...The Merger of Liberty Media and Barnes and Noble, Inc. [pic] [pic] Introduction Liberty Media has chosen to try to inquire Barnes and Noble. The price that has been offered to inquire this company is $17 per share or $1 billion. In the following we are going to discuss whether or not this inquiry is one that will be good or one that will be bad. We will determine if this industry is attractive to enter/maintain business in, we will this is a smart move financially and how much this inquiry will affect the current business practices, and lastly, we will use value chain analysis to determine if this was an overall smart move for the company. Industry Attractiveness Market Size and Projected Growth: The industry of books and media is one that is quite large there are many other book and media companies out there. Barnes and Noble has been trying to expand their business opportunities, buy expanding online operations by creating the world’s largest eBook store, and by developing the NBOOK which is the worlds most advanced eBook reader. Barnes and noble also is the world’s largest seller of magazines offering more than 5,000 titles. The company has tried to expand the company as much as possible by again expanding digital operations, and by expanding there publishing operations the company has recently acquired spark notes.com and sterling publishing. If the company continues to inquire upon more...
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...R17. What is the difference between a permanent address and a care-of address? Who assigns a care-of address? Answer: A permanent address is the home address and care of address is the given address of the device such as mobile. Permanent address is where mobile devices live. Care of address is given to the mobile device by the foreign agent when a device entire to another network area. Permanent address will get all the derive data and then the home agent forward data/messages onto the other network via the care of address. After that mobile device directly responds to the correspondent. R1. What are the differences between message confidentiality and message integrity? Can you have confidentiality without integrity? Can you have integrity without confidentiality? Justify your answer. Answer: Confidentiality is the property that the original plaintext message cannot be determined by an attacker who intercepts the cipher text-encryption of the original plaintext message. Message integrity is the property that the receiver can detect whether the message sent (whether encrypted or not) was altered in transit. The two are thus different concepts, and one can have one without the other. An encrypted message that is altered in transmit may still be confidential but will not have message integrity if the error is undetected. Similarly, a message that is altered in transit (and detected) could have been sent in plaintext and thus would not be confidential Message confidentiality...
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...Having a secure WLAN is very important, I would even go to say more important than a normal LAN. One way to secure a WLAN is to use encryption. This uses a key that will encrypt and decrypt data on the WLAN so only people what the key would be able to connect to the network. The encryption needs to be strong or a sniffer will crack the key so using a WPA2 would be best. Another way would be to simple change the SSID or ESSID. The reason this is a good way to secure a WLAN is because in most cases if you didn’t change the SSID a hack would think that you didn’t do anything to your network, making it easier to hack. “Though knowing the SSID does not allow anyone to break into your network, it usually indicates that the person hasn't taken any steps to protect their network, thus these networks are the most common targets” ("How to secure," 2007). The ramification of your WLAN being breached could be many things. The first thing I can think of is data theft and by that personal or secret information if someone can get on your WLAN. Also they could be trying to disrupt your network to cause damage or just want to ride on your wireless to gain access to the Internet. I think that stolen information would be the biggest threat. Reference: How to secure a wlan. (2007, February 15). Retrieved from...
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...Source Address | Destination | Payload | Week 3 The Network Intrusion Detection Engine Network based IDS engines process a stream of time sequential TCP/IP packets to determine a sequence of patterns. Patterns are also known as signatures. Most network signatures are based on the contents of the packets (Packet Content Signature = Payload of a packet). Patterns are also detectable in the header and flow of the traffic, relieving the need for looking into packets. Operational Concept Two primary operational modes 1. Tip off - Look for something new, something not previously classified. 2. Surveillance - Look for patterns from "targets" Forensic work bench * Same tool as in surveillance * Monitor online transactions * track network growth - PCs; mobile devices * System services usage * Identify unexpected changes in the network Benefits of a Network IDS 1. Outsider Deterrence - Make life hard for the hackers 2. Detection - Deterministic; Stochastic 3. Automated Response and Notification - Notifications(email, SNMP, pager, onscreen, audible) Response: Reconfigure router/firewalls; Doing a counter attack is not smart; Lose the connection. Challenges for network based technologies 1. Packet reassembly - Broken packets might not be enough detection. Pattern broken into different packets. 2. High Speed Networks - Flooding and dropping of packets 3. Anti Sniff (Sniffer Detection) - Designed by hackers to detect IDS. Find...
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...Telemedicine in India: Initiatives and Perspective B.S.Bedi Senior Director Department of Information Technology Ministry of Communications & IT Government of India eHealth 2003: Addressing the Digital Divide-17th Oct. 2003 What is Telemedicine? • Telemedicine is the use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants … Institute of Medicine, 1996 Introduction • Telemedicine primarily refers to use of Telecommunication for diagnosis and treatment of disease • Emergent mode of delivery of health care at distance • Telemedicine provides healthcare where there is none and improves the health care where there is some • One way to bring / provide access to quality health care to under-served rural & urban masses Telemedicine: India’s Option or Necessity • India characterized by low penetration of healthcare services • 90% of secondary & tertiary healthcare facilities in cities and towns away from rural India where 68% of population lives • Primary health care facilities for rural population highly inadequate • Despite several initiatives by Government & private sector the rural and remote areas continue to suffer from absence of quality healthcare • Significant proportion of patients in remote locations could be successfully managed locally with advice/ guidance from specialists/ super-specialists in cities, without having to travel to the specialists. • Key driver of public:private...
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...Reliance Communication – India’s leading Integrated Telecom Company Prior known as Reliance Infocom Started co. with 60000km lay out of optic fibre cable. It was commissioned on 28Dec 2002 Started reliance with 14000 Rs and converted it into 60000 Crore business Business Wireless Broadband Reliance World Rural communication IDC carrier business Infrastructure business Reliance – SWOT Wireless Reliance Mobile: - 60 million subscribers/20000 towns/4.5 lac villages - 90% of mobile sets are data enabled - CDMA 2000 1X technology - Reliance Mobile world – java based application for users Broadband The uniqueness of Reliance Communications’ broadband initiative lies in the fact that our entire nationwide network is being conceptualised and built from ground zero. Our network is designed to deliver affordable quality education, drive governance, transform healthcare, enhance efficiency in business and, finally, generate new job opportunities for millions of unemployed Indians - E-education : XIMB, XLRI - Digital Workplaces - E-healthcare: Alliance with Apollo - Integrated Enterprise Solutions (Voice/data & video) Product: MPLS based VPN, leased lines, Gigabit networks, video conferencing & video telephony Rural Communication It is a recognized fact that each point of increase in tele-density results in a 3 per cent growth in the country’s GDP. - Village Public Telephones - Rural Community Phones - Rural Household DEL’s - High...
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...COMPANY PROFILE Bharti Tele-Ventures was incorporated on July 7, 1995 as a company with limited liability under the Companies Act, for promoting telecommunications services. Bharti Tele-Ventures received certificate for commencement of business on January 18, 1996. The Company was initially formed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Telecom Limited. Bharti Airtel Ltd is one of the world's leading providers of telecommunication. Airtel has GSM network in all countries in which it operates, providing 2G, 3G and 4G services depending upon the country of operation. Airtel is the world's third largest mobile telecommunications company with over 261 million subscribers across 150 countries as of August 2012. It is the largest cellular service provider in India, with 183.61 million subscribers as of November 2012.[5] Airtel is the third largest in-country mobile operator by subscriber base, behind China Mobile and China Unicom. The chronology of events since Bharti Tele-Ventures was incorporated in 1995 is as follows: Calendar year & Events 1995 - Bharti Cellular launched cellular services 'AirTel' in Delhi 1996 - Bharti Telenet launched cellular services in Himachal Pradesh 1997 - British Telecom acquired a 21.05% equity interest in Bharti Cellular - Bharti Telenet obtained a license for providing fixed-line services in Madhya Pradesh circle 1998 - First Indian private fixed-line services launched in Indore in the Madhya Pradesh circle on June 4, 1998 by Bharti Telenet thereby...
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...------------------------------------------------- The Bangladesh Telecommunications forecasts on the future strength of Bangladesh's ICT market, covering the fixed-line, mobile and internet segments and analyses latest regulatory developments and corporate news, including investment activity, mergers and acquisitions joint ventures and partnerships, Leading operators and manufacturers are fully profiled, highlighting their quarterly financial performance, capital expenditure plans and latest contracts. NTTN 3rd Party ISP Vendors Operator BTRC Overview of Bangladesh Tele-commutation landscapes: Dealer list: CISCO, Huwei, Erickson, Samsung, ZTE, Nokia. Operator list: BanglaLink of Orascom Telecom, GrameenPhone Limited, Robi Mobile, Tele Talk, Dhaka Mobile, AirTel Bangladesh, OneTel Commonication Ltd, AirTel Bangladesh, Anik Telecom, Anik Telecom ISP list: Aamra Networks Limite, Access Telecom (BD) Ltd, Aftab IT Ltd, Agni Systems Ltd, Akij Online Ltd, Asia Pacific Communication Ltd ,...
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...Company History - Bharti Airtel Bharti Tele-Ventures was incorporated on July 7, 1995 as a company with limited liability under the Companies Act, for promoting telecommunications services. Bharti Tele-Ventures received certificate for commencement of business on January 18, 1996.The Company was initially formed as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bharti Telecom Limited. The chronology of events since Bharti Tele-Ventures was incorporated in 1995 is as follows: http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/Company/Fundamentals/Directors-Report/Bharti-Airtel-Ltd/532454 Company Snapshot Bharti Airtel provides telecommunication services primarily to corporate, and small and medium scale enterprises in India. It offers global system for mobile communication (GSM) services, broadband and telephone services, national and international long distance services, and enterprise services. The company's mobile communication services include information services, short message, and prepaid and post paid services, as well as wireless application protocol-enabled Internet access and roaming services. Its telephone services include telephone services, dial-up services, special phone plus services, unified messaging, and audio conference services; and broadband services comprise integrated services digital network, leased line, virtual private networks, and wireless fidelity networks. The company also offers long-distance voice and data communication services, as well as enterprise services...
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...become part of the dialogue. The internet has created a new form of interactive communication that has lessened the cost of communication across social distances. These networks (PENS or Public Electronic Networks) are intended to promote more interaction between community members while expanding the exchange of ideas in the community. The information exchange between socially distant groups can now take place without face to face interaction, and the discourse is controlled in the interactive forum rather than subject to the stereotypes and biases face to face interaction may harbor. By shrinking the physical distance of all groups involved the PEN network Santa Monica, CA allowed for separate ideas to become part of a singular goal creating a stronger awareness of their issues and more focused community structure. The PEN of Taos, New Mexico built upon this structure by purposely creating an environment that would put community members in direct face to face communication with each while also using the digital medium to augment and facilitate the dialogue. The PEN of Santa Monica was created to aid in raising awareness for the significant homeless population living in the area by providing a new medium for discourse that would allow all parties to be represented. The greater the social distance between two individuals or groups, the less likely they are to communicate and less effective any communication that occurs will be productive. This online community was a combination of...
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...BUS203 “SWOT and PEST Analysis of Grameenphone Limited” Submitted to: Asheka Mahboob Submitted by: Zerin Tasnim Haq (12304009) Rifat Tasfiha (12303039) Syeda Tamanna Nawar Neha(12204062) Farhana Ahmed- 12104016 Section : 02 Submission date: 11.08.2014 Table of contents: WHAT IS PEST ANALYSIS | 3-4 | ANOVERVIEW OF THE TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY | 4-5 | THE STORY OF GRAMEENPHONE | 6 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-POLITICAL | 7 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-ECONOMICAL | 8 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-SOCIAL | 8-9 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-TECHNOLOGICAL | 9-10 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-LEGAL | 11 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-ETICAL | 11-12 | Swot analysis of grameenphone-strengths | 13-14 | Swot analysis-weakness | 14-15 | Swot analysis-opportunities | 15-16 | Swot analysis-threats | 16-18 | Recommendation | 18-19 | Conclusion | 20 | REFERENCE | 21 | PESTLE analysis, which is sometimes referred as PEST analysis, is a concept in marketing principles. Moreover, this concept is used as a tool by companies to track the environment they’re operating in or are planning to launch a new project/product/service etc. PESTLE is a mnemonic which in its expanded form denotes P for Political, E for Economic, S for Social, T for Technological, L for Legal and E for Environmental. It gives a bird’s eye view of the whole environment from many different angles that one wants to check and keep a track of while contemplating on a certain idea/plan. The framework has undergone certain alterations, as gurus...
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...experts and the geographically dispersed. Technology helps to create a supportive network of professionals in healthcare. It allows for a continuum of care through the access of past and present treatments. There needs to be safeguards in place when protecting patient information. Healthcare technology needs to safe guarded and there needs to be an authentication system in place to protect patient information. The authentications system needs to be able to provide several security levels will different accesses to information for different providers (Drude, Maheu & Hilty,...
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...Background Paper submitted to the Committee on India: Vision 2020 Telecom Sector in India: Vision 2020 Manas Bhattacharya*, IES (Deputy Director General (Finance), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India) The views exposed in this paper are that of the authors not of the Planning Commission Telecom Sector in India: Vision 2020 by Manas Bhattacharya*, IES (Deputy Director General (Finance), Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India) Introduction The purpose of this paper is to construct a vision of Indian telecom sector for the year 2020, i.e., about two decades from now. Development being a continuous process, the choice of the year 2020 is just an arbitrary division of time, a pre-defined time horizon to take stock of what is likely to be achieved. Pre-portrayal of a stage of development in future requires understanding of the process of change, the dynamics that set law of motion. In attempting to do so, the present paper deciphers the recent past. Process of change is often volatile and responsive to intervention and global circumstances impacting it. In such an inherently dynamic situation it is convenient to assume that cross-country experiences incubate the most recent seeds of change. This is because countries at various stages of development encapsulate developmental experiences that occur with the passage of time. The present paper isolates...
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...When tele-medical agents return to a medical health information exchange TMH where Internet is available, the collected local information will be forwarded to a web-based multi-specialty telemedicine service. Appropriate returning messages will be routed to local providers through physical delivery to ensure information integrity. Phone calls or text messaging will be used only during a medical emergency. With lessons learned from this field study, we will establish a workable model of health information exchange and telemedicine to connect rural patients with medical services available only in the cities. A medical imaging system is used in the telemedicine system for capturing wound images of a patient’s skin. The practice of tele-dermatology requires high resolution and properly illuminated color images and video. Choosing appropriate wound image quality for telemedicine is important to ensure accurate diagnoses on the part of the clinicians, while keeping network traffic down. Telemedicine systems are broadly categories in two type’s i.e. real-time telemedicine system and store-and-forward approach respectively. In the real-time mode, the clinician is present during the capture process through a videoconferencing system and streaming live data can be send to TMH. The store-and-forward approach in telemedicine system consists of a tele-medical agent capturing patient...
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...Akshata Makkaru kd7643, HCA 6200-02 April 22, 2015 Important trends in the Hospital Industry The objective of this paper is to discuss certain emerging trends in the hospital industry and their impact on the U. S health care system. The focus will be on Big Data, Re-admissions reduction program, and Tele Health services which have brought significant reforms in the U.S health care system. Big Data in Hospital industry: Large amount of data is produced in the healthcare industry and most of the data is stored in hard copy form. The current trend is towards the digitization of these enormous troves of data. Report says that the data from the U.S. healthcare system alone has reached,150 exabytes in the year 2011. Kaiser Permanente, the California-based health care network which has more than 9 million members is believed to have between 26 and 44 petabytes of potentially rich data from electronic health records, including images and annotations. By definition, big data in healthcare refers to electronic health data sets are so large and complex that they neither possible to manage with traditional software and/or hardware nor can they be easily managed with traditional or common data management tools and methods. Now, most of the patient data is compiled electronically because it is...
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