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The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that 2005 U.S. e-commerce sales rose to $86.3 billion -- 25 percent over 2004 sales. Yet e-commerce represents only around 2 percent of U.S. retail sales.

Across the U.S., city-sponsored plans to provide low-cost wireless Internet access have sparked opposing pieces of legislation in the House and the Senate. H.R. 2726 would prohibit municipal governments from offering telecommunications, information or cable services, while S.B.

"Just as parks have benches and trees, community wireless is a community benefit," according to a nonprofit Wi-Fi provider in New York City. "Wi-Fi has become an amenity that's almost a necessity for the business traveler," says one ASU professor. Another professor at the W. P.

Cultural compatibility, along with quality software engineering and support, made India-based Tata Consultancy Services a $2.24 billion software outsourcing company with a tight grip on the Western market.

There may actually be a useful purpose for those annoying song lyrics that get stuck in your head. Easy-to-remember phrases could be the basis of a much more secure method of protecting computer information and accounts. They can be used as pass phrases.

Businesses large and small are becoming familiar with SaaS (software as a service) -- most easily defined as software bought and maintained by an outside party which charges business customers to access their applications via the Internet.

Like a physical supply chain, an information supply chain (ISC) is comprised of the organizations that connect with each other to produce a desired end -- product or service -- for a user.

Software as a Service is reshaping corporate computing and eventually will become the means by which many small and medium-sized companies acquire and use most of their applications, say Information Systems Professors Julie Smith David and Michael Lee.

It is a widely accepted assumption in the healthcare and information technology industries that electronic medical records in hospitals help reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care.

A cynic might say that information systems consultants shortchange their clients. They can, for example, promise more than they deliver. Or they can tarry and delay. Or they might ask, on the back end, to bill for "unanticipated" work.