Case#2

Global Warning
• Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century was caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, which results from human activity such as fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Global dimming, a result of increasing concentrations of atmospheric aerosols that block sunlight from reaching the surface, has partially countered the effects of greenhouse gas induced warming.

•The scientific consensus is that anthropogenic global warming is occurring.Nevertheless, political and public debate continues. The Kyoto Protocol is aimed at stabilizing greenhouse gas concentration to prevent a "dangerous anthropogenic interference".As of November 2009, 187 states have signed and ratified the protocol.

Effects of Computers
•The state of knowledge of global warming will be presented and two aspects examined: observational evidence and a review of the state of computer modeling of climate change due to anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases. Observational evidence, indeed, shows global warming, but it is difficult to prove that the changes are unequivocally due to the greenhouse-gas effect. Although observational measurements of global warming are subject to "correction," researchers are showing consistent patterns in their interpretation of the data.

•Since the 1960s, climate scientists have been making their computer models of the climate system more realistic. Models started as atmospheric models and, through the addition of oceans, surface hydrology, and sea-ice components, they then became climate-system models. Because of computer limitations and the limited understanding of the degree of interaction of the various components, present models require substantial simplification. Nevertheless, in their present state of development climate models can reproduce most of the observed large-scale features of the real system, such as wind, temperature, precipitation, ocean current, and sea-ice distribution. The use of supercomputers to advance the spatial resolution and realism of Earth-system models will also be discussed.

Effects of Computers in a certain Company in our Planet
•As our technology grows and more people using computers and it can cause so much heat to our planet. In any company computers are more important. Data center in a company is used to facilitate computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression) and security devices. IT department in a company is a major source of negative environmental impacts. The best way to reduce heat in our planet is to less consume of power because the IT is the biggest consumer of power.

•According to Senior Editor Stephanie writes that Data Centers consume between 1.5% and 3% of all the power generated annually in the United States. A certain Company called VistaPrint, where the IT departments does manage its data center facilities, discovered that its electric bill was projected to skyrocket if the company, which sells custom printed products online grew as predicted. Data Centers of VistaPrints hosted by "Cable and Wireless". The use of "hydro power" provides a renewable lower-emissions of source electricity. The company replace its blade servers with virtual machines that use more server capacity and consume less power.

The Green Advantage
•First and foremost, green IT is a help to the environment. The use of them reduces the already big pile of e-waste. For instance, a simple move of replacing fluorescent bulbs with energy-efficient lights will lessen the number of burnt bulbs dumped into landfills. How? Well, high-efficiency light bulbs tend to last longer which means they require lesser replacements.

•Green IT helps you save money. Most Eco-friendly technology devices are energy- efficient which means that they consume lesser energy. And in a business, that translates to less electricity to pay for.

•The first two benefits leads to this third benefit. This refers to personal fulfillment. Knowing that you have helped save the planet while earning something out of it is a very wise move that creates a sense of nobility and fulfillment.

Data center Server that Consume Less Energy
•Start-up server maker SeaMicro today unveiled a new low-power server that promises to slash power costs for companies running large Internet services and cloud computing platforms. SeaMicro’s multi-core x86 server runs on Intel’s low-power Atom chips, whose energy efficiency has made them the processor of choice for many mobile phones and laptops.

Case#3

1. What is Facebook?

• it is a very popular online social networking website that allow the users to interact via message,chats,and other forms of media content.It also allows for business and schools networking.Facebook started as a closed social networking.Facebook users create a profile page that shows their friends and network information about themselves.The choice to include a profile in a network that everyone withing the network can view the profile.The profile typically includes the following information,Status,Friends,Friends in other networks,Photos,Notes,Groups and the Wall.Users of Facebook can share new stories,videos and other files with friend.Most news and video website have buttons that can be clicked automatically share the story or video on the feed.The person sharing can make comments about the shared items that their friends will see.Facebook is also a excellent way to meet friends ad family and it can be chat with people you haven spoke to years.It is useful in its own way.

2. Advantage and Disadvantage of Facebook?

•The Advantage for me is that i can stay in touch with old school friends.I went to boarding school so we all live in different parts of the country.Some are also different parts of the world.I also have family members on my list for the same reason.

Advantages
*Allow user to search new and old friends
*Accessible to chosen universities having a level of security
*Make it least awkward when communicating with a strangers or people you are not familiar with it
*Love attraction - can be used a dating service system
*Make it easier to join groups having similar like and dislikes
*Allow members to check students who are taking the same class,living with the same are or coming from the same academy

•The Disadvantage for me is it is a bit addictive.Facebook also offers a lot of more privacy with in myspace.Also the disadvantages don't pose a threat to you just by merely looking at it.Someone else has to prove that what users do with their profile is directly in proportion with what can happen to them.A user must understand what he is trying to give out otherwise things might get messy and people will mistook them as someone else.

Disadvantages
*Overcrowding
*Weakening long distance relationship
*Unsupported by physical adjacency
*Contributes wide range procrastination
*Rampant addiction
*Stalking is possible
*Acquaintances can be labeled as friends

3. What are characteristics of Facebook.Why many people engage in this site?

• The characteristics of Facebook it is a dynamic website you can do what you want. You can also upload pictures, contact to your families and friends abroad. You can also play games you can also post what you are doing in wall post. They can see your profile status so that many people find new friends and partners and they engage to Facebook to find it and use it as their pleasure.

4. Can you use Facebook in E-commerce?How and Why?

• For me Facebook can be used in e-commerce by posting your products in your wall so that they can see it. You can also chat with them and deal them what you want and what they want. Also maybe their is an application in facebook that is related to business.The application called Payvment Between music, virtual gifting, gaming and retail goods, Facebook is turning into a virtual online mall of sorts. We’ve written about Payvment, a startup that allows anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook. Today, Payvment is launching an innovative new feature for storefront owners on Facebook: the ability for retailers to provide instant discounts and coupons to users that become Fans or “Like” their Facebook page.

5. How important Facebook in the society today?

•For me that the important of Facebook in this society today is

because Facebook pages are typically the best option for organizations to promote themselves on Facebook, I will focus on Facebook pages throughout this article.

•Customer Interaction - Facebook pages provide a forum for dialogue between the customers and the brand giving companies to opportunity to build up their better relationship with target audiences and current customers.

•Reputation Management - Facebook allows a company to gain a deeper understanding of how the brand is perceived online through direct feedback and also by monitoring what users are saying about their brand.

•New Customer Acquisition - Each time a Facebook user becomes a fan of a Facebook page.Notice is posted as new items for all the users friends to see

Case#1

Google is a highly successful Internet business. Recently they have broaden their scope
with a multitude of new tools. Research Google business model and answer the ff.
questions below. You may add additional information not included in this question.

1. Who are they're competitors?

•A year ago, Google named just two competitors.Microsoft and Yahoo,in its annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This year, Google lists 10 competitors by name in its recently filed 10-K report for 2009, including social sites Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and specialty search engines that dive deep into a specific category, such as travel site Kayak and health inquiry site Web-MD.While Google lists specific e-commerce and social network sites, Yahoo, the second leading U.S. search site with a wide array of other services, had a shorter list of competitors listed on its newly filed 10K.listing Google, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook and MySpace.


2. How have they used information technology to their advantage?

•They used Information Technology as their advantages has change in many ways of how business conduct day to day transactions.Information Technology has not been as revolutionary as once thought. It did not revolutionize they way business is conducted, the basis is still there, and the traditional ways of conducting business are still there. Information
technology, has evolutionarily the way business is conduct, it became more
effective, more specific, but it is not radically transformed.Every now and then a technology, or set of technologies, comes along that offers a rich set of components that can be combined and recombined to create new products.


3. How competitive are they in the market?

•The competitors in the market as one of the most highest competitors are the Google.Google is also the most dynamic site we used to Search some information around the world.Google's pressing need to make the case to regulators that it has viable competitors, and has not become too dominant an Internet force.In Software Google is the most used search engine on the web with a 53.6% market share, ahead of Yahoo! (19.9%) and Live Search (12.9%). Google indexes billions of Web pages, so that users can search for the information they desire, through the use of keywords and operators, although at any given time it will only return a maximum of 1,000 results for any specific search query.

4. What new services do they offer?
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• Book Search: Search the full text of books
• Catalogs: Browse online catalogs
• Calculator: Google has a built in calculator function. To compute enter the calculation into the Google search box and hit the Enter key
• Currency Conversion: Google has a built-in currency converter. To convert, enter the conversion you'd like done into the Google search box and hit "Enter". For example you could use "100 USD in CAD" or "Canadian money in American dollar".
• Definitions: To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined.
• File Types: Google Search automatically searches 12 non-HTML file types and provides an option to view as HTML. The file types appear in Google search results
• Froogle: Google's product search (Shopping) service
• Groups: Search results from Google Groups may appear at the bottom of your relevant search results page.
• I'm Feeling Lucky: Skip the Google search results page and go to the first Web page returned for your query.
• Images: Google Image Search shows images matching your search query.
• Local Search: Search the Web for businesses in a specific area by including a city or zip code in your search and Google.
• Movies: To find reviews and show times for movies playing near you, type "movies", "showtime" or the name of a current film into the Google search box.
• Music Search: Enter the name of an artist popular in the U.S. and reviews, song titles, and more is shown at the top of the search results.
• News Headlines: These links connect you to reports culled from numerous news services that Google continuously monitors.
• PhoneBook: U.S. street address and phone number look up publicly listed phone numbers and addresses
• Refine Search: For searches within certain topics, you'll notice links at the top of the search results page that help you narrow the search.
• Results Prefetching: On some searches, Google automatically instructs your browser to start downloading the top search result before you click on it so the destination page loads faster.
• Search By Number: Parcel tracking IDs, patents and other specialized numbers can be entered into Google's search box for quick access to information about them.
• Similar Pages Display: The "Similar Pages" sends Google to scout the Web for pages that are related to the result.
• Site Search Restrict: Type the word site" followed by a colon enables you to restrict your search to a specific site. For example "memory site:webopedia.com" would search only Webopedia.com
• Spell Checker: Google's spell checking software automatically looks at your query and checks to see if you are using the most common version of a word's spelling, and may offer spelling suggestions.
• Stock Quotes: Enter a stock of mutual fund symbol in the search box to obtain fund quotes
• Street Maps: Use a U.S. street address with Zip or City and state to search. When recognized links are returned from Google Maps
• Travel Information: Use an airport's three letter code followed by the word "airport" to obtain delay and weather condition information.
• Weather Check: Type "weather," followed by the location to obtain weather information
• Web Page Translation: For results in other languages, click "Translate this page" and translate that page into your language.
• Who Links To You?: The query link:siteURL shows you pages that point to that URL. For example link:www.webopedia.com will show all Web sites linking to Webopedia.
  

5. What makes them so unique?

•They are so unique because Google are the most biggest and fastest search engine in the
website.
Google is the most highly recommended site for searching.Google also a popular search engine.It
is a tool for finding resources on the
WWW or World Wide Web. Google scans web pages to find instances of the
keywords you have entered in the search box.
Also they are not as search engine but also in
books,movies also this blogger is made by Google. They also offer travel information, news
everyday
currency converter and weather check up.

 

6. How competitive are they in the international market?
•The assertion that Google has a lot to learn in its international
efforts couldn't be more over-stated.Google has had success in the
international environment, including greater market share than in the
domestic market, that every Internet company would covet.Google has had success with other products abroad, most notably its Orkut
social network which has bombed domestically to its MySpace, Facebook, and
Linked-in brethren, yet has taken off in huge countries such as India and Brazil.Google should be sensitive to
cultural sensitivities and will face different regulatory environments abroad,
but the truth is that Google has been remarkably successful internationally in
large part due to the international word-of-mouth generated by their product
and feature set.