With multiple cloud platforms out there, it is easy to get confused when making a technology decision for your projects. This gets further complicated with the plethora of development tools and frameworks available today. Microsoft Azure simplifies this problem by providing a scalable and manageable platform for customers to easily deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot their cloud-based application…
Firstly these questions are intriguing. How do trusted people and organizations become cheats? Not just once, but repeatedly and systematically. What motivates and possesses them? What explains these twists and turns? How come factory workers went so far as to regularly bind a colleague naked to a push cart and push it through the production room as a joke to lighten the mood? How did a manager…
This book provides an in-depth look at how to build web-based applications (web apps) for Google TV, a new platform that integrates the open web with traditional TV. This powerful and versatile new platform includes Google Chrome, a modern web browser that enables developers to deliver rich and sophisticated web apps to Google TV users. This book has three primary goals. First, this book aims t…
t brings you a new service to help you prepare for your finance interviews. Your 1-hour live session with a Vault finance expert will include an actual 30- minute finance interview, which will be immediately followed by a 30-minute critique and Q&A session with your expert.
The intention of this one semester leadership course is to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression. By “natural self-expression” we mean a way of being and acting in any leadership situation that is a spontaneous and intuitive effective response to what one is dealing with. The course is based on a new science of lea…
This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression – rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them where appropriate. The course is not designed to merely leave the students with knowledge (that is, not designed to leave stu…
For better or worse, banking is back in the headlines. From the desperate efforts of crisis-struck Eurozone governments to the Occupy Wall Street movement currently spreading across the globe, the future of banking is hotly debated. This VoxEU.org eBook presents a collection of essays by leading European and American economists that discuss both immediate solutions to the on-going financial c…
Online social networking sites like Orkut, YouTube, and Flickr are among the most popular sites on the Internet. Users of these sites form a social network, which provides a powerful means of sharing, organizing, and finding con- tent and contacts. The popularity of these sites provides an opportunity to study the characteristics of online social network graphs at large scale. Understanding th…
We’ve been waiting a long time for computers to dramatically change education, but for the most part, that promise remains unfulfilled. Unlike in the business world, where the computer quickly became a fixture on every desk and transformed both day-to-day tasks and the business landscape as a whole, computers have not transformed the goals of educators, or even the methods used to achieve t…
SugarCRM is the world’s largest open source CRM (customer relationship manage- ment) software. Founded in 2004, over 7,000 customers and more than half a million users rely on SugarCRM to execute marketing programs, grow sales, retain customers, and create custom business applications. These custom business applications can be used in a multitude of ways, such as to power sales teams, run cus…
Social Networking Services (SNS) are changing the ways in which people use and engage with the internet and with each other. Young people particularly are quick to use the new technology in ways which increasingly blur the boundaries between their online and offline activities. SNS are also changing rapidly as technology changes with new mobile dimensions and features. As such children have…
The Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA) is based around eight principles of ‘good information handling’. These give people specific rights in relation to their personal information and place certain obligations on those organisations that are responsible for processing it
More and more children are spending a lot of time on the Internet on sites such as Facebook and MySpace. These are amongst the more popular sites providing a great way to keep in touch with friends. However, children often divulge too much personal information and so put themselves at risk. This guide aims to provide you with the knowledge to deal with challenges associated with social network…
Millions of people across the world now participate on social network websites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Businesses have discovered that social network sites offer new channels to reach customers and prospects, and can be sources of valuable information for evaluating job candidates. But social network sites also can be liability minefields, exposing companies to risks as diverse …
The information revolution has given birth to new economies structured around flows of data, information, and knowledge. In parallel, social networks1 have grown stronger as forms of organization of human activity.2 Social networks are nodes of individuals, groups, organizations, and related systems that tie in one or more types of interdependencies: these include shared values, visions, and id…