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"BEHIND Google's dramatic decision to close its China-based search engine this week was co-founder Sergey Brin's change of heart about the compromises required to do business in a land that was increasingly reminding him of his native Soviet Union. "

Long article but you can use an extract. Good description of a factory run with software. The advantage to making things in Asia has always been that their labor is cheaper. Now they have another advantage, one that is worrying some big names in American business. ...How do they do it? In Tata's case, a crucial element is a $417 million "smart factory" in the state of Gujarat that uses intelligent-automation hardware, software and services supplied by Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc.

The Australian Age related to eBooks taking over bookstore sales, threatening business of book shops

An introduction to netiquette for business people.

Approximately 40 percent of small and midsize businesses have suffered a breach because of malware picked up by employees while visiting the Web, social networking sites.

Good explanation of one of the causes of the digital divide in the US>

"the tech giant sees a confluence of four factors -- social, mobile, analytics and cloud, or "SMAC" -- that will combine with cognitive systems to have a major impact on 21st-century business, government and society in general."

"digital humanism - the notion that people are the central focus in the manifestation of digital businesses and digital workplaces"

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a wide variety of reasons: journalists and bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers, corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary citizens. (Note: sometimes ITGS students need to be able to access sites that are sometimes blocked)

"WE LIVE IN AN AGE of increasingly smart machines. In recent years, engineers have pushed into areas, from voice recognition to robotics to search engines, that once seemed to be the preserve of humans. But I.B.M. has a particular knack for pitting man against machine. In 1997, the company's supercomputer Deep Blue famously beat the grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess, a feat that generated enormous publicity for I.B.M. It did not, however, produce a marketable product; the technical accomplishment - playing chess really well - didn't translate to real-world business problems and so produced little direct profit for I.B.M. In the mid '00s, the company's top executives were looking for another high-profile project that would provide a similar flood of global publicity. But this time, they wanted a "grand challenge" (as they call it internally), that would meet a real-world need. "

Appears to be student-made, but is a reliable introductory video for use of ICT in traditional business.

interesting source of business related technology

The Business Software Alliance actively checks for copyright infringement/software piracy. Topics addressed: what is software piracy, corporate piracy, internet piracy, why a license matters, know the law.

Exporting waste illegally to poor countries has become a vast and growing international business, as companies try to minimize the costs of new environmental laws, like those here, that tax waste or require that it be recycled or otherwise disposed of in an environmentally responsible way.