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Outsourcing the future | ASU News | The State Press | Arizona State University - 0 views

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  • But students would be thrown if they received a term paper back that said, “Graded in India.” Unfortunately, this is a developing trend in university classrooms. Professors at various universities around the country outsource workers in India, Singapore and Malaysia to grade students’ papers.
  • “[Outsourcing grading] is occurring in large online classes,” Archambault said. “Universities are increasing online programs for a variety of reasons, including the flexibility to students, and it allows students in remote areas to take classes. But the university also is able to offer larger class sections and save money on overhead costs.”
  • We should not run education like a business. Cutting corners by allowing anonymous individuals to grade students’ papers and relying heavily on online classes is not a recipe for success.
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Y2K Information and Resources - 0 views

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  • IT companies around the world spent billions of dollars to go through their entire application source code to look for the Y2K bug and fix it. Almost everybody raced around to make themselves Y2K compliant before the fast approaching deadline.
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Dot-com bubble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle, the Internet boom sometimes is meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the world wide web as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993 and continuing through the 1990s.
  • The bubble bursts
  • The massive initial batch of sell orders processed on Monday, March 13 triggered a chain reaction of selling that fed on itself as investors, funds, and institutions liquidated positions.
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  • The bursting of the bubble may also have been related to the poor results of Internet retailers following the 1999 Christmas season
  • By 2001 the bubble was deflating at full speed. A majority of the dot-coms ceased trading after burning through their venture capital, many having never made a ″net″ profit. Investors often referred to these failed dot-coms as "dot-bombs".
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    Reasons for Dot-Com Boom/Bust
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What cloud computing really means | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld - 1 views

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    reasons for cloud computing; pros and cons
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How Outsourcing Service Providers Enable Business Growth through IT Infrastructure Tran... - 0 views

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  • “future trends and technologies, including the disruptive trends like cloud computing, will require organizations to seriously look at consolidation, standardization, and rationalization.”
  • “disruptive future trends”
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    cloud computing info 
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Optical fiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • An optical fiber is a thin, flexible, transparent fiber that acts as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of optical fibers is known as fiber optics. Optical fibers are widely used in fiber-optic communications, which permits transmission over longer distances and at higher bandwidths (data rates) than other forms of communication. Fibers are used instead of metal wires because signals travel along them with less loss and are also immune to electromagnetic interference.
  • Riley F. on 28 Sep 10
     
    Definition of fiber optic cables: "An optical fiber is a thin, flexible, transparent fiber that acts as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber."
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Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K) was a problem for both digital (computer-related) and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits
  • Riley F. on 27 Sep 10
     
    Y2K overview
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Where would globalization be without outsourcing? - 0 views

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  • "Will Soaring Transport Costs Reverse Globalization?" The report argues that high energy costs could potentially reverse the outsourcing that has occurred in some areas of manufacturing. Foreign trade cannot expect the same opportunities to develop markets in India as there were 30 years ago because of today's high energy costs. This situation could give countries closer to the U.S. like Mexico a little more appeal in the future than current economic giants such as China.
  • But do not expect outsourcing — the major transformer of world economies in the last 30 years — to go silently into the night.
  • high energy prices do not affect all aspects of global trade, including the areas of telecommunications and computers. For example, the software industry in India will continue to thrive because it thrives on cheap Internet and not natural resources.
  • Riley F. on 27 Sep 10
     
    "Will soaring transport costs reverse globalization? and HIgh energy prices do not affects all aspects of global trade."
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Outsourcing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Outsourcing or sub-servicing often refers to the process of contracting to a third-party.
  • Riley F. on 27 Sep 10
     
    Definition of outsourcing: "Outsourcing or sub-servicing often refers to the process of contracting to a third-party."
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Globalization - 0 views

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  • Globalization (or globalisation) describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade.
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    Definition of globalization: "Globalization (or globalisation) describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.[1] However, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors."
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