Description: CNN’s Jim Boulden talks to Bill Ford about safety and security concerns as the automaker launches new high-tech vehicles. Source: CNN .com Date: Feb 29, 2012 Questions for discussion: DO you think that adding this extra technology is a good thing? Why or Why Not? 2. What is the biggest drawback of all this new… Read more »
Posts By: Jim Clark
Smartphones Have Led, and Desktops Will Follow
Description: These days much of the action in the world of gadgets is happening in smartphones — like their sophisticated design and the apps that run on them. That has left desktop and laptop computers looking a little dull in comparison. Source: nytimes .com Date: Feb 29, 2012 So computers are suddenly getting more phonelike…. Read more »
For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait
Description: Wait a second. No, that’s too long. Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard? These days, even 400 milliseconds — literally the blink of an eye — is too long, as Google engineers… Read more »
Online Data Helping Campaigns Customize Ads
Description: Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records. Source: nytimes.com Date: Feb 20, 2012 In recent primaries, two kinds of… Read more »
Uncle Sam is Watching your tweets
Description: Be mindful of your social media postings, Homeland security is watching. CNN’s Lizzy O’Leary reports. Source: cnn.com Date: Feb 16, 2012 Questions for discussion: Do you feel this is an invasion of privacy? Why or Why not?
Taser’s Latest Police Weapon: The Tiny Camera and the Cloud
Description: Sgt. Brandon Davis vividly recalled the moment before he killed Eric Wayne Berry, but it was not the way it really happened. Source: nytimes.com Date: Feb 21, 2012 The shooting, tragedy that it was, was speedily cleared by his superiors because the entire incident was captured on tape. “It happened at noon on a… Read more »
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Description: Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ” Source:… Read more »
Model Struts Path to Stardom Not on Runway, but on YouTube
Description: There was a time, not long ago, when the surest path to modeling stardom was down the runway of a top designer’s show, when it would have been unthinkable to find among the industry’s top ranks a swimsuit girl whose main claims to fame were ad campaigns for Guess jeans and Beach Bunny Swimwear…. Read more »
The Age of Big Data
Description: GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking. Source: nytimes.com Date: Feb 11, 2012 Mo Zhou was snapped up by I.B.M. last summer, as a freshly minted Yale M.B.A., to join the technology company’s fast-growing ranks of data consultants. They help businesses make sense of an explosion of data… Read more »
Erasing the Boundaries
Description: The biggest tech companies are no longer content simply to enhance part of your day. They want to erase the boundaries, do what the other big tech companies are doing and own every waking moment. Source: nytimes .com Date: Feb 12, 2012 In the old days, you listened to music on your iPod while… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
R. Kelly Rainer, Casey G. Cegielski, Ingrid Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, Cristobal Sanchez-Rodriguez
ISBN: 978-1-119-13385-8
August 2015, © 2016
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