Description: Change billed as ‘mobile-geddon’ by some search experts, Google has been urging websites to cater to mobile device for years, mainly because that is where people are increasingly searching for information. Source: CBC News Date: April 17, 2015 Google is about to change the way its influential search engine recommends websites on smartphones and tablets in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Competitive advantage
Budget PC Targets Developing World With Own OS
Description: Although Silicon Valley’s focus may be mobile-driven. Start-up “Endless” is taking a different approach with hopes to appeal to the underdeveloped countries of the world. Source: BBC News Date: April 16, 2015 San Francisco start-up Endless is on course to reach its $100,000 crowdfunding target for its budget desktop PC. The $169 “Endless PC” uses mains power, plugs into… Read more »
Here’s How to Get a Job at Google
Description: Google’s Head of People Operations Laszlo Bock explains what does and doesn’t matter when applying to work at the company. Source: CNN Money Date: April 12, 2015 Questions for discussion: 1. Would the opportunity to work at Google be a dream job for you? 2. If you were offered the job of a lifetime, but had… Read more »
Samsung Galaxy S6 Display to Reach onto 3 Sides, Report Says
Description: Smacked by competition from Apple’s new iPhone 6, Samsung is looking to jazz up its next flagship Galaxy phone with a wraparound display. Source: CNET Date: February 11, 2015 Samsung may offer a Galaxy S6 with a display that you can view from three sides — the front, left and right. The mobile phone maker plans… Read more »
Police Now ‘See’ Through Walls and Know if You’re Home
Description: Technically Incorrect: The Range-R is a piece of military equipment that police are using now to check if there’s someone in a building. Source: CNET Date: January 20, 2015 Police forces increasingly are taking advantage of the technology behind military equipment initially designed for combat. Sometimes, though, the police might be coy about which of these… Read more »
This Desk Will Tell You When To Sit And When To Stand
Description: Here’s a desk that can help you lose weight! Source: TechCrunch Date: January 11, 2015 Standing is better than sitting. Most of the time. Sometimes your body needs a rest and that’s where the Humanscale OfficeIQ powered by Tome comes to play. Tome’s Jack Sigal stopped by the TechCrunch broadcast booth to show me how… Read more »
How Far 3D Printing Came in 2014 – And Where It’s Headed This Year
Description: As 3D printing becomes more and more of a reality, TechVibes takes a look at where it may go from here. Source: TechVibes Date: January 2, 2015 It’s kind of grown up in the past year-and-a-half,” say Andrew Finkle, the co-founder of Waterloo-based Structur3D, which sells 3D printers and develops technology for the devices. “People… Read more »
High-Tech Hair Dryers Aside, Beauty Industry Still Waits for Its ‘Nest’
Description: Improved technology has let the beauty industry take steps forward lately, but it still lacks a clear link to the “smart” features that have disrupted other fields. Has Panasonic found the answer? Source: Mashable Date: August 14, 2014 When Panasonic debuted its high-tech hair dryer at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January… Read more »
Hendo Hoverboards – World’s first REAL hoverboard
Description: Hendo is introducing the world’s first REAL hoverboard and hover developer kit. They are putting hover technology in your hands. Source: Kickstarter Date: November 21, 2014 So where does the HENDO hoverboard stand today? Well, about 1 inch off the ground. As you can see from the video above, the prototype is real and it works! But to see… Read more »
Your Smartphone is Your Hotel Key
Description: The future of the hospitality industry is here, and it’s main focus will be on personalizing the guest experience. Source: CNN Money Date: November 5, 2014 Now you can skip the front desk and go straight to your hotel room with a virtual key. Starwood CEO Frits van Paasschen tells Christine Romans why this new… 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
CDN $98.95; CDN $114.95