...During the mid-twentieth century, Canada had undergone a spark in industrialization and use of technology. As the second world war had ended the Great Depression, the industrial economy began to take a significant uprise. P. K. Page’s “T-Bar” allows the speaker to show the social circumstances occurring in Canada of technology, tradition, and industrialization and nature in the mid-twentieth century. Through the entrenchment of technology into society in the mid-twentieth century, Canadians had begun to gain dependence on the technological advancements. As technology had been integrated into the contemporary society, Canadians began to give technology meaning in society and in how people endure their everyday lives. With the constant incorporation...
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...[pic] The Internet Connection War AT&T Internet Services for Consumers, a Strategic Evaluation. MGT 555 - Technology Forecasting and Strategic Planning TEAM AT&T Joe Coppola Steve Delahunty Glen Keune [pic] Abstract AT&T is in an extremely positive position in order to be the major provider of end consumer Internet services in the United States. The company has products that cross all levels of technology to include dialup, broadband, and wireless. The wealth of connection options for the customer coupled with the maturity of the technology ensures a successful market opportunity. The strategic plan of AT&T takes into account the internal and external environments. The company strategy includes long term objectives that foster market dominance. [pic] Outline I. Purpose. This evaluation will perform a strategic analysis of the AT&T internet access technologies for the consumer market. This report identifies core competencies, sources of competitive advantage, and recommendations to improve AT&T’s strategic position. II. Corporate Background. This section includes a brief history of AT&T, along with how AT&T entered into the consumer Internet services business. The report also analyzes recent press releases to identify any recent developments. a. overview b. mission c. historical review d. recent events III. Product...
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...China’s Scientific & Technological Actions on Climate Change Jointly Issued by Ministry of Science and Technology National Development and Reform Commission Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Education Ministry of Finance Ministry of Water Resources Ministry of Agriculture State Environmental Protection Administration State Forestry Administration Chinese Academy of Sciences China Meteorology Administration National Natural Science Foundation State Oceanic Administration China Association for Science and Technology June, 2007 Contents I. Current Status of Climate Change and Urgent Demands for S&T............................................... 1 1. Climate change is an increasingly prominent issue that brings about profound impacts on human societies ......................................................................................................................... 1 2. An appropriate response to climate change would be very much related to China’s economic and social development ............................................................................................ 1 3. Addressing climate change calls for urgent S&T activities .................................................. 1 II. China’s S&T Achievements in Climate Change ......................................................................... 2 1. Scientific research and technological development .............................................................. 2 2. Infrastructure buildup for Scientific...
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...©2015 Brandon Hall Group. Licensed for Distribution by Kronos Incorporated. Page 3 Time & Attendance Trends in the UK Introduction NOTABLE INSIGHT Organisations with fully automated T&A processes are 32% more likely to be able to use their workforce data to support predictive analytics. Time and attendance (T&A) tracking and data are at the core of workforce management today and are key intersection points between HR and the business. Key findings from Brandon Hall Group’s 2015 HCM Technology Trends study show that organisations in the UK are beginning to take advantage of technology to automate T&A. As a result, they are able to experience key improvements in reporting and analytics capabilities and better support collaboration with other areas of the business: • Technology. 67% of UK organisations that have workforce management strategies say they have used technology to enable their T&A processes. • Reporting and analytics. Organisations with fully automated T&A processes are 70% more likely to be able to report on current data and 32% more likely to be able to use their workforce data to support predictive analytics. • Ownership. 63% of UK respondents report that T&A processes are owned outside of HR. By enabling T&A processes through technology, organisations can improve data...
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...using the technology of today, in the classroom today The Instructional Power of and How Teachers Can Leverage Them Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas an Education Arcade paper The Education Arcade Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas © copyright 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 I nt r od uc ti on What is good learning? That may be a subjective question. But it’s likely that many educators would give answers that fall in the same ballpark… …students collaborating and discussing ideas, possible solutions… …project-based learning, designed around real world contexts… …connecting with other students around the world, on topics of study… …immersing students in a learning experience that allows them to grapple with a problem, gaining higher-order thinking skills from pursuing the solution… To many educators, these notions are music to their ears. Would it seem terribly strange then to hear that students indeed are doing these things regularly outside of their classrooms? While Timmy or Susie may not be running home from school saying, “What fun, deeply-engaging learning experience can we do today?”, they are engaging with new technologies that provide them with the same opportunities. Every day, many students are spending countless hours immersed in popular technologies—such as Facebook or MySpace, World of Warcraft, or Sim City—which at first glance may...
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...almost everything in the world. Therefore it is understandable that concepts related to waveforms or signals are extremely important as their applications exist in a broad variety of fields. The processes and ideas related to waveforms play a vital role in different areas of science and technology such as communications, optics, quantum mechanics, aeronautics, image processing to name a few. Even though the physical nature of signals might be completely different in various disciplines, all waveforms follow one fundamental principle; they can be represented by functions of one or more independent variables. This paper would focus on the concept of Fourier Transform, the technique through which signals can be deconstructed and represented as sum of various elementary signals. It briefly describes Linear Time Invariant systems and their response to superimposed signals. Fourier transform has many applications in physics and Engineering. This paper would also cover some of Fourier Transform applications in telecommunication and its impact on society. Introduction Some of the basic signals that exist in the world and are useful in various technology fields are continuous and discrete time signals. These signals depend on a single independent variable. Generally the independent variable is considered to be time (though it is not universally true).We will focus our discussion on the signals which are considered to be a function of a single...
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...Plan of AT&T Snehitha Mannepalli Wilmington University Abstract American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) is a multinational telecommunication company headquartered at Dallas, Texas. Established in 1983, AT&T is the largest provider of fixed line telephone in United States. The company also provides broadband, mobile phone and digital television services. The company’s master strategy plan is to provide low-price plans to retain current customers and also to increase customer base. The company also plans on expanding and enhancing wireless and other broadband network to provide high speed Internet and cloud services. AT&T is listed in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol ‘T”. This paper focuses on the business strategies, goals and industry analysis of AT&T. Keywords: broadband, digital, AT&T, cloud, NYSE. Strategic plan of AT&T Every organization has to make certain decisions at some point of time that might affect the entire future of organization. These decisions have impact on the organization structure, relationship among stakeholders and the market value of the company. The process of dealing with such decisions is called strategic planning. A systematic, formally documented process for deciding what is the handful of key decisions that an organization, viewed as a corporate whole must get right in order to thrive over the next few years, the process results in the production of a corporate strategic plan (Yardley, n.d.). AT&T has also made...
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...Case-3-AT&T: Another Century of Innovation Week One Roberto Barbosa STRATEGIES-AND-POLICIES-OAD 49100-ES-2016-OA-Muscia CASE-3-AT&T: Another Century of Innovation? We are living in an era of technology. The world seems to be flying a thousand miles per hour. Everything is happening at the same time, in a matter of seconds. Information is duplicating and triplicating every two years. Satellites are launching everywhere, trying to get the best signal, the best speed, the best image, the best performance… just to make things quick, faster and instantaneous. Indeed, we are living in a fast-paced society. People want things now or never. So companies are investing a great deal in research in order to be number one in the market. The one who innovates first tends to be the leader in its niche. AT&T is one of the greatest telecommunication companies in the world – getting a big chunk of the United States market in the telecommunication sector. Let’s summarize, a little bit, about this giant in telecommunications. What makes this company one of the largest companies in telecommunications is creating value by promoting internal and external innovation, strategic focus, and investing in technology. In order for a company to achieve innovation, strategic focus, and investment in technology, it is first necessary for CEO’s to inculcate its vision and mission statement into the minds of the employees from the upper management level to the lowest management level. Once...
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...ASSIGNMENT #4 LONG-TERM INVESTMENT DECISIONS BY MARIO LEE Dr.John MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS DECEMBER 21, 2012 LONG-TERM INVESTMENT DECISIONS Like most industries that has a direct impact on the way society lives, does business or functions, the telecommunications industry must operate under the strict standards set forth by government regulation. All forms of telecommunication bring people and business together to make decisions that help shape the landscape of the world. Monitoring how information is transferred and communicated between parties is a necessity to prevent one supplier of telecommunications services from monopolizing the market. Such a monopoly would not allow consumers to exercise their rights of choice, inflate prices for services and to a certain degree limit technological development. Government involvement in a market economy is because sometimes market fails to satisfy the needs of the consumers. If this happens, the government needs to intervene in order to keep the economy up to acceptable standards. In recent years, due to the recession and volatile economic climate, a debate has raged between liberals and conservatives regarding the role of the government when it comes to the way businesses are structure and operated. If businesses or industries falter, those directly affected by such shortcomings wants the government to intervene. However, owners, shareholders, and officials of businesses wants to limit how much input the government...
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...using the technology of today, in the classroom today The Instructional Power of and How Teachers Can Leverage Them Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas an Education Arcade paper The Education Arcade Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eric Klopfer, Scot Osterweil, Jennifer Groff, Jason Haas © copyright 2009 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 What is good learning? That may be a subjective question. But it’s likely that many educators would give answers that fall in the same ballpark… …students collaborating and discussing ideas, possible solutions… …project-based learning, designed around real world contexts… …connecting with other students around the world, on topics of study… …immersing students in a learning experience that allows them to grapple with a problem, gaining higher-order thinking skills from pursuing the solution… To many educators, these notions are music to their ears. Would it seem terribly strange then to hear that students indeed are doing these things regularly outside of their classrooms? While Timmy or Susie may not be running home from school saying, “What fun, deeply-engaging learning experience can we do today?”, they are engaging with new technologies that provide them with the same opportunities. Every day, many students are spending countless hours immersed in popular technologies—such as Facebook or MySpace, World of Warcraft, or Sim City—which at first glance may seem like a waste of time, and...
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... For over a hundred years AT&T has been consistent in providing reliable, innovative, high-quality products and services. AT&T has one of the nation's largest 4G network it covers approximately 275 million people. AT&T is also a major player in the international market, being the largest international service provider. It is important that AT&T know what their assets are; it gives investors, stockholders, and creditors important information about the company. It will validate how well AT&T is doing; such as if the earnings are the same, lower, or higher than the year before. This will give a clear understanding of the company’s financial history and anticipated financial future. Also it will exhibit if the AT&T is accumulating more debt than it can repay. It will also allow the company to make sound business decisions to keep the company flourishing and developing. In this analysis, we will be looking at several key points of AT&T Business which will show why they are considered to be a stable and flourishing company that is moving forward with new technology. Some of the topics that will be covered are: the main sections of the annual report, the key factors that influenced the company’s financial performance during the year, the primary assets held by the company and how management characterizes the internal control environment of the company. In reviewing the data listed in AT&T financial report the amount of net income listed...
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...sequel to the earlier film ‘The Terminator’ which began to explore the theme of technologies increasing impact on human life and the negative fall-out that will result in humanities over reliance on technology. ‘Terminator 2’ continues and then builds upon this theme by using religious metaphors associated with the apocalypse to give the viewers a bleak view of the future and the potential effect of technology. Not only can robots, using technology created by man, be sent back in time to try and eliminate members of the human race, but the technology itself has been developed to the point where it is able to make conscious decisions about the fate of the world and the human race. This ultimately sets the tone that humans will be the manufacturers’ of their own demise and it will be technology will be the cause. There is, however, an underlying theme of hope that technology can provide for man-kind, personified by the terminator character, T-800, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The films plot centres on a T-800 terminator that has been sent back in time by the humans to protect John Connor, a young child who will be responsible for leading the resistance to the tyranny of the machines in the future. Another terminator, the T-1000 has also been sent back in time, by the machines, in order to kill John Connor as they know he is humanities only hope. The T-1000 is an advanced model of the T-800, with the ability to mould itself into any human it comes into contact with...
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...techniques needed in production. That is, the problem of how to produce. This fact put forward a choice of the combination of inputs and outputs. Given: x = the vector of all inputs Fj = the production function of the jth technique T = a technology set comprising of all possible techniques That is, T= {Fj(x); j=1, …, j} In a case where countries choose the methods used in relation to their constraints, constrained (k) and unconstrained (v) inputs can be differentiated. Therefore, x = (k, v) with the assumption that they do not possess an alternative cost. This leads to a Lagrangian optimization problem where the goal of the producer at this stage is to decide the method suitable with the right level of inputs in other to maximize profit. The Lagrangian equation becomes; L = ∑ pj Fj (vj, kj) - ∑ wvj – λ (∑ kj – ku ) -(1) Subject to Fj(.)€T;vj≥0;kj≥0 Where Pj = the price of the output w = the price vector of the unconstrained inputs k = the stock of constrained inputs The equation is solved using the Kuhn-Tucker necessary condition. Given s = (k, p, w, T) is the...
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...External and Internal Factors External and Internal Factors Management is a universal concept because its principles and techniques are used all over the world, irrespective of their level of development. The basic objective of the management is the progress of people and not the direction of things. The conservative explanation of management is obtaining work done through its people, but the factual management refers to the development of people through work. The management should make the difficulties interesting and their solutions productive for the team members so that everyone can deal with these situations. Management has to provide effective leadership, promote team spirit, set in motion bilateral and multi-lateral channels of communication and enroll the participation of its people, commitment and contribution through an appropriate system of financial and non-financial incentives. Functions of Management The four basic functions of management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. The internal or external factors of an organization influence the ongoing process of an organization. They create an impact on the above-mentioned functions of the management. An impact of these internal and external factors will help in modifying the organization culture. Planning refers to designing policies and procedures to build up production or service capabilities, or to diversify its business and extend its existing capacities. Organizing refers to as the management...
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...in the venture of iTunes store. Over time, another entity entered the equation, AT&T. What does this mean to the customer, the dependability of each to provide superior services to their respective products and services? As it is seen within the IT infrastructure, each entity needs to present certain services to keep up the maintenance of the services on each level, to a point to where one, in an ideal world, for logistical reasons, communicate with each other in case of failure. Starbucks As was discussed previously, the partnership between Apple ITunes and Starbucks to develop the ITunes store, has added, in fact, a third entity, AT&T. AT&T provides Wi-Fi to the Starbucks stores that participate in the ITunes store. For six years, T-Mobile handled Starbucks wireless café. Now as the partnership of Apple and Starbucks has occurred, this other side of the partnership has been changed from T-Mobile to AT&T. The reason for this change is because T-Mobile had charged customers for the usage of their Wi-Fi technology. With AT&T customers are able to link to their (AT&T) hotspot for free (up to two hours). This in turn brings customers to Starbucks to spend money at the ITunes Store. Let’s first look at the technologies that each brings to the table. As research was being conducted, the consensus is that Starbucks would not handle any of the technology. In the end, this is not true. Starbucks in fact handles their IT infrastructure. ...
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