Description: Paying for your morning coffee and newspaper by swiping your mobile phone instead of fumbling for cash or debit card could be just around the corner. Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 15 , 2011 Apple Inc. is launching a long-awaited subscription service for magazines, newspapers, videos and music bought through its iTunes App Store. The plan calls… Read more »
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Telcos battle tech, bank titans for mobile payments
Description: Paying for your morning coffee and newspaper by swiping your mobile phone instead of fumbling for cash or debit card could be just around the corner. Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 14 , 2011 The telecom companies have suffered for years from the “dumb-pipe” phenomenon whereby operators spend billions building the networks on which data… Read more »
What’s Driving Apple’s 10 Billion App Success?
Description: Apple’s iPhone App Store launched in July 2008. In just over two and a half years, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users have downloaded 10,000,000,000 applications for their iOS devices. Source: Informationweek.com Date: Jan 24 , 2011 “With more than … seven billion apps [downloaded] in the last year alone — the App Store… Read more »
For minorities, new ‘digital divide’ seen
Description: Some see a new “digital divide” emerging — with Latinos and blacks being challenged by more, not less, access to technology. Source: usatoday.com Date: Jan 11 , 2011 When the personal computer revolution began decades ago, Latinos and blacks were much less likely to use one of the marvelous new machines. Then, when the… Read more »
Supplementing Textbooks with Digital Content
Description: Plans to supplement textbooks with digital content. Source: CNN.com Date: Jan 4 , 2011 A Toronto District School Board Trustee discusses supplementing textbooks with digital content. Questions for discussion: Do you think supplementing textbooks with digital content is a good pedagogical decision? Who should bear the cost or recieve the cost savings as a… 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 »
Credit Card Companies Woo Programmers
Description: Now the big credit card networks, looking for ways to increase their presence in mobile and online, are replicating that model. In the past year, Visa (V), MasterCard (MA), and American Express (AXP) have spent nearly $3 billion to buy Net-based payment processors. Source: BusinessWeek.com Date: Nov 18, 2010 Want to skip the line… Read more »
Mobile-phone cash register Square open for business
Description: Square, an application that turns a smartphone into a mobile cash register, is open for business. Source: CNN.com TechDate: Oct 25, 2010 Created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square uses a free download and plastic card reader to let users accept credit card payments. The app charges users 2.75 percent of the transaction cost plus… Read more »
Tech Companies See Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers
Description: A survey by online job board Dice shows that tech employers and recruiters face a shortage of qualified mobile-software designers Source: Businessweek.com Date: Oct 21, 2010 Almost 57 percent of employers and outside recruiters that hired for mobile-related jobs this year plan to boost such hires in the next 12 months, the survey, conducted on behalf… 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