Essays on Skype

Introduction

There are many accounting systems all over the world, which exist in order to help various companies with the management of their businesses. The relative new financial approach is the Activity-Based Costing (ABC). Following Kaplan and Cooper, it is the type of accounting, which helps to solve the financial problems by using different strategies and approaches to each and every separate financial facility on the bases of the consumed materials and information (Kaplan and Cooper). ABC provides proper management of quality for the service industry with mentioning the peculiarities of development and emphasizing activities that conduct the whole businesses. ...

Abstract

As the business world becomes more and more entrenched in globalization there are complementary challenges that define companies’ operations. One major challenge for the human resources departments in the current business environment is the employee turnover. Working with organizations from developing nations that provide non – core functions constitutes an advantage for organizations form developed regions, as they have the opportunity to save financial resources, while paying workers with lower financial demands. On the other hand, they face a major issue, which is the employee turnover. Employee turnover affects the general environment in an organization and large turnover rates can ...

Describe the environment in which Skype competes based on the three characteristics of high-tech markets (Chapter 1).

High technology market is filled with both promise and peril (Mohr, Sengupta, & Slater, 2010, p.4). There are three main characteristics of the high-tech environment, namely (1) market uncertainty, (2) technological uncertainty, and (3) competitive volatility (Mohr, Sengupta, & Slater, 2010, p.11) Analyzing the Skype case, it is clear that company’s greatest uncertainty is competitive volatility, as there emerged a wide range of companies that provide VoIP call services. The other threat the company faced is market uncertainty, as it was reported that only about 20% of the registered customers use their accoutns actively. Thus, charging new fees may not ...

Introduction

The manual is meant to help trainees become competent facilitators of distance learning. It takes into account that none of the facilitators have experience in distance learning and therefore, will focus on all the aspects of distance learning.

Part 1: Vital Information in the Facilitator Training

Audience The program targets individuals already serving in the mentioned capacity of learning instructors. The instructors must also be successful traditional classroom instruction methods. Therefore, the trainees are expected to be knowledgeable in instruction methods, student assessment, course and curriculum design, adult learning among other learning and teaching aspects. Moreover, the trainees must have taught at a diploma or higher level. ...

Literature Review

The literature review focuses on organizational learning, organizational memory, organization structure, shear tacit knowledge as well as KM tools and techniques. Organizational Learning (OL) can be defined as the means by which team detects errors and them by gaining knowledge through individuals who act as agents (Tom and Murphy, 2007). According to Huber, there are four constructs which are linked to OL, which include: knowledge acquisition, information distribution, information interpretation and organizational memory (OM) (Dalkir, 2016). One important aspect in KM is the organization chart can be defined as the manner in which an organization designs its management and ...

Abstract

Jihad groups have made the internet a channel for their war, called Cyber Jihad. The Jihadists send messages, raise money, recruit members and spread propaganda via the internet and other social media. Through the use of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, jihadists communicate with one another and recruit new members. Cyber jihad, no only consists of communicating and radicalizing over the internet, jihadist groups use the internet to raise money to fund their fight. In addition, jihadist groups also publish online magazines for communication, recruitment and radicalizing. The use of the internet has allowed jihadist groups to gain global support ...

Introduction

The modern world is increasingly facing the development and advancement of the social media, which has become an essential part of the contemporary society. Most of the common platforms of social media include gaming sites, video sites such as YouTube, blogs, and Web sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Instagram, and LinkedIn among others. These channels have provided different and convenient ways of communication and hence changing and revaluing the ties that bind people together. These ties involve the emotional interconnection between different individuals in the society regardless the adverse or positive aspect of this interconnection. Through verbal and ...

How VOIP Works.

Chris Woodford in his article explains the workings of VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) through the analysis of Skype (a popular internet telephony software). Chris maintains that telephone technology has remained almost the same since the 19th century and in the 21st century one must be using the better available technologies of the internet. The technological advancements have not only made it possible to communicate with other people in a fast and efficient manner but also reduced the cost for the same. In the article, Chris describes the functioning of VOIP, detailing Call Signaling, Call transmission, interfacing with the ...

Social media and instant communication pose a serious obstacle to reflection and serious thinking. This is because, with the presence of social media, one can access any information that might require thinking and critical reasoning. Since one can easily access such information that might require serious thinking and reflection on the social media, it may make him or her to be lazy to think out. Instead of thinking out, he or she will go to the social media and such for the information. For this reason, the media possess a serious risk to his or her ability to thinking.

With ...

As commonly said, that life is a constant change. History is significant for any changes in the society. People in the past experienced different things, and today, people looked back in the past to see things in a new or different perspective.

Personally, I would say that one of the things in the American society changed in the course of time was the means of communication. When I was young, the means of communication was not as excellent as today. I remember when I used to send letters to my brother that took days for him to receive the letters. As ...

It is crazy to think that the semester is almost over. This semester has gone by so quickly and I have learnt what feels like a wholecompletely new language in such a short amount of time. The good thing is that I feel like everything I have learnt in this course is what I need to know going on to getting a job as a Librarian after I complete my Education. Across this semester in Information Programs I have learnt about the different learning activities across the semester have given me a practical understanding of each of these areas. I found a lot of topics ...

Video conferencing refers to an online mode of communication that involves transmission of both audio and video signals between two or more physical locations. It makes use of the World Wide Web through computer networks as the platform for the communication or even telephone. We have” point to point” video conferencing that involves communication between two people, and “multipoint “video conferencing that allows communication among three or more people.

A simple video conference setup consists of a camera and a microphone. Video from the camera and audio from the microphone are synchronized and converted into a digital signal and then ...

There is a contention among childhood educators whether children should engage in play that makes use of technology-based tools and devices. The issue came about as a result of educators' observation that while technology-based tools mimicked some of the children's regular play activities such as coloring and drawing, actual coloring and drawing activities using the traditional drawing materials allowed for more creativity than the more modern method. In addition, it was widely perceived that children experience "behavioral problems, higher psychological difficulty scores, less physical activity, obesity, irregular sleeping patterns, impaired academic performance, violence, and less time for active and ...

New technologies have brought social collaboration a new face. Gone are the days when you have to wait months for a snail mail to arrive before hearing the good news about your cousins wedding or the bad news about the death of your grandmother. Gone are the days when one has to fill three pages of stationery just to update a friend of the day’s activities. Today, you can instantly update friends, families or co-workers with whatever you are doing; actually send them a picture of the event or video with the availability of several electronic collaboration technologies. For example, through instant ...

Admittedly, there is growing competition in the landscape supplies business. While there is increasing demand for the landscape pieces of equipment, customers prefer companies that go an extra mile to address their concerns. Specifically, this paper entails the business plan for the company, which outlines the competitive strategies and maxims customer satisfaction to achieve business objectives.

Password as Their Key Code

Creating an online portal for business would be a significant milestone in the present business environment because customers value obtaining their needs in the most convenient manner. In addition, using the password as a key code will instill confidence in customers, and this would make ...

Technology in today’s world plays really important role and for a firm to be competitive in the local and international market it tends to have knowledge about technology and imply it in the organization.

Hardware

Since bill is planning to start up his business and wants to avoid traveling therefore the most effective tool to communicate with the suppliers while staying at home are telephone, email, video conversation etc. the hardware that bill must purchase for its business are computers and laptops through which bill could store its company data and also communicate with its suppliers and customers through emails, ...

Employees and staff in an ordinary day begin by taking a cup of coffee in the morning, greeting colleagues, and then the inevitable happens, they log on to the computer. This has become an automatic behavior for employees because they have to keep updated with organization operations and working schedules. Skype has helped both staff and managers establish relationships with each other. The technology offers an opportunity to share similar interests and discover potential of each other.

Skype has influenced organizational structure in organizations by enhancing communication among staff and managers

Skype has enhanced effective communication and coordination of activities across organizations. Staff members use the technology to enquire on work schedules daily and ...

After a comprehensive analysis of the online collaboration tools, I was able to identify several that might be extremely useful in my future teamwork endeavors. The first tool that I thought would be extremely useful was GoVisually. This tool allows people to place comments or mark annotations on different project parts. This tool is exceptionally useful because enable both designers and clients can collaborate on projects and revise them where necessary without having to send long emails containing revision details. This tool will be of great help because when working in a team, the main objective is to produce something ...

Essay

Abstract This paper explores the future of medicine in the context of modern digital technologies and inventions. Specifically, this paper analyzes Daniel’s Kraft’s presentation at the Maastricht Conference in 2012. In this essay, the researcher’s opinions and suggestions are presented and commented, and also their advantages and disadvantages are explored. Daniel Kraft is speaking about helping people with disabilities with robotic arms and legs, retina eyes. He is focused on digital diagnosing, creating apps for iPhone, visiting doctors via skype, regenerative medicine, robotic surgery, stem cell trials, perspectives of the oncology treatment, etc. Keywords: ...

Positive points about Skype

Skype is the best social network. It has many advantages. Skype helps in building relationships between people. It permits users to make voice and video calls to their personal as well as business contacts. Though instant messaging and email definitely have their position in present-day communication, having a real talk with someone assists to make stronger one’s relationship with that someone. This is particularly true of companies looking to subcontract small jobs to freelancers or businesses that make use of a scattered labor force (Todd & Demand 1). Business as well as personal communication has become more and more mobile ...

In the digital age that we live in today, the importance of social networking as an integral part of our lives cannot be underestimated one bit. Whereas, once, it could be said that social networking was best left to individuals looking for some entertainment, nowadays, social networking has become the driving force for the globalization movement. Simply put, social networking allows us to connect and interact with hundreds of people at once. There are no boundaries, no limits, so the opportunities presented are endless. In addition, social networking is not all about communication. In fact, it allows individuals to ...

Undeniably, the invention of internet has been known as one of the most amazing inventions in the world. The internet had had so much impact on peoples’ everyday lives, businesses, and events. The term internet is used to refer to the universal meeting place, where people from different parts of the world can come together and share ideas. This paper is going to focus on the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the internet.

Advantages of the internet

The internet has and endless list of advantages that have contributed into make life easier for many people, as well as, contributing towards making ...

Part-A: Privacy Protection

Introduction Privacy policies are statements, usually stated on e-commerce platforms, which govern and determines the way in which the e-commerce platform gets or collects, uses maintains and discloses information from users (Ecommerce Platforms, 2014). It also covers how the information collected by the platform is protected against unauthorized third parties who might intend to have access to it for wrong purposes. 84% of Americans believe that privacy protection in the US is not adequate while 78% believe that consumers have lost confidence over how their information is being used (Head and Yuan, 2001:150). They further explained that the ...

Introduction-

- Definition of the concepts of education relative to the formal and informal sector - Development of the background of the notion and concept of education-the understanding of education, in terms of the learning venues and spectrums - Evolution of technology relative to education-why education has changed coincidentally with the changes in technology - Thesis or guiding thought- changes in learning patterns over the years

Body

- Broad categorization of education as formal and informal - Past decades limited the number of learners to a specific geographical location - Technology such as Skype and video conferencing ...

Management

Introduction Organizational behavior is an academic discipline that is concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behavior in an organizational set-up . The current paper analyses the organizational behavior of my previous organization. Various factors such as organizational culture, mode of communications in the organization, the nature of authority, motivation techniques, emotional quotient areas and virtual elements are analyzed in the paper. The thesis statement for the current paper is that the organizational behavior of the analyzed organization contributes positively towards the growth of the organization.

Type of culture (Pluralism, Dualism or Salad bowl)

Organizational culture is defined as a system of shared values that guide the ...

Since the Internet has appeared, our culture has enriched with phenomenon of «chat». Chat has quickly become a new type of leisure, and a new way of communicating. In the pre-computer era analog to instant messaging did not exist. Chat can be considered as a space for the lazy: it is not necessary either to go somewhere or to meet with someone. The popular chat always have characters who are ready to join with you online. There are a lot of programs for communication through the Internet. I think that any user came across with such phenomena as ICQ, MSN or Yahoo ...

XBOX

Xbox is a video gaming product. This gaming brand is owned and created by the Microsoft Company. The video gaming brand was initially introduced in the United States in the year 2001.The Microsoft company was the first company to develop a more distinct video gaming product. So far, the company has produced a series of video gaming brand. To date the company has released three series the 6th, 7th and the 8th gaming consoles. Xbox does not only develop video games application, but it also produces Xbox live, which is an online service and online streaming. From these internet-based features, one can ...

Communication

Introduction When I met the man of my life at Ankara two years ago, we moved quite swiftly through the first two stages of relationship outlined by Knapp (Roux, n.d.). I had met him in a friend’s place. We greeted each other formally, but our eyes did not leave each other. The Initiation Phase lasted all of five minutes, and I was left all agog, thinking about this person. Over the next few months, we met at get-togethers at friends’ places and got to know more about each other. Our Experimenting Phase finished when we knew enough about ...

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Abstract.

It seemed time or money could not help to company Driscoll. Company had insufficient funds to hire the company’s top ex-professional, Alessandra, and no time to create the coalescent team which loves work and is ready to follow the leader. As a result, the team ‘leader’ Kristen felt guilty, and the ‘manager’ Tim didn’t know how to answer the simple questions, sooner they reversed their roles. Still, Tim had the opportunity to improve by acting as a leader to complete the project on time.

While performance can always be stimulated or strong-armed, the job satisfaction is the ...

Executive summary

This paper examines the operation of virtual global teams vis a vis heterogeneous groups from a single culture. The paper kicks off with an introduction explaining the difference thereof between global virtual teams and the latter. A general overview of the unique challenges typical for global virtual teams follows. Throughout the paper these challenges unique for global virtual teams form the pillar for the development of the skills needed to manage the teams.In this part, the challenges facing global virtual teams but are absent in the heterogeneous groups from a single culture are closely examined, citing the managerial skills needed by the ...

Gmail is an email service that is provided by mogul company Google well known for its browser services Google provides several internet services in cloud computing that include; Google Calendar, Google App Engine, Google Docs, Google Cloud Storage, and Gmail among others. Foremost, the choice for Gmail as a mailing service for an institution such as a university presents several security advantages. Gmail employs user passwords to ensure the security of user accounts. The passwords are integrated into the browser information that is stored in the programs files of the primary disk C of the computer. What is more the password ...

Article Review of As the internet rewires our brains by Kurt Cagle

In the article of Kurt Cagle, “As the internet rewires our brains”, the author’s main argument is that the use of social media sites is heavily valued and can decline the critical skills that children own. In this article, he uses the term rewire to demonstrate the idea that the brain cannot be creative with the presence of social media. Social media, therefore, reduces that rate of creativity of the brain in children as the brain is always reshaping itself according to the current situation is the main argument in this article but children should not be denied ...

Growing Popularity on the Internet 3

Threats on the Internet 5 Combatting Security Threats 9 Cyber security Threats 11 Safeguarding the Open Internet 13 Security Tokens 15 Other industry features on the Internet 16 Strain between Cyber security and Open Internet 16 We Have No Control over Security on the Internet 18 Conclusion 19

References: 19

Security on the Internet The internet is an integral part of modern communication. Yet it is also the source of many security issues of private information because of its widespread nature and availability. These security issues are associated partly to the inherent ...

Communication is a very important aspect of an individual’s everyday life. Either one communicates with family and friends or colleagues from all over the world. The various communication technologies available for use has helped facilitate faster and easy communication among people, thus, access to information is also quicker and simple. In this day and age, communication is not done merely to send greetings to family and friends, but is also used as an extension to learning. Information is now easily available on the Internet, thus, reading and writing are activities that people spend more time on. In a day, ...

e-Bay case study

Introduction

eBay is an online seller. There is no need for intermediary in this type of business. It’s an ecommerce seller. There is a direct sale from seller to customer. All the activities of an intermediary are undertaken by the company itself.

Channel of distribution feasible for eBay

Producer consumer This is because eBay operates on a direct channel of distribution. Here the producer is selling directly to the consumer without the help of intermediaries. Direct channel involves selling face to face, or sales through computers or mails, etc. but there is no involvement of any distributor or any intermediary. There is just ...

Executive summary

The aim of this report was to investigate profitable use of Telecommunications and Mobile Devices which are market tools for hoteliers. A survey on attitudes towards the use of mobile devices and telecommunication technology was conducted in hotels. The results indicate that hotels benefits from this technology since it make communication easier and enhance online advertisement of hotels. For instance guests who uses mobile device have ease on locating location of hotel and knowing the weather conditions of the location. The report concludes that personal mobile devices are key points in advertising among other mobile devices which have helped ...

I cases where a researcher is doing trying to evaluate companies oversees or far away from them, it would be best if they have employees print the consent form, sign it and then scan the signed form and send it back via email or fax. In regards the questionnaire, using technology can prove to be an effective way to overcome this obstacle. The researcher can ask employees to Skype and perform the interviews, as Skype provides a closer communication, or sent the questionnaires to the employees and get them back fully answered. Depending on the company’s needs, the researcher ...

In today’s world, the use of online research tools is inevitable; students, as well researchers, are taking to the internet to look for information. As a result, a lot of information is finding its way into online databases in order to satisfy this need. As the number of online information databases increases, there is need to consider the end-user in information organisation. All information systems should have in mind the end-user. The end-user is crucial in database design and development because he/she provides a judgement based on his/her interaction with the database. In most cases, users expect to find the ...

Intimacy, whether virtual or physical, refers to the feeling of ‘belonging together’ with a relationship partner or spouse. An intimate relationship is an affiliation where partners feel connected either physically or emotionally. Physical intimacy, in most cases, entails romantic affairs accompanied by sexual activity. Emotional intimacy refers to a sense of sentimental attachment to someone (Hodson, Kristin, Alisha Worthington, and Thomas 5). The act of intimacy has in the recent past, been common in people living in different regions. This is referred to as virtual intimacy: studies reveal that it is possible for an individual to develop a romantic affinity for another, ...

Communication

The 21st century is the time of huge technological progress. It is hard to imagine that ten years ago there were no social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, fast internet connection, texting and many other things people enjoy doing nowadays. It is a good thing that the World is moving forward, everything is changing for better, mostly. But there are a lot of opinions on how does it affect us? Whether it is positive influence or negative? There are two sides of a coin, as always. Many people side with “heads” – for positive, others with “tails” for negative. Both sides ...

Introduction

Gone are the days when one would have to post a telegram to convey urgent messages to people they knew. Technology and Science have been miraculously meritorious in reducing not only distances but also efforts to an extent that one couldn’t even have imagined this to be possible back in Graham Bell’s days. In this context, it makes good sense to remember that telephones were replaced by Pagers which were further replaced by Mobile Phones. And now Smart Phones rule the roost of world. Similarly, with the emergence and mushrooming of various websites, social networking is on its ...

Introduction

Crimes digital evidence recovery from the storage media is actually a growing time consuming process since the storage media capacity is in a constant growth state. In addition, it is a complex and difficult task for forensic investigator to examine all the locations in storage media. In modern days, it is actually generally accepted that there is continuing technological evolution including networks, computers, and e-commerce among others, which are ever more involved in aspects of human life. Crimes and illegal activities have in addition increased with the technological evolution. Various organizations are in fact suffering from computer crimes and criminals, which perpetrate ...

Windows 8

Windows 8 includes a new store known as the Windows store that can contain a variety of apps such as photos, news, sports etc. It provides more efficient system of file management due to a new and improved taskbar. It is claimed to have higher level of efficiency than its predecessors and counterparts in terms of speed, switching action between apps, security and power usage. Windows is suitable for both keyboard and touch users. Another important element of windows 8 is its ability to sync files with the cloud thus enabling the user to access files from everywhere.

Microsoft Office 2013

The latest version of ...

Communication is something that I do almost every waking hour of every day. The first thing I do every morning, after the alarm on my phone wakes me up, is check to see if I have any text messages and respond to them if I do. Within my first couple of waking moments I am usually communicating with someone in the world outside of my own home. As I stagger to the shower, my phone is in tow with me. I used to actually text people while in the shower, until I ruined a phone from the water. Now I ...

Business

VoIP service offerings Covad was formed in the year 1996 after ambitious executives decided to venture in the world of technology and service delivery on their own. They have faced numerous challenges over the years but have remained as the number one data delivery company in the United States. Today, they boast of delivering their services to over 50% of the United States (Valdes & Roos 2012). Their services include voice over internet protocol services, data services, security services, and hosted IT service. Their success can be attributed to good leadership, resiliency, and innovation. The services that they offer ...

Arguably, counseling has met all the standard of a known profession in our modern world and due to its unique form; it has connected with our mental health discipline through constant emphasis. Counseling focuses on growth as well as emancipation over the itinerary of lifespan and particularly in particularly important stages of life like childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older adulthood (Brown & Lent, 2008). Counselors specialize in helping and guiding couples, children, individual and families that are experiencing any shortcomings, thus, counseling focuses on development, preclusion, wellness and treatment to those seeking healthy life stage transition and productive life. Over the ...

Different authors have come up with different definitions for the word virtual teams. However, the key concept of having collaboration even if physically dispersed through the use of information technologies is present in all definitions. Mortensen et.al. defined virtual teams as “interdependent individuals physically separated from one another and relying on information technologies to communicate, collaborate, and coordinate work to achieve a common goal” (2009). Another term use to refer to virtual teams is geographically dispersed teams (GDT). Basing from the term use to refer to them itself, it can be gleaned that these teams are not physically together, but ...

The Internet as a Business Tool

You have a business that’s doing OK but you feel could be making you a lot more money than it is at the moment. So what can you do that’s within your budget, to bring in those customers and more sales? You know that advertising costs mega-cash (that you just don’t have!). You also know that you can’t afford to set up a telesales operation, employing staff to make thousands of calls to find those elusive “qualified” buyers. So can the Internet solve your problems? Well, it certainly can help. For most businesses, having a website is at ...

Article 1: Simple Tips for Virtual Meetings

With the increasing number of individuals and businesses utilizing virtual meetings, the tips provided in this article on how to make the most out of the virtual meetings are very handy and simple. The problem really with virtual meetings is that it’s hard to make sure that the one you’re meeting with are giving you their full attention. Unlike in face- to – face meetings where you can see what they are doing or you can feel if they are bored or not, in virtual meetings you can’t because you rely on the tool you are using.

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Introduction

VoIP has been underrated for a long time because businesses have not realized the benefits that come with this new technology. It has the potential to increase the productivity in business (Wi-Fi Planet, 2006a, Intel, Kornak et al., 2004). The arguments and debates have brought a lot of confusion and opportunities. Through VoIP, it is possible to make phone calls over the Internet. For this reason, many households have started using VoIP to communicate using the voice over the Internet. VoIP is gaining popularity in enabling voice transmission over the Internet. Kontak, a travelling company that is located in Latin America, ...

Introduction

Technology involves all the steps and procedures which are involved in making, using and having knowledge of tools and techniques used to solve a problem. Technology means the skills that are involved in making work easier and ensuring the quality production of a given piece of work. Technology affects human species and other animals both directly and indirectly. The use of technology has been in place since time immemorial. (Ellul, 1967) Man initially converted natural resources into simple tools that helped him in accomplishing certain tasks. There have been several technological developments which include the printing press, internet and the use ...