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- 261: Consumerism
- ... consumer backlash against organic products if they are shown to pose a danger to the consumer. Complex technology, has also been a key marketplace feature of the fourth era of the consumer movement. Through the Internet, it is possible to buy even the most obscure goods and services, often at prices which are significantly less expensive than at a retail establishment. However, the Internet also presents serious risks to the consumer. The Clinton administration recently announced that it is proposing legislation that will address the illegal sale of drugs via the Internet. It is now possible to purchase prescription drugs though Internet companies, by placing the orders online. However, this practice is not sufficiently regulated, and consumers may be getting medicines that would ordinarily require close ...
- 262: Computers
- ... attracts a crowd like a crowd. Today, with home computers and modems becoming faster and cheaper, the home front is on the break of a new frontier of on line information and data processing. The Internet, the ARPANET (Advanced Research Programs Agency Network) spinoff is a channel of uninterrupted information interchange. It allows people to connect to large computer databases that can store valuable information on goods and services. The Internet is quickly becoming a tool for vast data interchange for more than twenty million Americans. New tools are allowing Internet presence an easier task. As did the gold miners set out to California on carriages to stake their claim in the gold rush, business and entrepreneurs are rushing to stake their claim on the ...
- 263: Electronic Commerce
- Electronic commerce One of the fastest growing industries today is electronic commerce. Almost anything can be purchased, traded, or sold all via the Internet. A person sitting in their living room dressed in pajamas on a rainy Saturday morning in mid December can hookup to the internet and place their bid on a new chess set for the holidays without ever setting foot in the department stores. They can pay for it with their credit card through a secure transaction and have ... 2000 percent since last year. She continued to say that she predicts that it will continue to grow at an even faster rate, as more and more products become available online and that knowledge of Internet commerce is really happening. (34) One of the major reasons that this industry is booming is because purchasing over the Internet has been made very easy compared to the traditional way of shopping. Ordinarily ...
- 264: Constructing Indentity In The
- ... will lead to an easier, less complicated lifestyle, with more job opportunities and their benefits. Computers help people in many different ways and also connect people on all over the world together through out the Internet. The internet is one of the most useful things in the world today. For instance, we can stay in home and shop through Internet, and even send things like birthday cards by the web of Hallmark. Moreover, we can talk, chat, or send instant messages to the other people so we can learn more about the culture of ...
- 265: Information Warfare
- ... the national interest. Each classification of Information Warfare has its own issues that are relevant to its use. Class one is predominantly involved with personal privacy and protection from outsiders. With the introduction of the Internet into our lives, electronic privacy as we know it has come to a halt. Almost all our information is stored on some sort of computer, whether it be at DMV, our Insurance company, state and ... undeniable freedoms, listed in the amendments. By taking one of these away, or by redefining their meaning to constrict the people s liberty, we are only lessening the value of our great nation. When the Internet was introduced into our lives, free speech in a verbal perspective, became free speech in a typed perspective. It brought a new meaning to the concept of expressing your self freely, as cyberspace opened a ... converse with a person in New Mexico. Such programs as America Online and Prodigy connect people on an even larger scale. With chatrooms and WebPages people can now express their views more clearly on the Internet than ever before. But are these new freedoms without flaw? Or is it possible that by providing the people with a more extensive way to show how they feel are they really imposing their ...
- 266: Organizational Skills
- ... greater markup as well. Discount programs which encourage purchase of private label items provide value to both the customer and the retailer. Another critical means for gaining market share will be the utilization of the Internet to supplement sales from existing stores. CVS purchased Soma.com in order to take advantage of its existing structure and expertise to enter the online market. Walgreens has created its own site. Rite Aid bought ... of vitamins and nutritional supplements to be called "PharmAssure." In addition, GNC will become the exclusive manufacturer of Rite Aid¡¦s private label vitamins and nutritional supplements and together they will construct a co-branded Internet e-commerce and nutritional information site. This strategic alliance is another step to Rite Aid becoming a broader health services company. The ability to link nutrition with the credibility of Rite Aid¡¦s pharmacists in ... Customer Confidence, ¡§Relationship Services,¡¨ ¡§First-time Buyers,¡¨ and ¡§Time Saving.¡¨ These high performance rankings can be attributed to the fact that, ¡§Since our inception, drugstore.com has focused on creating a friendly, informative, and secure Internet shopping experience for today¡¦s customers,¡¨ (Neupert, Peter). In addition, Forrester PowerRankings, an unbiased expert analysis that provides objective rankings of the leading e-commerce sites, ranked drugstore.com at the top in the ...
- 267: The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
- ... is Netscape Communications, based out of Mountain View, California. Netscape has filed law suits accusing Microsoft of tying again.("Netscape's Complaint against MicroSoft." 2) This time, Microsoft is bundling their world wide web browser, Internet Explorer 3.0 into their operating system, Windows 95. Netscape is the maker of Netscape Navigator, currently the most widely used internet browser on the market, and now, facing some fierce competition from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape says that in addition to bundling the browser, Microsoft was offering Windows at a discount to original equipment manufacturers (OEM's),("Netscape's Complaint against MicroSoft." 2) to feature Internet Explorer on ...
- 268: Constructing Indentity In The
- ... will lead to an easier, less complicated lifestyle, with more job opportunities and their benefits. Computers help people in many different ways and also connect people on all over the world together through out the Internet. The internet is one of the most useful things in the world today. For instance, we can stay in home and shop through Internet, and even send things like birthday cards by the web of Hallmark. Moreover, we can talk, chat, or send instant messages to the other people so we can learn more about the culture of ...
- 269: Direct Mail Marketing
- Direct-Mail Advertising As consumers, we are often bombarded with different types of advertisements each day. Whether it s by television, newspaper, billboards, or the internet, advertising has reached us one way or another. Yet, a majority of the ads that we encounter are often meaningless and uninteresting, because of the fact that these ads are meant to reach a certain ... advertising in a broad area. Among them are: what direct-mail advertising is, the historical development of the direct-mail advertising, different methods and types of mail, the future of direct-mail advertising, and the internet s use of and impact on direct-mail advertising. Direct Mail Direct-mail advertising is a form of medium used by direct marketers, it is the most personal and selective of all media. Also, this ... direct mail in 1997, that¹s nearly 20 percent of all the ad dollars spent in the United States. Making direct-mail advertising the forth-ranked advertising medium used today. Surpassed only by television, the Internet and newspapers. The Development of Direct Mail in the Internet The future of direct-mail advertising has developed side by side with the technology development of the World Wide Web. Through the Internet, conventional ...
- 270: Home Computer Network
- ... and your family? Do you have two or more computers, but need to copy and/or share files and/or programs between them, but you don’t know how? Do all of your computers need Internet access, but you don’t want to have a phone line installed for each of them? Well, you can do all of this. I know, because this is what I did at my home. After ... work. So, if you use your network and file server effectively, you can have a high degree of reliability, security, and efficiency. Second, an in-home computer network can allow you to have only one Internet connection while giving Internet access to all computers on your network. This is very important if you only have one phone line. If you were to add an additional phone line for each computer you wanted to be ...
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