Essays on Glitches

Software engineering over the past decade has seen a tremendous drop in their level of professionalism. Risk factors associated with the decline in professionalism level are poor software qualities, a high cost of software development, failed deadline, poor implementation, poorly coordinated stages of software development, lack of proper staff motivation, and low return on investment. More surprisingly, a lot of unqualified and inexperienced software developers regularly are being hired to run software development at the expense of qualified software developer who has abandoned the industry and left to ruin. Statistics indicates that over 80 percent of software developments projects ...

Introduction

The invention and development of computers have changed many aspects of human society. Most of these changes were too revolutionary, that it is often hard to imagine a life without computers. This increasing reliance of the society towards computing technology is referred to by scholars as ‘internet of things’, a term they use to describe the interconnectedness of people and computing technologies (Gubbi, Buyya, Marusic & Palaniswami, 2013, p.1646). One of the most impacted professions in the advancement of computers is the accounting profession. In fact, computing and accounting are so related that they are often used interchangeably. For accountants, ...

1. In the case, both airlines upgraded to the same application, but approached the upgrade process differently. What were those differences and how much impact did they have on the outcome of the project? WestJet was the first airline to upgrade so it had a rocky time of it. While the shift to the new software occurred after winter when the airline had lighter loads, it still maintained the normal number passengers for each of its flights. It meant that the same number of people who needed to be on the website. Furthermore, they did not inform passengers about ...

Urban growth and development can be attributed to all changes that engulf the particular urban setting (Jacobs 78). Moreover, the increase of an urban city should be planned for, lest social evils, as well as uncontrollable urban population and congestion, can ensue. Apparently, Toronto is an urban area that has grown rapidly over time, creating concerns about the future of urban planning, to cater for growing population, pollution, and urban traffic. Since the early 1970’s, Toronto has made the use of subways, buses and streetcars to ease congestion in the city, and also to provide an ambient environment ...

1. Operating Systems for Handheld gadgets

An operating system that supports handheld mobile devices is known as Mobile Operating System. The first mobile operating system was launched by IBM in 1995 in its Smartphone; IBM Simon. This was the world’s first Smartphone. Subsequently, mobile operating systems were developed by Microsoft, Nokia, Google and Palm Inc. This paper takes an in-depth view into two major mobile operating systems in the market today; Microsoft and Google’s Linux kernel based Android.

2. Microsoft’s Mobile Operating System

Microsoft’s mobile operating system’s history spans back to ...

A Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine, introduced in the US in 2004 general elections, is capable of recording votes through a ballot display. The ballot has mechanical or electro-optical components that are activated by the voter during the voting via touch screen. DRE is also capable of processing data by means of a computer program and after the election; it produces a tabulation of voting data in the form of a printed report. DRE has been presented as a safe, reliable and easy-to-use voting and tabulation device which can process votes much faster than normal physical count. However, the program is also ...

The paper of Chuck Huff, fellow of the Psychology Department, St. Olaf College, entitled “Unintentional Power in the Design of Computer Systems” discusses on the problems that occur in the design of a computer system which results to harm, destruction or even instability. As the title says, the design glitch was done unintentional or simply, the author doesn’t know about it in the first place. His paper was a wake-up call to everybody in both software and hardware developers to be very careful in the design aspect of their modules. This is to help trim down the events that ...

Introduction

Every forward-thinking organization should factor in all its stakeholders in its key strategies and processes of production. It is thus prudent for these organizations to effectively manage the resources involved in the production processes of goods and services. These processes are managed with the key stakeholders namely customers, suppliers, shareholders, employees and society in mind (Kamauff, 2010, p. 67). The processes and strategies incorporate performance objectives of the organization and its focus on achieving profitability and competitive edge in the industry it finds itself in. It is, therefore, important for an organization to aim to achieve a balance of all ...

Health information refers to any personally identifiable information about a person’s health, medical records, and history of illness, treatments and examinations. A person’s health information is some of the most private information a person “owns.” Health information is unlike other personal information such as your credit card PIN. Health information is much more intimate and provides a comprehensive picture about an individual other than just the products they bought online. Unwanted disclosure of a person’s health information can lead to embarrassment, shame and ridicule. Public knowledge of your health information can also have an important impact on how people view ...

The VCR

Introduction People are generally image conscious and they try to adopt the new technologies, fads and the trends of the society to associate themselves with a desired class of people. With the introduction of DVD in the consumer market during the beginning of the new millennium, people were inclined to adopt this technology to depict their tech-savvy and cool image, which in turns proved to be the beginning of VCR’s death. Videocassette Recorder (VCR), which was once the most favorite gadget amongst the consumers, is now no more relevant in the current technological context. A general belief is ...

Cloud computing encompasses different computing technologies which enable the users to access and use advanced computing capabilities at small charges. Actually it is the state of the art utility computing. Includes virtual servers, platform-as-a-service, software-as-a service and hardware as a service. Cloud computing can be understood better when we focus on daily computing or information technology requirements. An example of such service is ensuring adequate computing capability without purchasing new information technology infrastructure such as hardware, software or servers. Most cloud computing services require the user to subscribe in order to access the services. The cloud computing comes for both ...

Management

Management Chapter 8, pg 304: When Antivirus Software Cripples your Computers - What management, organization and technology factors were responsible for McAfee’s software problem? The technical factor that was responsible for McAfee’s software problem is that they failed to include “Windows XP Service Pack 3 with VirusScan version 8.7 in the test configuration of operating systems and McAfee product versions”. Another blunder committed by McAfee is that the users were not given a warning that “svchost.exe was to be quarantined or deleted, instead of automatically disposing the file”. Management could also be faulted for relying ...

Introduction

Step 1 The Dental School is a lively predicament in the leaden forthcoming of the domain’s occupation depiction. Students with a focused for biological disciplines who are noble with their big hands and have worthy attention in serving others must be competent to bargain a respectable employment in the dental world. But first, they require to put more effort in their studies so as to be acknowledged in the Dental School and to outshine while they are at hand. There are numerous explanations to why the Dental School is anticipated to propagate quicker. The chief motive for this is that, ...

Executive Summary

Wei Corporation a booming company in the technology sector has been experiencing steady growth and progress, in terms of overall sales, profits, and revenues. This information could be best evidenced by the growth of company’s employee population to over 3,000 employees. A steady growth and improvement has also been identified on Wei Corporation’s independent, corporate, and industrial client base. In fact, its supplier base could reach as far as overseas.

Now, according to predictions, Wei Corporation will continue to benefit from rapid growth and expansion in the coming years and that’s actually why the members of ...