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hass associates review articles Think the Internet Leads to Growth? Think Again Remember the year 2000 in the months after the Y2K bug had been crushed, when all appeared smooth sailing in the global economy? When the miracle of finding information online was so novel that The Onion ran an article, "Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible?" It was a time of confident predictions of an ongoing economic and political renaissance powered by information technology. Jack Welch-then the lauded chief executive officer of General Electric (GE)-had suggested the Internet was "the single most important event in the U.S. economy since the Industrial Revolution." The Group of Eight highly industrialized nations-at that point still relevant-met in Okinawa in 2000 and declared, "IT is fast becoming a vital engine of growth for the world economy. … Enormous opportunities are there to be seized by us all." In a 2000 report, then-President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers suggested (PDF), "Many economists now posit that we are entering a new, digital economy that could inaugurate an unprecedented period of sustainable, rapid growth." It hasn't quite worked out that way. Indeed, if the last 10 years have demonstrated anything, it's that for all the impact of a technology like the Internet, thinking that any new innovation will set us on a course of high growth is almost certainly wrong. That's in part because many of the studies purporting to show a relationship between the Internet and economic growth relied on shoddy data and dubious assumptions. In 1999 the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland released a study that concluded (PDF), "… the fraction of a country's population that has access to the Internet is, at least, correlated with factors that help to explain average growth performance." It did so by demonstrating a positive relationship between the number of Internet users in a country in 1999 with gross domestic product g

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14526527-hass-associates-internet-security-tips-and-reviews Die Polizei hat Cyber Safe Kampagne 2013 um Bewusstseinsbildung bei Schulkindern gegen steigende Cyber-Verbrechen eingeleitet. Die Eröffnungssitzung der Kampagne wurde am Montag vom Polizeichef Alok Mittal am CCA Schule, Sector 4, Gurgaon eingeweiht. "Jugendliche sind heute technisch versierten aber besteht die Gefahr von ihnen fallen Beute zur Cyberkriminalität. Solche Kampagnen, die ihnen helfen werden", sagte Mittal. Die Kampagne, die bis Mai 4 weiterhin stattfinden in 12 Privatschulen unter Gurgaon Progressive Schulen Rat (GPSC) Regenschirm von Nirmal Yadav, principal, CCASchule geleitet. Jede Schule Gastgeber zwei Sitzungen für junior und senior Studenten bzw.. Dieses Pilotprojekt wurde von Finanzunternehmen Encore Hauptstadt gesponsert. "Die Sitzung wurde von 400 Studenten besucht. Studenten wurden erklärt die Gesetzmäßigkeiten in Bezug auf locken, Phishing und strafrechtliche Aspekte der Cyber-Kriminalität, "sagte Col Pratap Singh, Präsident von Haryana progressive Schule Konferenz (HPSC) und Vorsitzende des CCA-Schule. Cyber Experte Rakshit Tandon während des Sprechens in CCA Schüler warf Licht auf Cyber-Verbrechen wie Mobbing, Erpressung, Hacker, Phishing, Bank oder Kreditkarte IDs und Cyber Porno u.a. zu stehlen. Watch Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9mOz8eUpQ8 Related Article: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Business-Industrial/Hass-And-Associates/5200137900