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Vicki Davis

White House opens website programming to public - 2 views

www.physorg.com/news175702799.html

opensource education edu_news govt_business outsourcing web2.0 worldonline www_world

shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09 - Cached
  • The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov - meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit.
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09
     
    The whitehouse.gov will look the same to most people except that what is behind it is part of the open source movement with the whitehouse code - now powered by Drupal -- is open source. For educators, if you've found administrators objecting to the open source movement, maybe you should consider using the white house as an example.
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Oct 09
     
    Open source sofware, like that used by drupal, is being used by many more organizations and gaining acceptance in governments now, like the USA with the white house.
Kreslyn C

Open Source | Open Source Workflow & BPM Blog - 0 views

www.processmakerblog.com/...open-source

workflow_software

shared by Kreslyn C on 18 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Kreslyn C on 18 Oct 11
     
    " Open Source Do the recent Amazon EC2 outages put in doubt the viability of cloud computing for mission critical hosted business applications such as hosted CRM, hosted ERP, and hosted BPM software? 2/06/2011 | Category: Open Source | Tags: bpm, BPM Software, business process management, cloud, Cloud Computing, CRM, ERP, Hosted Applications, Hosted BPM, SaaS, SaaS BPM There is a lot of news at the moment regarding the safety of data and the viability of business applications in the cloud. And for those companies that are already using a hosted application such as hosted CRM, hosted ERP, or hosted BPM software, this recent news can be quite disconcerting.. After all a company [...]"
Toni H.

Radio-frequency identification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/RFID

virtual_communication

shared by Toni H. on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader. Radio-frequency identification involves interrogators (also known as readers), and tags (also known as labels). Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal. There are generally three types of RFID tags: active RFID tags, which contain a battery and can transmit signals autonomously, passive RFID tags, which have no battery and require an external source to provoke signal transmission, and battery assisted passive (BAP) RFID tags, which require an external source to wake up but have significant higher forward link capability providing greater range. There are a variety of groups defining standards and regulating the use of RFID, including: International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), ASTM International, DASH7 Alliance, EPCglobal. (Refer to Regulation and standardization below.) RFID has many applications; for example, it is used in enterprise supply chain management to improve the efficiency of inventory tracking and management. Contents [hide]
  • Toni H. on 28 Sep 10
     
    Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader. Radio-frequency identification involves interrogators (also known as readers), and tags (also known as labels). Most RFID tags contain at least two parts. One is an integrated circuit for storing and processing information, modulating and demodulating a radio-frequency (RF) signal, and other specialized functions. The second is an antenna for receiving and transmitting the signal. There are generally three types of RFID tags: active RFID tags, which contain a battery and can transmit signals autonomously, passive RFID tags, which have no battery and require an external source to provoke signal transmission, and battery assisted passive (BAP) RFID tags, which require an external source to wake up but have significant higher forward link capability providing greater range. There are a variety of groups defining standards and regulating the use of RFID, including: International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), ASTM International, DASH7 Alliance, EPCglobal. (Refer to Regulation and standardization below.) RFID has many applications; for example, it is used in enterprise supply chain management to improve the efficiency of inventory tracking and management.
thowar5 h

Open Source Open World - 0 views

www.focus.com/...open-source-open-world

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shared by thowar5 h on 12 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Open source is a concept of free sharing of technical information that has been around for much longer than most of us would imagine
  • the world has turned to open source.
  • thowar5 h on 12 Oct 10
     
    information on open-source software and how it has evolved to become a large part of our world.
Vicki Davis

Miley Cyrus Dead Rumor Not True - 0 views

www.huliq.com/...iley-cyrus-dead-rumor-not-true

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shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 08 - Cached
  • The problem is that regardless of how many times it’s reported that the car accident didn’t happen and the 15 year old Hannah Montana star is still alive and well, people are still believing that it happened.
  • It doesn’t matter where they come from, it just says a lot about the state of our educational system
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 08
     
    An example of how the Internet often "makes" news. Although many people believe online sources above traditional media, verifying sources is still something that should happen. Again... don't believe everything you read, ANYWHERE!
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Nov 08
     
    Example of how the Internet often makes news and that sources AREN'T always accurate with this example of the rumor that Miley Cyrus was dead.
JohnV V

Awarded: $25G in Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards :: OSDir.com :: Open Source, Linux ... - 0 views

osdir.com/Article6677.phtml

google

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  • JohnV V on 13 Oct 08
     
    google creates open source award
James D

Outsourcing Backlash: Globalization in the Knowledge Economy - 0 views

www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument

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shared by James D on 06 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Historically, companies in the United States, Europe and Japan have led globalization, because those countries pushed products and services into developing countries.
  • Likewise, local politicians and political parties may try to protect jobs and obtain votes through legislation such as the bills currently being debated in four U.S. states aimed at blocking the outsourcing of government work to offshore enterprises.
  • Another factor making outsourcing attractive is the changing nature of technical work
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  • With this move to SODA, technologists and business people are talking, working with and understanding processes better. Communication between all parties is in terms of processes and subprocesses, more accurately mapping business needs.
  • Workers in one area of the globe will hear about practices in other parts of the world, raising awareness and intensifying their demands for equity. Labor forces in relatively disadvantaged economies will lobby to bring workforce programs into alignment with those of their global peers. Meanwhile, the values of workers and consumers in wealthier regions will promulgate globally, creating pressure across markets to adopt safe and competitive labor practices. In the long term — 10 years or more — the continuous pressure for equitable practices will normalize work/life programs and start to narrow the gap among regional labor rates.
  • For now, enterprises that are lured by low-cost labor markets will make decisions that satisfy immediate budget requirements, but many know little about domestic outsourcing, and even less about offshore outsourcing.
  • According to a 22 July 2003 article in the New York Times, IBM is now acknowledging the apparent necessity of moving service work to low-cost regions, and it is anticipating anger from displaced employees, as well as potential unionization for worker protection
  • Although there is frequent talk of "sweatshops" in many developing countries, the reality is often far different. In terms of economies of scale, domestic spending power and quality of life, many people in developing nations are compensated exceptionally well. As enterprises globalize, employers worldwide will be forced to offer more-competitive salaries and packages to their employees, especially those who are based abroad
  • James D on 28 Sep 10
     
    " Equal-Opportunity Globalization Historically, companies in the United States, Europe and Japan have led globalization, because those countries pushed products and services into developing countries. As the business of offshore sourcing grows, globalization is beginning to become widely accepted elsewhere. With "nearshore" and offshore sourcing, the global equation has changed. Enterprises in developing countries and emerging markets are now reaching into developed economies, offering a talented workforce at a fraction of the price. Developed and developing economies are exploiting each other's markets, economies and labor forces. It is natural to expect that those disadvantaged by globalization - irrespective of market - will protest and make known their issues. Likewise, local politicians and political parties may try to protect jobs and obtain votes through legislation such as the bills currently being debated in four U.S. states aimed at blocking the outsourcing of government work to offshore enterprises. Moreover, unlike previous instances of globalization - in textiles, products and manufacturing - the latest round is occurring almost instantaneously over a vast and sophisticated communication network. This has enabled business, projects, tasks and jobs to be transferred to virtual workforces across the globe quickly and transparently - a trend that is occurring so rapidly as to disorient entire professions, societies and organizations. Changing Nature of Technical Work Another factor making outsourcing attractive is the changing nature of technical work. By 2006, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be at least partially adopted in more than 60 percent of new, large and systematically oriented application development projects (0.7 probability). The proliferation of Web services and SOA is causing software to be developed in smaller units that are easier to map to business processes. These smaller units are also ideal for an offshore envi
ryan christie

Open Source - 0 views

www.howstuffworks.com/question435.htm

open source development software web2.0

shared by ryan christie on 19 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • ryan christie on 19 Oct 11
     
    Describes importance of Open Source softwares
Kreslyn C

A New Voyage of Discovery -- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Cen... - 0 views

www.onecountry.org/...416as_World_is_Flat_Review.htm

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shared by Kreslyn C on 18 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • come right to the main point of this review: Thomas Friedman's brilliant catch phase, book title and powerfully developed new thesis — "The World is Flat" — is yet another reaffirmation of what Bahá'u'lláh said about 150 years ago when He declared that “The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” That's not to say there is nothing new in Mr. Friedman's latest book. The World Is Flat is a wide-ranging examination of how trends and technologies like freedom, the Internet, and open-source software are converging to make it possible for educated people everywhere to compete with the best and the brightest in North America and Europe . And that is changing everything, for people everywhere, much more quickly than had been previously imagined. Mr. Friedman, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the New York Times , says the convergence of these trends and technologies is “flattening” the world. They create a “level playing field” where companies and individuals now successfully compete in the global market regardless of location. Mr. Friedman is by now an acknowledged expert on globalization, having outlined its impact in his 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree . There he argued that globalization had become “the dominant international system at the end of the twentieth century — replacing the Cold War system…”
  • Kreslyn C on 18 Oct 11
     
    "To come right to the main point of this review: Thomas Friedman's brilliant catch phase, book title and powerfully developed new thesis - "The World is Flat" - is yet another reaffirmation of what Bahá'u'lláh said about 150 years ago when He declared that "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." That's not to say there is nothing new in Mr. Friedman's latest book. The World Is Flat is a wide-ranging examination of how trends and technologies like freedom, the Internet, and open-source software are converging to make it possible for educated people everywhere to compete with the best and the brightest in North America and Europe . And that is changing everything, for people everywhere, much more quickly than had been previously imagined. Mr. Friedman, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the New York Times , says the convergence of these trends and technologies is "flattening" the world. They create a "level playing field" where companies and individuals now successfully compete in the global market regardless of location. Mr. Friedman is by now an acknowledged expert on globalization, having outlined its impact in his 1999 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree . There he argued that globalization had become "the dominant international system at the end of the twentieth century - replacing the Cold War system…""
TaylorJ j

Resource #2 - 0 views

go.galegroup.com/...i.do

information_change

shared by TaylorJ j on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • The first computers, constructed during World War II, employed radio valves, which were switched on and off to represent binary digits. But soon thereafter, the semiconductor was invented; it used much less electricity and thus did not overheat so easily, and it was sturdier. (V. Ramamurti, an Indian scientist, believed that the semiconductor was invented because the Allies feared the loss to Japan of India, the Allies' prime source of mica, which was essential to the making of radio valves.) Technological development of computers and of their multifarious applications has since been driven by the progressive reduction in the size and cost of semiconductors.
  • The first computers in the 1940s were as big as a house; by the 1960s, however, miniaturization of semiconductors had made it possible to create computers that were no bigger than a small room. At that point, IBM began to make a series of standardized computers; its 1620 and 360 series of mainframe computers found users all over the world, including India. The Indian government imported a few computers from the Soviet Union, especially EVS EM, its IBM 360 clone; but they were not popular, even in the government establishments where they were installed. IBM computers dominated the market. They were used for calculation, accounting and data storage in large companies, and in research laboratories. Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software producer, was established in 1968 to run the computers acquired by the Tata group and to develop uses for them.
  • By the 1980s, computer chips were becoming small enough to be embodied in almost portable minicomputers, and these were getting cheap enough to be used in small businesses. Manufacturers began to build into minicomputers a selection of programs that performed the most common operations, such as word processing, calculation, and accounting. Over the 1980s, the mini-computers shrank in size and weight and were transformed into personal computers (PCs). Indian agents who sold imported minicomputers and PCs also employed software engineers for sales assistance and service. Thus, in the latter half of 1980s, Indian software engineers were scattered. Some worked in CMC; others serviced the surviving IBM machines in companies, government establishments, and research facilities; and still others serviced minicomputers and PCs.
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  • By 1985 satellite links made the export of software possible without having to send programmers abroad. At that time, however, the Indian government did not allow private links, so Texas Instruments gave it the equipment, which it then proceeded to use from its Bangalore establishment. IBM, which wanted to set up a link in 1988, ran into the same problem: the government insisted on retaining its monopoly in telecommunications, the rates offered by its Department of Telecommunications were exorbitant, and it was inexperienced in running Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) links.
  • In 1991 the Department of Electronics broke this impasse, creating a corporation called Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) that, being owned by the government, could provide VSAT communications without breaching its monopoly. STPI set up software technology parks in different cities, each of which provided satellite links to be used by firms; the local link was a wireless radio link. In 1993 the government began to allow individual companies their own dedicated links, which allowed work done in India to be transmitted abroad directly. Indian firms soon convinced their American customers that a satellite link was as reliable as a team of programmers working in the clients' office.
  • In the 1980s, an importer of hardware had to get an import license from the chief controller of imports and exports, who in turn required a no-objection certificate from the Department of Electronics. That meant going to Delhi, waiting for an appointment, and then trying to persuade an uncooperative bureaucrat. In 1992 computers were freed from import licensing, and import duties on them were reduced.
  • Satellites and import liberalization thus made offshore development possible, with a number of implications: It enabled firms to take orders for complete programs, to work for final clients and to market their services directly. Work for final clients also led firms to specialize in work for particular industries or verticals: it led in particular to India's specialization in software for banking, insurance, and airlines. It gave India a brand value and a reputation.
  • The late 1990s saw a surge in the Indian IT industry. To assure potential clients of their permanency, Indian software companies built large, expensive campuses, where they made working conditions as attractive as possible, to help them retain workers. Trees grew and streams flowed inside buildings, and swimming pools, badminton courts, meditation rooms, auditoriums, and restaurants were provided.
  • The IT boom in the United States was the source of India's software exports.
Ashley Martins

The Impact of Technology on Environment: From Stone Age Technology to Green Technology - 0 views

www.brighthub.com/...61319.aspx

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shared by Ashley Martins on 08 Mar 13 - Cached
  • Ashley Martins on 08 Mar 13
     
    This source descibes the different affects technology has on the environment, and how to make the technology "green".
Dawid Kedzierski

Wikipedia: "Wikipedia is not a reliable source" | Beyond School - 0 views

beyond-school.org/...pedia-is-not-a-reliable-source

information_change

shared by Dawid Kedzierski on 22 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Dawid Kedzierski on 22 Mar 13
     
    Why wikipedia is not a reliable cite
anonymous

Flat Classroom Project Source - 1 views

webupon.com/...internet-affects-entertainment

shared by anonymous on 18 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Mar 13
     
    Internet Source for FCP.
Megan Gillespie

List of open-source healthcare software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...pen-source_healthcare_software

Health WWW

shared by Megan Gillespie on 27 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Gillespie on 27 Oct 12
     
    The following is a list of software packages and applications licensed under an open-source license or in the public domain for use in the healthcare industry.
Zach West

Top 10 applications open on your worker's PC, and why BPM Software and Workflow Softwar... - 0 views

www.processmakerblog.com/...ow-software-is-not-one-of-them

shared by Zach West on 14 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Zach West on 14 Mar 12
     
    By brian | December 13, 2010 | BPM, Business Applications, Collaboration, DMS, Facebook, Open Source, SAP, Social Applications, Social Media, Twitter So you are a manager at a mid-sized organization and you want your workers to use BPM software or workflow software so that you can start to get your processes under control.
Mackenzie Bredbenner

Plagiarism.org : Learning Center : Plagiarism Definitions, Tips on avoiding Plagiarism,... - 0 views

www.plagiarism.org/agiarism_and_the_internet.html

arts_entertainment education www_world plagiarism

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  • Mackenzie Bredbenner on 18 Mar 12
     
    This source shows the negative effects the World Wide Web has made possible. It explains how facile it is to cheat and use pre-written responses. 
jessica Friday

Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government | Video on TED.com - 2 views

www.ted.com/..._day_transform_government.html

govt_business information_change worldonline wireless_connectivity www_world

shared by jessica Friday on 27 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • jessica Friday on 27 Sep 12
     
    TED talk examining changes that may be brought about in government as a result of open-sourcing on the Interenet.
Danielle Perdock

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web 4.0 - Where will it end? - 0 views

soni1220.wordpress.com/...-0-%E2%80%93-where-will-it-end

web2.0

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  • Danielle Perdock on 26 Oct 13
     
    This blog includes a few images and videos portraying the differences between each of the Webs (web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0). It is a good source to recognize the starting position of Web 2.0
d l

Google | CrunchBase Profile - 0 views

www.crunchbase.com/google

google

shared by d l on 27 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.
  • In 1996, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously started the search company in a Stanford dorm room.
  • alex c on 27 Sep 10
     
    Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world's information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps and YouTube. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google's highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.
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