The World of Economics as it Relates to the Computer Industry The "Pirates of Silicon Valley" presents many economic ideas and arguments expressed in Thorstein Veblen's "Pecuniary Emulation" and Robert Reich's "The Community as Commodity." The competition in the computer industry has forced its own economic evolution through leadership, innovation, desire of wealth, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to be number one at the end of the day. ... With personal computers as a fledgling new industry, there were much fewer people to choose from with the talent required for t...

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Export/Transboundary Movement of E-Waste Given the rapid turnover of mobile phones and computer equipment in developed countries, and the high demand for access to such equipment at a more affordable cost in middle- and low-income countries, there is a legitimate international trade in reusable and repairable equipment, a portion of which is facilitated by development charities. ...

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The effects of computing power, therefore the effective potential of computers is beyond us. ... Computers are all around us, and for most of us, it has always been that way. ... Computers consumed entire wings of university halls and research centers. ... Obviously, the computer frenzy had taken off. ... Computers were starting to become social commonplace, and we would see the birth of the first computer generation. ...

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Web Standards Two decades ago, any issue relating to web standards was mainly a purview of computer scientists, enterprise technologists, and engineers. ... Cloud computing involves the use of computer technologies such as hardware and software programs to deliver computing services over a network. ... Benefits of cloud computing Internet-based computing the sharing of resources and information from one computer to the other within the organization (Marks & Lozano, 2010). ... Second, cloud computing helps users to store personal files in remote "cloud" locations as compared to the tr...

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Forstall also worked with Jobs during his short-lived stint with NeXT, a computer company he launched during his time away from Apple (Gross). ... The amazing products that we've introduced in September and October, iPhone 5, iOS6, iPad mini, iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod touch, iPod nano and many of our applications, could only have been created at Apple and are the direct result of our relentless focus on tightly integrating world-class hardware, software and services" (Gross)....

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One year after the inception, the organization was registered as a limited business that at that specific time was manufacturing and selling computers (Apple, 2013's). Over the years, Apple Inc. has expanded its operations with the organization currently been involved in designing, manufacturing and marketing of various consumer electronics such as personal computers as well as computer software. In particular, the organization's Macintosh variety of computers, iTunes, portable music player iPod, the smart phone iPhone and the iPad are some of the most common products manufactured an...

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