Description: Wal-Mart Stores, struggling to translate its brick-and-mortar success to the Web, is using free software named after a stuffed elephant to help it gain an edge on Amazon.com in the $165.4 billion U.S. e-commerce market. Source: BusinessWeek .com. Date: Sept 7, 2011 With its online sales less than a fifth of Amazon’s last year,… Read more »
Posts By: Jim Clark
In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Description: The digital push here aims to go far beyond gadgets to transform the very nature of the classroom, turning the teacher into a guide instead of a lecturer, wandering among students who learn at their own pace on Internet-connected devices. Source: NYT.com Date: Sept 8, 2011 This conundrum calls into question one of the… Read more »
Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers
Description: Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. Source: NYT.com Date: Sept 8, 2011 “The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant — to run Google… Read more »
Social Media Scrutiny after UK riots
Description: Source: British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested that the government should impose limits on the “free flow of information” when it’s “used for ill.” “When people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them,” he said then. Source: CNN.com Date: Sept 8, 2011 “Instead of detailing plans to block criminals’ access to… Read more »
Video in the class keeps savvy students engaged
Description: Source: As the new school year begins a number of Canadian classrooms are increasingly implementing video as an educational tool to keep their digitally savvy students engaged and interested. Source:Globe&Mail Date: Sept 8, 2011 “Everyone has different learning styles, they learn best in different ways,” she says. “Video provides the opportunity to almost… Read more »
A hacker’s attack sheds light on internet security holes
Description: The encryption used by many websites to prevent eavesdropping on their interactions with visitors is not very secure. This technology is in use when Web addresses start with “https” (in which “s” stands for secure) and a closed lock icon appears on Web browsers. Source: Globe&Mail Date: April 7, 2011 The Electronic Frontier Foundation,… Read more »
Police Lesson: Social Network Tools Have Two Edges
Description: Social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter can be valuable assets for law enforcement agencies, helping them alert the public, seek information about crimes and gather evidence about the backgrounds of criminal suspects. Source: NYtimes.com Date: April 6, 2011 Most social media policies try to balance a police department’s interests against First Amendment protections for… Read more »
The new cyber military-industrial complex
Description: There’s an arms race in cyberspace, and a massively exploding new cyber-industrial complex that serves it. Date: March 28, 2011 Scholars of war and human nature have long understood that, in an offence-dominant environment such as this, the pressure is on to keep up or be left behind. Fear and insecurity increase, threats lurk… Read more »
Swiping Is the Easy Part
Description: Instead of swiping a plastic card at the checkout counter, consumers would merely wave their phones. Source: NYTimes.com Date: March 23, 2011 Mobile phone carriers, banks, credit card issuers, payment networks and technology companies are all vying to control these wallets. But first, they need to sort out what role each will play and how each… Read more »
A Clever End Run Around the Movie-Streaming Gremlins
Description: Streaming Video Without the Wait –Zediva’s secret is so outrageous, you may think it’s an early April Fool’s prank. But it’s no joke. Source: Nytimes.com Date: March 21, 2011 Above all, fellow cinephiles, we can’t have both $1 movies (like those you rent at Redbox kiosks) and instant access to the newest releases. You… 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