The birth of the Digital divide
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
Information technology and communication (ICT) is the subject of a more than abundant literature, and prompted the greatest hopes and greatest fears, and awakened the dreams of democratic ideals and fear of social control. In the late 1970s, we saw a real boom of IT in developed countries. The...
Business model of the Facebook company
Case study - 8 pages - Computer science
In February 4, 2oo4, Mark Zuckerberg left the prestigious Boston University and along with his roommates , Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, created the The Facebook. Facebook brings together more than 190 million users worldwide (600 000 new members per day) 70 % of who are from outside the...
Critical evaluation of Nike's corporate social responsibility (C.S.R)
Essay - 10 pages - Computer science
Corporate social responsibility or corporate citizenship or corporate conscience relates to a mode of regulation within the corporate world where corporations display a form of corporate conscience. A corporation chooses integrate its corporate consciences into its business model, partly to meet...
The Schengen Information System (SIS), functions, issues and problems
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
The purpose of this essay is to present an overview of the main functions of the Schengen Information system (SIS), as well of the main issues and problems surrounding its use. In the first part of this essay, a description of the functions, the functioning and the architecture of the SIS will...
Cloud Computing - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 16 pages - Computer science
We can assume that a few years ago, "cloud computing" was a vague concept, arguing that in an uncertain future, computing would not require anymore software or hardware facilities to be used locally by the end user. This concept had its place with other futurist concepts, such as the vision of a...
DreamShare business plan
Business plan - 15 pages - Computer science
We are going to launch an innovative community website in France. The company responsible will be a partnership. The product and the Company will have the same name: Dreamshare. Our concept is pretty similar to the concept that our competitors have come up with (Myspace, Facebook). Though we are...
Google AdSense(TM), to what extent does the concept AdSense revolutionize the advertising on internet?
Case study - 10 pages - Computer science
The first ad that appeared on the web was posted in 1994 by AT&T on the website HotWire.com. Created by the interactive agency Modem media, the size of this banner - 468x60 pixels - became the standard size of the classic banner. The contract, signed in April, 1994, concerned a period of twelve...
Facebook success analysis
Essay - 4 pages - Computer science
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of now the social networking site has over 500 million active users across the globe. Users can create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages,...
Software business models for AUTOSAR automotive world standard (rapport de stage, 2006)
Essay - 12 pages - Computer science
AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open Standard ARchitecture) is a promising initiative that aims at establishing open standards for automotive E/E architecture. AUTOSAR compliant basic software ensures independency of the application software from the underlying hardware and allows modularity as well as...
Globalisation and the mass media
Essay - 5 pages - Computer science
The Internet is above all, a decentralised system of interactive communication. And Internet-enthusiasts have seen it as a way to introduce more communication between different communities around the world, as well as an outstanding mean to re-invent and develop democracy. For the first time in...
How internet has changed our businesses and career
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
Internet marketing services, popularly also known as online marketing, web marketing, i-marketing, search engine marketing or e-marketing is a new age Internet driven phenomenon that essentially deals with marketing of products and services on the Internet. The Internet has opened up a huge...
Things you should know about digital photography
Essay - 3 pages - Computer science
As a popular hobby for the past 160 years, one feature that has remained constant in photography is the need for the camera to be loaded with a ‘film' that needs chemical processing. Now, with the development of the charge coupled device (CCD), which converts light into digital electronic...
Spyware: Classification, uses and abuses
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Spyware is a program or a subroutine designed to collect personal data about users and send them to its creator. A third of it may be sent over the Internet or any other computer network, without obtaining explicit permission and informing such users. In the case of a commercial spyware, before...
Things you should know about advertising photography
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
Modern age is the age of advertising and all advertising involves pictures, whether still or moving. Our day starts with the newspaper and can we imagine a newspaper without advertisements? Preparation of advertisement material is a joint effort of photographers and other creative people to...
Bit torrent and you
Thesis - 2 pages - Computer science
In the following article bit torrent will be discussed; the article will cover how to use it and how it works. Take note that there are many different uses for bit torrent and I shall focus on legal uses only. You should also be aware that there are illegal uses for torrent and you should avoid...
The history of data storage and it's place in modern day computing
Thesis - 2 pages - Computer science
Even before the first computer made its way into popular knowledge, data storage was an activity that had occurred many times. Data had been copied and stored on a hard disk like tool and then re-used by a mechanical contraption of some sort. In 1801 for example the punch card was used to control...
Tips to enhance pc performance
Thesis - 2 pages - Computer science
PC performance may be greatly enhanced by modifying or ‘tweaking' a few of the default operating system settings. The optimization process differs for Windows XP and Windows Vista, so a section is devoted to each operating system providing a list to enhance pc performance on both Windows...
FOSS (Free and open source software)
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
The word free software means that the software has a free license and it gives everyone the right to use, study, modify, duplicate, distribute and sell the said software. Historically, Richard Stallman was the one who formalized the concept of free software in the first half of the 1980s and...
The grounded theory
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
The methodology of Grounded Theory is increasingly being used in research in information systems. However, some researchers consider this method as having non-rigorous data points and therefore unacceptable for scientific research and the use of empirical data. The purpose of the article by...
Dawn of the information age
Thesis - 7 pages - Computer science
We live in an age of information. Every day we witness tremendous changes in the field of information technology. To understand the functioning of the information systems around us, we need to look into the meaning of the various terms used in this context. The term information system means any...
Hurray! No spam here
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
The proliferation of the Internet as a means of communication has been an immense boon to mankind. Millions of data are shared between users, companies and governments that enable quick transfer and processing of data. This has resulted in the creation of a global village where there are no...
Kanata: Adaptation and evolution in data sharing systems
Thesis - 3 pages - Computer science
The role of various elements employed in the adaptation and evolution of data systems is complex. This article elaborates a number of issues related to adaptation and changing data patterns. It includes the use of metadata. Metadata is employed in web pages and are used by search engines while...
Agent oriented domain driven data mining
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
Data mining is the process of knowledge discovery in the database. The basic need of data mining in business is to help in improving the business. There are different types of businesses based on domains. Data mining has been recognized as an essential element of decision support, which has...
Selecting informative features - a novel approach for the classification of large dataset
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Feature subset selection plays an essential role in all data mining applications. It speeds up a data mining algorithm and improves mining performance. This paper proposes a novel approach of feature subset selection for classification problem. This approach aims to find common features from...
Linux Vs Microsoft Windows
Thesis - 6 pages - Computer science
Hardware manufacturers and computer users shared software during the period of 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. But, by the late 1960's, software costs had increased and the growing software industry was competing, as the hardware manufacturer's bundled software products. Towards the late 1970's and...
A survey on quality of service in network-on-chip
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
This paper presents a survey on one of the key Network-on-Chip (NoC) research area i.e. Quality of Service (QoS): Service classification and negotiation. The models of QoS are classified into different categories based on synchronous, that is, having single clock domain or asynchronous NoC and...
Assessment of open source software
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
Previous research of software being developed under open source license has showed that some open source products can reach qualitative and popularly level of commercial (usually closed-source) counterparts. Open source (usually free of charge) software has become increasingly prominent in last...
Efficient rule based genetic algorithm
Thesis - 4 pages - Computer science
Genetic algorithm (GA) is an optimization technique which is applicable to all the functions that can be evaluated by using fuzzy rule based system. The problems can also be optimized by using mathematical functions such as calculus (derivative, integration etc.), and other nonlinear modeling...
Time synchronization: A need for sensor network
Thesis - 5 pages - Computer science
Wireless sensor networks are a new type of ad hoc networks that had drawn the interest of the research community in last few years. They require accurate, reliable time for many of its applications. The use of traditional time synchronization protocols for wired network is restricted by severe...
Quality of services in ad-hoc wireless networks: A survey
Thesis - 11 pages - Computer science
Wireless network is a collection of hosts forming a network on the fly, using a fixed infrastructure. But Ad-hoc Wireless network is a collection of mobile hosts forming a network in the air, without using a fixed infrastructure. Some features of Ad-hoc Wireless network are lack of central...
