Description: Advancements in Technology will now allow Americans suffering from retinitis pigmentosa the opportunity to improve their quality of life. This eye wear will allow them to see light, shadows and sometimes even the outlines of objects or humans. Source: CNET Date: October 7, 2013 After more than 20 years in the making, the world’s first FDA-approved bionic… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Hardware
China Will Soon Become Apple’s Most Important Market
Description: Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting China to strengthen relations with the country’s mobile players. The visit comes after a nearly 3 month delay to roll out iPhone 5 to the worlds largest mobile market. Source: TechCrunch Date: January 10th, 2013 Tim Cook would like to get Apple on a faster boat to… Read more »
The post-PC world is real and it’s here
Description: This year, over one billion internet-enabled devices will be sold globally with less than one third of those devices being laptop or desktop computers. Source: GlobeandMail.com Date: April 5, 2012 While PC sales have continued to grow for over three decades, the PC era reached its zenith just prior to the introduction of the… Read more »
IPad: The PC Killer
Description: In the fourth quarter of 2011, Apple sold 15.4 million iPads—more than the number of PCs sold by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), the world’s No. 1 maker of Wintel PCs. Source: businessweek .com Date: March 21, 2012 Apple’s dominance of the tablet space certainly represents a blow to the collective egos of PC manufacturers. But the… Read more »
Ford goes High Tech with Vehicles
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 »
The ultimate tool for the ‘me’ generation
Description: Martin Timusk uses his iPad for everything. From sending e-mails to reading the news, communicating with work and doing work, to following digital threads and playing on Google Earth, his iPad is something of an appendage. Source: globe and mail .com Date: Feb 2, 2012 Though the format hit the market only in 2010,… Read more »
Bowing to Critics and Market Forces, RIM’s Co-Chiefs Step Aside
Description: Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, who made the BlackBerry a leading business tool but then presided over its precipitous decline, said they would step down on Monday as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of Research in Motion. Source: nytimes .com Date: Jan 22, 2012 Stiff competition from the Apple iPhone and phones using Google’s Android… Read more »
Does Technology Affect Happiness?
Description: A study from Stanford University, published Wednesday, wrestles with a new question: How is technology affecting their happiness and emotional development? Source: nytimes .com Date: Jan 25, 2012 The research raises as many questions as it seeks to answer, as the scientists readily acknowledge. That is because the research was based on an online… Read more »
The $75 Future Computer
Description: Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world’s cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi. Source: forbes.com Date: Jan 10 2012 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte’s non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands… Read more »
iPhone 4S devours data twice as fast as previous model
Description: Apple’s new iPhone 4S consumes on average twice as much data as the previous iPhone model and even more than iPad tablets due to increasing use of online services like the virtual personal assistant Siri, an industry study showed. Source: theglobeandmail.com Date: Jan 6, 2012 When Apple rolled out the iPhone 4S in October,… Read more »
Leading Titles
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