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Best Buy Co., Inc. is a global retailer in the technology and entertainment industry. The company offers products as well as services to its global clientele. The company currently operates in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico and China. Best Buy Inc. has its headquarters in Minnesota, and the group has a portfolio of retail stores and websites under 11 different brand names. Best Buy is the largest consumer electronics retailer in the United States with a market capitalization of approximately $16.53 billion. For the fiscal year 2009, the company reported revenues close to $45 billion.
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Megahouse Electronics Company,

45B North Carolina
7th street, Mondlane Avenue
George Hemmington
132 California

Old Washington estate

California.
RE: INABILITY OF THE COMPANY TO REPLACE/REFUND THE REFRIGERATOR
The company regrets to inform you that it will not be able to offer a refund or a replacement for your refrigerator as requested. The warranty terms clearly stated that a refund or replacement could only be facilitated if the damage happened within the first year of purchase. The above mentioned equipment has been in your possession for over two years and does not, therefore, qualify for the warranty services. The denial of the warranty does not imply Continue reading...

The New York Times Article on Amazon Company Innovation

Amazon Company is an international company conducting electronic commerce. The company sells goods over the internet. Amazon has the ability to reach markets all over the world and target consumers who are in emerging markets.
As result of its widespread markets, Amazon uses credit cards to receive payments from its clients. Customers who use their credit cards or their United Kingdom debit cards are required to give the details of their cards when they are making orders (Streitfield 1). After the first order has been made, the company’s customer-care personnel often give the client further instructions on how Continue reading...

Impact of technology and globalization on Samsung

Samsung is a global company and due to the globalization, much exchange of technology within the company’s network has been experienced. Due to this, one of the branches of the corporation, Samsung Electronics emerged winners in 32 design and innovation engineering awards back in 2008. After this, the company has steadily grown through the years. The company has increased its plants and sales network to 61 countries with over 160,000 employees. The level of technology that is being experience in today’s age and era is of great impact to the company as it gives it the Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION

Lee Byung-Chull established Samsung in 1938. The Samsung group started as a trading company centered in Su-dong. At the beginning, it acted as a grocery in the city. In 1947, it expanded its services to Seoul but moved after declaration of the Korean War. The founder ventured into the textile industry in Korea. In 1960, Samsung penetrated in the telecommunications hardware industry. Later on, the company started to produce Telecommunications equipment, semiconductors and home appliances. Since then, it has expanded its services to more than 68 countries and it has more than 285 operations across the globe. The company’ Continue reading...

Exoskeleton is a device designed to increase human muscle strength due to external skeleton. It replicates human biomechanics to scale up efforts in movements and can be integrated into a suit. Actual working models are now developed in Japan and the United States.
The first exoskeleton was co-developed by the General Electric and the United States military in the '60s, and was called Hardiman (Kong and Jeon, 2006). It could lift up to 110kg with a force applied at the lifting of 4.5 kg. However, it was impractical because of its considerable weight up to 680kg. The project was Continue reading...

The birth of the Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world in a great manner. The invention of the radio, telephone, telegraph, and the computer gave birth to the internet. They were like the fore-runner to the Internet as they set the stage for the exceptional integration of functions and capabilities which resulted into the birth of the Internet. The Internet is a medium that makes it possible for individuals and their computers to collaborate and interact not minding the geographical location, it is a mechanism for the dissemination of information, in-short it allows a world-wide broadcasting capability. Continue reading...

Reference

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4. Tingtao, Z., et al. On-line monitoring system of insulator leakage current based on ARM. in Industrial Electronics Continue reading...

Overview

Arrow Inc. was founded in the 1930’s as a private company in New York. It was mainly involved in the business of supplying electronics in the United States. In the early 1960’s, the status of the company was changed to public. Consequently, the company rose to become the eleventh major distributor of electronic modules in the United States. At this time, most of the company’s activities revolved around New York and parts of New England. The success was projected exponentially and by the year 1980, the company occupied the position of the second biggest electronic parts Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

In today’s modern world, new forms of technology are invented to make our lives easier, faster and more convenient. In the early days, data transferring has to be done through wires via fax machines. The invention of the mobile phones also gave way to a much faster data transferring which involves text messaging, multi-media messaging and infrared technology that involves two devices placed closely together in order to create a successful file transfer. However due to the invention of the Bluetooth technology, data transferring has never been this easy unlike before.
Bluetooth technology unified all the devices such Continue reading...

Management Team of Musictogo

MARKET STUDY OUTLINE
1. INTRODUCTION

A. OBJECTIVE

This report contains the results of a market study conducted for the Global Corporation “Musictogo” headquartered in the USA. This study evaluated the market readiness and appetite for a new generation mp3 player to compete with Apple’s “Ipod” product. Only the Netherlands market was considered in this study.

B. APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY

For this study it was necessary to determine how Musictogo’s next generation mp3 player would perform against the incumbent mp3 provider, Apple Corporation’s Ipod mp3 player.
The Ipod’s performance was evaluated against major competitors with emphasis on features/functionalities and price. The Netherlands Continue reading...

Industrial Organization and Resource Based Value model

Our focus for this model will highlight the competitive advantage given to IBM by the extensive research it has done on semi- conductor technology. This is real for IBM because it has used this resource from a team point of view rather than individual experts employed by IBM. Handling this resource in deep connection with other existing resources has enabled the management of IBM to use this advantage to acquire a big share of the electronics market.
Coca cola has made use of the internal environment to enhance its position in the market. Using the vast array of financial Continue reading...

1. Benefits of Nanotechnology
More than 20 years of nanoscience research finds that the nanotechnology is coming with both expected and unexpected benefits. Nanotechnology is helping to improve in many revolutions, especially in technology and industry sectors. The success of the nanotechnology depends on the fact that the material can be structured in the nanoscale. Using nanotechnology, the materials can be made stronger, lighter, and more durable. The nanotechnology is used in baseball bats, solar panels, motorcycle, luggage, and power tools. The nanotechnology designs the products in nanoscale. The nanotechnology is being implemented in various technologies. Nanotechnology is already Continue reading...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM): used for imaging, visualizing, taking measures and manipulating objects in nanometer scale. The device has a mechanical probe that senses the material placed on its surface (John 1).
Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM): the STM is used to perform atomic level imaging of surfaces. Its lateral resolution is about 0.1 nanometers while its depth resolution is around 0.01 nanometers. This measure suffices in manipulating an image that is good enough (John 1).
Nanoimpellers: Tubes made from light-sensitive silica. They are used to carry cancer-killing medication and target only cancer cells. These nanoimpellers are injected Continue reading...

Introduction

When the first crude telescopes grazed the vast space, the 17th century and astronomers such as Kepler and Galileo was already making discoveries of such as the moon craters, the rings of the planet Saturn, and the giant planet Jupiter. These discoveries paved the way for a more extensive exploration of the cosmos, which was ultimately revolutionized by the birth of the Hubble telescope. In April 1990, word’s most advanced space telescope named after the astronomer Edwin P. Hubble was launched at 353 miles above the earth’s surface with a mission to see deeper into space and Continue reading...

In the article, ‘'The making and unmaking of the third world'', By Arturo Escobar, the aspects of modernity in relation to anthropology and development are well analyzed. The author states that the economic progress is associated with a lot of painful experiences. The issues relating to regional economic imbalances in the U.S are well elaborated by the author in this article. The dangers of food insecurity were given close analysis and consideration. The aspects of production are of the essence in the facilitating smooth flow of the economy of a nation. The use of modern technological and scientific knowledge Continue reading...

The article “A Flash of Light” is a first person narration by a physicist who explains his college experience and all the failed experiments he had during his graduation. The narrator tells the reader that his interest in physics started in college, where he learnt that physicist were categorized as experimentalists and theoretical physicist. During the narrator’s junior year in college, the physics department had opened a new electronics workshop to impart practical knowledge of the subject to students. In the workshop, the students would do all sorts of experiments related to physics, including determining the speed of Continue reading...

Introduction

Faster travel time, a feat of human imagination and a masterpiece of engineering. These are but some of the things that airplanes embody in the world. While there have been many records and variations throughout history of emulating flight, it was the Wright Brothers that finally made modern aircrafts possible back in 1903 . Since then the “aeroplane” has been used in many situations of human history. Such situations include public transportation, combat and even entertainment.
This invention did not come without a price however; just as when dynamite was used in manners that were against the wishes of Alfred Continue reading...

in its Foxconn, China Plant

Introduction

Interestingly, it takes five days and 325 sets of hands to make a single iPad (Topolsky, p. 1). These hands belong to most Chinese workers who are being paid about $1.78 an hour and labor 12-hour days? (Topolsky, p. 1). Apple, a global leader on smart phones and other computer devices, has been seriously criticized for its production practices for several years. This paper makes the case of Apple’s outsourcing in China unfair, illegal, and unethical even if it is the general system and practice in the country.
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Apple is one of the best developed multinational brands today, which designs and manufactures electronics and computer software products. Apple Company has a range of best known products like Macintosh computers, iPod, iPad, and iPhone which are very popular among young people. It is considered as a best leading company, which is currently at the top of market. The company was established in 1976 by two young college drop-outs, Steve Wozniak, and Steve Jobs. At first they began from very small, creating computers and other electronics like music players and cellular phones, but, then, they would be able to Continue reading...

A Growing Concern in Today's EnvironmentThe article Electronic Waste: A Growing concern in Today’s Environment starts by showing stating how, there has been major developments observed in the sphere technology improvement and production over the years. As a result, the scale of electronics market has become wider and wider and spins up from day to day. According to Consumer Electronic Association, consumers purchased 800 million units of consumer electronics in 2012 "in the United States". Households in US spends approximately $1506 per year on hardware alone. Accordingly, there to improve on the efficiencies of their products in order Continue reading...

Abstract – The solar power technology has been under development for a long time. Solar power has been a sure source of energy for many people living in remote places. One area of concern has been the use of solar panels in tapping the solar energy. There is research going on in the way solar cell performance is enhanced. There are technologies that have been developed to enhance the tapping of the solar energy from the sun. One technology that is gaining attention of engineering researchers is the use semi-conductor material to manufacture solar cells. In this area, there are Continue reading...

On February 13, 2014, we had the pleasure of hosting Mr. Terry Rector in our SELP 694 seminar class. Mr. Terry Rector comes from the small southern town of Yazoo City, Mississippi. What I liked about Mr. Rector is that, despite his aversion to go to school, he showed a lot of character. A very hard working innovator, Mr. Rector, throwing caution to the wind, invented a ‘UFO’ detector and home-automation devices while in school. After graduating from Yazoo City County High School, Mr. Rector joined the U.S Air Force. After two years of training, he was assigned to Continue reading...

Creativity involves the production of products or ideas that feature uniqueness, imaginatively and usefulness when in use, the process is unrestricted to any subject matter or context (Burke & Tinsley, 1993). The creative process has found applications in the present world in various fields including technology, art, economics, music, education and linguistics, just to mentions but a few (Dervin, 1990). Creative thinking is a cognitive process where and individuals intelligence and personality are expressed through thought and ideas. The process of creativity is generated where there is a problem to be unriddled. The creative process involves the following stages:
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Samsung is a giant conglomerate that operates as a large group of companies; among them is Samsung Electronics, Samsung Telecommunications, Samsung Engineering and Samsung Construction among others. The analysis here will focus on business and marketing strategies of Samsung Electronics. It is a well-known and a very common brand in the electronics business worldwide seventy percent of any consumer electronics and mobile devices are from this global leader, thanks to their vibrant dynamics.
Recently the company has been so dynamic in its production of their electronic devices. Basically, focus has been on the consumer electronics range and more dynamically Continue reading...

Introduction: Issue Identification

The mobile phone business sector is one of the fastest growing industries not only in the United States but in the rest of the world. Industry experts have previously released reports suggesting that the industry grew by at least 7.3 percent in the year 2013 , which was actually a sharp rebound from the mediocre growth rate the mobile phone market industry got a year before. The market growth rate in 2012 was 1.2%. Some of the most prominent names in the said industry are Samsung Electronics, Apple, Sony Electronics, Lenovo, and Blackberry, just to name a few. The two Continue reading...

Tesla Motors is an American company that manufactures and sells high performance electric cars. The company also manufactures and sells high performance advanced electrical car power components. Currently, the company is primarily selling its Model S sedan. Model S is an electrical passenger car that produces zero tailpipe emissions. Tesla recorded its first delivery of the Model S sedan in June 2012 and delivered more than 2,500 units up to date. The company offers the Model S sedan in three battery pack options including 40kWh, 60kWh, and 85kWh (). In addition to the Model S four-dour passenger sedan, the Continue reading...

Bottom-Up Approach

Bottom-up approach can be defined as a paradigm that approaches a problem by starting with details and working up to the highest conceptual level. Plainly, it is the progression from small units toward a large and more significant unit. In this approach, which differs from the top-down approach, models are created from small components. An example is the development of nano-electronics from the bottom up. According to Lieber and Lu (842) from the University of Michigan, electronics created using the bottom-up approach of molecular-level control of the composition and structure of materials lead to the building of robust and Continue reading...

Q: Explain the difference between a product and period expense?

The world of accounting categorizes the costs into two categories, Product Costs and Period Costs.
Product Cost: Also referred to as Inventoriable Costs, these costs are associated with the manufacturing activity and includes, direct labor, direct materials and all the other manufacturing overheads such as factory expenses, indirect manufacturing expenses, etc.
Period Costs: These costs are not associated with the manufacturing of the product and thus, cannot be assigned to the total product costs. The primary period costs includes, selling and administration expenses, interest expenses, etc.

Q: Discuss the matching concept as it relates to accounting for revenues and inventory.

As for revenue, the matching principal concept requires that the revenues and the Continue reading...

- Introduction
Since Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, there have been a plethora of changes in the country. However, in other ways, the country has remained much the same as it was under British rule. To this day, Hong Kong remains a special administrative region of China, which means that it is afforded special economic and political freedoms that the rest of the country is not afforded. Today, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and has a GDP that is the 44th largest in the world. This is no Continue reading...

Executive Summary

Samsung is the largest company in the world in the Electronics segment. It has a hugely diversified product portfolio. However, the smartphone and mobile division accounts for the maximum profit and revenue of the company. It traditionally has dominated the Asian and East-Asian market with low cost to high cost range of mobile products. However, in recent times, Samsung is witnessing an increased difficulty in most of the markets. In China, it is losing market share to the domestic players like Xiaomi. In India, it is losing market share to Micromax and in Indonesia, to Mito.

Introduction

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MEM 695

Abstract
The purpose of this research paper is to introduce the different types of energy resources utilized worldwide. This paper discusses the history of the different resources used, starting with the utilization of conventional fossil fuel based technologies, the emergence of nuclear power and finally, the commercialization of renewable energy resources. The main objective of this research paper is to provide an insight on how these energy sources are accessed, utilized, distributed and developed. The paper also seeks to impact of the utilization of these various energy resources on the environment, especially the effect of continued utilization of conventional Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Though there have been many noteworthy, leaders who have built empires and been responsible for revolutionizing industry throughout time, recently there are only a few that stick out. One in particular is Steve Jobs. Partially accredited for the creation of Apple computers, and former CEO of Apple Inc., Jobs was a unique man, who defied what we usually call “normal” in order to follow is own path and effectively revolutionize the technology and computer industries as we knew them then, as well as how we know them today. Throughout his career, he allowed his forthright leadership skills to guide Continue reading...

Apple Company was founded in 1976 by Steve jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne with the objective of developing and selling personal computers. It was later to be named Apple Inc. in 2007 in order to mirror its shift towards consumer electronics. The company has well-established brands of equipment in the market that involves iPod media player, iPhone smartphone, and the iPad tablet computer. The company has continued to develop and come up with innovations hence ahead of its competitors such as Samsung.
The company has been involved in several industries such as computer software, consumer electronics, and digital Continue reading...

The Friday that follows the day of the Thanksgiving, specifically known as the Black Friday is not an official holiday in the United States; however, the Americans view it as a celebration and tradition as they get to avail the door buster deals with extreme discounts. Over the years, retailers and marketers shaped the expectations of the shoppers and stimulated word of mouth by offering deep discounts on desirable gift items. The significance of Black Friday is that around 25 percent of the Americans arrive at the stores midnight or earlier. Due to special pricing, braving lines and crowds, Continue reading...

ABSTRACT

The ECE 111 is one of the courses that students studying ECE at the Oregon State University will first have to encounter. The course is aimed at introducing the students to the available tools in the university; it also introduces and gets us exposed to ECE.
This paper presents the final reflection report for the electrical engineering class ECE 111. It gives my personal reflection and summary of all that was learnt and all the activities that occurred during the class. The class activities mentioned in this paper include the lab activities, guest speakers, programming assignments, summaries and the Continue reading...

International trade

Technology is a critical factor in production and international trade. The competitiveness of a country correlates with the level of technological development. Posner’s technology gap model explains the trade that exists between an innovative country that comes up with a new technology and the country that imports products from the innovative country. According to Posner, a country that has a technology lead will benefit from international trade so long as it keeps the lead. Due to the economic differences between countries, technological advancement and product innovation do not take place simultaneously in countries (Krugman & Obstfeld, 2012).
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Introduction

SONY is an internationally known and well-reclaimed manufacturer of electronic goods. Their product line consists of batteries, CDs, cameras, music soft ware, mobile phones, game soft wares, televisions and semiconductors. Their business operations are based upon the designing, development, manufacturing and then selling their products. Many people are unaware of this that SONY also provides few financial services such as credit financing and banking. They are currently operational in Japan, China, Asia, Europe and North America. The head quarter of this company is situated in Tokyo, Japan so basically by origin this is a Japanese organization. Unfortunately, they faced Continue reading...

Abstract

The workplace of today is not the workplace of even a decade ago. As electronic communications and applications change the way companies do business, employees also change behavior that have not been previously addressed. For instance, the ACM and IEEE computer societies have a common goal of promoting computing and their members by providing resources and behavior guidelines. Each society established a Code of Ethics to address legal and ethical questions that may arise in the pursuit of computing professions.
While employees adopt ethical behavior, companies face the need to monitor the behavior. Data theft, irresponsible access to sensitive Continue reading...

Introduction

If the current era would have been recognized as the era of technology and effectiveness then it would not be wrong, because the current era is the foremost example of productivity and efficacy level, in which the organizations are working with lots of zeal and confidence to enhance their productivity in the market (Cardy and Leonard, 2011).
Employees are known as the “Life-Blood” of an organization. Like a body cannot survive with blood, no organization can survive without the effective and organized employees. Employees are the people who only have one brainchild in their strategy and mind which is Continue reading...