...Maithe Penaherrera SHA HF200 “The Rise of the Internet” The last fifteen years have impacted the hospitality industry in various ways and depending on the side of the industry a person is on, it has greatly impacted their wallet as well. From the view of a consumer, knowledge of the industry has widened and the costs associated with partaking in the hospitality industry, i.e. restaurant dining, booking commercial flights, booking hotel accommodations, etc,. has decreased. However, from the perspective of a person employed in the hospitality industry, the costs associated vary depending on the area of hospitality they work in. Mercedes Flores, former travel agent for Costamar Travel from 1994-1999, describes the changes she experienced at Costamar as the world transitioned into the digital era. Once, many customers would come intro travel agencies for any type of travel service, be it one way personal or business trips to month long all-inclusive vacations. But as the internet became a more readily available resource to the average consumer, the number of customers who came in to Costamar for simple one way or two way flights decreased. Customers who did come in for such flights were of more advanced age, generally because they did not know how to use the internet. In 1999, Mercedes left Costmar. In the year 2000, Costamar became one of the first e-business travel agencies. Mercedes says her location was closed a few years afterward. She currently works as a home attendant...
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..." The rise of social media and the internet has provided the people of today with an amazing resource of information and entertainment, but this does not mean that there are not issues that come along with it. The internet is a place where names can remain anonymous and people can communicate with almost anyone they want. This ability that the internet gives people has caused the debate over regulation of the internet to rise. Some demand for regulate due to reasons such as bullies using the internet as a platform to make fun of others. Bullying is an issue that is not taken lightly in today’s society, and the rise of cyber bullying has caused controversy on how to deal with it. Another issue that recently has contributed to this debate...
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...The Birth of the Internet and Rise of Social Media Although computers were not a strange concept during the 1960’s, they were still a new idea and only a few expensive, room-sized mainframe computers around the country were used for research. Technology has been constantly evolving for decades since the birth of computers, today, it’s a race amongst consumers to posses the latest edition of their favorite piece of technology. Computers have become such a hot commodity in today’s society; in fact, they are more like a necessity. We find ourselves waking up each morning to check emails or Facebook to see what people are talking about it the world. Along with personal pleasure, businesses find themselves dependent on the use of computers and the Internet. Many jobs have been created with the expansion of technology as well as the downfall of jobs being lost due to physical labor being replaced by technology. The Internet was initially developed as a military-government research project, with computer time-sharing being one of its goals. During the late 1960’s, this original Internet called ARPAnet and nicknamed the Net, allowed military and academic researchers to communicate on a distributed network system. ARPA was initially created to benefit users in a manner so that they were able to log on to a network system from any computer at multiple locations. “The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. It’s universality...
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...MICROSOFT AND THE INTERNET: HOW TO RESPOND TO THE RISE OF GOOGLE? Microsoft started investing in the market for internet search and internet advertising in 2003. Despite some interesting technological and marketing moves, however, the company was still a distant third to Google 5 years later and was losing money. In the early 2009, Microsoft’s executives were wondering which bold strategic moves could be made to change this situation. How the Microsoft adventure began At the end of 2008, Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates in 1975, was a giant with revenues of $60 billion and operating cash flow of $22 billion. A large part of Microsoft’s success had come from operating systems for personal computers. Operating systems were the core software that coordinated a computer’s activities. In the early 1980s, Microsoft was chosen by IBM to develop the MS-DOS and to tailor it to IBM needs. Bill Gates, who believed that many other companies might also adopt the same system, sold IBM the rights to use the software for $80,000 but insisted that Microsoft kept the copyrights on MS-DOS. This worked beyond expectations as the many competitors -for instance, Compaq or Dell- who imitated the IBM PC adopted MS-DOS as well, paying Microsoft licence fees of $15 per machine. By the early 1990s, Microsoft had over 90% of the operating system business, Apple gathering most of the rest. Armies of developers were also developing hundreds of software applications that ran on MS-DOS. Microsoft’s dominance...
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...Is The Rise Of An Internet Only Hiring Process Discriminatory To Poor Americans And Minorities? Steven Wilson PMAP 4211 9/20/2011 As a young man, my father gave me that advice that when applying for a job, make a good first impression by putting on your nicest suit, introducing yourself to the manager, have a strong handshake, and look him/her in the eye. This advice served me well over the years and helped me to gain many different positions. But what about the job seekers of today? Over the years, I have trained many young people to research what they want to do and then to go to that business during a slow time and ask for the manager and do just that. A firm handshake, a confident voice, and strong eye contact would make the Hiring individual remember you and want to hire you. But over the years, that method has become less and less effective. Young people come back dejected and disappointed because the only response they get is to go to a website and fill out an application. Gone are the days of going into many businesses, asking for the manager and dropping off a resume or an application. Most large companies have adopted a policy of internet only applications. Instead of applicants taking up the time of a manager, applicants are directed to a website to apply for their desired position. Sometimes there is even a kiosk on site to complete the task. On the surface this seems like a great idea. Companies cut down a lot of time...
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...Problem. United States consumers have experienced some dramatic increases and wide fluctuations in gasoline prices over the past several years (Federal Trade Commission 2005 Report). This Fluctuating gasoline price is as a result of several factors. It is reported that the price of crude oil which is gasoline’s primary ingredient has a massive influence on fluctuating gasoline prices. It is believed that about 50% of the cost of gasoline is influenced by the cost of crude oil. Crude oil is a commodity traded in the open market. If crude oil price rises, then there will be an increase in the price of gasoline and vice versa. Gasoline prices are subject to the ordinary forces of supply and demand. If there is a continuous reduction in demand, gasoline prices will significantly drop and if there is a continuous increase in demand for gasoline then prices will obviously rise. Therefore, gasoline prices rise if it costs more to produce and supply gasoline or if consumers are willing to purchase gasoline at the current price – that is when demand is greater than supply. On the other hand, prices for gasoline will fall if consumers are willing to buy less gasoline at the current price- that is when supply is greater than demand. (Federal Trade Commission 2005 Report). There are other factors that influence the price of gasoline like political unrests such as recent ones in the Middle East. Refinery breakdown can temporarily spike gasoline because of reduction...
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...seasonal demand slumped in the fall.” (Strauss, 2012) One of the reasons for this fluctuation in gas prices is due to the price of crude oil. Crude oil prices account for 72% of gasoline and the remaining 28% comes from taxes. (Amadeo, 2013)There are also other reasons for this increase at the pump, decline in the value of the dollar, as well as, future exchanges. Traders will bid on the price of gasoline or future prices by what they think it will be in the future, this in turn makes them bid up. Because of this bidding up, it leads to higher prices at the pump. (Amadeo, 2013) Another reason for this rise is particularly due to the time of season as well. Traders know that the demand for gas will rise in the summer due to family vacations and increased travel. These traders begin buying oil in the spring in anticipation for the rise of gasoline. War and rising gasoline prices, of course we all have seen it happen, but whenever there is a conflict of some sort, the price of gasoline seems to go up. Just recently in the news Iran began a conflict near the Straitz of Hormuz, which is the area of world’s oil flows. Oil traders then begin bidding up out of fear of a decline in oil supply. (Amadeo, 2013) Finally another reason we see gas prices increase at the pump is due to natural disasters. For example Hurricane Isaac. and most recently Hurricane Sandy. Mostly we see this happen when hurricanes are heading...
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...Answers to the Problems and Applications 1. William Gregg owned a mill in South Carolina. In December 1862, he placed a notice in the Edgehill Advertiser announcing his willingness to exchange cloth for food and other items. Here is an extract: 1 yard of cloth for 1 pound of bacon 2 yards of cloth for 1 pound of butter 4 yards of cloth for 1 pound of wool 8 yards of cloth for 1 bushel of salt a. What is the relative price of butter in terms of wool? 1 pound of butter exchanged for 2 yards of cloth and 4 yards of cloth exchanged for 1 pound of wool. Hence 1 pound of butter exchanged for 2 yards of cloth and 2 yards of cloth exchanged for 1/2 pound of wool. So the relative price of butter in terms of wool was 1/2 pound of wool per pound of butter. b. If the money price of bacon was 20¢ a pound, what do you predict was the money price of butter? 1 pound of bacon exchanged for 1 yard of cloth and 2 yards of cloth exchanged for 1 pound of butter. Hence it took 2 pounds of bacon to exchange for 1 pound of butter. As a result, if the money price of a pound of bacon was 20¢ the money price of 1 pound of butter was 40¢. c. If the money price of bacon was 20¢ a pound and the money price of salt was $2.00 a bushel, do you think anyone would accept Mr. Gregg’s offer of cloth for salt? If the money price of bacon is 20¢ a pound, Mr. Gregg’s offer to exchange 1 pound of bacon for 1 yard of cloth means that anyone could obtain 1 yard of cloth for a money price of 20¢. Mr. Gregg’s...
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...rapidly changing and people don’t know what to consider a fickle trend or an actual anthropological shift in the way in which politics operates today. What is becoming clear is that the Internet, or more specifically social media, is now a mean in which politicians can communicate with their electorate. At the same time it is a means in which electorates can engage with politicians. The political landscape is now scattered and fractured; and it is becoming difficult to discern what is politics and what is white noise. The article Party Change, Social Media, and the Rise of “Citizen-Initiated” Campaigning Rachel Gibson dissects the recent trends in the way that the internet and social media have changed the populist political landscape. What she focuses most on is Citizen Initiated Campaigning or CIC. This is grass roots campaigning that occurs in the digital sphere but eventually blends into actual organizations and voter turn outs for specific events and elections. Through her article Gibson examines how citizens engage with politicians they are passionate about and how they use social media to relay that politicians message to people they know through the internet. Through this form of CIC Gibson notices a dichotomy in this digital realm of of politics “On the one hand, the Internet is seen as reconnecting parties with their civic roots by providing the basis for a more democratic mode of organization…The incentive for adopting a new model of web campaigning that...
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...Mini Research Paper: Internet Bubble Fundamentals of E-Commerce Professor: Russell Calhoun Precious Harper Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………. 3 Brief Description of WWW and Internet …………………………… 4 Successful Dot.com companies……………………………………… 5 Unsuccessful Dot.com companies…………………………………… 6 Conclusion……………………………………………………………. 6 Work Cited…………………………………………………………… 7 British engineer Tim Berners-Lee developed the world-wide-web in 1989; the World Wide Web became available publically on August 6, 1991. The world-wide-web is a system of resources that allows people to view and interact with a variety of information. A computer that is connected to the Internet can access the world-wide-web. Many people believe the Internet and the World-Wide-Web are one in the same when in-fact they are not. The Internet is a massive network of networks; it connects personal computers, mainframes, cell phones, GPS units, music players etc. The Internet started in the 1960’s and it’s a massive hardware combination of millions of personal, business and government computers all connected like roads and highways. The world-wide-web (WWW) is a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) which supports and links documents, graphics, video and audio files. Web...
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...Internet Bubble Table of Contents 1. The Beginning 2. World Wide Web and Internet-Not The Same Thing 3. Rise of the World Wide Web 4. Fall of The World Wide Web 5. Conclusion The Beginning The World Wide Web was officially introduced to the world on August 6, 1991 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The World Wide Web refers to a system of resources that will facilitate individuals using computer to view and interact with different type of information. The concept of the World Wide Web is to combine the methods of computer networking into a dominant and easy to utilize worldwide information system. Tim Berners-Lee formally introduced his project to the world on the hypertext newsgroup. In his own words from a post he said “aims to allow links to be made to any information anywhere”. It linked between different documents using the hypertext method. He made available all of the files necessary for people to replicate his invention. Although invented many years earlier Mr. Berners-Lee’s invention married hypertext with the internet. World Wide Web and Internet-Not The Same Thing The World Wide Web and the Internet are terms that to most people mean the same thing. While they’re related, their definitions are different. The Internet is the structure on which the World Wide Web is based which is at its most basic definition an electronic communications network. The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet “designed to allow easier navigation through the...
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...Title : Internet Dating: Should or Should Not? Stand : Should Not Specific purpose : To convince my audience that internet dating brings lots of danger. In the world we live in today some people rely on the internet in order to find love. But online dating isn't all that it's cracked up to be. In fact, you should stay away from it. Dating online is not safe. Sure there are some dating sites that are legitimate and a little less dangerous, but some people rely on facebook, myspace, and instant messaging for dating which is just plain wrong. Not only is it unpersonal, but you can never tell who you're really seeing. The picture you're looking at could be years old or be a different all together. And if you finally decide to meet your online partner, it's very likely that you'll be disappointed in their real appearance or, in a worse case scenario, find that you're dating a pedophile. It's great that people enjoy finding love, but it's best not to do it online. It's a dangerous and impersonal experience that leads to disappointment most of the time. If you find yourself looking for your soulmate, do it the old fashioned way and go out and meet someone in person. Because of the dangerous internet dating brings to a person's life. It can be addictive, rise of fake personality, and also charge of to much money on membership fees. Now, let me tell why you should not enroll yourself in a cyber dating world, the internet dating by the first disadvantage. It can be...
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...Business Economics GM545 Course Project- Part 1 Exercise 1 Microeconomics Issue: Everyone’s Gasoline Problem The recent history of gasoline prices in the North East part of the country, specifically Philadelphia, PA. has been consistently declining and according to sources such as the Associated Press prices will continue to fall. (See Exhibit 1) Gasoline prices fluctuate for many reasons. The reason this happens is because of the following factors: Seasonal Demands Gas prices usually rise in the late spring and summer months because the demand for it is greater. During the summer months people drive more, they get out in the good weather, they go on vacation. In winter gasoline prices usually go back down. Not many people are driving like they do in the summer so the quantity demanded is less. Competition Gas stations change their prices to stay competitive with other gas stations. The way it is now, some days a gas station will make more, and some days it will make less. Unfortunately, in the short run there are no substitutions for consumers to replace gas with, so we must pay the higher prices, because we are not able to switch to another type of fuel. Supply and Demand If the use of gas powered vehicles increases the demand for the fuel goes up. Usually when this happens it causes cost increases because of the extra production costs involved in supplying the product. The refineries have to work more to increase the quantity supplied, tankers and trucks...
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............The Internet as a Utility 04.....................................................................................................................Redefining the “Social” Life - Changing Norms and Values of Digital Natives 05.....................................................................................................................The Social Business - Connecting with Customers, Employees and Society 05.....................................................................................................................Conclusion 06.....................................................................................................................References 07.....................................................................................................................About the Author 07.....................................................................................................................About WCIR 07.....................................................................................................................About Wipro Technologies Abstract The rapid pace of technology development and adoption is bringing about a change in social dynamics. This paper discusses the rapid rise of social media in Asia and its impact on business and society. It sheds light on the factors responsible for this growth and how can businesses use this phenomenon to connect better with their customers, employees and society. The world’s internet-using...
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...to its underground roots. It wasn’t until 2011 when EDM began its explosive introduction into the United States. This has resulted in EDM evolving more than it has in years. In addition to the general public, colleges have implemented electronic music production into their programs. This has helped the evolution of EDM. Another contributer to the rise in popularity has been DJ’s playing EDM in clubs, introducing it to a wider audience. Being in the spotlight has brought many people to offer their support for EDM. Some say this can wither away the genres credibility. With so many people involved in the EDM scene, big companys see the opportunity to exploit it with inexperienced producers creating music to advertise for these companys. But with the EDM scene being so diverse and unique, it has done well in keeping disconnected from these money hungry companys. One way it has done this is by giving birth to a new type of music producer: the bedroom producer. These pioneers have paved the path for independent music by lending fresh ideas into this genre. Despite the mainstream controversies/opinions that have rained on EDM with its rise to fame, it has and will continue to grow as an art form. Before the explosion in America, EDM was basically only found in the British and other European countrys’ underground. Some think that...
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