...Information and communications technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is often used as an extended synonym for information technology (IT), but is a more specific term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. The term ICT is also used to refer to the convergence of audio-visual and telephone networks with computer networks through a single cabling or link system. There are large economic incentives (huge cost savings due to elimination of the telephone network) to merge the telephone network with the computer network system using a single unified system of cabling, signal distribution and management. Information and communication technology expenditure (% of GDP) in Pakistan was reported at 4.37 in 2008, according to the World Bank. Information and communications technology expenditures include computer hardware (computers, storage devices, printers, and other peripherals); computer software (operating systems, programming tools, utilities, applications, and internal software development); computer services (information technology consulting, computer and network systems integration, Web hosting, data processing services, and other services); and communications services (voice and data communications...
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...employing a specialist e-commerce oriented consultancy. This involved additional expense, but less than the amount they lost in the hacking attack.Such infiltration can go beyond embarrassment and financial loss. A website can be taken over and used to host illegal sites (including pornographic and warez sites). A warez site is one that provides illegal stolen software. It also provides the means to use copy-protected and similar programmes illegally. Lessons? • If you use the Internet for trading, ensure your website is secure. (See our section on online trading for further information.) • If you do not have IT staff 'in house', seek information security advice from a specialist company Ethical Hacking - A case study The Organization A public organization in the UK that holds and processes extremely sensitive (in some cases political) information. The organization was subjected to a deliberate penetration test (known to some as 'ethical hacking') by a specialist company. What Happened? The network was scanned to determine...
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...TERMS OF SERVICE AND USER AGREEMENT Version 12 (September 15, 2011) PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE AGREEMENT AND INDICATE WHETHER YOU AGREE TO ITS TERMS BY CLICKING THE "ACCEPT" OR "DO NOT ACCEPT" BUTTON AT THE END OF THE AGREEMENT. ACCESS TO THE PLAYSTATION®NETWORK ("PSN") AND QRIOCITY™SONY ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK SERVICES ("QRIOCITYSEN") (COLLECTIVELY, "SONY ONLINE SERVICES") IS EXPRESSLY CONDITIONED UPON ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU CLICK THE "DO NOT ACCEPT" BUTTON, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS PSN OR QRIOCITYSEN. THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS LICENSE TERMS COVERING YOUR USE OF CONTENT. THIS AGREEMENT IS A CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND SONY NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT AMERICA INC. ("SNEAINTERNATIONAL LLC ("SNEI") AND CAN BE ACCEPTED ONLY BY AN ADULT OF LEGAL AGE OF MAJORITY IN THE COUNTRY IN WHICH YOUR SONY ONLINE SERVICES (PSN OR QRIOCITYSEN) ACCOUNT IS REGISTERED. If you are under the legal age of majority, your parent or legal guardian must consent to this Agreement and Privacy Policy. By clicking the "ACCEPT" button yourself, you affirm that you have reached the legal age of majority and accept this Agreement. You also affirm that you accept this Agreement on behalf of, and all legal and financial responsibility and liability for the actions of, your child and you hereby expressly ratify and confirm any acts of your child and all users of your subordinate accounts ("Sub Accounts"). NOTE: THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER PROVISION...
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...Unlimited Data Plans with AT&T HUM114-Critical Thinking and Creative Problem Solving Skills Unlimited Data Plans with AT&T When approaching a popular situation and an issue that will affect millions of people, critical, creative thinking would help to ensure a better acceptance and understanding to be able to adapt to changes. Since 1990, major cellular phone corporations have offered many different plans to customers that were suitable for different types of lifestyles. Plans with unlimited usage of talk, text and web were offered at a higher rate. Since the popularity of its introduction to unlimited web usage has increased rapidly, one of the major cellular firms, AT&T, decided to limit their customers unlimited plan by not disclosing their intent to throttle their services. According to Peter Svensson (2012), of the Associated Press, “AT&T Inc. put a virtual wheel clamp on a customer’s phone.” This virtual wheel clamp disabled customer, Mike Trang’s, access to the internet and his GPS services at certain times and in certain areas. When web pages were available for Trang to utilize, the time it took for the data speed to load pages were increased and took longer to retrieve than it normally would have if the virtual wheel clamp were never put on his line that caused the restrictions. When questioned about the limit that AT&T put on their customers with unlimited plans, Mark Siegel (2012) stated that, “Under a new policy, AT&T has started cutting their data...
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...based applications to generate a code or any other task but they can’t modify or manipulate the application according to their needs. Hardware services on cloud are nothing data storage services. Best example for this is Google Drive & Drop box. Google drive service is for individual users any one can have access to this drive by simply creating a user account and they can sync files from local computers to cloud. Drop box is also similar to google drive and they offer special services to business by allotting extra storage, file backup, sharing and collaborating tools and enabling security features. In my previous organization we used drop box. All sales reports, customer designs, customer leads, order forms everything stored in drop box in order to access everywhere. We segregated all files according to each department like accounting people can have access to financial information and marketing people can access sales reports, leads, customer databases. Top level people can have an access to all and they can enable / disable security features for access. Drop box offers many features for small businesses. Major impacts of implementing cloud computing are Unlimited storage capacity: Cloud...
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...WORLD PAGE CELLULAR THE WORLD AT YOUR REACH Marketing Final Paper-Online MM522 Executive Summary Mission Summary World Page Cellular is committed to conducting business to the highest standards of ethics and integrity. World Page strives to deliver straightforward communication tools that not only are smart and convenient, but deliver a high level of value to the user. In addition, World Page Cellular seeks to promote the highest levels of customer service. World Page Cellular works to educate users about communication tools believing that informed pragmatic consumers will find value in World Page Cellular. World Page Cellular is dedicated to making communication products and services easy to understand allowing users to remain in control of their World Page Cellular experience. Finally World Page Cellular recognizes that that their interactions with society reflect their character as an organization and pledge to have those interactions to embody those characteristics they claim to possess. World Page Cellular, a vendor of prepaid wireless services in the United States, offers affordable prepaid services without borders. World Page offers maximum freedom through the avenue of choice, which most carriers do not offer customers. World Page Cellular plans to become the leading no-contract wireless service provider in South Florida providing the ultimate in customer satisfaction and service. World Page Cellular’s quest to seize market share comes with an emphasis on targeting...
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...substantial amount of money to buy and develop the landfill site and purchase five trucks capable of transporting toxic waste. Stan should have concerns about operating this business as a sole proprietorship, a sole proprietorship exists when a person carries on a business on their own, without adopting any other form of business organization, they are the sole owner of the business. The sole proprietor is exclusively responsible for performing all contract entered into the course of the business. They are also exclusively responsible for all torts committed personally in connection with the business. These two characteristics of a sole proprietorship are disadvantages that Stan should be concerned about, although the main disadvantage is unlimited personal liability, which means that third parties may take all the sole proprietors personal assets to satisfy the businesses obligations if they should get into some trouble. Another concern with sole proprietorships is raising money; the only method of financing if you do not already have the money is to borrow directly. Sole proprietorships also have many legal requirements in order to get started. The first is that the name of a sole proprietorship must be registered if the name of the business is something other than, or more than, the proprietor’s personal name. Registration must be completed in every province or territory in which the business takes place. The second requirement is that a...
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...Running Head: Marketing Plan proposal AT & T Inc., (This is a twenty nine pages paper marketing proposal for AT & T Inc. The paper is written in APA and looks at the company’s major markets service, product lines and major competitors as well as the expected outcome of the marketing plan). EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AT&T Inc., striving to maintain its market share from one of turgid dependability on the iPhone to a more courageous, ground-breaking and hip concern, by launching a marketing initiative that effectively combines aspects of virtual reality with the power of social networking. Inasmuch as the carrier’s giant marketing strategy will include traditional television commercials and billboards, it will also optimize the capabilities of an online AT&T Store that opens the company’s product and services to customers who want to create their own worlds. Previously, the company has been riding on a crest of popularity of Apple’s iPhone, but lost its exclusivity, giving its main competitor (Verizon) a chance to get a piece of the golden goose. As an alternative, AT&T can continue to market the iPhone while at the same time extending its hand in the Android market. The Android market is wider as compared to that of the iPhone; this can help AT&T to maintain its youthful touch by offering its services to the internet-craze generation. Therefore, AT&T must try to balance its move; the acquiring of a new image for the consumer market (as in the Android...
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...e-payment methods. Credit card payment method: Credit card which is an electronic card with coded users, issuers and account number information embedded in the card chip. The buyer can login to the book publisher's website, view the book chapters, choose the one he or she wants place it in the shopping cart. Buyer’s input card information and the transaction is forwarded through the publishers gateway containing the publishers account information, the acquiring and issuing backs exchange information transactions and money is deposited into the publishers account, as long as the buyer's credit limit is not reached. Then the publisher sends the book to the customer by post or through web server electronically. Charge card payment method: Charge card is also an electronic card containing coded information embedded in the card chip, it is similar to a credit card but there are no credit limits, the card holder only has to settle his balance at the end of every month. The customer login to the website, make a purchase of the book chapter and the customer and publisher's bank gateway exchange information and transaction is done. The problem with both types of payments methods is that some people are not comfortable with on line payments because of hackers, crackers, spoofing and phishing, which are ways and means of identity and information thefts. Question 2 A retail clothing manufacturer can use debit card as its e-payment method for office supplies. With...
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...The Effects of Technology on Learning, Memory, and Associations. How does the advancement of technology influence developing children’s learning associations and information processing and what correlation does that have with future educational curriculums? Hypothesis Today’s utilization of technological resources for education has caused changes in students’ brain functions and processes that effect long-term learning methods. Abstract Before the Internet, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and textbooks were the main resources used for educational development and study. Today with the exponential growth in both the consumer and education technology sector, students and researchers alike are relying on the worldwide web and more specifically search engines for sources of information. With the unlimited amount of information the Internet and search engines provide and their ease of access, education is evolving to unprecedented levels. The rise of technological resources for both students and institutions has provided online distance learning and new-age education movements across the globe. The unlimited educational resources available on the Internet and other media are changing the way students learn. Memory processing and learning associations in students are beginning to change for the present and future generations. Even though technology affects every age group’s brain processing and functioning, the learning functions in grade-school students are easier...
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...best value for unlimited online meetings. It is fully hosted and has PC, Mac, and mobile phone capabilities. Where Instant Teleseminar has a higher price, unlimited use, a higher 500 person capacity as well as customizable web page templates which can enhance the conference. Comparing the two top choices, the Instant Teleseminar is the best choice, with more... Program information: Features Infinite Intercall Ready Talk Participants 1000 125 150 Operating System Windows Windows All Application Sharing Yes Yes Yes Audio Yes Yes Yes Desktop Sharing Yes Yes Yes File Transfer Yes Yes Yes Schedule Meetings Yes Yes Yes Encryption Yes Yes Yes User Authentication Yes Yes Yes Meeting Recording/Playback Yes Yes Yes As shown in the above chart, each of the programs that I have considered have excellent qualities, but Web Interpoint is the only one that I feel meets all of our company’s needs. The cost of the program is higher than the others, but when the extra features are considered the additional cost seems to be worth it. The file transfer feature will allow each meeting participant to be able to share information with the others, without any difficulty. The desktop sharing feature allows the participants to access files that he or she may not have access to otherwise. I believe that the best feature is the user authentication security feature, which allows us to keep unwanted individuals out of our conference. I hope that this information will be useful...
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...subscribers.[7] Despite the large increase in smartphone sales in the last few years, smartphone shipments only make up 20% of total handset shipments, as of the first half of 2010.[8] In March 2011 Berg Insight reported data that showed global smartphone shipments increased 74% from 2009 to 2010. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone) A phone that sees the world like you do, in 3D Now your photos can have as much depth as the moment itself. HTC EVO 3D captures your photos and videos in 3D, plus you can view them without the glasses. The stunning 4.3-inch qHD display gives you crisp websites, vivid images and incredibly fluid videos. Active lockscreen A lockscreen with zero steps to access info and tasks. Homescreen with richer content New visual design provides you with more information and live updates. Faster browsing Better browsing with a fast dual-core processor and the latest Flash player. HTC Watch Watch on-demand Hollywood movies across multiple HTC devices. ( http://www.htc.com/www/product/evo3d/overview.html) Why Buy a Smartphone? As a busy person, you know the importance of staying a step ahead of your clients and your family. You probably know the feeling of being tied to your desk or home so as not to miss...
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...advances Netflix provided consumers with two different options to utilize their movie rental service. They took advantage of new technology and gave their subscribers unlimited access to thousands of movie titles by streaming them from their TV’s, laptops, and other devices; they even offered subscribers to receive DVDs to their homes by mail. Both options had no due dates, no late feels, no shipping fees, and no pay-per-view fees to go along, just their monthly service fee. With thousands of titles, extensive information about each movie including reviews and ratings, easy accessibility to movie title, the convenience of pre paid postage and instant streaming, and the low cost of their service quickly catapulted Netflix to be the worlds largest subscription service for rental movies. They easily took over the market and left traditional DVD rental companies like Blockbuster and Movie Gallery struggling just to survive. Their low costs and unlimited access to movies were no competition to their competitors higher rental costs. The convenience of their instant streaming and DVDs by mail set them apart from their competitors and attracted a wide range of customers from move fanatics, bargain hunters, and people who enjoyed to easy convenience of Netflix’s service. Instead of opening stores across the country, anyone with access to internet or a mailing address could be a subscriber without a problem, therefore targeting a huge audience and earning higher profits. In May of 2010, Movie...
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...Praveen Reddy, Polam Wilmington University SEC-6040 1. Introduction Cloud computing is the term that describes about the computer related services through the internet. As technology developments are increased significantly, many individuals and businesses are interested to use software and hardware services that are managed by third parties at remote locations (Mirzaei, 2008). The term “ cloud “ can be truly understandable how the cloud can be a value to an organization by providing various services like online data storage, social networking, online business applications and webmail’s etc. because, the cloud computing allows access to information and computer related resources from any location that has network connection (Mirzaei, 2008). 2. Components of Cloud Computing: 2.1 Cloud Client: Clients play a key role in providing access for users to client devices which consists of computer software and hardware that depends on cloud computing for application delivery. And also there are several applications which are designed specifically for delivery of cloud services and it is essentially useless without the application. For example which can include devices like computers, mobile phones and applications like operating systems, browsers etc (Nichols, 2011). The cloud client has three different types, they are * Mobile clients. * Thick clients (Nichols, 2011). * Thin clients (Most popular) (Nichols, 2011). 2.2 Distributed Servers: The distributed...
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...Information Technology Act BIS/220 April 23, 2012 Information Technology Act In the world we live in today, there’s some type of electronic device being used to connect to the Internet. “The world-wide platform enable individuals to connect, compute, communicate, compete, and collaborate everywhere, and anywhere, anytime and all the time, and to access limitless amounts of information, services, and entertainment”(Kelly Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011). “This platform operates without regard to geography, time, distance, or even language barriers” (Kelly Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011).We use these devices in our homes, in our businesses, in our schools, on our cell phones, and in the public libraries. Now that our children in most cases have unlimited access to the Internet, there is a great possibility that children are exposed to inappropriate material and on predators. In this paper there will be discussion on what were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of Children Internet Protection Act, 2000 and Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 1998. Children Internet Protection Act, 2000 In December 2000, President Clinton signed into law The Children’s Internet Protection Act. Through the use of technology protection on measures, schools and public libraries are required to protect minors from the dangers of the Internet (Menuey, B. P. 2009). “The major concern with the implementation...
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