PRIVACY Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced. Services like Facebook‚Twitter and Flickr are oceans of personal minutiae — birthday greetings sent and received‚ school and work gossip‚ photos of family vacations‚ and movies watched. Computer scientists and policy experts say that such seemingly innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture
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What is consumer involvement and critically evaluate its relationship to motivation. Provide examples to show where marketers attempt to increase involvement with their products or services? Basically consumer involvement is to understand the needs of your customers‚ you also need to understand what motivates them to purchase‚ and how you can influence the buying process to ensure that your products or services are on the shopping list. Understanding your customers will help you to develop and
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Going Concern in a Credit Crisis – Call for Your Views Steve Priddy Director of Technical Policy and Research October 2008 You can comment on this piece at http://discuss.accaglobal.com/view_topic.php?id=49&forum_id=62 One of the fundamental accounting concepts is that financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis – that is that there is an underlying assumption that the entity will continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and that the entity has neither the intention
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[1] Introduction It would be hard to imagine a world without wireless applications and services. Around the globe‚ mobile services are playing increasingly important roles in many facets of our society. Just a decade ago‚ mobile services consisted primarily of basic voice communication. Today‚ we depend on mobile services not only for communication‚ but also for education‚ entertainment‚ healthcare‚ location and m-commerce. Mobile services have also made significant inroads into developing
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culture or society that is foreign is difficult while constantly being judged by others. In the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell a pack of girls raised by werewolves are brought to a home run by nuns where they are taught how to act more like humans. From a young age‚ we learn a set of “rules” on how to act in a society. The author uses characterization and symbolism to express this theme. Throughout the story‚ symbolism is used to show how we conform to
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Green Computing & Green IT What is Green Computing or Green IT? Bill Gates predicted many years ago of a PC in every home. He was widely considered to be simply promoting an unlikely scenario with the aim of boosting Microsoft’s profits. However‚ how right he truly was. Not just at home but also virtually every commercial organisation of any size is heavily reliant upon IT. At home there is little we can do regarding our use of IT‚ other than not leaving our PC’s switched on uneccessarily
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Green Computing: An approach towards e-waste reduction & energy management Sugandha Arora1 ‚Mr. Kaushik R.Roy * 1College of Engineering ‚ Roorkee‚ India 1Email: sughsarora@gmail.com * College of Engineering ‚ Roorkee‚ India *Email: kaushik.roy@rediffmail.com Abstract—Green computing is an innovative and emerging technology that aims at reducing carbon footprint. Just as walking on sand leaves a footprint‚ almost all our
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places where electrical energy is consumed. The effective energy usage of a device can often be determined by monitoring the according electrical devices over a long space of time. The measuring can easily be done by simple Energy Meters from the local do-it-yourself store. An energy meter is a device that measures the amount of electrical energy that is being consumed by a residence‚ business‚ or an electrically powered device. Electric meters are typically calibrated in billing units‚ the most common
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The Global Privacy and Information Security Landscape Frequently Asked Questions Preface As the world becomes increasingly connected‚ it is critical to view information security and privacy not merely as IT issues‚ but also as essential business priorities. Security threats‚ vulnerabilities and privacy exposures challenge every organization today‚ creating risks that must be controlled and managed. Often organizations do not know what risks they face or how they will manage these risks
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The investment in ICT is also increasing remarkably every year. These applications are mostly deployed on-premise. Due to the scatter software and system‚ there are repeated systems in the organizations. There is no uniformity in development and use of the software of similar work nature. Despite simplifying the daily work‚ these applications and platforms are too complicated and expensive. Individual organizations require separate data center‚ software and the separate team of IT expert. This
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