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What is Big Fish Games? A casual gaming company founded in 2002, Big Fish Games has today grown into the world’s largest producer and distributor of online casual games. Paul Thelen, once a Group Product Manager for RealNetworks, broke away in 2000 to found Big Fish Games with a capital of $10000. In 2008, the company received major financial backing from venture capital funds and in 2009, opened its new European headquarters in Cork, Ireland. Its reach has increased exponentially and the…

outside of the campus is a suburban area with a population of 30,855. With all of these people in this area of West Virginia, it is very important that everyone stays connected. Whether it’s by using your phone or sending emails from your laptop, the internet is a necessity in Morgantown. With a broadband coverage of 92.8%, Morgantown ranks 7th for most coverage in West Virginia. With 19 providers, they are the third fastest city at 45.5 MBPS. West Virginia ranks 45th in the country for the most…

Joe Flint’s article “Why does the Cable-TV Bundle Exist Anyway” depicts the conception of the cable TV channels and how they came to became bundled into sellable package deals. Now with millennials and technology innovations there is an even greater switch from cable bundle packages to the consumer seeking only the programs they wish to watch. As far as the external environments are concerned technological, sociocultural, economical, and legal/political players all have a part to play in the…

In the early days of the 20th century, communication was only identified as a physical activity and was limited to face-to-face interactions. This restricted communication made interaction limited and hence, social activities and relationships thrived on physical meet ups. Owing to the shortcoming that arose as a result of inaccessible means of communication, several types of social meet up events were designed around this fact. The elite families of the Victorian era, arranged events like…

Elderly Care and Identity Theft Many seniors are at an increased risk for identity theft. The National Crime Prevention Council notes that "senior citizens are more at risk to be targeted by telemarketing scams than other age groups. These dishonest telemarketers direct anywhere from 56 to 80 percent of their calls to the elderly." In addition to phone scams, many seniors are not as technologically savvy as they should be. They can be taken advantage of online. Typically, this involves…

“Modular technology” connects race and technology in more ways than most people think, especially with the UNIX operating system commonly used in computers, as it is “the first operating system to embrace modularity” according to Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White (26). Besides the fact that most of the “key players” in this technological history includes mostly white men (22), a common factor in those who run American society as a whole, technology is more recently a contending control of…

The danger for the average computer user is that someone will hack their system. Most average computer users don’t have anything worth stealing. Now, on the internet, there are other dangers, because your computer could be a launching pad for other attacks. So people might want to break into your computer in order to use it later on as a tool to break into something bigger. These things happen all the time. A lot of DoS (Denial of Service) attacks are based off these types of intrusions. A DoS…

Explain the impact of introducing an e-commerce system to an organisation. There are many benefits and drawbacks of introducing E-Commerce to a company. Doesn’t Cost A lot - It doesn’t cost a lot of money to start up a website and have someone to create it; this is because it is a lot cheaper than having a real shop to look after and have to pay rent for. It makes it easier to have control over when it is online and you have more chance of creating a profit. Global Access - Having an online…

Throughout the insightful article, The Criminal Indictment That Could Finally Hit Spyware Makers Hard, written by Kim Zetter refers to incidents and consequences of on-line threats. This article displays the legal case against Hammad Akbar, CEO of the firm InvoCode designed StealthGenie, a spy app for Android phones, iPhones and Blackberry devices (Zetter 1). Within the beginning portion of the article, Zetter explains how the cellular device app had the capability to “secretly record phone…

Judiciary Assignment Free speech has always been a problem, on the internet or in real life. However, it is extremely complicated in the virtual world. Free speech rights make sure people are allowed to freely express their opinions and emotions. With the help of social media, more voices are heard, similarly, insulting words are spread further. It seems that not many people know their limits and use the free speech exercise to say anything they want, without thinking about the consequences.…