, Wilfred. "How Will the Music Industry Weather the Globalization Storm?- First Monday, volume 5, number 5 (May, 2000) www. firstmonday.dk/issues/issue5_5/dolfsma/index.html Gwin, Peter. "Latest From the Digital Music Wars- Europe pp.5 (April 2001) Expanded ... Academic ASAP Jones, Christopher. "Metallica Rips Napster- Wired.com (April 13, 2000) www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35670,00.html Kasaras, Kostas. "Music in the Age of Free...

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... gamers is at gatherings known as Local Area Network meetings (LANs for short). An organization, which holds very large LANs of up to 300 players at one venue, is AusGamers (www.ausgamers.com). These LANs are held nationally and include Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart and various smaller cities around the country. Sponsorship usually entails giving away prizes for the competitions held ... will be expanded as development of the site provides more relevant keywords. Affiliation will be sought with the previously mentioned AusGamers organization to cross-promote the site on t...

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... ,C. "weighed down by a compulsive disorder." Sunday Star. 22 August, 1999, p.11 Internet Internet 1 : http://www.mhsource.com/hy/naf-ocd.html Internet 2 : http://www.fairlite.com/ocd/defs/dsmocd.shtml Internet 3 : http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/library/brochure/ocdbro.htm#brain Internet 4 : http://www.mhsource.com/advocacy/narsad/ocd.html Internet 5 : http://www.sover.net/`schwcof/sandy.html Internet 6 : http://meltalhelp.net/disorders/sx25t.htm Internet 7 : http ... ://www.mhsource.com/hy/naf-ocd.html Internet 8 : http://tuweb.ucis.dal.ca/`drmagoo/treatment/case4.htm Internet 9 : http:/...

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... UPS- United Parcel Service UPS is a 95-year-old company whose history spans from delivery on a bicycle to ordering on the Internet (http://www.ups.com). Jim Casey started the company with only $100 from a friend in 1907. Founder Jim Casey pioneered the idea of putting all packages for a ... and merged with a competitor to create Merchants Parcel Delivery in 1913. In 1918, United Parcel Service was formed and located in California (http://www.ups.com). From just $100.00 in starting capital to 2002 revenues, which totaled to 31.1 billion last year, is a very impressive feat. Today ... con...

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... Downloading Music" and "Napster." The report can be found on our Web site at http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=16.) The first major resolution in the copyright fight came when MP3.com, a firm whose Web site allowed Internet users to access a vast online music library, settled ... Web sites, reports that the use of the Napster song-swap application is the fastest growing application it has ever tracked on the Web. MP3.com now reports hosting over 500,000 music files and, according to our estimates, Napster users have about 1.5 billion music files in circulation. On ... U....

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... all that contributed to its demising state today, but also the effects of a declining advertising economy that AOL so heavily relied on as well as the bursting of the dot-com bubble that was driving the merger. These two economic factors only contributed to making a difficult deal exasperating. If AOL had any chance of making its merger an instant success, it ... Study: Turmoil at AOL Shows Need for More Changes WSJ January 21, 2003 • To Make Time Warner Happy Again, Speed Up AOL WSJ July 24, 2002 • http://www.ebstrategy.com/mobile/case_studies/aol_anywhere.htm • "There Goes The S...

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... choose the destination and education provider. The most trustworthy information usually comes from family member. Parent - Child Interaction From the source of "Journal of Cereal Science-, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn, a survey shows the parent and child interaction when make a decision to buy cereal products. In this survey, child initiates account for 66 percent, ... (23%): - Child Agrees (19%) - Child Denies (2%) - Child Declines (2%) Direct Selection (11%): - Child Agrees (7%) - Child Declines (2%) - Child Suggests other (2%): Source: Journal of Cereal Science http://www.else...

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... P.J. & Nieto, T.R., 2001. E-Business & e-Commerce - How to Program. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. E-Business Strategies. (2001). Top Countries for E-Business Expansion [online]. Advisor.com. Available from: http://advisor.com/articles.nsf/aid/SMITT515 [accessed 31 Dec 2001]. Evason M., 2001, Banking on e-Business, Business Communications Review International, 1 (8), 41 - 46. Fisher A. (2001). Benefiting from ... (2001). Sifting The Stream of Information. In: Financial Times", Understanding CRM, (2001) 22. Hakman, K. (2001). E-Commerce Tutorial [online]. Available from: http://hotwired.lyco...

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... allow them to increase their e-commerce engine significantly. In February of 2000, many major players in the e-commerce game were attacked by computer hackers.   These players included yahoo.com, amazon.com, buy.com and ebay.com.   Online organizations had to learn how to better protect themselves.   Security upgrades were inevitable.   However, the idea now was to make "inevitable- come a lot sooner.   This ... business electronically is much faster than traditional modes. Also, practically any item can be found for sale on the Internet; from books and compact disks (from www.amaz...

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... nearly 60 percent, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.* " The Associated Press, "Child abuse deaths underreported; Study says caregivers commit nearly all the killings,"" APBnews.com, 4 Aug 1999. * King County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Donald Reay observes that "separating a SIDS death from a bona fide smothering death can be difficult if not impossible."" " ... against themselves, and continue to be victimized in their adult relationships. " "What kinds of questions do sexual abuse survivors ask their counsellors?- Health Canada, at http://www.hc-s...

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... they have a loyalty to their reader, listener, viewer etc. Ethics and the media go hand in hand, the roles they play within each other are indispensable. Websites contacted for information: www.spj.org www.tribune.com www.corp.aol.com www. fair.org www.corp.pbs ... ...

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... of the 1968 statute in the USPA. Title III generally prohibits electronic eavesdropping on telephone conversations, face-to-face conversations, or computer and other forms of electronic communications, 18 U.S.C. 2511" (www.fas.org). But it did give authorities a narrowly defined process for electronic surveillance to be used as last resort in serious criminal case, but the law enforcement authorities must show ... holding is the principle that once a technology is in general public use and its capabilities are known, a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment may no lo...

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... 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 future recognition by consumers. The online business community has come to ... the 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 na...

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... schools but also shopping, working, research and even playing games on line. There are many sites designed to protect your children from pornography and predators on line. www.protectkids.com & http://www.enough.org/ offer many great tips and hints on how to keep your child sake on line. They explain how to teach your child to safely use the ... computers worth millions of dollars. But there are also many sites to report this kind of activity. The federal bureau of investigation has a site to report terrorist activity. www.ifccfbi.gov. These kinds of sites help people to let the FBI know ...

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... followed by banking transactions, general browsing and surfing, and paying bills. This is similar to the results presented in the ACMA report, Telecommunications Today Report 6: Internet Activity and Content http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_9058. Figure 10: Online activities undertaken in the last four weeks Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, January 2008 "June 2008, 14+ years ... . Banking and web search sites also featured prominently. Table 1: Top 20 websites based on Australian internet usage Dec-08 Jun-08 1 Google Australia Google Australia 2 mail.live.com Facebook 3 Ninemsn ...

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... online retail market is booming doing much better than high [conventional] street stores"(3). The Internet encourages online consumers to compete amongst one another for desired products. Ebay.com is one of the most prominent websites where consumers bid on low cost products in a simulated auction type environment. Shoppers are able to buy directly from a ... to eradicate problems with privacy, security, and other relevant shopping troubles. Works Cited 1. "Convincing consumers of online shopping's safety." New Age Media. Retrieved 26 Oct 2003 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document...

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... of electronic mail was initial catalyst for Internet growth world wide, it's the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) multimedia interface that has captured the attention of prospective users across the globe. The resources available on the WWW are as varied as they are extensive. There hundreds of thousands of sites which can be broadly categorised under topics ... them are under thirty and already multi-millionaires - come from tertiary education backgrounds where they were weaned on readily available Internet access. Popular 'browser' client software for navigating the multimedia WW...

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... the very late 1930's. These computers were grotesquely slow, colossal in size, created much heat, used hundreds of kilowatts of power, and were about as reliable as a used up match (www.pbs.org). As time went on, these computers evolved from using vacuum tubes to transistors. Transistors mark the beginning of the "Second Generation" of computers in 1947. Unfortunately, the 2nd ... is found suitable as a good summary of 'the technological history and development of computer' and challenging to upcoming scientists and engineers to study the history of their profession. http://www.aca...

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