Description: Google Inc. is entering the online music market almost a decade too late to pose a threat to Apple Inc., the largest seller of songs on the Web. Source: businessweek.com Date: Nov 16, 2011 The service, scheduled to be unveiled at a Google event in Los Angeles today, will let users store songs online… Read more »
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Writing Machines — Their Uses and Meaning
Description: A Sunday business column in The New York Times looked at the work of a start-up, Narrative Science, that combines computer science and journalism. Its software takes data and converts it into stories — short summary-style articles so far, but ones that don’t really read as if they were written by a machine. Source:… Read more »
Data Analytics: Crunching the Future
Description: New analytics technology is predicting behavior—and building businesses. In the early 2000s a wave of startups made it possible to gather huge volumes of data and analyze it in record speed—à la SecureAlert. A retailer such as Macy’s (M) that once pored over last season’s sales information could shift to looking instantly at how… 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 »
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 »
Google’s Android Likely to Lose as Verizon Gets IPhone
Description: Google Inc. may lose business as Verizon Wireless starts selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone, giving the carrier’s customers a new alternative to smartphones running the Android operating system. Source: CNN.com & Businessweek.com Date: Jan 11 , 2011 Verizon said today it will offer Apple’s iPhone 4 as of Feb. 10, and begin taking orders a week… Read more »
Heat is on IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome as browser habits shift
Description: Browsers remain one of the Internet’s most crucial functions, Gavin says. They are the windows to the Internet, conduits to what users really want to see — be it a social network, application, video or document. Source: USA Today.com Date: Dec 2, 2010 The browser has become the primary way we all keep up… Read more »
5 Top Trends in Consumer-Based Internet Businesses for 2011
Description: In 1995, when Amazon was founded, e-commerce was like the proverbial talking dog. It wasn’t about how well the dog could talk, it was amazing that the dog could talk at all. The first generation of e-commerce sites were focused on functionality, getting the dog to talk better. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 3, 2010 Every… Read more »
Smartphones and Tablets to Take Over in 2011, Researchers Say
Description: The research firm IDC predicts that in 2011, computing’s third major technology wave will become mainstream, when computers held in one’s hand — smartphones and tablets — really take over and start putting personal computers in the rearview mirror. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 2, 2010 Next year, the research firm says in a report… Read more »
Exploring the anti-social side of social media
Description: The Public Isolation Project was born. As she literally X’s off the 30 days she is spending cut off from the world, Norine chronicles her experience through her blog http://www.publicisolationproject.com/. On the other side of the glass, Elliott is filming a documentary on their collaboration. They are not anti-technology, Elliott says, just hoping to inspire… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
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