...Association for Information Systems AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) ECIS 2005 Proceedings European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 1-1-2005 Analysis of eBusiness Models for Digital Media Content Michael Amberg University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, amberg@wiso.uni-erlangen.de Manuela Schroeder University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, manuela.schroeder@wiso.uni-erlangen.de Recommended Citation Amberg, Michael and Schroeder, Manuela, "Analysis of eBusiness Models for Digital Media Content" (2005). ECIS 2005 Proceedings. Paper 138. http://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2005/138 This material is brought to you by the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) at AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). It has been accepted for inclusion in ECIS 2005 Proceedings by an authorized administrator of AIS Electronic Library (AISeL). For more information, please contact elibrary@aisnet.org. ANALYSIS OF E-BUSINESS MODELS FOR DIGITAL MEDIA CONTENT Amberg, Michael, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany, amberg@wiso.uni-erlangen.de Schroeder, Manuela, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Lange Gasse 20, 90403 Nuremberg, Germany, manuela.schroeder@wiso.uni-erlangen.de Abstract The digitalization of media content and the development of new communication and distribution channels change the media sector and the business environment worldwide. Over the last ten years, technical advances have enabled the consumers to digitize, store...
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...A JOINT STUDY OF THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific ISSUES PAPER Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific Issues Paper April 2013 A Joint Study of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute © 2013 Asian Development Bank Institute All rights reserved. Published 2013. Printed in Japan Printed using vegetable oil-based inks on recycled paper; manufactured through a totally chlorine-free process. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Disaster risk management in Asia and the Pacific: issues paper / Asian Development Bank Institute p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Disaster incidence. 2. Vulnerability. 3. Social and economic impacts. I. Asian Development Bank Institute. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), or their Board of Governors or the governments they represent. ADB and ADBI do not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this publication and accept no responsibility for any consequence of their use. By making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area, or by using the term “country” in this document, ADB and ADBI do not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. ADBI encourages printing or copying...
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...◆ 3D Rendering in the Cloud ˇ c Martin D. Carroll, Ilija Hadzi´ , and William A. Katsak Many modern applications and window systems perform three-dimensional (3D) rendering. For a cloud system to support such applications, that 3D rendering must be performed in the cloud, because the end-user equipment cannot be relied upon to contain the necessary rendering hardware. All systems that perform 3D rendering in the cloud are faced with two fundamental and related problems: 1) How to enable an arbitrary number of users to produce rendered pixel streams, and 2) how to transfer those pixel streams out of the server’s frame buffers and into one or more encoders, for transmission to the user. We have implemented a new form of display virtualization that solves both of these problems in a low-level and transparent manner. Using our display virtualization (which we call the virtual cathode ray tube controller (VCRTC)), the cloud system can support an arbitrary number of pixel streams (bounded only by memory and bandwidth resources), and it can dynamically associate those streams with encoders. VCRTCs are completely transparent to the applications: No application needs to be modified, recompiled, or even relinked to use VCRTCs. Because they are low-level and transparent, VCRTCs are also a general mechanism with utility beyond cloud systems. © 2012 Alcatel-Lucent. Introduction Three-dimensional rendering is the process of transforming a model of a three-dimensional (3D) scene...
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...NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 1. Introduction. Pakistan is located in a region which is prone to number of natural disasters. Due to its diverse range of terrain and existence of fault lines, the country is susceptible to wide ranging hazards from earthquake to droughts and floods to cyclones. Pakistan has suffered floods almost every year as monsoon rains cause rivers to outflow from their banks. The country also experiences earthquake regularly ranging from moderate to severe in intensity. We have been suffering from drought like situation of varying degrees from many years and the coastal areas are prone to cyclones. There is no comprehensive, integrated disaster management policy at national level for dealing with major disasters like earthquake of 2005 and floods of 2010 and 2011 partially due to limited resources, economic instability and partially due to absence of well trained and equipped disaster management infrastructure. We also lack proper system for disaster prevention and preparedness that could ensure effective mitigation to reduce the loss of life and property damage in the face of a natural disaster. 2. Disaster management is unfortunately seen as provision of relief rather than the management of all of its phases and long term management of risk. We therefore need a comprehensive preparedness, prevention and mitigation strategy with a view to better manage and coordinate activities of various line ministries, departments and civil society. Pakistan...
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...in the face of challenges presented by the networked economy, firms must develop competencies that enable not only high performance market interactivity and adaptive, intuitive customer engagement platforms, but also contribute to the development of sound business strategies that ensure a firm’s competitiveness in the vast web-based business environment. Considering this, important factors such as copyright infringement, regulatory compliance, and policy and procedure guidelines must be considered in order to ensure safe business practices while endorsing and protecting a company’s brand, reputation, and intellectual property. This paper serves to identify the primary challenges posed by e-commerce landscapes, while profiling the characteristics of the four infrastructures most commonly found in web-based business models. Furthermore, this paper also discusses the ways that managers can optimize their business strategies to gain competitive advantage by employing the opportunities provided by the Internet market space. Overview of e-Commerce Business Models Today’s networked economy presents a variety of business challenges that are unique to e-commerce. Therefore, it becomes necessary for managers to become intimately familiar both with the opportunities and risks associated with web-based business, understanding how the networked economy helps to expand into new markets, grow consumer mindshare, and increase revenues to maximize shareholder value. An examination of traditional...
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...Rethinking the Networked Economy: The True Forces Driving the Digital Marketplace. By Stan Liebowitz Professor of Economics University of Texas at Dallas 2/3/2002 Chapter 1 Introduction .............................................................................................. 1 A. What you will find in later chapters............................................................ 3 Chapter 2: Basic Economics of the Internet.............................................................. 9 A. How the Internet creates value.................................................................... 9 B. Special Economics of the Internet, or maybe not so special..................... 13 i. Network effects......................................................................................... 13 ii. Economies of Scale................................................................................... 15 iii. Winner take all.......................................................................................... 17 C. How the Internet Alters the likelihood of Winner-take-all....................... 20 Chapter 3: Racing to be first: Faddish and Foolish ................................................. 25 A. From Winner-take-all to First-Mover-Wins ............................................. 26 B. The Concept of Lock-In............................................................................ 32 i. Strong Lock-In ...................................................................
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...practices. To them, it is stealing from the record company and from the artist themselves. Consumers don’t tend to see it that way. The issue that arises here is whether or not should music be accessible for free trade over the internet. On the one hand, it is thought that MP3 downloads reduce sales of legitimate CDs. On the other hand, it can be argued that downloading free MP3s could actually encourage someone to buy a CD which they may not have purchased had they not heard it in its entirety. This is known as the sampling effect. The focus of this research paper will be to paper analyze the impact of music file sharing on the demand, supply, and prosperity of the music industry. The music industry is presently in a state of alarm. Many believe this is attributable to the capability of the Internet to lower costs for authorized as well as unauthorized copies, with the second being significantly more ubiquitous. In this paper, I will discuss the intent of copyright, the role of copying and file-sharing, the difference between explorers and...
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...Table of Contents Executive Summary 5 Marketing Strategy 6 Background 6 Company 6 Products 7 Situational Analysis 7 Market Share 8 Goals 8 Strategy 9 SWOT Analysis 9 Strengths 10 Weaknesses 11 Opportunities 11 Threats 12 Customers 12 Competitors 14 Positioning 14 Competitor Market Share 15 Collaborators 15 Role of Partnerships 15 Complimentary Businesses 16 Climate 16 Political/Legal 16 Economic 16 Technological 17 Social/Cultural 17 Issues Analysis 17 Personal Computer Market 17 New Products 17 International Operations 18 Digital rights management system (DRM) 18 eBusiness Models 18 Market Research and Market Intelligence 20 Marketing Strategy 25 Tactical e-Marketing and Communications Planning 28 Tactical Approach 28 Product 28 Promotion 29 Price 31 Place 31 Use of Technology 31 Delivery Mechanism 34 Flexible manufacturing plants 34 Supplier Relationship Management. 35 Channel Management 36 Marketing Communications 37 Developing an Integrated Marketing Communications Plan 37 Overarching Goals of the Plan 38 Message Development 38 Communication Media, Venues, and Campaign Elements 39 Tactical Marketing Plan Elements 40 Regulation and Ethics Issues 45 Responding to Regulation and Ethics Issues 46 Assessing E-Marketing Effectiveness 47 Conclusion 50 References 51 List of Figures Figure 1 - Porter's Five Forces Analysis Framework 22 Figure 2 - Comparative Competitor Specifications 23 Figure 3 ' Online Advertising Tracking...
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...bookstores, and companies that manufacture eReaders have high expectations for the digital future of the book industry. A new generation of eReaders may, at last, achieve the long-awaited breakthrough that lures consumers away from paper and ink. In the United States, Amazon has revolutionized the market by producing an eReader that is easy to use and making it easy for customers to purchase a wide variety of books at competitive prices. While some people herald the advent of digital reader technology as an opportunity to open new target markets and create customers, others mourn the end of traditional books and doubt the industry will be able to retain control over pricing and content. • Who will purchase eReaders? Will they be designed to appeal to a broad group of customers or only to those who have a high degree of comfort with technology? Will people who read once in a while want to buy an eReader, or will they only be purchased by the small group of customers who buy and read a high volume of books? • Will publishers be able to use eBooks and eReaders to extend the market for books in general, creating a wider audience? • Will publishers ever move to an alldigital model and abandon printed books? This research is complemented by more than 40 interviews with experts and senior executives of reader manufacturers, a wide range...
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...Xbox One vs. Playstation 4 Media (Artifact paper) Mario Palomino Student ID: 1760440 BUSB 340 – Robert Liljenwall Due Date: February 23 2014 What hell is a Nintendo? I got my first video game console in the summer of 1991. My parents purchased it from SEARS for my birthday and at which point I had no idea what it was. A couple of the kids and their parents knew that it was and were shocked that my parents spend $100 dollars on something like that. It was still in the box until one afternoon I came home from school. I set it up in the living room, only room with a television. Popped in Super Mario Bros, this simple 8-bit game would change the entertainment industry. I did not become a fanboy until I attend Florida A&M. Besides my classes and football schedule, I usually spend my free time in my apartment. One of my friends back home told me about Microsoft’s Xbox gave gamers the ability to play against each other and they did not need to be in the same living room. Walked into a Game Stop and walked out with my first console since the Nintendo my parents got me so many birthdays ago. Once at my apartment, plugged everything in and started playing. Completely different from what I remember when I was eight years ago. Xbox became my gateway drugs, from hours of study, from the beating my body would take from football and boredom. History of Sony's gaming console Before Sony entered into the gaming industry they establish Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) in mid-November...
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...How Windows Server 2008 Delivers Business Value Published: January 2008 © 2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. This document is developed prior to the product’s release to manufacturing, and as such, we cannot guarantee that all details included herein will be exactly as what is found in the shipping product. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. The information represents the product at the time this document was printed and should be used for planning purposes only. Information subject to change at any time without prior notice. This whitepaper is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Microsoft, Active Directory, PowerShell, SharePoint, SoftGrid, Windows, Windows Media, the Windows logo, Windows Vista, and Windows Server are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. Table of Contents Table of Contents ii Introduction 1 Make Your Infrastructure More Efficient with Virtualization 1 Server Virtualization...
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...ASSESSMENT OF THE 95TH ADJUTANT GENERAL RECEPTION BATTALION AT FORT SILL, OKLAHOMA By Michael Gonzalez and Daneen R. Jefferson A research project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of M.M.A. Management and Leadership Webster University 2014 DISCLAIMER The views expressed in this academic research paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the 95th Adjutant General Reception Battalion, the United States Government or the Department of Defense. i TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I- INTRODUCTION | | Introduction…………………………………………………………… | 1 | Statement of the Problem…………………………………………….. | 1 | Sub-Problems………………………………………………………… | 1 | Delimitations…………………………………………………………. | 2 | Definition of Terms……………………………………..………….… | 3 | Abbreviations…………………………………………………………. | 3 | Assumptions………………………………………………………….. | 5 | Importance of the Study………………………………………………. | 6 | Conclusion……………………………………………………………. | 6 | | | CHAPTER II-LITERATURE REVIEW | | Introduction…………………………………………………………… | 7 | History…………………………………………...…………………… | 7 | Mission……………………………………………..………………… | 8 | Agency row mission………………………………..………………… | 10 | Agency row throughput…………………………..…………………,.. | 18 | Authorizations…………………………………..……………………. | 21 | Civil...
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...Journal of Accounting and Economics 55 (2013) 206–224 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Accounting and Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jae Cost of capital and earnings transparency$ Mary E. Barth a,n, Yaniv Konchitchki b, Wayne R. Landsman c a Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA c Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA b a r t i c l e in f o abstract Article history: Received 22 December 2008 Received in revised form 19 November 2012 Accepted 23 January 2013 Available online 1 February 2013 We provide evidence that firms with more transparent earnings enjoy a lower cost of capital. We base our earnings transparency measure on the extent to which earnings and change in earnings covary contemporaneously with returns. We find a significant negative relation between our transparency measure and subsequent excess and portfolio mean returns, and expected cost of capital, even after controlling for previously documented determinants of cost of capital. & 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: D8 G12 M4 M41 Keywords: Cost of capital Earnings transparency 1. Introduction This study provides evidence that firms with more transparent earnings enjoy a lower cost of capital. Firms with more transparent earnings are those whose earnings...
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...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466232.aspx#eacompar_topic4 Home Library Learn Downloads Support Community Sign in | United States - English | Preferences Expand MSDN A Comparison of the Top Four Enterprise-Architecture Methodologies Roger Sessions ObjectWatch, Inc. May 2007 Applies to: Enterprise Architecture Summary: Twenty years ago, a new field was born that soon came to be known as enterprise architecture. This paper covers a broad introduction to the field of enterprise architecture. Although the history of the field goes back 20 years, the field is still evolving—and rapidly so. (36 printed pages) Contents Executive Summary Introduction A Brief History of Enterprise Architecture Case Study The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architectures The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Gartner Comparison Conclusion Glossary References Executive Summary Twenty years ago, a new field was born that soon came to be known as enterprise architecture. The field initially began to address two problems: System complexity—Organizations were spending more and more money building IT systems; and Poor business alignment—Organizations were finding it more and more difficult to keep those increasingly expensive IT systems aligned with business need. The bottom line: more cost, less value. These problems, first recognized 20 years ago, have today reached a crisis point. The cost...
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...Project in Data Communication Helen Grace A. Fernandez 201011542 February 9, 2011 Contents 1 Reaction to the Game 2 Description of Hardware 2.1 First Generation . . . . . . . . . 2.1.1 1G Base Station . . . . . 2.1.2 Copper Node . . . . . . . 2.1.3 Coax Node . . . . . . . . 2.1.4 Optical Node . . . . . . . 2.1.5 20 RAS 5850s . . . . . . . 2.1.6 WAN Switch IGX MGX 2.1.7 WAN Switch BPX . . . . 2.1.8 Router 7200 . . . . . . . . 2.1.9 Router 7500 . . . . . . . . 2.1.10 ONS 15454 . . . . . . . . 2.1.11 Mobile Switch MSC . . . 2.1.12 Cable Headend Analog . 2.1.13 Cable Headend Digital . 2.1.14 Telephone Switch . . . . 2.1.15 Second Generation . . . . 2.1.16 50 WiFi Base Stations . 2.1.17 25 MSPPs . . . . . . . . . 2.1.18 10 CMTS UBRs . . . . . 2.1.19 50 DSLAMs . . . . . . . . 2.1.20 25 MWRs . . . . . . . . . 2.1.21 20 Cat2000 Switches . . 2.1.22 Router 7600 . . . . . . . . 2.1.23 Router 10000 . . . . . . . 2.1.24 Router 12000 . . . . . . . 1 8 10 10 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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