In 1997 Microsoft paid $425 million to acquire Web TV Networks, a manufacturer of low cost devices to connect the televisions to the Internet. That same year Microsoft invested $1 billion in Comcast Corporation, a United States cable-television operator, as a part of an effort to expand the availability of high speed connections to the Internet. In late 1997 the Justice Department accused Microsoft of violating it's 1994 agreement by requiring computer manufactures that installed Windows 95 to also include Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Software for brows...

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One aspect of this technology era is the impact of computers and the internet on our children and their education. ... Many schools have answered this dilemma by applying the use of computers and the internet in classrooms across the country. ... They are now free to enhance their growth through the use of computers while still maintaining their connection with their teacher and peers. ... Take for example the issue of pornography leaking into school computers where students can download it form countless sites off the internet. ...

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Now there are devices capable of reading these pulses and taking information from the pulses without any physical connection to the computer. "In addition, computers are being used to facilitate the theft of intellectual property, particularly copyright in computer software and audio-visual maaterials" (Australian Institute of Criminology - www.aic.gov.au) It is well known throughout the world that programs such as Napster and Kazaa (freely available to anyone with the internet) allow anyone to download anything at all, without anyone being able to monitor or enforce the downloads that breach ...

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Customers, big and small, have very high expectations so companies have had to turn to the internet and seamless integration to help drive their profitability. ... Ray Collins, Business Development Manager for the field connection division of Alpha says, "Now, they just pull it up on the Palm, and that's that." ...

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Connection to Fundamental Management Principles 1. ... Involving individuals was Gates greatest quality and this helped Microsoft to go through no less than two noteworthy innovative moves from programming to graphical registering, and from the desktop to the Internet. 2. ...

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