Description: It’s finally legal for Cuban entrepreneurs to incorporate and bank in the U.S. With its Atlas service, Stripe is seizing the opportunity. Source: Fast Company Date: March 18, 2016 On Tuesday of this week, the Obama administration—ahead of the president’s visit to Havana next week—announced a loosening of decades-old restrictions that permits U.S. banks to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: global networking
The Next Step for Online Gaming? Simulating the World.
Description: For all the legions of programmers coding the movement of individual blades of grass, and all the advances in processing power and VR, the simulated worlds of online gaming still behave nothing like the real one. Source: Wired Date: January 12, 2016 “In the last few years we’ve seen the abysmal failure of games attempting… Read more »
IPv6 celebrates its 20th birthday by reaching 10 percent deployment
Description: According to Google’s statistics, on December 26, the world reached 9.98 percent IPv6 deployment, up from just under 6 percent a year earlier. Source: ars technica Date: January 3, 2016 Google measures IPv6 deployment by having a small fraction of their users execute a Javascript program that tests whether the computer in question can load… Read more »
New Planetary Shield to Help Fight and Possibly Prevent Fires
Description: NASA is planning on building a global network of fire-monitoring satellites. Source: Gizmodo Date: November 20, 2015 According to NASA, the organization’s satellite swarm plan has nothing to do with intergalactic threats—it’s protection against a danger on the ground. The space agency wants to build a global network of fire-monitoring satellites. Read More Questions for discussion:… 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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