Seminar 6: "Web Server Hardware and Software" & "Competing Platforms"

Outline for Lesson 6:
-A good website for find definitions: http://www.webopedia.com
-Web server basics
-Client and server
-Dynamic content (dynamic vs static page)
-Message flows in a 2-tier and 3-tier client/server network
-Web server software
-Telnet and FTP utilities
-Indexing and searching utility programs (eg. webcrawler aka webspider)
-Data analysis Software
-Link-checking utilities
-Web server Hardware
-Platforms suitability (LMDS, MMDS, Unlicensed Wireless, Portable Broadband, Space Platforms, 3G)
-802.11=>WiFi; 802.16=>WiMax
-Moore's Law (data density doubles every 18 months)
-Promotion of wireless technologies

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Vodafone to install contactless swipe cards in Japanese mobile phones
Time is GMT + 8 hoursPosted: 24-Feb-2005 23:11 hrs

A model holds a Vodafone V603SH mobile phone handset. The Japanese subsidiary of British mobile giant Vodafone said it would adopt Sony technology to let telephones act as contactless cards which can pay bills or act as train tickets.

The Japanese subsidiary of British mobile giant Vodafone said it would adopt Sony technology to let telephones act as contactless cards which can pay bills or act as train tickets.

The selection of the Felica integrated-circuit card by Vodafone, Japan's third biggest mobile operator, will further make the Sony product the sector standard as it is already used by major airlines, stores and banks.

Vodafone KK said it aimed to introduce handsets embedded with the Felica chip in October and initially ship more than one million of them.

The Felica card can be read from 10 centimeters away, which Vodafone said would let it be used for services such as transport and payment.

A Vodafone statement said the combination of the mobile phone and card would make possible a new range of features not available on a plastic Felica card by itself, such as displays of bank account balances.

Felica Networks is a joint venture with Sony, the East Japan Railway Company and NTT DoCoMo -- Japan's biggest mobile service provider and a key competitor of Vodafone.

Felica is the main technology in the Suica card, which allows Japan Railway commuters to pay their fare and buy at outside shops and restaurants without any physical contact. More than 10 million Suica cards have been issued.

Dozens of other Japanese companies have also chosen Felica to provide automatic transactions. They include the nation's biggest carriers Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways, convenience store chains AM/PM and Circle K, UFJ Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and even McDonald's. — AFP

Seminar 5: "Business Strategies: From EDI to E-commerce"

Surprise Surprise! We had a diagnostic test this seminar. So unprepared for it and I have cleared my notes from my MB362 folder the night before. Though it's an open-book test, I can hardly refer to anything for more information. Realised that importance of the textbook! After diagnostic test, I feel that I need to buck up in thi module. There're so many things I still don't know and I can just stare hard at the test questions.

What have we learnt during the lecture?
- Steps in a typical business purchasing process
- Direct vs. indirect Materials Purchasing
- Logistics activities
- Radio frequency identification devices (RFIDS)
- E-government
- EDI
- Information flows in the EDI purchasing process
- Direct connection EDI
- Indirect connection EDI through a VAN
- EDI on the Internet
- Open Architecture of the Internet
- Supply Chain Management
- Building & Maintaining Trust in the Supply Chain
- Characteristics of B2B Marketplaces

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Best Practices that Foster Improved Supplier Management
By Supplier Selection & Management Report
CRM Buyer
09/20/04 6:00 AM PT

http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/36744.html

"Companies want to do a better job of supplier connection, coordination and monitoring no matter where their suppliers are located," Enslow concludes in her supplier management benchmark research study, The Quiet Revolution in Supplier Management.