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Web 2.0 has been referred to as the “beginning of a new era in technology” (techsoup.org, 2009). Web 2.0 helps publish and disseminate information. For that fact alone businesses are able to use it for many facets of their every day operations. Web 2.0 has various blogging tools that can accommodate just about every business platform. Besides the blogging abilities, Web 2.0 has what is referred to as RSS feeds. These feeds are a very inexpensive way for businesses to get information and announcements out, sort of like a newsletter but better. This bridges the gaps of communication and keeps every one up to date. Web 2.0 also has the capabilities to effectively tag. Tagging can be described as a labeling system virtually organizing various types of information photos and internet pages and links. Perhaps the lastly and most popular aspect of Web 2.0 is the social networking. Many businesses have not only expanded to the next county or state, many are global. Thru social networking, which usually is free, businesses have an inexpensive way to maintain global communication with overseas employees and
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Why might businesses be interested in location-based mobile networking? FREE ADVERTISING! Ok, beyond that sites like these allow businesses to find out who their customers actually are (jontusmedia.com, 2010). When a business is able to clarify who their market is they can tailor some of their businesses ventures to cater to that specific market. There has also been some dabbling in the way of creating applications for cell phones that function in conjunction with the phones GPS. This allows for real-time location access for the end-user as well as finding out their favorite businesses product availability.
What technological developments have set the stage for the growth of Sense Networks and the success of their products? Cell phones, everyone has one. Sense Network is trying to access the internal GPS systems in these phones in hopes of harnessing the potential. If successful, businesses will have access to their customers location immediately following patroning the store. Although there is some interest in the potential that Sense proposes, there are ethical concerns as to the information that businesses will have access …show more content…
Weather can be hard to prepare for and bad weather can create either smaller planes or less seat availability due to weight restrictions on the flight (Laudon & Laudon, 2010, p. 459). In addition to this, gate attendants have the capabilities of inputting passengers to a flight. This allows for false passengers which the computer sees as a real person. Gate attendants do this to minimize having to deal with a ticked off customer but they are actually doing more harm than
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Why might businesses be interested in location-based mobile networking? FREE ADVERTISING! Ok, beyond that sites like these allow businesses to find out who their customers actually are (jontusmedia.com, 2010). When a business is able to clarify who their market is they can tailor some of their businesses ventures to cater to that specific market. There has also been some dabbling in the way of creating applications for cell phones that function in conjunction with the phones GPS. This allows for real-time location access for the end-user as well as finding out their favorite businesses product availability.
What technological developments have set the stage for the growth of Sense Networks and the success of their products? Cell phones, everyone has one. Sense Network is trying to access the internal GPS systems in these phones in hopes of harnessing the potential. If successful, businesses will have access to their customers location immediately following patroning the store. Although there is some interest in the potential that Sense proposes, there are ethical concerns as to the information that businesses will have access …show more content…
Weather can be hard to prepare for and bad weather can create either smaller planes or less seat availability due to weight restrictions on the flight (Laudon & Laudon, 2010, p. 459). In addition to this, gate attendants have the capabilities of inputting passengers to a flight. This allows for false passengers which the computer sees as a real person. Gate attendants do this to minimize having to deal with a ticked off customer but they are actually doing more harm than