Chapter 13: Copyright and Fair Use

The new about the problem of Copyright and Fair Use:

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit, charging that Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Nexus phone violates four of the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant’s patents, weekend media reports say.

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) – Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit, charging that Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Nexus phone violates four of the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant’s patents, weekend media reports say. 

The latest suit was filed Feb. 8 in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., and made available Friday, reports say.

The patents in question include one covering the feature called slide to unlock, in which a user opens access to a phone by swiping an image of a button, the reports say.

Another involves data tapping, in which the system can recognize, say, a phone number in an e-mail and enable the user to immediately call that number. Late last year, the U,S. International Trade Commission banned HTC Corp.’s phones that used the feature, and that HTC then developed a workaround for the function.

A third patent violation, Apple charges in the case, involves technology that helps complete partial words that a phone user inputs. And the fourth is tied to Apple’s voice-activated search function called Siri, reports say.

The lawsuit asks the court to block sales of the Galaxy Nexus, which employs Google’s  Android 4.0 operating system, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich.

A Samsung spokesman couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.

 Source : (Marketwatch)

Chapter 12: Knowledge Management

The example of Knowledge Management (KM):

Think of a golf caddie as a simplified example of a knowledge worker. Good caddies do more than carry clubs and track down wayward balls. When asked, a good caddie will give advice to golfers, such as, "The wind makes the ninth hole play 15 yards longer. " Accurate advice may lead to a bigger tip at the end of the day. On the flip side, the golfer — having derived a benefit from the caddie's advice — may be more likely to play that course again. If a good caddie is willing to share what he knows with other caddies, then they all may eventually earn bigger tips. How would KM work to make this happen? The caddie master may decide to reward caddies for sharing their tips by offering them credits for pro shop merchandise. Once the best advice is collected, the course manager would publish the information in notebooks (or make it available on PDAs), and distribute them to all the caddies. The end result of a well-designed KM program is that everyone wins. In this case, caddies get bigger tips and deals on merchandise, golfers play better because they benefit from the collective experience of caddies, and the course owners win because better scores lead to more repeat business.

Chapter 11 : Information Systems

Example of information systems in any organization:

As a member of the RIM Corporate Information Technology (IT) team, your ideas, experience and dedication will help keep RIM number one in its industry worldwide. You will work closely with industry leaders and take on significant responsibilities early in your career at RIM.

This team supports and delivers IT services, technology and infrastructure to RIM employees worldwide, to allow them to effectively and efficiently provide services, products and support to RIM business units and external RIM customers.

Corporate IT is comprised of a number of teams, including:

Business system implementations and support: This group provides IT customers with the business and information management systems that enable their business processes.

Hosting services provides IT customers with a secure, managed environment to store business-enabling applications and tools. This includes data centre services and web hosting services.

Desktop services and support provides IT customers with the desktop tools required to fulfill their day-to-day responsibilities. This includes standard devices, mobile devices, imaging services, desktop phone services and desktop management.

Shared services provides IT customers with the technical infrastructure required to function in their day-to-day responsibilities. This includes: data LAN, WAN, telephony, storage, Internet/intranet, email and messaging.

Professional services provides IT customers with the technical and professional support services required to maintain their current and meet their future business requirements.

The Pros and Cons of Information Technology

Information Technology Pros

1. The world got flexibility
2. The sense of responsibility has increased
3. Easy thinking & evolution in transportation
4. Saves thousand of lives daily
5. Increase the sense of Human Rights




Information Technology Cons
It has taken away people’s Privacy
The online community is not safe for Family anymore
It is going to damage a Human’s Natural Power
It can bring World Destruction without Efficient Administration

Exercise 8 : Search engines

How Do Search Engines Work?

Please note: search engines are not simple. They include incredibly detailed processes and methodologies, and are updated all the time. This is a bare bones look at how search engines work to retrieve your search results. All search engines go by this basic process when conducting search processes, but because there are differences in search engines, there are bound to be different results depending on which engine you use.

1. The searcher types a query into a search engine.
2. Search engine software quickly sorts through literally millions of pages in its database to find matches to this query.
3. The search engine's results are ranked in order of relevancy.

(About.com)

Examples of Search Engines

Chapter 7 : Some ideas to help and support the flooding crisis in Thailand

• Make donations of money, canned food, water, clothing and other necessities
• Volunteer to go to flood area to transfer the donations and supplies to help the millions of flood victims.
• Talk up the victims about steps that they can take to safeguard their home and belongings if they are at risk of flooding.
• Report a flooding problem on roads, burst water mains or blocked drains, and find out who is responsible for repairs.
• Let the victims know how to clear up their areas after a flood, make an insurance claim and protect against future flooding.

Chapter 6 : Report writing and Citation

• Example of Citation:

BOOK CHAPTER, ESSAY, or ARTICLE when author is credited  
de Paula, T. C. M., Lagana, K., & Gonzalez-Ramirez, L.  (1996). Mexican Americans. In J. G. Lipson, S. L Dibble, & P. A. Minarik (Eds.), Culture and nursing care: A pocket guide (pp. 203-221). San Francisco: USCF Nursing Press.

JOURNAL ARTICLE (from an online database) (for more details, see the APA's official site)
Kavanagh, K., Absalom, K., Beil, W., & Schliessmann, L. (1999). Connecting and becoming culturally competent: A Lakota example. Advances in Nursing Science, 21, 9-31. Retrieved March 26, 2001 from ProQuest/Nursing Journals database.

• Report Writing :

 The structure of a report and the purpose and contents of each section is shown below.

TITLE PAGE report title your name submission date
 
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY overview of subject matter methods of analysis findings
recommendations
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS list of numbered sections in report and their page numbers
 
INTRODUCTION terms of reference outline of report’s structure
 
BODY headings and sub-headings which reflect the contents of each section. Includes information on method of data collection (if applicable), the findings of the report and discussion of findings in light of theory
 
CONCLUSION states the major inferences that can be drawn from the discussion makes recommendations 
 
REFERENCE LIST list of reference material consulted during research for report
 
APPENDIX information that supports your analysis but is not essential to its explanation 

(APA), (UniLearning)