Essays on Virtual

Video in Opera Stage

Introduction Advances in technology and the corresponding creation of digital technologies have significantly impacted the performing arts (Poole & Ho, 2011). Opera has not escaped the technological advancements and as such, new forms of opera have emerged in both digital and virtual formats (Symonds & Karantonis, 2013). Salter (2010) explains that since the 1990s, the scenography of opera has emerged with technological advancements transforming stages into video and monitor accompaniments. The obvious payoff is an enhanced experiential, virtual reality of the opera’s stage. The new technologies blur the lines between the opera’s stage and the motion picture common in ...

Statement of Customer’s Need

The modern business environment is influenced by globalization and international mobility of individuals. As a result, companies demand more focus on diversity and leadership capabilities to manage professionally and personally diverse groups, communication and the conflict of interest, which may arise from the polarization of opinions. While companies provide internal training in face-to-face as well as virtual environments, there is an opportunity to improve the outcomes of diversity training by implementing an integrated training seminar, involving the practical and theoretical exercises and workshops with individuals from different companies and sectors. This cross-functional and cross-sectorial groups can significantly benefit in ...

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 ...

altered the way we date? Dating is a great part of life for many young people these days. Relationships are very complicated processes that people are trying to arrange in their lives. There are different types of personal connections: friend, family member or significant other. However, we live in the era of technological revolution that has a direct influence on social contacts that people have. There is a number of advantages and disadvantages that advancement of social media and web technology have added to our dating lives. First of all, dating apps and websites have become a contributing factor ...

Windows Takes on Mac OS: The Systems Showdown

“Apple’s Sin” and “Windows Ink” may be unfamiliar terms to many users in today’s connected world, but for savvy computer consumers they may serve to steer shopping dollars in the direction of either the MacIntosh or Microsoft brands. According to Casey (2016), there are benefits and drawbacks to both Windows and Mac. Last year, Windows introduced their version with a tablet mode built into the system with a Start menu focused on applications. Additional forms of interactions and an operating system that allows the use of more devices places Windows over macOS in this category. In addition, ...

LITERATURE REVIEW: ONLINE VS TRADITIONAL COLLEGE COURSES

Abstract This paper explores three published articles on the problem of the choice between online and traditional way of education by analysing their pros and cons, evaluating their perspectives and looking through similarities and differences of both. The first article deals with the results of the research conducted by the U.S. Department of Education, Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning, which showed good marks among online students and characterised online classes from the positive side. The second article suggests the idea why with all its benefits online education cannot overtake the traditional one. The article also pays reader’ ...

There is a focus on every level, within a business, to support brand growth and satisfaction of customer and shareholder expectations. However, this can be a challenge, when you consider how best to promote a brand, and build up its profitability. There is a fine line between when to cut corners to save money, or when to push the envelope to drive success, and when a brand goes too far and ultimately ostracizes the target audience through their actions. This is visible in all four of the articles reviewed. In each ...

Introduction

The need for organizations to provide their employees with a work-life balance is increasing every day. Although most companies would love to provide their staff with the opportunity to work from the comfort of their homes, there are various challenges standing in the way. The ability to access company networks regardless of the geographical location presents different benefits such as increased employee productivity, satisfaction but also presents some cons such as security concerns and increasing costs for the company. Developments such as the Cisco Virtual Office Solution have significantly addressed the concerns for many businesses and still provided the ...

Introduction

The skeleton of any organization is the organizational structure. Ideally, organizations’ structures delineate their parameters. In particular, the structures define the departments as well as activities, which make up the functioning of the organizations. These activities include supervision, task distribution, and coordination. The organizational structures that have clearly defined scopes of authority, roles, and functions ensure that the individuals within the organization collaborate to attain the set goals and objectives. Notably, the structure of a given organization plays a crucial role in defining the interpersonal relationships, which ought to exist between people and work. The paper delves into the ...

Howard’s text has significantly explored the definition and depiction of cyber-crime. It has swiftly combined theoretical work, substantial research, and first-hand experience in driving the point home. The analysis wades through the growth and development of organized crime using objective mechanisms. The text is reader-friendly and successfully guides students in grasping the various dimensions of organized crime. However, with the advent of technology leading to the growth of organized cyber-criminal groups, there is room for refining the description provided by this enumerative text (Abadinsky, 2012). After a critical evaluation of the text’s definition, this paper discusses the ...

Executive summary

This product is centered on virtual reality technology. As a matter of fact, this product is designed for law enforcement officers. By simulating the dangerous conditions and circumstances that police officers have to work under on a periodical basis, the software will help law enforcement officers, make better decisions in a short period. Some of the decisions that it will help a law enforcement officer make are when to discharge a weapon when to engage a suspect and how to ascertain whether a situation has a potential of being volatile. What is more is that this software not only ...

Introduction

HRIS is an essential tool in large corporations as it helps in connecting HR management with all departmental roles. Technology is the key tool that connects organization systems and HR software. The HRIS allows the human resource management activities and process to be carried out electronically. The electronic systems and software enable the organization to undertake different activities such as management, accounting, and payroll. HRIS aims in increasing efficiency in decision making by HR (Martin, 2006). The decisions made are essential in increasing quality and productivity of both the human resource manager and employees. Furthermore, it offers different solutions ...

At the point when organizations take a gander at changing over to online they confront various issues. Nevertheless, there are also advantages when you change over or include online business. Brick-and-mortar organizations confront the following 3 issues. Organizations lose that face-to-face relationship with their customers, since it is totally different as if that individuals would need to really visit the store. Rather than creating those relations with their clients they are quite recently heading off to an online site and making buys trusting that the item you are putting forth is the thing that they require. A ton of ...

Discussion Questions on the Institutions of Higher Education

Discussion Questions on the Institutions of Higher Education

Nowadays, the emerging “for profit” institutions become a popular alternative to the traditional “non for profit” higher educational institutions. The for-profit-sector, as Lloyd Armstrong claims, “has not made the mistake of equating program quality either with the level of prior educational attainment of entering students, or the fraction of applicants who are rejected” (Armstrong, 2010). Thereby this strategy and a greater innovativeness of the institutions result in a great interest to them among the working adults and the members of minority groups. Considering their students as the clients, for profit organization ...

The Proposal

The purpose of this document is to present a business idea for the development of the Virtual Learning Space (VLS) for the online streaming industry. More specifically, this media product will present an interface and the category of short interactive videos, targeted at the development of specific skills, knowledge, and awareness among targeted population group. That said the product will consist of several twenty to thirty minutes’ videos, supported by the opportunity of interactive test and Q&A blog sessions. Importantly, the VLS will be licensed to only one online streaming provider, but “fed” by a variety of developers from ...

Online or virtual visits is a trend that is gaining impetus in healthcare. For various reasons people are receiving medical care from their physicians through online platforms. This trend has benefits and concerns. The benefits and concerns differ depending on the perspective from which they are being viewed. From the perspective of a commercial payer, the online visits help increase coverage, especially in the remote areas (Herman, 2016). The scholar argues that the potential for increased coverage among the elderly population, many of whom live outside metro areas is part of the reason why commercial payers have embraced the ...

Introduction

Technology has undergone tremendous evolution over the past couple of decades leading to several innovative developments and inventions. E-Learning is one of the most remarkable products of the technological development. Electronic learning or e-learning, in short, is the process of learning through electronic media with special reference to the internet. To say differently, any form of online learning is synonymous to e-learning (Dror, 2011). This paper sets out to analyze the growing trends relating to electronic learning in different settings such as K-2 schools, institutions of higher education, and businesses.

Significant Developments in E-Learning over the Past Decade

Past ten years have witnessed several developments in the ...

DESIGN PROPOSAL

1.0 PHYSICAL NETWORK DESIGN This design implementation must be on LAN systems because it is located in within the same building that has no structured facilities that aid data transfer from one network to another. Use of proper network topology helps in structuring the network with advantages such as cost reduction and less power consumption. The network nodes and connection lines are supposed to be designed in such a way that it reduces complexity and utilizes the available space properly. Currently, there are both physical and logical network topologies [3]. The physical aspect is defined as the actual geometric ...

IT331 Week 5

CSMA-CD is not used in wireless because it cannot detect whether a collision occurred or not, therefore, it will be of no use. 2.0 Price and performance Considering the fact that about 100 employees will be connected to the network, I would recommend the use of wired network because wired LAN offers superior performance as compared to wireless LAN. It is prudent to use Ethernet switches since they are cheaper and also utilizes the available bandwidth. Ethernet switches are relatively cheaper than hubs hence most recommended (Laude, 2002). It is also important to note that hubs may suffer performance ...

INNOVATIVE REPORT OF VR GLASSES

In the world of today where almost every individual is dependent on technology, bringing products which speak of innovation and creativity has become a great challenge. This is because every other organization is trying to attract and retain customers via innovative ideas and products. The competition in the dimension of innovation is increasing and becoming tense. Every organization realizes the significance of innovation and has ensured that a special budget for innovation is set up so that it can offer to the market what other players cannot. Then innovation has also become a racing factor. Ideas are there all ...

Patrick:

Even as I agree with you that the virtual reality market has not fared up to the expectations of the investors till now, I do feel that the market would go big in the coming years. The price of the product being a major blockade to its market success it is expected to significantly decrease in the near future as more and more manufacturers enter the industry. I hope competition will further refine the utilities of the product apart from reducing its price. A the same time, I strongly believe that manufacturers will explore more product benefits apart from ...

The main provisions of the human capital theory are the base for realizing the improvement of the situation on the labor market in the phase of use of labor potential. They have further importance for creating an effective mechanism for regulation of reproduction of labor potential. Western management is a well-established position that only living human labor through previously invested in human investment and further effective application gives you the opportunity to make productive use of all other elements of capital and the efficiency of the use of formed human capital is determined by a flexible, economically sound human ...

Executive Summary

Nestlé is a large international company, leader in food and drinks retail sector. The organization is adopting aggressive growth strategy, which involves product line expansion in the Middle East and larger brand presence. The goals of the strategy will be achieved through organic growth as well as M&A. That said HRM strategy is central to the company. Nestlé employs Total Reward Management (TRM) system, Balance Scorecard and incentive-based approach to employee compensation. Importantly, Nestlé believes that retention and motivation of employees are grounded on the personal bonds between the company´s culture and employee. With that, Leadership and Management ...

Technology Trends in the Hospitality Industry

Introduction Technology is a major driver of all business in the world today. The mechanization of services leads to short lead times and eventual savings in operational expenses. The savings in turn lead to an improvement in business profits. Technology is also a major driver of the current global nature of business. In particular, developments in the transport and communications sector play an important role in globalizing business. The connectivity of the world means that potential customers learn of new services and products as they arise and expect them wherever their location. Consequently, new technologies spread quickly and the ...

Impact of Team-Based Approach on Productivity at Nestlé

Introduction

Companies in the contemporary business environment must rely more and more on intangible assets and develop competitive advantage beyond the hard and soft attributes of their products and services. Globalization and internationalization of supply chains demand more flexibility and resilience from the companies, placing pressure on their creative and innovative capabilities (Sims, 2007). That said Human Resource Management (HRM) has gone a long way in transforming from a simple administrative support function to a strategic element in most of the modern forward-looking organizations. Diversity is the key to building sustainable competitive ...

Introduction

Digital archiving and preservation ensures that digital content remains in a format that is usable and accessible both in the present period and in the future. In the context of an organization, digital preservation is a process that involves planning, resourcing, and actual archiving using relevant technologies and applications. In the case of an institutional repository as this university, it is necessary to have policies and regulations that would guide the digital archiving and preservation program. Such policies would serve as a guide for the program while setting out its objectives. It is therefore necessary to have an evaluation ...

In the last few decades, the use of social media has taken over peoples’ lives. In fact, it is hard to believe that several years ago there was no Facebook or Twitter. It is worth mentioning that three decades ago, cell phones were only available to the wealthy members of society and the commoners only waited to hear from each other through telegraphs, letters, and other outdated methods. Today, social media sites such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn as well as virtual world’s such as Second Life, Sims, Club Penguin, and video sites such as YouTube and blogs ...

Overview

Technology has both positive and negative implications on the lives of the people. The proliferation and advancement of technology tools have enormous effects on the lives of the people with respect to the odds of space and time thereby influencing the nature of social interactions. In particular, the technological advancements have direct effects on social evolution and social interaction across the globe, especially on the internet. The relationship between technology and social development results in the new realities of the individuals and the society. In particular, the relation between the society and technology encompasses the social networks sites, modern ...

Introduction

A national organization operating in the United States has offices in all four time zones in the country. The organization wishes to complete an important and confidential project within the next three and a half months. The completion of the project will require the formation of a virtual team comprising of mostly senior managers and directors from all major business departments of the organization. For the project to be a success, a team charter needs to be created to direct the different team members on what is required of them. Also, since the team members will be working from ...

The emergence of digital currencies and their rapid expansion into international financial markets and the lives of common people has been nothing but a substantial shake-up for the global financial sector. These digital or virtual currencies, often known as cryptocurrencies, employ cryptography to secure and authenticate transactions, as well as to administer the creation of new units. Today, both youngsters and older people know the Bitcoin benefits and Ethereum features: they are decentralized and operate on a peer-to-peer network, giving users more independence and near-absolute anonymity.

In recent years, digital currencies have grown in popularity, and their use has spread beyond ...

The public sphere is a unique "space" in which a big amount of citizens lives and interacts, and each of them is different from each other. If one considers the emergence and transformation of the public sphere, for example, from the times of Antiquity to the present day, it becomes evident that the public sphere is created and changed mainly due to interpersonal communication. In addition, the public sphere has many different issues that have a significant impact on the state and the society. These problems may be associated with the inequality, which is manifested at different levels of ...

Abstract

The report below provides a comprehensive analysis of Global Finance Inc.’s (GFI) network. It provides an overall description of the network based on the network diagram provided. The report also conducts a risk assessment on the network. The main purpose of the risk assessment is to discuss the risks resulting from the network design and configuration. In total, the assessment identified four apparent risks and the report provides proper mitigation techniques for the organization. The main purpose of the mitigation techniques is to improve network security and reduce financial losses resulting from network downtimes. The report also discusses ...

Social Action Theory

Anderson and Meyer (1988) use the following terminology to understand the social action theory: “For most of the history of research in mass communication, content has been seen as a silver bullet shot from a media gun to penetrate a hapless audience” (Anderson and Meyer 48). Media affects can be related to the social action theory by evaluating the negative effects of playing violent video games on children. A television show by CBS News further places emphasis on the role video games has on making children aggressive. The show clarifies that independent studies have proven that there is a ...

IT Technology Implementation

IT Technology Implementation Verizon is a leading provider of telecommunication services including wireless services and equipment and wire line services tapping the mass market, global enterprise, and global wholesales (Verizon, 2016). The company’s wireless services include retail connections and retail postpaid connections. Such include Verizon LTE, 4G LTE, fiber broadband services, FiOS, internet, and cable, and video telematics. Verizon also offers technology such as cloud and security products and interactive products such as video, music, and commerce (Verizon, 2016). The company exhibited a growing revenue and net income in the last five years in all of its business ...

Windows Server 2008 or Long Horn has behind it the long experience acquired by Microsoft in Windows Server operating systems and includes many new features and technological improvements. This help increases safety, productivity, scalability and significantly reduce the burden of the administrator in the development of their normal duties. Compared to the previous Microsoft Windows 2003 operating system, LongHorn offers improvements, new features, and functionality. The 2008 version includes the Server Manager, Bit Locker Drive Encryption, Application Server Role, a new Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, NAP (Network Access Protection), Terminal Services Gateway, Terminal Services RemoteApp, Server Core, PowerShell, ...

A. Neuromancer and Cyberpunk Film

Neuromancer discusses the ways in which people augment their bodies with technology, which can easily be seen in elements of The Matrix. The mixture of machine and man is found in The Matrix through the plugs and cables the humans use to connect to the virtual world, most notably the invasive, penetrative plug used to ‘jack in’ to the Matrix through the back of their heads. This is compared to Molly Millions’ razor-nails and eye augmentations found in Neuromancer – both fusion of man and machine used to grant the user abilities not available to them as organic life forms. ...

Kamal Hussein’s Thartharah fawqa al-Nil (Adrift on the Nile, 1971) is the film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film was released in 1971, four years after the Six-day War and a year after the death of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt and the man behind the Revolution of 1952. The movie stars some of the most iconic actors of the time including Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Ramz and Adel Adham. The film focusses primarily on the protagonist Anis, a civil servant, and his experiences with a group of men who have created ...

Videoconferencing software is a powerful tool for project managers who are required to use virtual solutions to communicate with team members or need to enhance their information delivery (Blau, Weiser & Eshet-Alkalai, 2016). Specifically, video conferencing software can facilitate the execution of the organization’s strategic plan. This is because as an organization continues to grow and become multi-national or global, the workforce becomes proximally distributed across the world, hence, there are challenges for project managers who need to communicate with a team that is an inter-regional or international audience (Daim et al., 2012). There is a multitude of different ...

Human Resource (HR) recruiters have the ability to select applicants from a multitude of sources. The most common methods are advertisements, company job boards, online job boards, and social media sites. However, to be successful in recruiting the most qualified applicants, the HR recruiter needs to keep up with changing technology and trends. Two new technologies for recruitment are Candidate Relationship Management software and Virtual Interviews.

Candidate Relationship Management (CRM)

Desai (2015) states “70% of recruiting organizations report to currently utilizing some form of Applicant Tracking System (ATS)” but the data “in an ATS becomes outdated extremely quickly – and therefore, its future value ...

L Brands Inc.: The Strategy

Introduction

L Brands Inc. evolved from a simple department store in early 1900s into one of the largest retailers of women’s fashion and apparel products today. It has acquired Victoria’s Secret and PINK, and has made other significant acquisitions. L Brands has branches for Victoria’s Secret products in more than 1,100 stores in North America, Canada and United Kingdom (Nasdaq, 2016). The company markets its products through retail stores located in malls, through international franchise and websites (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2016).

Strength L Brand sells through shopping malls ...

Innovative Ways of Using Emerging Information Technologies

There are several ways by which users can evaluate and gage the performance of cloud providers. Usually, they are assessed based on costs of the utility model, though there are several variations to further gauged each provider’s desirability such as the location, reliability and security factors. There are organizations that offer certification to providers that comply with specific standards; for instance, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) developed the Trusted Cloud Initiative Program that help cloud providers comply with standards and practices (Cloud, 2011). In addition to relying on certifications, users must take considerable steps in evaluating the performance ...

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between social networking and face-to-face communication with respect to their influence on the social interaction skills. The first aim of the research has to determine whether there is a causal relationship between use of social networking tools and face-to-face communication behaviors. The research aims to investigate the hypothesis. There will be a statistically significant difference in change/gain scores for communication behaviors between the experimental group and the control group; Face-to-face communication is associated with the students’ social media networking habits (i.e. time spent on social media networking). There will ...

Implement and Monitor Work Health and Safety Practices

Written Assessment Learning Outline Within this resource, you will be covering the following key topics: Monitor and improve workplace operations. Plan and organise workflow. Monitor and support team members. Solve problems and make decisions. Using these key topics as a guide, you will work with your trainer/assessor to develop your skills and knowledge. The role of your trainer/assessor is to assist and guide you through your learning journey to achieve your goals.

Short answer written questions.

Projects As part of this written assessment you will need to access the following resources to support you in this assessment: E-Coach learning content Computer with internet ...

Multi-Organisational

Enterprises & System(BNM830) Major: Supply Chain Management Total word count: 5728 Net Word Count: 5023 PART 1 A. Apple Inc. is one organization that is known by many to deliver a diverse and complex product-service system. The firm is a technology organization whose products are of high quality and more available to its clients. The company also provides varied services and has opted to venture into other complex activities that are not common with many, if not all, technology companies (Apple, 2015). One of its best selling products is the iPhone6 brand that is not only available in the ...

Introduction

Technologies continues to address people’s major unsatisfied needs, however, they will never determine our fate. Despite the fact that they are taking over human tasks it doesn’t imply that there will no longer be jobs for people. What we can do is find a way to make technologies work for us. Automation is both helpful and harmful to the current state of employment across the world.

How Technology can be Helpful in Workplace

Improves Communication Technology makes it possible for people to communicate with other individuals and businesses via virtual offices across the globe. Many responsibilities and duties can now be accomplished from home ...

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying has seen its rise in recent decades, when internet came to practically every house and every school. Today in order to threaten someone you don’t need to have big muscles or own a weapon. In today’s world, an IP address is enough to make someone’s life miserable. While it may be seen as a harmless virtual naughtiness, it unfortunately has very physical and real life consequences. In last several years, cyberbullying became one of the most popular issues why children contact the ChildLine and one of the top reasons for adolescent suicide. Is there a ...

Violent Video Games

Introduction Video games have become common among children especially when dealing with teenagers most of whom have access to video games. Video games are part of the media environment in which children are exposed to that help in defining their overall connection to their environments. Exposure of children to pro-social video game content may help in promoting overall brain development among children, as it makes it easier for these children to experience that overall connection towards their surrounding environments (AlShaiji 126). For a very long time, it has become important for scientists to study the impacts associated with exposure ...

The chapter under consideration is the Chapter 5, Financial Services: Savings Plans and Payment Accounts. The chapter gives to the reader five important aspects that contribute to the understanding of the personal finances. 1. The first aspect is the selection and use of the available financial services in the market and the factors that influence the decision to select a specific financial service. The selection of the financial service depends on of the needs of the client and the convenience of fees and conditions. One of the financial services is the availability of cash. The cash is the most ...

Introduction

Photographs save moments. The most efficacious and optimum images provided in the news capture the viewer. The viewer not only sees the news moment, but also feels it through the presentation of the image. These images are seen as reality by viewers. Viewers hold the news images as truths. This was the case before video and digital photographer and it still applies today with the exponential advances. Advances in technology and the image on news photography has been both advantages and disadvantages to newspapers and electronic news sources. The way in which the news captured images prior to the ...

Societies have their base on human interaction. For many years, human evolution has depended on communication for fulfilling needs and setting new challenges. The migration of tribes, the first forms of commerce, the birth of civilizations were all possible thanks to communication. One may see the evident impact of communication on the evolution of the world, which has obviously changed from the pre-historic times to the present. Even though communication has not always led to positive outcomes, humans have proven that only good and effective communication leads to success. The transformation of tribes into empires depended greatly on who ...

Project managers use a variety of tools and techniques to manage project teams. Project managers commonly use Project Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and the Gantt chart to manage project teams. The PERT shows diagrammatically the sequence of project activities, how much time each activity will take, and the interrelationship between the various project activities (Maserang, 2002). The Gantt chart show the calendar time each task will take usually expressed in days, weeks, or months (Maserang, 2002). Gantt charts show diagrammatically for each activity the start time, the estimated time to complete the activity, and the time elapsed (Maserang, ...

Simulation in Nursing Education

The concept of simulation in healthcare education has been since the time of world II. The basic concepts of simulation in associate’s or bachelor’s nursing program comprised of CPR manikins, role playing, static manikins, and conventional techniques based on the utilization of various taught concepts were used as a teaching modality since over 5 decades (Norman J. 2012). The concept of high-fidelity education has been in place for over 2 decades but it is new and unique in the nursing education. The process involves the use of simulation with the help of high-end computer technology including simulation ...

Stelarc artist is a presentation expert, who is engrossed in involuntary, intimate, as well as alternate artistic occurrences. He has used robots, virtual reality networks, and medical to extend, enhance, and explore the body’s staging parameters. He started by exploring the body visually and acoustically, magnifying his blood flow, muscle signals, heartbeat, and brainwaves, and recording the inner part of his colon, stomach, and lungs (Mura 20). Having conducted experiments with restrictions the physique, Stelarc expanded the approaches to increase the skills, merging the physique with thinking computer systems, computer technologies, prosthetics, and medical imaginings like the virtual ...

Pokémon Go- Augmented Reality versus Virtual Reality In the recent years, technological innovations have greatly altered the way consumers use their mobile phone and the applications on them. The most recent trend in applications has been that of Pokémon Go- a mobile game which has attracted millions of people in the world. The game is based on the concept of finding virtual creatures which are located at areas called PokeStops (Gerber, 2016). The PokeStops are present on real-life maps, and it is a real-time experience of going to various locations and finding these creatures. The Pokedex is ...

How are the companies in this business protecting their users from such assaults, and how can these companies improve the security of online classifieds? Information technology security is important to business organizations operating online platforms (Bailey 30). There are different strategies that companies can protect users from fraud, as well as security and privacy assault. For example, a company can use the SSL-Security Socket Layer that can automatically encrypt information that is exchanged between buyers and sellers. While this approach is capable of protecting the information during it movement through the Web, it does not provide adequate protection for ...

Innovation and Risk Management

Introduction Strategic growth is an essential element of increasing business activity and profits. There are a number of possible ways through which strategic growth can be achieved by an organization. One of the best ways to achieve strategic growth is to introduce a new product in the existing range of products. The new product should be unique and better or complimentary to the existing range of products. The organisation chosen for this study is Apple Inc. and a New Product Development (NPD) process is included in the report while covering the strategic growth of the company.

Apple Inc. is ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has been the ...

Violent Video Games

Introduction Video games have become common among children especially when dealing with teenagers most of whom have access to video games. Video games are part of the media environment in which children are exposed to that help in defining their overall connection to their environments. Exposure of children to pro-social video game content may help in promoting overall brain development among children, as it makes it easier for these children to experience that overall connection towards their surrounding environments. For a very long time, it has become important for scientists to study the impacts associated with exposure of children ...

The concept of Killer App

Killer application or killer app is a jargon used by the computer and technology industries for such programs which are considered as superior to those offered by rivals. Killer applications are highly innovative and add considerable value to technology. Operating systems, programming language, hardware, software and gaming consoles all are examples of killer applications. The aim of creating killer app is to introduce new technology at the global level. As globalization became a common phenomenon, innovation gained popularity too because the core of competition lied at the innovative capabilities of organizations. In order to survive global competition, organizations began ...

Identity and Information in the Internet Age

Today’s generation of kids and adults are dealing with technologies like no generation before. The major engine in this truly unique period is social media and the Internet. This has forever changed how we interact with one another as well as how we get information. We can interact with people all around the globe, with different cultures and nations, and do so all from our own living room. This new way of interacting with one another has had a great affect on how we form our self-identity. Social media and the Internet have made inaccuracies of information much ...