uses hypertext markup language to create a webpage. In order for the webpage images to move an applet is added. An applet is a small application that is placed inside the hypertext markup language. The most popular web browsers in the 1990s were Netscape and Mosaic. Both browsers displayed still images and text. Java applets allowed the programmer to write applications for the web. For the first time, using Java Applets, images could move. Animation allowed webpages to come alive. Java Applets could
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cost of capitalHarvard Business School 9-201-046 Rev. April 26, 2001 Cost of Capital at Ameritrade In mid-1997, Joe Ricketts, Chairman and CEO of Ameritrade Holding Corporation, wanted to improve his company’s competitive position in deep-discount brokerage1 by taking advantage of emerging economies of scale. The success of the strategy required Ameritrade grow its customer base. The growth would require substantial investments in technology to improve service and capacity, and in advertising
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Boss Good in a Bad Economy By RoBeRt I. Sutton ■ ■ ■ ■ How to Be a 130 Harvard Business Review | June 2009 | hbr.org Serge Bloch T hese are tough times for every boss I know. Fear and paranoia are running wild, not just in financial markets but in workplaces, too. A few weeks back a weary executive at a professional services firm told me how painful it had been to lay off 10% of his people and how he was struggling to comfort and inspire those who remained. When I asked
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The World is Flat Thomas L Friedman Kq p K To Matt and Kay and to Ron Kq p K Contents How the World Became Flat One: While I Was Sleeping / 3 Two: The Ten Forces That Flattened the World / 48 Flattener#l. 11/9/89 Flattener #2. 8/9/95 Flattener #3. Work Flow Software Flattener #4. Open-Sourcing Flattener #5. Outsourcing Flattener #6. Offshoring Flattener #7. Supply-Chaining Flattener #8. Insourcing Flattener #9. In-forming Flattener #10. The Steroids Three: The Triple
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THE TECH-SLACKY HOWTO Author: Santiago Romero http://www.escomposlinux.org/sromero/linux/pringao/techslacky-howto.html Translation: Javier Malonda (supervised by Antonio and Sinner from the Prairy) 30 de mayo de 2002 1. Introduction Welcome to the tech slacky-Howto! The present document is a practical guide to demonstrate the following universal truths: Windows is easy to install (even a child could do it); it’s just about clicking OK. Windows is easy to use (even a child could do it);
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System Requirement Specifications (SRS) Assignment 1 Sample Solution System Requirement Specifications 1 Table of Contents 1 2 3 Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Problem Statement ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 Overview ............
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To : From : Date : 20th April 2012 Subject : Report Proposal Proposed Report Topic: “The Internet and E-business”. Executive Summary: “In five years’ time, all companies will be Internet companies, or they won’t be companies at all.” - Andy Grove, the chairman of Intel, The Net Imperative, The Economist, June 26 to July 2, 1999. Background: Information technology has transformed the way companies conduct business. Technology allows businesses to automate manual operations and
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System Requirement Specifications (SRS) Assignment 1 Sample Solution System Requirement Specifications 1 Table of Contents 1 2 3 Table of Contents ......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Problem Statement ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 Overview .....
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------------------------------------------------- Computer Viruses are a major threat to business information systems April 23, 2013 Computer Viruses are a major threat to business information systems Computer viruses are programs that infect your system and multiply. Viruses have many symptoms: some can simply slow down your computer whilst others can have more severe effects like moving documents and/or deletion of documents or programs. No matter the severity of the virus and its symptoms
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CIS 150 – Introduction to Computer Applications Computer Concepts Class Notes These notes are to accompany the Computer Concepts PowerPoint presentation. Please refer to these notes when viewing the presentation. Slides 2 & 3 identify the major objectives of this presentation and these notes. Slide 4: A computer is defined as an electronic device that operates under the control of internally stored instructions that can accept input, process data (both mathematical processes and
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