Management Information System

1. Kenny Estrada
11/13/2015

3. Gesture interaction with computers had long been the stuff of sci-fi, until the recent
socially-awkward flamboyant games such as Xbox Kinect began to enter the
mainstream.

4. The editors of Computerworld got together and offered up a list of their favorite blog
sites. We pared more than 50 submissions to the top 15 technology blog sites
based on breadth of information, newsworthiness, design, frequency of updates and
entertainment value.

5. Is based on traffic as well as influence over the subject online, and has been voted on
by the Ranker community and tech nerds alike. Tech bloggers have been discussing
technology news in detail online for years, and these blogs and websites are where
much of the online conversation is centered.

7. • related to the technical aspects of how your business
handles its money and assets.

8. • Agrichemicals company Syngenta AG has rejected a $42 billion takeover
offer from state-owned China National Chemical Corp. The company says it
rejected the bid over regulatory concerns.
• Syngenta is under pressure to boost shareholder returns after turning down
a $47 billion takeover offer from Monsanto Co. earlier in the year.

9. • The company is currently performing a test run for the program in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Orange County in Southern California.
• “I think consumers really want three things: value, quality food and convenience. I think
DoorDash really solves the last one,” said KFC’s U.S. Chief Information Officer Chris
Caldwell during a phone interview with MSNBC.

11. • he U.S. is “reasonably certain” ISIS member Mohammed Emwazi was
killed in a drone strike in Raqqa, Syria, the chief military spokesman in
Iraq said Friday.
• Speaking during a briefing in Baghdad, Col. Steve Warren said that U.S.
intelligence indicates that the the notorious killer, also known as “Jihadi
John,” and one other person died in the targeted attack, but he was
awaiting final confirmation.

12. • The court detects only two [and maybe three] similarities between
“Haters Gone Hate” and “Shake It Off”…The songs appear to have
different melodies and belong to different musical genres. And, even in
the identified potential similarities, “Shake It Off’ uses a rhetorical
repetition following the phrases.

13. • she just chopped it all off.
Bowen explained on Facebook she was
inspired by two things: a little girl who
said she couldn’t be a princess because of
her short hair, and Bowen’s own

15. • 10. Better layout tools. Google Docs can insert page breaks, headers, footers, bookmarks and table of
contents.
• 9. Document layout. Google Docs has a ruler and can define margins and orientation (portrait or landscape).
• 8. Insert drawings. Google Apps includes Google Drawing, which Google Docs users can use to create
their own drawing and insert it in a document. Useful for quick sketches. No drawing tool is included in
Microsoft Office 365.
• 7. Comments and footnotes. For basic annotation of a document. A big one for students.
• 6. Word count. This is a big plus for students, journalists and others who make a living from writing.
• 5. Revision history. This is viewable within the document itself by time and date with changes made at each
point highlighted. Word Web App does have revision history but it can only be accessed when the document
is closed.
• 4. File formats. Google Docs can be saved and download in ODT, PDF, RTF, Text, Word and HTML
formats. Microsoft Word Web App automatically selects .docx for new documents, with no alternatives. It
can open an existing document saved in any Word format, however.
• 3. Online collaboration. It is much easier for multiple users to work on the same spreadsheet, document or
presentation. Online collaboration is not even possible for Microsoft Word Web App.
• 2. Find and replace. A major omission for Microsoft not just in Word Web App but also the Excel and
PowerPoint Web Apps too.
• 1. Autosave. A critical issue. Google saves documents every couple of seconds without you thinking about
it. Microsoft Word still relies on autorecovery which swings into action if your browser crashes and gives
you a roughly 30-minute window to restore your changes or lose them. Keep pressing that Save button.

17. • LinkedIn is all about establishing connections. When you
connect with other professionals in your field, you’re
gaining more knowledge and insight since you’re
interacting with colleagues.
• You can also use LinkedIn as a way to promote yourself
professionally. Whether you’re employed, looking for a
job, or a business owner, think of your LinkedIn page as
a personal website that can be used to share your
accomplishments with your connections.

19. • Take advantage of the advanced methods of doing
business and build strongest platforms in this present era
of globalization and a neck-to-neck competition.
• Nowadays WordPress is the one of the most popular
blogging platforms used by many businesses on the
internet. In the decade of its existence, his blogging
software, Word Press, has become an essential part of
the internet, powering about 25% of all websites. It
provides you incredible technical support to customize a
website that best suits your business purposes. It caters
to your business online development initiative with
content management system facilities. WordPress allows
the users to build a highly customizable website of their
preference, and this manner makes it popular.