digital information stored on a card can be counterfeited. Of course, we don't need Willie Sutton to remind us that banks are where they keep the money. In 1994, a Russian hacker Vladimir Levin, operating from St Petersburg, accessed the computers of Citibank's central wire transfer department, and transferred funds from large corporate accounts to other accounts which had been opened by his accomplices in The United States, the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, and Israel. Officials from one
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A database is an organized collection of data. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality in a way that supports processes requiring this information. For example, modeling the availability of rooms in hotels in a way that supports finding a hotel with vacancies. Database management systems (DBMSs) are specially designed applications that interact with the user, other applications, and the database itself to capture and analyze data. A general-purpose database management
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Background Sky Bus is a domestic privatized transportation company that runs the vehicles all over the country. They have several branches at different locations of the country, so that they can provide the transportation facilities between the places. They want an online application to be developed, where the details of the bookings done and the customer will be updated from time to time and one can track the details of the available seats immediately 1.2
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you always spend several hours reading and reviewing computer manuals and online help systems. You need to know no one in the outside world will ever see it. But the field has broadened to include a variety of job roles and responsibilities. Second, you need background. As a group, technical communicators come from varied backgrounds. The five most common academic backgrounds are English, technical communication, science or engineering, computer science and journalism. Third, you need to know specific
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Social Networking May 20th 2012 Abstract Mobile computing has become a fixture in our everyday lives. As of today, people throughout the world can use their mobile devices to do anything that they would normally do on a laptop or a personal computer. At this point, there are no foreseeable bounds where mobile technology is concern. The healthcare industry is now realizing this fact and has decided to implement mobile technology within their industry. While still in the early stages of implementing
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Overview of the current system Computer world is now at our hands, this give improvement and development of all programs in the different agencies, in offices and in schools. Paper work become easy, computation is faster, record keeping and bringing out is fast. In schools, all works became easily fast to look at record, easily to reproduce student record. Since, computation of grades is one burden of the teachers, computerization made the answer in solving, in recording
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can to help you with the operating system problem. Everybody knows what is a Hard Disk or Hard Drive let me refresh your mind, with a simple explanation: Hard Disk/ Drive, is a device for storing and retrieving digital information, primarily computer data. It consists of one or more rigid rapidly rotating discs (platters) coated with magnetic material, and with magnetic heads arranged to write data to the surfaces and read it from them. With that been said, now move forward with Operating System
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ATLANTIC COMPUTER: A BUNDLE OF PRICING OPTIONS Situation Analysis Atlantic Computer is a manufacturer of servers and high-tech products. Two market segments exist in the server industry: High performance and Basic Servers. Atlantic Computers has held a 20% share of the High Performance market with their Radia servers being their premier product. However, the market for Basic servers is growing and this has caused Atlantic Computers to develop and introduce a Basic Server called the Tronn and
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Orientation Syllabus UNIV/100 Version 9 1 Orientation Syllabus UNIV/100 Version 9 University of Phoenix Orientation Workshop Copyright © 2011, 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This 3-week orientation workshop helps students be successful in college. Students practice using the Online Learning System (OLS), learn techniques to be successful in college, and identify useful university services and resources. Policies In every course at the University
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which can be done from the UPS website or using a special software provided by UPS, both accessible via the internet. These labels will contain data about the sender, the destination, and package arrival times. This data is received by UPS's central computer for processing and the information is then forwarded to one of their distribution centers where logistical planning will occur. UPS drivers are given a handheld Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD) which can immediately record and upload
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