Ever since the days of the Pony Express, people have looked to getting information, whether personal or business, to its intended receiver as quickly as possible. ... Networking has given businesses, as well as individuals, the power to transfer ideas, reports, and files quickly and efficiently. ... In a home or home office, using Wi-Fi equipment, your wireless network gives you the ability to share a single high-speed broadband cable or DSL connection. ... While Wi-Fi is great around the home or office, it is typically used elsewhere where "hotspots- are located. ... While some hotspots ar...

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As defined in Lexus and the Olive Tree by international business connoisseur Thomas Friedman, globalization is, "the inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world-(9). ... Globalization has shifted the world's focus from aggressiveness, isolation, and confrontation to free trade, democracy, and capitalism; what used to be "opponents- during the Cold War are now considered "global business partners- in the world economy. ... The worldwide web is the ideal p...

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Will major record companies continue to dominate the business? ... In addition, there will be a surge of emerging businesses (due to the decreased barrier to entry) and new technology. ... Will major record companies continue to dominate the business? ... Since consumers would much rather download music for free than pay for digitally downloaded music, companies such as Emusic.com were unable to maintain a viable business. Ultimately, consumers preferred digital music over CD, and preferred downloading free digital music over buying digital music. ...

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This technology allowed individuals to connect with giant computers from home using ordinary phone lines. ... This name highlighted the idea that households could have desktop sized computers, to perform various tasks from home. ... This academic phenomena has led to computers being used elsewhere in such places as businesses and libraries. ... Free information is available on almost anything on the internet. By using search engines, an individual can get a great deal of information free of cost. ...

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A minor change would be an obvious rise in industrial and home computer usage. ... Hackers all share the same view on this matter, and Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalogue, probably said it best when he said, "Information just wants to be free (Platt 11)." ... With the definition of a hacker as one who wants information to be free, and the easy accessibility of the internet it is easy for a group of people to have a massive impact upon a technologically dependent society. ... Businesses began using encryption technology, which had previously been tightly controlled by the g...

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Not just from the transition of email from letters, but our language, how business is conducted, how many nations infrastructures are managed and powered as well as today's modern military's train and fight. ... To stay focused with the intent of this paper, it will jump ahead in time and look at the inception of major aspects of how computer sciences (specifically the internet) were expanded beyond the military and governmental control and eventually led to science, business and communications entities. ... "The democratic way in which decisions were made by these pioneers became a ...

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(Hafner 50-51) Though the Internet itself reaches over thirty million people world wide and is usually free through universities, research organizations, and corporations, less than 10% of its users are women. (Hafner 51) Commercial on-line services are increasing in popularity, attracting subscribers through both home and the workplace, and they are far easier to use than direct links to the Internet itself. ... (Broadhurst 80) Both services have well over two million subscribers and cater to homes and businesses respectively, yet are remarkably monopolized by the male gender. ... While some ...

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Staffing is important because it provides a supply of individuals needed to fill the jobs within an organization necessary to achieve business objectives. ... Although job boards are free to job seekers companies must pay a fee to utilize these services. ... "Data from a U.S. department of Labor study identified a "digital divide" whereby fewer Hispanic and African American job seekers have Internet access at home or not at all" (Kuhn and Skuiterud). ...

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