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Throughout the ages, technology has greatly changed and evolved the world. It looks crazy though, that industry can cause such dramatic impacts on the lifestyle of the entire society. Of course we cannot deny its growth in power, dominance and advancement in our lives which has finally made it revolutionize our way of living. Important to note is that depending on its application and usage, technology can have both negative and positive effects. Some of the positive effects of technology include the following; first, through technology, and particularly its power of offering ability to connect freely and stay in-touch, ...

1. Apple’s international business organization Apple Company has an elaborate global market system, and that distributes the company’s products to most parts around the world. The company supplies its products to Europe, China, South Korea, Middle East and Africa. These countries receive products from the Apples headquarter located in Cork, Ireland. As of March 2016, the company had 475 stores in about 17 countries (Apple stores, 2016). Additionally, Apple Inc has an online store that serves 39 countries around the world (Brewer & Fox, 2016). The company has a significant international market share, and almost half of Apple's ...

As Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman of Apple Inc., Jobs met many ups and downs as a good leader. Throughout Apple’s history, such as when they Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne have just started their business in 1976 in the garage of Jobs’ foster parents, years later, they were a success. It only proves that with the right mix of leaders, they can start a company that will later on live with its vision. Apple Company had since then continued to hire many highly talented, creative, and innovative people (e.g., Mike Scott, John Scully).

With Jobs’ leadership and the highly competent ...

iPads and iPhones are affecting the social skills of our children iPads and iPhones are affecting the social skills of our children In the modern age, computers and machines have taken care of a number of our everyday responsibilities, and we are relying more on the benefits they offer. Our children also are not very far behind. We can see so many young ones adapting to the benefits that tablets and iPads have to offer. We are often awed by how they learn to use electronics before they even learn to read or write. Julia Gabriel, a mother of ...

Government Surveillance

The preference for increased surveillance on the masses has recently become a political issue. This paper assesses a number of benefits and drawbacks in relation to the development of mass surveillance techniques and practices and assesses the impact of these new practices upon democratic systems, governance and law enforcement operations. This paper also reviews the practice through the lens of globalisation and assesses that increasingly criminal behaviour is being conducted in the virtual world, as opposed to the real world, and is occurring in a cross border globalised fashion. This paper concludes that the latter of these arguments provides sufficient justification for ...

Globalization ameliorates the flow of products, resources, technologies, ideas, and manpower by crossing the political and cultural borders of nations. Globalization brings a tremendous change in human lives and influences even the developing as well as underdeveloped countries more in the process of their growth and development. Multinational companies and global corporations are playing vital role in facilitating and structuring social relationship that transcend the borders. Depending on the country or region, the impact of the globalization varies. Sociology is a systematic study of social activities of humans. It further explains how the behavior of the individuals related to the ...

17thJanuary 2013

A Copyright is a way for a person to possess intellectual profit of his/her own creation. According to the United States copyright office, “It is a principle of American law that an author of a work may reap the fruits of his or her intellectual creativity for a limited period of time. “ (Copyright , 2013, p. 47). Copyright is an enshrined institution in the United States, and also throughout the world. Many argue that without the institution and supporting laws of copyrights, that artists, musicians, writers, creators, etc., would stop producing their work since it would cease to represent a monetary gain. While there are plenty ...

Abstract

This paper discuses the new technology of the Google driverless car technology. Its current implementation status. Further privacy, ethical, and accountability issues are discussed relating to this technology. Benefits that individuals and the society such as reduction of accidents , cost saving and less traffic are also provided. Recommendations provided for implementation and adoption of this technology stress on the importance of developing privacy laws relating to the technology early before adoption is done.

Introduction

The Google driverless car is a top-notch technological invention developed by the famous tech company Google aimed at making a self-drive car (Miller and Bilton, 2011). This automobile ...

Sociology is defined as the study of a society scientifically (Browne, 1992). In essence, it entails making use of various empirical methods of investigation and in depth analysis to help develop knowledge concerning the social activities of human beings (Bilton et al., 1987). Majorly, its focal point is the influence of people’s relationships and how developed relationships influence attitudes and behaviors. In Kenya, sociology began in 1961 in the Royal College, presently known as University of Nairobi. At the turn of independence of the country in Kenya, the Royal College was named the University of Nairobi after the country’ ...

Hollywood’s success

It remains undeniable that Hollywood is very strong in film industry. What to minds is whether Hollywood is the best differentiator between fantasy and fact? Some of them are widely and it is understood that Hollywood’s portrayal of British is plays a big role. As a result of clustering, Hollywood movies are viewed publicly with an instance of widening American cultural imperialism (Hesmondhalgh, 2007). To the world of cinema, global culture poses a greater threat rather than a promise. The U.S. has a natural advantage in moviemaking over the U.K because of a large home market. Statistics show that countries that specialize in moviemaking are ...

This is a structural system that does not hold the formal rules and regulations in an organization. It usually has no standardized procedures in handling the daily problems. In this system, hierarchies are not applicable and the system is low on formalization. It is best suitable for temporary goals. The system is highly flexible and very responsive in handling urgent situations, both quickly and efficiently, especially in dynamic environments (Abrahamson, 1993; Buchanan, 1985; Robbins, 1994; Bilton and Bonnet, 1997). Here, there is high horizontal specialization of jobs and the employees are professionals. A large part of the organization is ...