...Olmeda Mini Research Paper Fundamentals of E-Commerce INDEX Introduction Page 3 World Wide Web Page 3 Dotcom Bubble Page 4 Dotcom Bubble Pops Page 6 Conclusion Page 7 References Page 9 Introduction The World Wide Web was created by Tim Berners-Lee from an idea that he had in 1989 while working at European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Throughout 1991 and 1993 Berners-Lee continued to work on the concept and designed the Web during which time he took the feedback of what he was doing and continued to perfect it in a sense using specifications of things such as URLS, HTTP and the HTML coding and just like that the World Wide Web was born. World Wide Web It took a while to get the process rolling by 1991 it brought the availability or the browser and the web surfer software which was barely existent before then. It was mainly a screen in which you just imputed information, there was not variety it was pretty much a blank screen and one size font to put in the information one needed at the time. By 1992 there were a few sites that existed such as the CERN website, ACME Laboratories and even colleges had websites like the University of Illinois and Ohio State University. By the end of 1992 there were just about 26 websites total. Once 1993 hit the World Wide Web was beginning to become a bit more talked about and that is when the directors of CERN made a big impact. On April 30, 1993 they declared that...
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...JWCL019_ch01_001-022.indd Page 1 2/15/08 9:55:36 PM epg1 /Volumes/JWCL/JWCL/JWCL019/JWCL019-01 C H A P T E R 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO E-BUSINESS Understanding the Power and Appeal of Operating an Online Venture Do You Already Know? • How the Internet and World Wide Web got started • The advantages of selling on the Internet • What kinds of products you can sell online • The primary e-business models www For additional questions to assess your current knowledge of the Internet and e-business opportunities, go to www.wiley.com/college/ holden. What You Will Find Out What You Will Be Able To Do • Use the Internet and World Wide 1.1 The history of the Internet and Web as a public space that mirWorld Wide Web and what their rors the real world developers hoped to accomplish 1.2 The several advantages of operating an e-business compared to the physical business world • Recognize and use the advantages of starting and operating an online business • Select an appropriate product or 1.3 That almost any product can service for selling online be sold online—consumer goods, information, professional services, and much more 1.4 That there are three commonly used e-business models • Choose an appropriate model for creating an e-business 1 Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. JWCL019_ch01_001-022.indd Page 2 2/15/08 9:55:36 PM epg1 2 /Volumes/JWCL/JWCL/JWCL019/JWCL019-01 Chapter 1: An Introduction to E-Business ...
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...INFORMATION TEACHNOLOGY PROJECT. TERMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTERNET. A. E-MAIL: Also known as Electronic Mail, an E-mail is a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunication links between computers or terminals using dedicated software. ADVANTAGE- Emails are fast. They are delivered at once around the world. No other form of written communication is as fast as an email. DISADVANTAGE- Emails may carry viruses. These are small programs that harm your computer system. They can read out your email address book and send themselves to a number of people around the world. B. NEWSGROUP: A newsgroup is a discussion about a particular subject consisting of notes written to a central Internet site and redistributed through Usenet, a worldwide network of news discussion groups. ADVANTAGE- It is also easier to find a newsgroup, and they sometimes have a moderator, who is someone who makes sure that things stay on track and do not disintegrate into something that is socially unpleasant. DISADVANTAGE- A newsgroup is not as quick as an email or even a mailing list. Very often there will be a delay of at least a day, often longer, before a response is given. C. IRC: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates the transfer of messages in the form of text. The chat process works on...
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... Word Count: 1893 Contents |Description |Page | |Executive Summary |3 | |Introduction |3 | |Change Management in British Airways | | |Organisational Context (British Airways: 2009 – 2011) |4 | |The Strategic Change itself as outlined by its management |4 | |The nature and extent of the strategic changes |5 | |The change management strategy |6 | |The challenges and management difficulties in implementing such change strategy |6 – 7 | |Conclusion |7 | |References |8 | |Appendices | | Executive Summary This report is a research on British Airway’s (BA) change program that resulted in long-running industrial disputes between its management and crew members in 2009 – 2011. It outlines the contextual information about BA, its strategic change as outlined by its management, the identification and evaluation on the nature and extent of such strategic changes, the change management strategy adopted and implemented and the challenges and management difficulties faced. The report also provides an insight on an understanding of change of management practice from standpoint through the change kaleidoscope; contexture features. Introduction British Airways, UK’s largest international scheduled airline which operates one of the most extensive international scheduled airline route networks, across 300 destinations worldwide, is a leading and established business in the airline industry, In 2007/08, BA recorded revenues of over £8,753 million, 3.1% up from previous...
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...What If World Wide Web Never Exists? World Wide Web is become the important thing nowadays. Have you ever think about one day that we do not have the World Wide Web? It is really hard for us to think about that. However just pretend that World Wide Web does not exist, how the world will change and how our lives will be different. Firstly, if World Wide Web does not exist, we won’t have the social media. We can say that World Wide Web gave birth to social media. We can connect to people easily especially when we are not living close to each other. We cannot keep in touch or talk to people when they go to somewhere else. If we want to tell those people what is going on or to tell them about the important things happen, the only way is that writing letters and wait until it sends to those people. It really takes a lot of time and does not convenient. Secondly, without World Wide Web, we do not know how to buy things online. Whenever we want to buy something, we have to find the store and go to that store so that we can buy the things we want. It really takes time for us to do that. We cannot buy things we want from another country because it is really hard to do it without World Wide Web. Moreover, the companies cannot develop their business to all over the world easily without Internet and World Wide Web. They have to take time and go around the world to present the companies. With the World Wide Web, they just have to create their companies page and post the information...
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...At one time, bison were widespread from Alaska to northern Mexico. Now bison have been exterminated in the wild except in Yellowstone Park in Wyoming and Wood Buffalo Park, Northwest territory, Canada. The bison are gone in the prairie of the United States along with many of the ecosystem's species. Deep scars mar the landscape where the soil has been swept way by water runoff. The life of the rancher and farmer is vanishing. The body of the bison is huge. They are also tall animals and have two distinctive features, one being the shoulder hump and the other being their huge head. They are brown, their color varying slightly from the front and back of the animal. Their horns are black and curve upward and inward ending in a sharp tip. Their legs are short but firm. Bison are year round grazers. They feed primarily on grasses, but when food is scarce, the will eat other vegetation such as sagebrush. They require water every day. Females are sexually mature in two to three years . The breeding season begins in late June and lasts through September. Gestation is around 285 days, so the calving season in from mid-April through May. Bison are arranged in groups according to sex, age, season and habitat. Grazing takes place during several periods each day conducted in groups. When bison travel, they form a line. Their traveling pattern is determined by the terrain and habitat condition. Bison! are good swimmers and runners. Bison can hear very well. They communicate vocally through...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 MIS 14-Sep-13 ABEER MUSSARRAT 202113 BBA 7 SUBMITTED TO: SIR ARIF KAMAL ROLE OF INFORMATION SYSTEM IN TODAYS BUSINESS WORLD Information technology and systems have revolutionized firms and industries, becoming the largest component of capital investment in the U.S. and many industrialized societies. Investment in information technology accounts for approximately 50 percent of all capital invested in the United States. Information systems are transforming business and the visible results of this include the increased use of cell phones and wireless telecommunications devices, a massive shift toward online news and information, booming e-commerce and Internet advertising, and new federal security and accounting laws that address issues raised by the exponential growth of digital information. The Internet has also drastically reduced the costs of businesses operating on a global scale. These changes have led to the emergence of the digital firm, a firm in which: * Most of the firm's significant business relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees are digitally enabled and mediated. * Core business processes, or logically related business tasks, are accomplished through digital networks. * Key corporate assets (intellectual property, core competencies, and financial and human assets) are managed through digital means * Business responses to changes in their environment are enhanced through digital communications, allowing for...
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...any software application in which advertisements are displayed while the program is running. These applications include additional code that displays the ads in pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen. | All the Web | | FAST, One of the fastest and most comprehensive of the search engines, but sadly used by only a very small fraction of searchers. This excellent resource is now bought out and used by Lycos a an internet resource | alt tags | | Image tags | Alta Vista | | A search engine which has declined in terms of percentage of the total search market over the past decade, but now seems to have stabilised and perhaps increased its share in certain regions of the world. It incorporates a paid express submission program called InfoSpider | Applet | | A small Java program that can be embedded in an HTML page. It differs from full-fledged Java applications in that cannot access certain resources on the local computer; and is prohibited from communicating with most other computers across a network. The common rule is that an applet can only make an internet connection to the computer from which the applet was sent. | ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange | This is the world-wide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 7 digit binary number: 0000000 through...
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...WEB DEVELOPMENT Brief History of the Internet Origins of the Internet The first recorded description of the social interactions that could be enabled through networking was a series of memos written by J.C.R. Licklider of MIT in August 1962 discussing his "Galactic Network" concept. He envisioned a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could quickly access data and programs from any site. In spirit, the concept was very much like the Internet of today. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at DARPA,4 starting in October 1962. While at DARPA he convinced his successors at DARPA, Ivan Sutherland, Bob Taylor, and MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts, of the importance of this networking concept. Leonard Kleinrock at MIT published the first paper on packet switching theory in July 1961 and the first book on the subject in 1964. Kleinrock convinced Roberts of the theoretical feasibility of communications using packets rather than circuits, which was a major step along the path towards computer networking. The other key step was to make the computers talk together. To explore this, in 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving...
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...technological development. In the 90’s the CSIRO innovated this technology to todays standard. More than 20 different tech companies paid 250 million dollars for the equipment and Australia is still waiting for a payment estimated over 1 billion dollars. There have been many revolutionary browsers which have aided in the revolution in the World Wide Web and the Internet its self. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The numbers have changed to over 1.5 billion users. The network's reach has expanded beyond the United States to all over the globe. But everything has its pros and cons, as it has evolved from a friendly research network to a hotbed of criminal activity including fraud and identity theft. Ideas for the World Wide Web date back to as early as 1946 when Murray Leinster wrote a short story which described how computers (that he referred to as ‘Logics’) lived in every home, with each one having access to a central device where they could access information. Although the story has several differences to the way the web works today, it does capture the idea of a huge information network available to...
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...Information Technology Acts Brittany Delaine BIS/220 November 4, 2013 Vivien Lewis As a way to share information about nuclear physics Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) describes the Web as "the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge." Since the creation of the World Wide Web many protection acts have been established. With the establishment of the Internet all the knowledge on a subject is at the tip of a mouse click. Children are curious by nature and are always interested in the things they should not be. Filters have been put into place to stop children from accessing visual depictions of obscenity, child pornography, and material harmful to minors. Some companies are not clear about what they block. A normal size class holds about twenty-two and only has one teacher. With one teacher is it easy for one child to access a porn site and start sharing the information with their classmates. With schools and libraries across the country increasing the usage of the internet as a learning tool Sen. John McCain believed that obscene and violet material should be screened out so as to protection children. The Children’s Internet Protection Act requires schools and libraries across the country that receive federal funds for internet access to certify that they have an internet safety law policy. Although some acts are put into place to protect people, some acts...
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...made in various fields, at the same time however new problems are arising. Man in every era has depended on some form of tool to help him to his tasks whatever they may be, a tool to make things easier. This tool is technology; technology does not have to be the modern thoughts of computers. Technology is "the science of technical processes in a wide, though related field of knowledge." That is the definition given by The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. So technology can be anything as long as it helps us advance. It can be anything like a plough to help a farmer, a television to help the media and the telephone to help us communicate. The latest technology of the 20th Century is the Internet and it has placed a great mark on our society. It is the new "place to be" where business can advance, people can interact worldwide at the click of a mouse and this has revolutionarily changed the world. In the world of the Internet there are millions of members worldwide and that means it is a very profitable arena. In an area where there is money there are criminals and that is where the modern criminals of the world are behind computer screens. They may be credible individuals in society and they could also be credible corporations and organizations that are finding a quick way to make money and by doing this they are breaking ethical rules of society (even...
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... It is used to notify subscribers about updates on a web page’s content, without having to view the actual web page. They are used by news sites, blogs, and social media as a way of keeping users constantly updated. RSS, or feeds, are significant to the Web 2.0 as they allow users to be notified as soon as content is updated. Moreover these feeds can be accessed via a mobile phone, which is the preferred means of accessing the Web nowadays. Web 1.0 used static pages that could only be viewed by users. The Web 2.0 has allowed more interactivity within web pages. Now users can easily and freely edit information on a website, for example wikis (Tinani, 2011). The Web 2.0 has also given users the ability to contribute to the web. Services and applications have been introduced which allow a large number of users to create and distribute User Created Content (UCC) (Wikis and Social Networking, 2007) This ability has also given rise to social networking: displaying personal content for the world to see and to interact with people in a way never imagined before (O’Reilly, 2005)...
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...Assume you have to prepare older employees with little computer experience to attend a training course on how to use the World Wide Web. How will you ensure that they have high levels of readiness for training? How will you determine their readiness for training? I would try to have pre class meetings with no more than three of them at a time and begin with a computer that is not turned on and take them through step by step. I would go slowly, and ensure they have time to write things down completely. It has been my experience that different people will have difficulties in different places. This is why I want to see them in small groups. They will be able to assist each other during the training. I would plan on no more than an hour per group and would use their personal interests to help them see that exploring the World Wide Web can be fun rather than intimidating. My experience in this area has shown it is not about capability as much as it is overcoming intimidation. Therefore my goal would not be to train them in how to use the world wide web (this is what th training class is for) so much as to give them the confidence in their capabilities of learning what the training was offering. Response 2 I would perform an assessment of each team member's level of computer knowledge and preferred method of learning, i.e., reading material, working hands on, use of visual aids, etc. Prior to the class, I would give materials to each team member along with a workbook which...
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...The World Wide Web has made an enormous impact on communication in the past few years. Once only accessible to a few, the World Wide Web is now utilized by more than half the populations of developed countries. Originally intended to allow scientists to share information, the World Wide Web is now used by retirees to manage their stock portfolios and by school children to download their homework assignments. All indications suggest that the World Wide Web will continue to grow. Web design is a relatively new profession. Unfortunately, some believe that web design is a simple process that can be done without much training. The result is that many websites are not very user-friendly. We have all experienced poorly designed websites where pages take too long to download, text is indiscernible over a wildly patterned background, and navigation is confusing. In this course, you will learn the design principles and conventions that web design experts employ to create well-designed websites. This first chapter will provide an overview of how the Internet and the World Wide Web began and how they developed over the years. You will also learn about relevant technologies and terms related to the Internet and the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same thing. The Internet is a worldwide computer network that links thousands of smaller networks; whereas, the World Wide Web is a system of Internet servers that support specially formulated documents. In this...
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