Encryption: Security in the age of technology
Essay - 5 pages - Electronics
Encryption is a word that is associated with mystery and secrecy. For hundreds of years, it is tool that has been used to help protect information. Simply, it is a process that scrambles ordinary textual or written information into something that is illegible and difficult to read or decipher....
Social Issues in Computer Technology
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
One issue that Australians will be confronted with in the future is the privacy of the individual, in lieu of the proposal of computerizing personal medical records. Due to the fact that medical records hold highly sensitive information about what are possibly an individual's most intimate...
The information technology system of the company Spreadshirt.net
Case study - 7 pages - Services marketing
Spreadshirt.net is the new website on the block which allows the creation of shirts, apparel and personalized items (mugs, aprons, bags, etc) according to consumer tatses. It is a German company and has received several prizes for its innovative business idea. In 2004, the group won The Hewlett...
Cinema and Technology: An Essay
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
'The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' Gunning (1990), p. 58. To what extent does mainstream cinema today continue to operate as a 'cinema of attractions'? Illustrate this...
Information technology related intellectual property rights: Discussed using various case studies
Thesis - 10 pages - Other law subjects
Ms. Rukmini residing in India has taken photographs of small children as a professional photographer. The photographs are taken on the theme of expression of babies. As is present in India, children are like God and hence it does not matter if the photographs are nude. This was an issue in USA as...
From HR to e-HR
Case study - 7 pages - Human resources
The last few years have been marked by the massive daily use of new technologies. They have become indispensable in the lives of individuals, especially in the workplace, where these techniques have grown. Indeed, this technology supports the exercise of many functions like human resources...
What Were the Greatest 20th Century Innovations?
Essay - 4 pages - Modern history
As a century of great significance in our modern society, the twentieth century succeeds the Industrial Revolution and was dominated by the first two World Wars, the Cold War, and transformations of the political and social structures across the globe. It was also the time of great...
Taiwan's Semiconductor Shortage: Origins and Geopolitical Future
Case study - 6 pages - International economy
Semiconductors have become a central factor in our 21st century. As technology is used in all fields of human activity, from refrigerators to laptops, from electric cars to artificial intelligence, and from solar panels to military weapons, the need for electronic chips has grown and the demand...
Analysis of the main organizational changes in Carrefour and the role of Informational Technology in this organizational change process
Essay - 6 pages - Management
Contrary to their considerable growth in terms of number and value, the operations of mergers and acquisitions reveals, for more than one operation out of two, a failure from the economic and organizational point of view (McKinsey 2000; Mercer Consulting 2001, 2003). The insufficiency of the...
What approach Mission Rubber Technologies Corporation should use with CHP?
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
International trade is, by nature, logical and systematic. Although in many aspects it is similar to conventional, domestic trade, it does demand more from companies such as Mission Rubber, from initial market research, through the different methods of distribution, to securing payment from...
Digital society
Course material - 33 pages - Sociology
ICT is a major technological change whose effects have only begun to be measured for about ten years. Beyond the appearance of new activities related to ICT, such as start-ups, online shops for example, digital technologies have considerably facilitated the production and exchange of...
Privately Owned Restaurants versus Large Chains
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
For most organizations operating in direct service line industries, they are faced with sustaining the excellent delivery of services while containing the mushrooming of variable costs attributed to everyday operations. Ordinarily, exceptional customer service is a critical component for the...
Renewable energy: case study
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
There are two main types of energy in the world. The first one is renewable energy, and the other is non-renewable energy. All the forms of energy used are classified in either of the two categories. Non renewable energy is the type of energy that has finite amounts in that they will get...
Information technology industry in Singapore
Presentation - 41 pages - Business strategy
The International Data Corporation's Information Society Index 1999 ranked Singapore as the 4th most dominant information-driven economy and society in the world, after the US, Sweden, and Finland. The World Teleport Association named Singapore the 1999 Intelligent City of the Year. The digital...
Tar sands: Case study
Case study - 7 pages - Educational studies
Tar sands occur in tailings and they are sometimes referred to as oil sands. There is no clear distinction between the two. The concept of oil sands or tar sands is well understood from Canada ( Cerclay 2) which has many industries that mine the resource. Processes have evolved over time with...
Future of Mobile Global Business
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
This study evaluates some of these case studies to provide some valuable insight about the contribution of mobile use, and application in commerce and what the projection for the outlook is in the mobile phone industry. The only problem is that, a greater number of these studies have failed to...
Propagation technology for forest trees
Essay - 8 pages - Ecology & environment
There are six major kinds of propagules now available for the reproduction of forest trees: seeds, sprouts, grafts, cuttings, tissue-culture plantlets, and somatic embryos. Each has two or more subclasses, and each has increasingly understood advantages, disadvantages, and uses. For several of...
American Culture and Code: Technology, Reinforcement, and Collective Perception in Don DeLillo's White Noise
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
DeLillo's White Noise is largely a critique of American culture after World War II and after the popularity of home television in the 1950s. In White Noise, white noise itself has covered up a gaping hole in American culture. The hole is the obtrusive, persistent, and arguably natural...
The positive effect of Internet information gathering on society
Essay - 5 pages - Computer science
Technologist has been pushing technology boundaries beyond our imagination. This has given rise to the digital world and technology is being used as a medium of expression, learning, entertainment and interaction. This has made digital devices the most important part of the human being. This is...
Primary School Setting - Local Area Network (LAN)
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
Local Area Networking technologies utilizes the concept of Local Area Network (LAN), which refers to the data communication network that connects computers, terminals, and printers in a building or within geographically limited areas. Wireless links or wired cables could be used to connect...
Green building technology in India
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
The Green building movement has already gained momentum in India. Currently, there are two rating systems prevailing in India for Green Building certification: Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED INDIA) and Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA). This paper gives the...
Concrete technology
Presentation - 410 pages - Physics
The presentation is based on concrete and starts with the objectives of the presentation and moves onto a review of the composition of concrete. It then moves towards RCC structures and covers points like methods used in the designing of RCC structures, the codes used and the functions of...
PESTEL Analysis - Samsung Electronics
Case study - 5 pages - ICT marketing
Globally recognized as an industry leader in technology and currently 10th in the world, Samsung-Sanyo Electronics was founded in 1969. In March 1975 it was renamed Samsung Electronics-Mechanics and just two years later in March 1977 it merged with Samsung Electronics and the Samsung Electronics...
PESTEL Analysis - Google
Case study - 5 pages - ICT marketing
Google is now world-famous company, originally from the United States, the company was founded in 1998. Google is a world leader in technology, means of communication, services related to the Internet and the Cloud, entertainment and content disseminated online. The company is located in Silicon...
SWOT Analysis - General Electric
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
Sometimes confused with the English company General Electric Company (GEC) or with the French company General Elektriks, General Electric (GE) is an American company born from the merger of Thomson Houston Electric Company and Edison General Electric Company in 1892. Its activities span several...
An e-business analysis of Amazon
Case study - 5 pages - Distribution marketing
The purpose of this essay is to pick a brick-and-mortar company. Provide the history of the company, background, and life cycle of the company. I am going to describe the needs and customers Amazon addresses. I am going to provide the roles of internet strategy: business strategy, Information...
Swot Analysis - Samsung
Case study - 4 pages - ICT marketing
Samsung Electronics is a subsidiary of the Korean SAMSUNG group specializing in the manufacture and marketing of electronic products. It is one of the world leaders in electronic equipment, connected devices, technologies. Samsung has prided itself on being the world's largest manufacturer...
Theories of Communication
Case study - 3 pages - Journalism
Media Determinism is derived from technological determinist theory. This theory proposes that the progress of a society is a function of technological advancement. In addition, the advancements in the field of technology are determined by social demand because demand creates a void...
Negative externalities
Case study - 3 pages - Management
With that we are essentially engaged in a race between technology and the exponentially increasing demands of raw materials. The technology can: enable us to recycle waste, more usable resources of a quantity of raw materials, create new methods of production, and provide new sources of energy,...
Market Study - e-Tourism
Market study - 7 pages - Tourism marketing
Digital technology has invaded all sectors of activity for a few years now. The world lives in an ultra-connected sphere, and these connections are becoming increasingly important in the lives of consumers. Whether on a professional or personal level, more and more users of new technologies are...
