THE NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES: OVERVIEW AND RESEARCH FRAMEWORK Linda Weiser Friedman Professor‚ Department of Statistics & Computer Information Systems Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Linda_Friedman@baruch.cuny.edu Hershey H. Friedman Professor of Marketing and Director of Business Programs Department of Economics Brooklyn College of the City University of New York x.friedman@att.net April 2008 THE NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES: OVERVIEW AND RESEARCH
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Chavannes‚ 27C CH-1007 Lausanne-Vidy Switzerland Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new Century 1 Introduction In the past few decades there has been a revolution in computing and communications‚ and all indications are that technological progress and use of information technology will continue at a rapid pace. Accompanying and supporting the dramatic increases in the power and use of new information technologies has been the declining cost of communications as a result of both
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Identification of adequate customer protection in the European Union and in the • Slovak Republic consequently. 1. The Theory “Due Care” to Customers At the beginning it is important to describe the basic principles of the known theory due care to customers. Its fundamental content is responses to question - Exactly what do companies and organizations owe their customers? [1] Due care theory involves: a. Design - products and services should meet all governmental regulations and specifications and be
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Kristi Thornton Environmental Studies 2030 New World New Mind In the first chapter‚ the author talks about how most people’s attention is on eye-catching images‚ instead of what is going on in the world. People care more about murders‚ airplane crashes‚ etc. instead of the exploding populations or the growth in the amount of nuclear weapons that exist. Because of this‚ our environment starts to deteriorate. The environment will continue to deteriorate‚ and such events will be out of control
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Introduction Creative technology is a leading company that has focused on developing Audio related products primarily for the customer market. Creative gained world fame when it captured the world’s PC Sound Card market over a decade ago with its Sound Blaster sound card and was the market leader for many years in this specific segment. In the late 1990s‚ when personal audio products evolved from CD-ROM WalkMan type products to the MP3 format media players‚ Creative technology entered the fray with
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gives the concept of fair value and its application environment‚ and then analyzes the fair value in the new standards specifically. Finally in combination with the concrete background in China‚ we put forward some advices on the carrying out of the fair value in the accounting practice. [Key words] Fair Value; China new accounting standard Since January 1‚ 2007‚ the China new accounting standards will become mandatory for listed Chinese enterprises. The adoption of the new China accounting standards
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Determination of the Acceleration Due to Gravity By A Good Student Abstract The acceleration due to gravity‚ g‚ was determined by dropping a metal bearing and measuring the free-fall time with a pendulum of known period. The measured value is 9.706 m/s2 with a standard deviation of 0.0317‚ which does not fall within the range of known terrestrial values. Centrifugal forces and altitude variations cannot account for the discrepancy. The calculation is very sensitive to the measured drop
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Explain how technology was a stimuli to the Age of Discovery? There were many technological advances in the Age of discovery. The development of the cannon‚ which was able shoot iron or stone balls. This device could take down city walls or fortresses. A western technician built 56 small cannon’s and gigantic gun that could hurl stone balls weighing 800 lbs. The gun could only be loaded and fired only by about a hundred men working together‚ and reloading took 2 hours. Although the cannon had serious
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• The crime control and due process models developed by Herbert Packer (1968) are most constructive in understanding the controversy over the criminal courts. The most important value in the crime control model is the repression of criminal conduct focusing on efficiency as a principal measure. In contrast‚ the due process model emphasizes protecting the rights of the individual based on the assumption that an individual is innocent until proven guilty and has a right to protection
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exchange information. It is the interchange of ideas‚ facts‚ and emotions by two or more persons by the use of word‚ letters and symbols. IT (Information Technology) covers new communication tools such as computers‚ telecommunications and electronics and there is little doubt that IT is having a profound influence on all aspects of life. This new intensity of information makes possible far more precise planning and faster communication at low cost. By distributing information through electronic networks
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