Introduction: Recently, all the banks in Kuwait use the smart cards instead of the regular credit and debit cards. A smart card resembles a credit card in size and shape, but inside it is completely different. First of all, it has an inside -- a normal credit card is a simple piece of plastic. The inside of a smart card usually contains an embedded microprocessor. The microprocessor is under a gold contact pad on one side of the card. Think of the microprocessor as replacing the usual magnetic stripe
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Five popular programming languages in the following decades: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. 1970s * 1970 - Pascal: Developed by Niklaus Wirth. Efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. * 1972 - C: Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at Bell Labs. It was designed to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler, to provide low-level access to memory, to provide language constructs that map efficiently
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The History of Information and Communication Technology Information and Communication Technology has been around for a long time. It has basically been around as long as people have been around. It has been around as there were always ways and needs of communicating through technology available at that point in time. ITC originates from simple beginnings such as the abacus. The abacus is said to have been originally invented 3,000 years before the birth of Christ. Revisions to its use and
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cloud. Internet The Internet has become a key e-commerce technology. Evolving from a military and educational network to a commercial Internet in the early 1990s, the basis of websites and e-commerce was set with the development of the browser Netscape in 1994, and the founding of Amazon and eBay in 1995. The largest companies all have an Internet presence, and many offer goods and services for sale on their websites. As the Internet continues to evolve, even small businesses that don't have their
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BACKGROUND ON LINUX Linux is a version of UNIX operating system, the original ancestor of Linux. UNIX is a command-driven operating system in which the user has to type in commands at the computer console in order to operate the computer. It was originally developed in the 1970’s at AT&T as a multitasking system for minicomputers and mainframes. In 1991, Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki, sought to create a new version of UNIX therefore, he joined forces with a group
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Microsoft is a monopoly or not? Among other charges Microsoft was charged with "monopolizing the computer operating system market, integrating the Internet Explorer web browser into the operating system in an attempt to eliminate competition from Netscape, and using its market power to form anticompetitive agreements with producers of related goods" (SWLearning). Firstly, with the operating system market there are no actual barriers to entry. Any one firm can enter into the market and introduce
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A business concept that has changed history Over the last 40 yrs there have been several changes that have occurred in the retail industry that has changed the way we shop today. The business concept of most department stores goes back in history for hundreds of years, but it has evolved and changed over the last forty years. Initially most retail stores were independent and locally owned in the city they conducted business in. Department stores were identified by the products
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NET230-Final Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ___C_ 1. When ____ is used with only a filename and without parameters, the status of the object is displayed, indicating whether the object is encrypted and whether new files added to a folder will be encrypted. a.|CONVERT|c.|EFS| b.|CIPHER|d.|AES| ___C_ 2. Windows 2000 EFS uses ____. a.|DESX|c.|3DES| b.|AES|d.|4DFS| ___D_ 3. ____ must be used to grant or
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arena. What Microsoft has always been famous for was aggressive market penetration strategies that won overwhelming market share. Whoever gets the market share early wins, whoever gets the volume gets the market share, to paraphrase Mark Andreeson, Netscape chief technologist. In Microsoft’s case I think three tactics have helped them to come out on
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