...The internet is the single most important technological advancement to take place during my lifetime and now is such an integral part of our daily lives we can not even imagine living without. The technology used to access the World Wide Web continually evolves and advances at unprecedented rates. The tools and gadgets we use to access the internet improve continuously and by the time we purchase the latest internet technology tool, a newer and faster version has already been developed and released on the market. The internet has become an integral part of the daily routines and operations of businesses worldwide. As businesses grow and expand based on the use of internet technologies, there are considerations that need to be made based on the infrastructure of the internet and employees use of computers. This paper will focus on those considerations of internet technologies and take a look at the vulnerabilities and lost production businesses are susceptible to with online operations and what is needed overcome and minimize these vulnerabilities and losses. Before the term internet existed a group of scientists and engineers for the U.S. Department of Defense transferred the first packets of data in the late 1960’s. Over the following two decades the speed and reliability increased as more universities and government researchers joined the network. In 1990, the U.S. Department of Defense ended its support of the internet when congress passed the Gore Bill handing control...
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...Software Patents Controversy over software patents has been around since the inception of commercial software. The main issue lies in the fact that some software producers want legislation that allows them to be granted exclusive rights to algorithms, data structures or other snippets of code implemented in their commercial productions, while other people argue that software patents stint software production and have many other negative effects. Due to the increasing size of the software industry, and in turn the rising number of software patents being applied for and granted, the number of problems arising from this issue is only getting worse; clearly our patent system is broken. Both advocates and opponents of software patents make convincing arguments, but because of my own personal experiences and opinions, as well as the opinions of other patent objectors, I believe patents like Amazon's US5960411 online ordering system patent should not be granted. People that oppose software patents are at an advantage in that there are many examples that make a compelling argument for them. It is no subtle fact that claims are made that software patents impede research and development of software. These claims can be quantified in studies like those in Adam Jaffe's Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress. In these studies, Jaffe shows that many companies are stopped from working on projects because they find themselves...
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...Lost Decades Games Lost Decades Games 2014 2014 2014 Exclusive Console A World of Keflings[6] Simulation NinjaBee NinjaBee Q1 2014 Q1 2014 Q1 2014 Exclusive No A.N.N.E.[7] Gamesbymo Gamesbymo TBA Q3 2014 Q3 2014 Exclusive Console Abyss[8] Adventure EnjoyUp Games EnjoyUp Games TBA May 8, 2014 May 1, 2014 Exclusive Nintendo Adventure Thru 8-Bit Land[9] Platform R&P Studios R&P Studios 2014 2014 2014 Exclusive Yes Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don't Know![10][11] Action-adventure WayForward Technologies D3 Publisher Namco Bandai Games EU|AU Unreleased December 13, 2013 November 19, 2013 Yes No Affordable Space Adventures[12] Nifflas KnapNok Games TBA 2014 2014 Exclusive Yes Alphadia Genesis[13][14] JRPG Kemco Kemco April 2, 2014 Unreleased Unreleased Exclusive Console Angry Birds Star Wars[15] Puzzle, Strategy Rovio Entertainment Exient Entertainment Activision LucasArts Unreleased October 29, 2013 October 29, 2013 No No Angry Birds Trilogy[16] Puzzle, Strategy Rovio Entertainment Fun Labs Activision Unreleased August 16, 2013 August 13, 2013 No No Anima: Gate of Memories[17] Anima Project Studio Anima Project Studio...
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...What are the opportunities and threats that Mattel faces as it looks ahead? SWOT Analysis is a useful technique for understanding your Strengths and Weaknesses, and for identifying both the Opportunities open to you and the Threats you face. The SWOT analysis below is to understand the areas of improvement for Mattel while analysing its strengths. Also, to maximize the opportunities it has and minimize the threats. SWOT for Mattel Strengths Still a market leader- although it is true that the competition has increased over the years for Mattel, the current market capital is 8.67B. The question about whether they will bw able to retain this position or not, however, is debatable. Strong brand equity – Building brand equity requires significant effort. Mattel has both single brand and multi brand identity. (Phillips, 2003) Loyal customer base – Mattel has been in the market since the 1950’s. They have a large and loyal customer base. (Warner, Aug 5, 1996) Wide range of products - Mattel believes its products are among the most widely recognized toy products in the world. Mattel’s portfolio of brands and products are grouped in the following categories: Mattel Girls & Boys Brands - Including Batman , and Kung Fu Panda products, and games and puzzles. Fisher-Price Brands — Collectively Core Fisher-Price, Fisher-Price Friend and Power Wheels. American Girl Brands —including Just Like You, the historical collection, and Bitty Baby. Strong distribution line...
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...Arnaldo Perez Consumer Behavior Current Topics Assignment 2/13/13 Blackberry 10: The topic I will be covering is the Blackberry 10. Upon its initial press-conference (no official U.S. release yet), many smart phone users turned it’s eye towards the former leader of smart phones to see what the rumored Blackberry 10 would consist of, and with much anticipation there was a lot of praise as well as skepticism. The Blackberry team (run by Research In Motion: RIM) displayed the new models: the touch screen Z10 and its QWERTY Keyboard counterpart (for those who still demanded a keyboard). Features that were innovative to the new Blackberry 10 (aside from full-screen touch capability, video chat that other phones offered) is the brilliant Blackberry HUB. The HUB allowed for easier view of the things that “everything important to you easy to view in a single space”. The HUB is powered by single swipes to view messages, get in and out of menus, programs for easier multitasking, therefore leaving the pages that you are currently on in menu blocks (similar to the windows phone square tiles). The big issue with the new Blackberry 10, are trying to gain back all the customers that it lost to iPhones and Android powered devices. Blackberry has not kept up with the ways of these smart phones since 2011 (when Android had grown in popularity). This brand is a cult classic, famous for its comfortable size and keyboard, it lacked in many areas. In a market where it is now pre-dominantly...
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...Target Market There are two groups that are the target market for the Italian restaurant that is planned to open with high tech and futuristic installations. One of them is the generation Y, the kids born in late 1980s to 1999, who are very knowledgeable about the new technology being brought into the market. The other group would be the families who would come to enjoy the services and technology of the restaurant and have a family time together. Today’s generation Y would be between the age of 13 and 24. This Gen. Y is connected to is most connected group of people due to the help of the technology. They themselves are a marketing tool with the help on the technology they seem to achieve this. This in turn helps the businesses. 91 % of these individual make their Facebook Places and Foursquare check-ins public which is in a way is promoting the business by letting people know that they were there. That would cause the other friends to look up the store where there friend has checked into. According to the statistics 66% of the individual are likely to this. This form of marketing is beneficial for the business. The generation Y promotes the things they like and the places they have been to. The other target markets are the families consisting. They are the main focus our strategies. This group is likely to spend more money than the individual and are more likely to come back to the restaurant if they find to their liking. They are likely to bring kids with them. Kids area...
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...Mining Table of Contents Abstract..........................................................................................................3 Introduction....................................................................................................4 Literature Review............................................................................................6 Discussion.......................................................................................................13 Conclusion......................................................................................................15 References.......................................................................................................17 Abstract Technology is constantly around us and from this point forward it is never going away not that most of us can remember a time without cell phones but for some of us we can still recall a time when it didn’t exist. Eavesdropping has been a complex endeavor and has been evolving over the years from placing a listening device which had a built in microphone and a short distance transmitter. Now it is complex algorithms that can when completely decrypted give a person or an organization complete information on a person and allow them access into a private life. I say private life when in all actuality we seem to be more responsive to sharing everything with everyone in fact it is a lack of anonymity and of a global pandemic of sharing information...
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...I. Executive Summary This paper is about “The Wholesomeness of Whole Foods Market”. Whole Foods is the leading grocery store brand for natural and organic grown produce. They are constantly competing against non-organic grocery carriers such as Wal-Mart, Safeway, Kroger, Publix, Winn-Dixies and other local or domestic produce stores such as Jewel-Osco, Dominick’s, Pathmark, Shoprite, etc. Their marketing strategies are based on selecting the highest quality products from local producers/farmers and promoting its products both in store and on-line while providing a unique shopping experience for their consumers. They targets consumers who desire products which are organic and wholesome. They often target areas with students and middle or higher class income people. This paper shows what specific marketing trends of 2012 Whole Foods should focus on, such as Live a Little, Screened Interactions and The World has gone App crazy. Live a little is a marketing trend where consumers spend money rather than saving. Therefore, consumer will pay a higher price for healthy and flavorful products with no pesticides. Screened interactions is a marketing trend where Whole Foods should have touch screens with all their products information at the beginning of each isles involving which products are offered in this isle. Consumers can use these touch screens to either order or see what the products contain, such as amount of calories and nutrients. The world has gone app crazy trend...
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...creature in the sea is very amazing. I also think people should pay more attention to the nature things; we should discover more interesting and fantastic things that nature created. Future Proof The video shows the dance movements of three people, which are one male and two female. The view of the movie is just black with some stars, but the film also is added different types of computer graphic effects. The effect of combination of people and technologies is perfect and impressive. The director might want to demonstrate the importance of technology for modern human life through this movie. In my opinion, the film illustrate people cannot live without technologies. To make the film different and prolific, the film also includes some different elements, such as love, angry, and pain. I think people also can see the video as a film that describes a love story. Howl The video describes a queer story, which is about a mother with a child. The strange thing is the actions of the boy are like a wolf. For example, the boy eats the bird, snarl to his mother and use his tongue drink water. The movie uses this way to demonstrate a common issue that exists in today’s society, which is some parents’ education methods, are incorrect. Some parents always pay a lot attention to their children, even when their children are grown; some parents make many rules to their children, even their children do not agree or obey...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay Have we become so dependent on technology today that it has destroyed our relationships? This essay will shed some light on the similarities and differences to the story of Fahrenheit 451 and our culture today. For instance, face to face communication has become less important in our world where devices are used frequently to make contact. We are also still able to write and read books, but could eventually become more like Bradbury’s classic if our dependence on technology continues to grow. In Fahrenheit 451, the characters have relationships with technology instead of each other; however, people today often get too fond of technology as well. In today’s society, the main way to communicate is through technology, just like in Fahrenheit 451. This is apparent throughout the novel, where technology has become the primary means of communication. Montag specifically mentions this in the book, “and in her ears the little seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind” (Bradbury page 12). There is also less face to face communication, which is evident in the amount of time that Mildred spends watching television in the parlor and listening to the radio. The book also highlights this with Montag’s thought, “wasn’t there an old joke about a wife that talked so much on the phone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest...
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...that mankind has developed society and created a better world. We could say that technology is the sum total of instrumentally useful culturally-transmissible information. Technology is a word used to collectively describe or portray the advancements, abilities, creations, undertakings, views, and knowledge of a singular group of persons: we as human-kind. When there is talk about the relationships between technology and humanity, it is evident that we have to deal with the interrelations between some very complex phenomena. Technology, science, society or systems of societies, and systems of rights of a universal nature. The discovery and development of a large number of powerful energy sources-coal, petroleum, electricity etc. have enabled humanity to conquer the barriers of nature. All this has facilitates the growth of fast modes of transport, which in turn has transformed the world into a global village. In the “old days”, we used phones for talking to each other. That was it. Not for texting. Not for browsing the web. And not for playing Angry Birds (a nightmare, I know). In the past, technology was a bonus, not a necessity. We did not rely on technology to get from point A to point B. We did not rely on technology to tell us the phone number of the local bar. And we surely didn’t rely on technology for entertainment. Today, however, this is far from true. We absolutely need technology. Without it, our society would crumble at its’ feet, where it stands right now...
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...U.S. government. The NSA is tasked with monitoring on targeted individuals in the U.S. But the NSA doesn’t just spy on targeted individuals; they spy on every U.S. citizen, they even spy on world leaders. They can spy on anyone around the world, and they can do this through social media, the internet and phones. I will explain this in more detail later. Ok so now that I’ve talked about what the NSA is, I will tell you guys how it is possible that the NSA is spying on us. Well to begin, the NSA spying program started back when George Bush was the president of the United States, the spying started right after nine eleven, this was in 2001 and that is 13 years ago so consider how long they have been spying. And it only got worse because technology developed, social media got bigger and smartphones were introduced. They wanted to keep the spying private but look how that turned out. The NSA monitored people whom the government thought were related to the Al Qaeda. Soon this led to spying on innocent and harmless civilians of the U.S. and all over the world. Sub Point 2: The Internet...
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...Technology ruins the childhood When I look at my son, he seems to be so happy. I am trying hard to give him everything, make his life happier. I think that everybody is doing the same.... But is that the right thing to do? Are we actually teaching our kids how to play....without toys, TV, internet, and all these people and rules telling them how to play? Or maybe we just deprive their imagination? I remember when I was young...that was not really a long time ago Everything was different. I did not need stuff to be happy. When I was the same age as my son, soon after sunrise I was running away from home to see my friends. If my parents were lucky I came back home before it got dark. Today, kids instead of spending time outdoors are sitting in front of computers. It seems to me that kids choose video games because they are easier than the normal old fashioned games. In virtual reality, anyone can be for example a football star. Playing delivers more fun when it is virtual, as you achieve greater success, when in reality only a few manage to stay famous people. But in all that there is not much room for invention and imagination. Children spend too much time in front of screens (television, internet, mobile phones). That might form an opinion about basically everything. They could learn behaviours from reality shows like big brother, vulgar language, watch pornography, prohibited videos showing how to kill, take drugs or even be threatened and abused. Too much...
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...Corridors of Transition between 12 Angry Men and 12 “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice”. Abraham Lincoln “The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom”. Aristotle ”Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck”. Orson Welles Justice = mid-12c., "the exercise of authority in vindication of right by assigning reward or punishment;" also "quality of being fair and just," from Old French justice "justice, legal rights, jurisdiction" (11c.), from Latin iustitia "righteousness, equity," from iustus "upright, just" . The Old French word had widespread senses, including "uprightness, equity, vindication of right, court of justice, judge." The word began to be used in English c.1200 as a title for a judicial officer. Meaning "right order, equity" is late 14c. Justice of the peace first attested early 14c. In the Mercian hymns, Latin iustitia is glossed by Old English rehtwisnisse. To do justice to (someone or something) "render fully and fairly showing due appreciation" is from 1670s. This word, with such a strong connotation, influenced and formed the basis of many philosophical...
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...remote, which has a microphone to take in voice commands that are then transmitted wirelessly to a TV set. The TV responds to simple commands like "volume up" or "channel up." Saying "Web browser" opens up the browsing software, and users can also speak directly into the Google search box instead of typing. The remote and TV are linked via a long-range Bluetooth connection, and voice commands are helpful if a user is not in front of the TV. Beyond voice recognition, the TV also has gesture recognition features in which moving a hand in the air allows users to browse around and select features, much like the Nintendo Wii or Microsoft Xbox gaming consoles. But there are signs that Samsung is still adapting to the newfangled voice control technology. The company recently issued a firmware update for its voice-controlled TV sets that changes the power-on command from "Hi TV" to "Hi TV, power on." This change will "avoid any confusion both with the commands themselves as well as the way the TV is interpreting the commands,"...
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