...Over the past decade, new technologies have come about having astronomically powerful impact on the economy. The leaps and bounds that the technology industry has taken weren't always for the better. The downsides to all of these victories in man vs. machine have come with their problems and a price. These downfalls are far from over and we can expect a global conflict at the hands of technology in the near future. Technology has been used as a theft device in many respects, from jobs to copyrighted property. With unrestricted sources such as the internet, the ways to slow down this moral massacre are few and far between (Per F. Peterson). Many companies fear technology more than they embrace it. Taking the giant leap into the twenty-first century has frightened some veteran companies to enough to keep them from attempting anything as simple as a corporate website. In 1999, there were over 4,000 lawsuits against technologies. All of these claims were staked on the theory that these new technologies were a threat to the companies' clients and profits (Economic Evaluation). Such technologies included handheld devices for stock market observation or software that stored passwords to important restricted files. Devices such as these were originally designed to simplify the process of purchasing and trading stocks. Like-wise, such programs were developed to quicken access to files that may be time-crucial in monetary factors (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission). Morality...
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...2. ALGORITHMS, FLOWCHARTS, DATA TYPES AND PSEUDOCODE 2.1 ALGORITHMS The term algorithm originally referred to any computation performed via a set of rules applied to numbers written in decimal form. The word is derived from the phonetic pronunciation of the last name of Abu Ja'far Mohammed ibn Musa al-Khowarizmi, who was an Arabic mathematician who invented a set of rules for performing the four basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) on decimal numbers. An algorithm is a representation of a solution to a problem. If a problem can be defined as a difference between a desired situation and the current situation in which one is, then a problem solution is a procedure, or method, for transforming the current situation to the desired one. We solve many such trivial problems every day without even thinking about it, for example making breakfast, travelling to the workplace etc. But the solution to such problems requires little intellectual effort and is relatively unimportant. However, the solution of a more interesting problem of more importance usually involves stating the problem in an understandable form and communicating the solution to others. In the case where a computer is part of the means of solving the problem, a procedure, explicitly stating the steps leading to the solution, must be transmitted to the computer. This concept of problem solution and communication makes the study of algorithms important to...
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...Economics: Healthcare in the USA I believe that the most important economic issue facing the USA at this time is healthcare and prescription drugs. Affordable healthcare and prescription coverage should be available to everyone. Coverage should also have options for small businesses and the self-employed. Recent surveys state that some 47 million U.S. residents have no health insurance, and the numbers keep growing. This is a very personal issue for me as I am one of the 47 million people without health insurance coverage. I am employed full-time for the State Comptroller’s Office as an Administrative Assistant. I actually am employed by Accustaff, a temporary agency. I have worked for them for 2 ½ years without any benefits. Prior to this employment, I had 22 years of employment with the County of Columbia and always had benefits, which included health insurance. I was making $50,000 a year and I am now making $21,000 a year. I was told that I make “too much money” to be eligible for Medicaid. The health insurance available through my employer is extremely expensive and the coverage is “limited” and is full of deductibles and exclusions. I was recently sick and went to St. Peter’s Hospital Emergency Room. The ER doctor saw me for 2.2 minutes and diagnosed me with an upper respiratory infection. No other diagnostic testing was done. He gave me prescriptions to fill and I was sent home. I had to request prescriptions that were on the Wal-Mart $4.00 list otherwise...
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...Account Payable: There are accounts detailed records, which are regularly updates in the form of book with pages committed to every supplier that shows how much is payable to each supplier. Accounting Payable Ledger provides each transaction with listed supplier. The balance in this ledger will meet with the general ledger accounting balance. By outsourcing your accounts payable software department to Bookkeeping Services India your organization gets instant access to the latest in web-based technology and best practices without large capital investments and long, risky implementation cycles. We provide perfect and secure accounts payable procedures to any type of business We Execute Accounts Payable Procedures Tasks: •Invoice Receipt Using our customizable supplier portal your suppliers can submit invoices as hardcopy, fax, electronic file transfer and EDI. •Image and Data Capture Hardcopy invoices and Faxes are stored as images in our systems. Invoice data is read from the images into our systems using automation tools. •Process and Route We process the invoice documents according to your business rules. The processed invoices are routed to the appropriate employees within your organization for approval and final resolution. Inaccurate statements can and often do mean cash flow peaks and troughs as suppliers withhold payment. The quality gained through working closely with various industries such as manufacturing, transportation, automotive, pharmaceutical...
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...The Second International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’05) THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGICAL FACTORS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS SUCCESS IN THE ELECTRONICGOVERNMENT CONTEXT R. Hussein Department of Information Systems, Kulliyyah of ICT, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ramlah@iiu.edu.my H. Selamat Department of Management Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Sc. & IT, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. N. S. Abdul Karim Department of Library and Information Science, Kulliyyah of ICT, International Islamic University Malaysia, Jalan Gombak, 53100, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. shariza@iiu.edu.my : ABSTRACT Intensive research and discussion activities on the Information system success have been found to take place since the past two decades. As systems and technologies are being improved and developed, discussions on their effectiveness and evaluation on their success have been continuously debated by researchers, scholars and practitioners. Besides the major concern on IS effectiveness, factors influencing IS effectiveness are also important. Hence, this study was conducted to investigate the influence of technological factors on Delone and McLean’s IS success dimension. Using a survey method, data were gathered from 201 users from four electronic government agencies in Malaysia. The technological factors were represented by IS competency, IS facilities, IS integration, IS structure and...
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...Information Technology Acts Paper BIS220 July 15 Information Technology Acts Paper The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children’s access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet. CIPA applies to any web site that is directed to children under 13 that collects personal information from them or to any web site that collects personal information where they know that the information that they are collecting comes from children. Its basic provisions require that a "clear and prominent" link to the privacy policy must exist on the home page and that the privacy policy itself must be "clearly written and understandable." Furthermore, the legislation explicitly states what must be included in the content of the privacy policy -- this includes things such as the contact information for the operators of the page, the kinds of information that will be collected from children, how the information that is collected will be used, and information about what rights parents have to their child's information (Stanford). The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is the federal government’s principal legal weapon in the battle to protect computer systems and electronically stored information from thieves and vandals. A criminal statute that can be enforced by the U.S. Department of Justice, the CFAA also authorizes private parties to bring a civil damages action against anyone who violates its terms. Two...
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...Information Technology Acts Technology has affected us in a very positive way and has increase quality of life. However, everything comes with a price and at times disadvantages. A major disadvantage is the loss of privacy in many different levels, from our personal lives to our everyday routines but also in the work environment. As a response to the invasion of privacy, the government has passed several laws to counteract this trend and try to protect us and our privacy in some extend. In this paper we will discuss the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Telephone Consumer Protection Act The telephone has brought great benefits and has become a necessity. At the same time, several companies use this as a tool to drive sales and increase profits. Telemarketing is one of the ways companies have taken advantage of this great invention. Who has not been the victim of these intruding and harassing phone calls? This is an issue that has plagued millions of people across the United States since the late eighties. People felt their privacy was being invaded. Their phones numbers and contact information was being sold and shared amongst many companies while they were being bombarded with phone calls in the privacy of their own homes. There was a sense of loss of personal control and privacy. As a result, the government passed the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 in response to the increasing...
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...The domain name info is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The name is derived from information indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation. The info TLD was a response to ICANN's highly publicized announcement[citation needed], in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains. The event was the first addition of major gTLDs since the Domain Name System was developed in the 1980s. The seven new gTLDs, selected from over 180 proposals, were meant in part to take the pressure off the com domain.[1] The info domain has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 5.2 million domain names in the registry as of April 2008. After the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York switched to the easier to remember mta.info website to lead users to latest information on schedules and route changes on the area's transportation services. Even in 2013, a website, Current Score info, was formed to provide current score of Football and Cricket across India. ICANN and Afilias have also sealed an agreement for country names to be reserved by ICANN under resolution 01.92.[2] info is an unrestricted domain, meaning that anyone can obtain a second-level domain under info for any purpose, similar to the com, net or org domains. This is in contrast...
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...INTRODUCTION Organizational Overview In 2004, the BLS ranked healthcare as the largest industry in the U.S. -- providing 13.5 million jobs, including 13.1 million jobs for wage and salary workers and about 411,000 jobs for the self-employed. In addition to being the largest industry, healthcare remains among the fastest-growing. According to BLS projections, 8 of the top 20 fastest-growing occupations are in healthcare, and the industry is also expected to lead in new wage and salary job creation -- generating some 3.6 million between 2004 and 2014. Retrieved from: http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/channels/healthcare/articles/overview.asp Demographic, social, and cultural changes are putting more pressure than ever before on healthcare providers to be accessible, affordable, and responsive. As a result, healthcare organizations rely on technology more than ever to help achieve their business and clinical objectives. Key healthcare organization objectives include: • Better quality of care • Improved patient outcomes • Increased productivity and workflow efficiency • Better information at the point of care • Improved and integrated communications • Privacy and protection of patient information The healthcare environment is one that calls for integration. Today, most hospital networks run, on average, more than 300 applications. Patient information is scattered across disparate systems in public and private healthcare entities, which makes it difficult and costly for...
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...Indian Student Association FAQ document prepared based on the discussion with a group of new students. Some of the questions in this document are applicable only for MIS students. For more information please contact Vamsi Krishna Palaveri Chakravarthy (vamsi.palaveri_chakravarthy@okstate.edu) - President Rhupesh Damodaran Ganesh Kumar (rhupesh@okstate.edu) - Vice-President Avinash Avija (avinash.avija@okstate.edu) - General Secretary Q: Items you must buy from India A: 1. Dress expect winter clothes, at least one set of suit 2. Each one carry at least on pressure cooker because when you move to some other place for internships you need not depend on others. All other cooking essentials you may consider to buy from Walmart (you can get a cooking set for some 50$ to 60$). You will not get chapatti roller, idly steamer and dal masher here. So, buy these items if you wish to. 3. Plan and split provision store items among your roomies. We have one Indian Store (Himalayan) but still you may not get many of the provision store items here. So, usually when we go to Dallas we refill all these items. But do not buy more because most of the time it will be wasted. 4. Ready mix (will help you for few days) but you cannot survive with this. Don’t buy more because it will be wasted. 5. Sports goods are expensive here. So carry two cricket balls at least and other goods based on your wish. 6. Few passport size photos. It’s very expensive here. Q: Items you can buy from...
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...MG650 MANAGING INFO. TECH. ENTERPRISE TERM PAPER MARCH, 04 2015 TOPIC: INTERNET CHALLENGES TO PRIVACY Challenges is a way of testing your abilities in an interesting way, what I believe challenges always is a way of moving someone from one point to another or from one level to another. Challenges is a course of promoting our product and services. INTRODUCTION We use social media to electronically communicate with family, friends, customers, and business associates- using web sites for social networking and microblogging such as twitter, LinkedIn, face book, and Instagram. With social media you share and exchange information, ideas, pictures, and videos. The electronic communication strengthens both our personal and professional relationship and all these communications need privacy. Normally privacy can be define as the condition or quality of being private from the occurrence of others. In our days, internet has face different challenges to protect the privacy of its customers. Information passes in different computer systems before reaches the ending target. And every each systems is required to be monitored, capture, and store communications that go by through it. For example there are tiny files set down on a computer called cookies. When a user visits certain website it recognize the visitor. Cookies and other web monitoring tools closely track the activities of the web site visitors. Internet technology has posed new...
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...Over the past couple of decades I’ve witnessed a great deal of changes in computers and I see many more changes in the future. I remember helping my parents unpack my first computer that came with a very large price tag. I also remember about 20 years ago sitting behind that bulky box with a floppy drive that required the user to insert the floppy into the computers drive, wait a few minutes, then on the command prompt type in commands in order to use the game or software that was inserted in the floppy drive. Everything was slow to start and run, the graphics were poor (but at the time I thought it was great), and everything was simple. Compare that to today where a press of a button and you are almost instantly surfing the internet. Computer devices are a fraction of the size with laptops, tablets, PDAs, and cellphones and cost almost nothing compared to the large price tags of the past. Everything now is so much faster from hardware to software with graphics that are almost lifelike. I can only imagine what the future in computer technology has in store for all of us. With the cost of computer hardware and devices being more and more affordable I see the future where your computer is a hand held device that is as thin as glass about the size of a piece of paper that wirelessly connects to a virtual server or servers that store all your information remotely. Currently Microsoft controls over 90 percent of the PC software market today and many see Microsoft will...
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...top 200. The combined market cap of the top 200 IT companies is 253499 crores as of APR 23 2009. Infosys topped the list in terms of the market cap though TCS tops the revenues list. Wipro and HCL followed the list. iFlex which is renamed to Oracle Financial Services is 5th in the list with a market cap of 7566 crores. Tech Mahindra has a market cap of 4049 crores and Satyam has a market cap of 3184 crores. Together they have a market cap of 7233 crores. This is around 300 crores less than Oracle Financial Services. The integrated company of Tech Mahindra + Satyam stands at 6th position. In all probability that will move further up as the financial situation of Satyam looks better than what the papers tell. Of the top 10 Indian IT stocks only Satyam is the most volatile stock and it can gain few percentage points and change the whole equation. (source) Top 200 IT companies in India by Market Cap : S.No | Companies | Market Cap in Crores | 1 | Infosys Tech | 83024.21 | 2 | Tata Consult | 55579.59 | 3 | Wipro | 45845.61 | 4 | HCL Techno. | 8580.78 | 5 | Oracle Finl. | 7566.75 | 6 | Mphasis | 4741.76 | 7 | Educomp Solu | 4485.72 | 8 | Tech Mahindr | 4049.96 | 9 | Sterling Int | 3495.03 | 10 | Satyam Comp | 3184.18 | 11 | Finan.Techno | 3076.69 | 12 | Patni Comp. | 1967.62 | 13 | HCL Infosys. | 1597.69 | 14 | Tulip Telec. | 1393.02 | 15 | Rolta (I) | 1334.11 | 16 | Moser-Baer | 1084.69 | 17 | Redington | 1013.48 | 18 | MindTree | 935.18...
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...DARA & SON PVT. LTD Rohini, Sec. 29, New Delhi Research Paper by Manish Bhatt and Prabhudas Lilladher ATTRACTIVE MIDCAPS AMONGST RECENT IPO ISSUES:- [pic]Tech Mahindra and GMR Infrastructure have once again raised interest in the IPO segment. While Tech Mahindra and GMR Infra are obvious choices experts are also bullish on Nectar Life sciences, Unity Infra, All cargo Global and…With over subscription of Voltamp Transformer recently experts give attractive midcap picks from this fraternity for the long-term. Future business model, sound managements, availability at prices below their issue price, attractive valuations, niche positioning within their industry and future growth are important reasons why investors should log on to these IPOs feel a bevy of experts Money control spoke with. Apart from that Keynote Capitals in its report titled ‘Attractive Recently Listed Midcap Stocks’ have mentioned names like Nectar Life sciences, Repro India, Talbros Automotive and K Sera. While a number of them are available at a substantial premium to their offer price, six of them are still quoting at a discount to their issue price. Everest Kanto looks pretty good at current levels for the long term. All cargo Global also looks good in the recently listed midcap IPOs. Both the companies are in a niche segment and have done quite well on the fundamentals post-listing. Everest Kanto ranks first as far as LPG cylinder manufacturing is concerned. It posted fairly...
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...The transition from a Socialist approach to a free market approach and the rise of a new high-tech sector are two remarkable shifts that have occurred in the last two decades in Israel. In the face of these changes, human resource (HR) practitioners are currently expected to assume new roles, adopt different work values, and apply appropriate strategies. HR managers in the low-tech industry still adhere to traditional values and strategies, including a reliance on trade unions and an emphasis on job security and the employees’ years of work experience and seniority as key criteria for promotion. In the emerging high-tech sector, HR managers have adopted new values and developed new strategies, including human resource management programs, employee empowerment, higher salaries and better benefits, while placing an emphasis on employees’ talents and qualifications. Source: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm/journals.htm?issn=01437720&volume=22&issue=3&articleid=848302&show=html&PHPSESSID=qj5kp1babsuadbfaj 47luam41 Recent changes in Israeli society and economy and their relation to Organizational Politics Over the past three decades, Israel has undergone significant economic, industrial and cultural transformations. These developments have shifted public values considerably and may indirectly affect OP and HR practices. For example, Sagie and Weisberg (2001) maintain that in recent years, Israeli society has gone from being ascetic...
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