w w w e tr .X m eP e ap UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education .c rs om * 5 1 5 6 0 7 6 9 7 8 * FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH Paper 2 Reading Passages (Extended) Candidates answer on the Question Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name in the spaces provided. Write in dark blue or black pen. Do not use staples‚ paper clips‚ highlighters‚ glue or correction fluid. DO NOT WRITE ON
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Feb 22‚ 2007 Executive Summary Hewlett-Packard (HP) is one of the largest technology companies in the world. Founded in 1939‚ HP employs nearly 88‚000 worldwide‚ supports 540 sales and administrative offices‚ and distributes to more than 120 countries. HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers‚ businesses and institutions globally. The company offers IT infrastructure‚ global services‚ business and home computing‚ imaging and printing. The case study reflects the appraisal of HP’s
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meth head. But it’s not extreme anecdotes that make the specter of Internet addiction so threatening; it’s the fact that Internet overuse has the potential to scale in a way that few other addictions do. Even if Steve designed a really cool - looking syringe and started distributing free heroin on street corners‚ not everyone would try it. But who among us doesn’t already check his email more often than necessary?As the Internet weaves itself more and more tightly into our lives‚ only the Amish are
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Definition of X- Internet Many people think the Internet and the Web are the same thing. They’re not. The Internet is a piece of wire that goes from me to you and from me to 300 million other people in the world. The Web is software that I put on my end of the wire‚ and you put on your end -- allowing us to exchange information. While the Internet (the wire) evolves gradually‚ the software on the wire can change quickly. Before the Web‚ other software was clamped onto the Internet. WAIS‚ Gopher‚
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Since its release in 1991‚ Internet revolution has changed the way companies do business and customers & consumers buy products. Chaffey et. al. (2003) defines Internet Marketing as the use of Internet to achieve marketing objectives and support the modern marketing concept. Internet opens a world of opportunities to the organizations as well as customers. It gives customers a much wider choice of products‚ services and prices from various suppliers. For organizations‚ it gives opportunity to widen
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Importance of the Internet I think most probably that this [internet] technology will be helpful‚ to get information easily. In that way it will make clear what is truth‚ what is reality and what is false propaganda. I think that provided each individual uses their own intelligence or mind to investigate further‚ this technology should be very useful. — His Holiness the Dalai Lama (From a BBC forum held 23 feb 2000) On this page: what is "the internet"? why is it important to you? why is
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Internet Censorship For centuries governments have tried to regular materials deemed inappropriate or offensive. The history of western censorship was said to have begun when Socrates was accused "firstly‚ of denying the gods recognized by the State and introducing new divinities‚ and secondly of corrupting the young." He was sentenced to death for these crimes. Many modern governments are attempting to control access to the Internet. They are passing regulations that restrict the freedom
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ENG 161_03 Essay V December 1‚ 2012 Internet Security and Cyber Crime / REVISION Society as a whole depends upon a basic human need for security. Over the last decade the relationship between security and society has grown complex and the balance between the two has been challenged by the introduction of the internet and digital technologies. Since the internet was developed in the 1960s to maintain communications in the event of nuclear war a lot has changed. By the 1980s‚ millions of computers
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Introduction Disney is a famous international company around the world. Not only for the production of cartoon and Disneyland‚ but also the effort that it have made in sustainable development. Disney has made high efficiency collaboration with Nature Conservancy-a famous environmental protection organization. They have worked closely with each other for decades to create the Disney Wilderness Preserve (DWP) in central Florida (“Working with Companies”‚ n.d.). Their collaboration was a success (“Florida
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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET OUTLINE 1B MODULE Steps Toward Modern Computing 31 First Steps: Calculators 31 The Technological Edge: Electronics 31 Putting It All Together: The ENIAC 36 The Stored-Program Concept 36 The Computer’s Family Tree 37 The First Generation (1950s) 37 The Second Generation (Early 1960s) 38 The Third Generation (Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s) 39 The Fourth Generation (1975 to the Present) 41 A Fifth Generation? 44 The Internet Revolution 45 Lessons Learned 48
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