Tyler Dixon tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon/370 2010-04-30T19:00:55Z Movable Type 3.2 CICS Reflection Sem. 2 tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.5219 2010-04-30T19:00:49Z 2010-04-30T19:00:55Z Wow look at how this semester has flown bye. In a little bit more than 12 weeks I will be completely done with CICS. Then will where I go? The world is full of possibilities and if I learned anything... Tyler J Dixon Wow look at how this semester has flown bye. In a little bit more than 12 weeks I will be completely done with CICS. Then will where I go? The world is full of possibilities and if I learned anything this semester it is to be optimistic and go out and find what you want in life. I may not have a job lined up yet but that won’t stop me from getting one. I know I have what it takes to be successful and I am going to go out in the world and use it. I am not sure where my future will take me but I know I am prepared and ready to face the journey.

I thought I would never get through this semester. It was grueling and rough. I wanted to give up more times than I could count but I didn't and i kept moving along. That is the most important part. Now I am just weeks away from graduating and making a name for myself. I couldn't be happier. I have been tested this semester and rose to the challenge. I have jumped and leaped over obstacles. I feel I am learning more about myself every day. I would like to thank my professors and CICS for testing me and really allowing me to see what I can become. I look forward to the last semester and the journey that waits ahead in the world.

]]> Closing on last Newsletter assignment tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.5159 2010-04-20T14:18:04Z 2010-04-30T18:50:26Z During the Spring semester CICS, the students have been required to do a newsletter assignment. I believe this is one of the most benificial assigments I have done in my CICS career. I learned more about International Law and Policy... Tyler J Dixon During the Spring semester CICS, the students have been required to do a newsletter assignment. I believe this is one of the most benificial assigments I have done in my CICS career. I learned more about International Law and Policy and was able to keep up to date on world events. I have published some of my articles on my blog and this is my final article for the MBPS.

The newsletter assignment has been a very rewarding and engaging assignment. I believe this assignment has enabled the team members to become enriched in different aspects of regulatory law and policy. I think it required the team members to look up articles and familiarize ourselves with different aspects of policy in the international world. The assignment also required a hard copy resource, and this allowed the team members to research using our textbooks.
The discourse during class has allowed the team members to be enriched by all three groups’ newsletters. There has been great discourse on the topics from numerous international countries including; South Korea, Australia, Spain, and China to name a few. The team has been able to become closer throughout the experience. The newsletter project requires the team members to share their ideas together and write on different topics for the eleven weeks. The team members must communicate effectively to ensure that no topic is covered twice and that each newsletter has a broad overview of different countries and topics.
Since this is ICS – 642 Section 1 Regulatory Research in Context/Problems in Information Communications – International, we are encouraged to write articles on different countries from around the world. This makes us different from the other section of ICS 642 which pertains directly with the United States. I believe this will give the members of ICS Section 1 a larger and more diverse background on policy and regulations. This assignment has helped encourage us to look outside the United States for jobs and resources. National Broadband and Information Technology is growing and ever changing throughout the world and not just in the United States.
This newsletter assignment allows CICS to show the diversity and research of their students. With this assignment there are two documents created each week summarizing international policy and regulations. These documents can be shared with colleagues at Ball State University as well as business around the world to show exactly what is being taught in CICS. This shows that the CICS is teaching their students to become familiar with international aspects of policy and regulations. CICS has students of many different nationalities and have graduates with jobs all over the world. This assignment shows that students are committed to keep this tradition going and brand the CICS name worldwide.
Overall I would say that the newsletter assignment was very productive and useful for everyone involved. This allowed team members to gain a very diverse background on regulation and policy while becoming closer as a team. This project should be continued for all classes of CICS 642. I feel this was a great way to start discourse in the class each week and allowed for a more diverse and engaging form of learning. The newsletter project was a success for the group, class, section and CICS.

]]> Wireless Companies to Prosper with New FCC Plan tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.5158 2010-04-20T14:12:54Z 2010-04-30T18:46:37Z Wireless Companies to Prosper with New FCC Plan The FCC’s plan for national broadband is due to Congress on March 17. In the plan’s summary, wireless providers will be able to prosper with the new plan. The nation’s top two... Tyler J Dixon Wireless Companies to Prosper with New FCC Plan
The FCC’s plan for national broadband is due to Congress on March 17. In the plan’s summary, wireless providers will be able to prosper with the new plan. The nation’s top two wireless providers, AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, as well as other wireless companies, will have a chance to bid on more spectrum which will only promote more growth in the wireless industry (Shields, 2010 ).
According to the article by Todd Shields in Business Week, the new plan will “rise to our era’s infrastructure challenge.” For the past years the United States has been falling behind other nations in the use of and spreading of Broadband. The new plan will hope to bring the United States from 16th in the world back to one of the industry leaders in Broadband (Shields, 2010 ).
The plan suggests the reselling of unused spectrum as a way to finance the project. The plan suggests that broadcasters “voluntarily” relinquish unused spectrum and will receive a portion of the auctioned price (Shields, 2010 ). This is allowed because despite the ITU having secured a nearly total national commitment to spectrum sharing it doesn’t prohibit individual nations from assigning spectrum based on competitive bidding (Drake Wilson, 2010, Pg. 135). Spectrum is becoming deeply in demand with the iPhone and smartphones are using spectrum with their capabilities as a phone and also as the Internet.
Drake, W, & Wilson, E. (2008). Governing global electronic networks. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Shields, T. (2010 , March 15). At&t, verizon, google may profit from broadband plan (update2). Business Weekly, Retrieved from http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-15/at-t-verizon-google- may-be-winners-in-u-s-broadband-plan.html

]]> Jennings: A True Reporter tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.5157 2010-04-20T14:08:54Z 2010-04-30T18:44:16Z The following is a paper i wrote about a famous reporter in Pete Jennings. I found his story to be very rewarding to follow your dreams and do what you love to do. I wanted to share it with my... Tyler J Dixon The following is a paper i wrote about a famous reporter in Pete Jennings. I found his story to be very rewarding to follow your dreams and do what you love to do. I wanted to share it with my readers:


Introduction
Peter Jennings was a broadcaster by choice; he did it because he loved his job. Everyday, millions of people could see the professionalism when he preformed his job. Jennings was a trademark at the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and covered all traces of news reporting for the television channel. Jennings may have gotten an early start at being an anchor, but he went right back to the trenches. There, Jennings proved his knowledge, trustworthiness, and became a respectable anchor through many years as a foreign correspondence.
Childhood
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 29, 1938. Jennings was the son of a Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) journalist by the name of Charles Jennings and wife Elizabeth (Waite, 2010). They had Peter and his younger sister Sarah. Throughout his childhood, Jennings grew up around broadcasting. Sarah Jennings commented, “It’s no accident that Peter and I grew up in a household that was turned in to broadcasting, because our father was one of the original pioneers of public broadcasting in Canada (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).”
He got his first introduction to real life broadcasting when he was just nine years old. CBC selected him to host a weekly radio show for children featuring music and news entitled, “Peter’s People (Steinberg, 2005).” Charles Jennings was oversees at the time of the selection and was outraged that Peter was getting paid and the station did not talk to him first. Peter remembers the incident saying, “[My father] was pretty angry. Mostly, I think because I was getting money for it. And he thought they, the CBC, had done something wrong by going behind his back (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).”
Jennings struggled academically and dropped out of high school at the age of sixteen. Jennings claimed he was “bored” with school. “My parents were very disappointed with me in school, but not angry – maybe not angry enough, maybe not insistent enough that I apply myself,” said Jennings (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007). He went to work as a teller at a local bank, Royal Bank of Canada. Jennings tried to take night classes at a university, but the combined school and work load were too much for him. After three years spent as a teller, he returned to the radio as an interviewer for small radio station in Brockville, Ontario. Many of Jennings’s stories, including his coverage of a local train wreck, were picked up by the CBC. In 1962, Jennings was offered a job at CTV, a private Canadian television network, and rival to CBC his father’s employer (Sullivan, 2005).
Jennings’s Big Break
While working at CTV, Jennings was a lead correspondent of the CTV National News; Canada’s first nationwide newscast. Jennings was the first Canadian to arrive at the scene of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Jennings also covered the 1964 Democratic National Convention. It was there that Jennings got his big break when he was discovered by ABC News President Elmer Lower (Goldberg, 1990). Jennings described the experience stating, “So when I was first offered the job by Elmer Lower, I was very excited. And then I thought, what if I screw up? What if I can’t handle it? And I said ‘no.’ (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007)” Jennings indeed rejected the offer, terrified of broadcasting in the enormous United States. Six months later, Jennings reconsidered the opportunity and wrote back to the ABC president and told him he made a mistake and asked if he would reconsider. Lower did reconsider and in September 1964 of Jennings started work for ABC covering the Civil Rights movement in the American South. After only being with ABC for a few months, ABC executives were desperate to improve ratings; (comparable to those of Walter Cronkite on CBS and Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC) and offered Jennings the position of anchor for the nightly newscast (Goldberg, 1990).
Youngest Anchor
Jennings reluctantly accepted the promotion and was the youngest anchor ever in the United States at the age of twenty-six (Steinberg, 2005). He was bitter about taking the job due to the lack of freedom of travel and the inability to cover world events. Jennings was ridiculed by critics, viewers, and colleagues for his inexperience. He was accused of just getting the part because of his looks and ability to speak well, and not because of his experience. Ted Koppel stated, “ABC was sort of a pathetic excuse for a news division. If they would have been more of a news division in 1964 they wouldn’t have hired Peter (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).”
Jennings’s days on air were a struggle as he missed pronounced “Appomattox” the site of a famous civil War battle and also misidentified the U.S. Marine Corps’s official anthem. Jennings stayed as anchor for three years and drew modest rankings. His sister, Sarah Jennings, described the experience, “I think the first go-round was not successful. It was just a ratings game obviously. And he was very young and inexperienced (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” Jennings also had harsh words of his stint as anchor stating, “I was the youngest anchor there had ever been in American television. I wasn’t qualified, mind you; I got the job because of how I looked and sounded rather than how intelligent I was (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” In 1967 ABC decided to expand its newscast from 15 to 30 minutes. Jennings asked for a reassignment and his superiors granted the request and moved him back to the field as a revolving reporter.

Back to the Trenches
Jennings began as a revolving reporter starting in January of 1968. Jennings spent much of the decade on foreign soil coving from places such as Cuba, Bangladesh, and the Middle East (ABC, 2005). Peter loved the Middle East coverage, as it gave him so much area and he was the only correspondent. “I had, as my responsibility for all those years, everything east of the Mediterranean all the way to India. I had all the Arab world, I mean I thought I died and gone to heaven,” stated Jennings (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).
In 1969, Jennings helped establish and was the name head of the ABC News Middle East bureau in Beirut Lebanon. This was the first television news desk in the Arab word. Jennings thrived in the Middle East and soon his expertise in Middle Eastern Affairs was unmatched among broadcast journalist (ABC, 2005). Jennings success and accolades in Middle East were numerous and world known. Jennings conducted the first televised interview with Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yassir Arafat. Jennings also won the George Foster Peabody Award for his profile of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Jennings and the Munich Games
Jennings’s biggest break came when asked to provide coverage of non-sport news from the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. This was an opportunity Jennings couldn’t pass down. “Roone Arledge called and said, ‘Would you like some rest and relaxation from the Middle East story, and would you come to Munich and do our non-sports features?’ It took me all of ten seconds to say ‘yes.’ (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007)” Jennings coverage helped ABC earn an Emmy for outstanding achievement in special events coverage.
During the Munich Summer Games the Arab terrorist group Black September seized the Israeli compound and took athletes hostage. Jennings hid himself and his camera crew inside the grounds to provide live television of the scene taking place (ABC, 2005). Jennings was first on the scene and used his expertise on the Middle East to describe the situation perfectly and identify the Arab terrorist group Black September. Bill Blakemore an ABC correspondent responded to Jennings newscast stating, “He was the first one who was able to call it, and he called it right (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).”
Triple Anchor
Jennings returned to the United States in 1975 as correspondent and news reader for A.M. America. The show cancelled after ten months and Jennings was reassigned overseas as chief correspondent. He stayed at this position until 1978 when ABC executives created a three-part anchor system for the World News Tonight; Jennings would be an anchor from London, Frank Reynolds from WashingtonD.C., and Max Robinson from Chicago. This was a new idea and a very different idea. Jeff Gralnick the executive producer described this set up, “The triple anchor broadcast was different. It was more popular-culture. It had more graphics. It was different because it had no choice other than to be different – to see if it could survive (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).”
Jennings enhanced ABC’s global coverage with is European perspective. Jennings reporting from London was able to provide an in depth background and coverage of Europe and the Middle East before rival news stations. Jennings notable documentary of the Iran hostage crisis earned him an Emmy (Sullivan, 2005). Jennings became the model for foreign correspondence.
Solo Anchor Once Again
In 1983, with the death of Reynolds, Jennings became the lead solo anchor once again. Jennings was the obvious choice. He had previous experience as an anchor, and also the looks and charm (Goldberg, & Goldberg, 1990). But Jennings did not want to leave London and become the solo anchor. Jennings and his wife Kati Marton debated over this decision both remembering them saying, “We don’t want to do this, we don’t want to do this.” Both agreed the move and job was necessary and on September 5, 1983 Jennings became to solo anchor of the World News Tonight (Goldberg, & Goldberg, 1990).
This intensified a ratings battle between the “Big Three” networks. ABC had Jennings, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) was anchored by Dan Rather, and National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was anchored by Tom Brokaw (Steinberg, 2005). The race became a public interest and was covered like ratings of a Presidential race. ABC notoriously in third place for decades became tied with the other two in July of 1986. Jennings and ABC took the lead the next week and three years later Jennings was consistently on top (Goldberg, & Goldberg, 1990). Jennings went on to be named "best anchor" by the Washington Journalism Review in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1992 (Waite, 2010).
One of the factors that made Jennings a well received anchor was his ability to ask good questions. John Andrews a fellow colleague stated, “He was very, very good, always, at asking questions. He would ask his questions not in an aggressive way, but nonetheless, he was quite persistent. And he would charm people into giving answers (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” Tom Yellin an executive producer for a number of Jennings’s documentaries stated, “I think Peter’s greatest strength is that he was able to live a journalist’s life with the right values.”
During Jennings time as anchor he provided coverage and insight of dramatic events in United States history. In June of 1985, Jennings was on air for seventeen days straight reporting on the hijacking near Athens Greece. After the space shuttle Challenger exploded ABC received 10,000 letters commending his stabilizing presence. In 1988, some television critics declared Jennings the winner of a presidential debate he monitored between George Bush and Michael Dukakis. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Jennings contributed a marathon anchoring job as ABC and other news organizations scrambled to provide feedback (Sullivan, 2005).
Jennings Reporting on September 11
On September 11, 2001, Jennings responded when he came onto the air after the attacks reporting, “There is chaos in New York at the moment…..There is chaos (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” There was a notorious on-air conversation between Don Dahler and Peter Jennings as the New York Trade Centers collapsed:
Don Dahler: “It has completely collapsed.”
Peter Jennings: “The whole side has collapsed?”
Don Dahler: “The whole building has collapsed.”
Peter Jennings: “The whole building has collapsed?”
Don Dahler: “The building has collapsed….”
Peter Jennings: “My God! The southern tower, ten o’clock Eastern time this morning, just collapsing on itself.” -- (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007)
This was the start to a long few weeks for Jennings as he did newscasts to try to calm Americans in this time of frenzy. Jennings was able to maintain his feelings and emotions while on air. He was a calming force for Americans while they watched and wanted to know more facts and news about this tragedy (Steinberg, 2005). The mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, commented on Jennings by saying, “The thing that stands out about Peter Jennings, in general, [is that he was] very calm, very sensible, very measured, very balanced. September 11, it’s very difficult to be able to cover it in the balanced way because your emotions push you in so many directions. (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007)”
September 11 changed many Americans, and Jennings was one of them. He stated, “It is forty years since I came to the U.S. and in my entire experience, nothings has quite moved me as much as the coming together in the wake of 9/11 (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” As terrible as the events of September 11 were, there is something to be said of what Americans did for one another during the aftermath.
Jennings the Author and Interests.
Jennings was not only a reporter and anchor but also an author. Jennings and co-author Todd Brewster wrote a number of broadcast- related books. But his greatest work was The Century which became a best seller. The Century also appeared as a millennium-themed series on the History Channel and was narrated by Jennings (ABC, 2005). The big appeal of The Century is that the book is suited and enjoyed by all ages. Jennings is quoted in Publisher’s Weekly saying, “ I was in the bookstore one day and I saw an older man buying [the book] for his grandchild, and some younger people buying it for their parents (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).”
Jennings interests were not only news reporting and writing. Jennings loved being a dad and spending time with his children. Jennings also had a great love of jazz music, sailing, and tennis. Jennings gave his time back by volunteering at Soup Kitchens and was a generous contributor to many different charities (Sullivan, 2005).
Jennings the American
Jennings life was spent in the United States for an entire career as a Canadian. This allowed him to travel to countries during times of animosity between the United States and other countries. Jennings reported from Cuba when no Americans were allowed to enter the borders. But on May 20, 2003, Jennings became an American citizen. It is hard to imagine that Jennings made a career of reporting American news to millions of Americans without being an American himself (Steinberg, 2005).
Jennings Diagnosis and Death
On April 5, 2005 Jennings stunned the television audience when he announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer on a segment during the World News Tonight (Steinberg, 2005). "I think we all cried when he told us he was sick," John Banner executive producer of World News Tonight said. "It broke my heart, given what we were in the midst of doing (Steinberg 2006)."
Jennings started smoking when he was thirteen and he said he never knew he would become addicted. Jennings smoked most of his sixty-seven years. He gave up smoking with the birth of his children. But started smoking again during September 11 stating he was weak and gave in to the temptation (Sullivan, 2005).
Jennings immediately began chemotherapy treatments to treat the lung cancer. Despite the treatment, Jennings still continued off-air work and occasionally corresponded with fans and supporters on the “World News Tonight” website. Jennings died a few months after his diagnosis in his home in New York City on August 7, 2005 at the age of 65 (Sullivan, 2005).
Jennings Family Life
Jennings will always be known as a great anchor but he was also a very good father. Jennings was married four times in his life and also had two children, son Christopher and daughter Elizabeth. Jennings was first married to Valerie Godsoe of Toronto, Canada. The marriage was short-lived and ended in divorce. His second marriage was to Anouchka “Annie” Malouf whom he met while stationed in the Middle East. This marriage also ended in divorce. Jennings third marriage was to Kati Marton whom he met in London in 1977. Jennings and Marton were engaged after just three dates and married in 1979. The couple had daughter Elizabeth in 1980 in Britain and son Christopher in 1982 also in Britain (Steinberg, 2005).
Fellow correspondent, Lynn Sherr, described Jennings’s relationship with his children stating, “Peter became a dad a little bit late in life. But boy did he jump with all four feet! You couldn’t tear him away from those children when they were little (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007). Jennings and Marton divorced in April of 1997. Jennings married his fourth wife, Kacee Freed on December 6, 1997.
Jennings’s Legacy
Jennings may always be known for his good looks as an anchor but he forever changed the world of news broadcasting. Jennings reporting in the Middle East provided his credibility to be a trustworthy and respected news anchor. His presence on television provided millions of viewers comfort during tragic and devastating times. Jennings provided ABC with a staple figure of news media. Whether he was anchor, tri-anchor, reporter, or correspondent Jennings was professional and leader for the ABC news station. Jennings improved ABC from a little known American news network to a super power and part of the “Big Three” in news coverage. Jennings stayed with ABC for the entirety of his lustrous American broadcasting career.
Jennings was adored and respected by millions of American and also his collegues. Jennings proved to be one of the most respected journalists to ever live. He showed many examples on how to conduct and perform as a news anchor. “I think Jennings’s legacy for journalist is to listen to your gut. Report stories. Don’t be afraid to go to some place that nobody else is. Seek the truth. Pursue stories passionately. Tell them well,” said Jon Banner, executive Producer of World News Tonight. (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” This is exactly what Peter Jennings exemplified in his career. Jennings also had the ability to make the story easily understood so millions of American watch. “Peter’s journalistic legacy is that preparation and depth of knowledge is often the best way to simplfy a story into something that people can understand generally (Darnton, Jennings, & Sherr, 2007).” said Bob Woodruff, Jennings replacement as co-host of World News Tonight.
Jennings legacy is not only in the reporting world but also has an effect on health and world knowledge of lung cancer. Diane Sawyer featured a story about lung cancer on April 5, 2010 on World News Tonight the five year anniversary of Peter Jennings’s death. She reported that lung cancer still remains the most common fatal cancer but the death rate has fallen faster than any other form of cancer (Ariens, 2010). The percentage of high school students smoking is down to 20% it’s lowest. American’s knowledge of lung cancer is far greater with thirty-four states now have smoking bans in public places and there is a hotline to help smokers quit (Ariens, 2010). Peter Jennings not only provided the world with news but a new awareness of the harm of smoking and the effects of lung cancer.

]]> Stuart Brotman - Can Broadband Save the World? tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.5130 2010-03-25T01:30:10Z 2010-04-30T18:42:28Z Can Broadband Save the World? - Stuart N. Brotman (300 articles) - Challenge to purpose this question ….. Its possible - Julius Genokowski Chairman of FCC o If we don’t act we face real risk to our competitors - 52nd... Tyler J Dixon Can Broadband Save the World?
- Stuart N. Brotman (300 articles)
- Challenge to purpose this question ….. Its possible
- Julius Genokowski Chairman of FCC
o If we don’t act we face real risk to our competitors
- 52nd national broadband plan in the world (194 countries in world)
o Dominican Republic- Digital Literacy (Key focus)
o Finland – Every Citizen has 1 Megabit of Broadband
o Thailand – Meaningful Broadband
- What is Broadband
o High Speed
o Multitasking
o Fast Uploading and Downloading
- The more people connected the more value we will have in the broadband
- Broadband Network Technologies
o Optical Fiber – Wireless Technologies (WiFi, WiMAX) – Copper/digital Subscriber Line (DSL) – Cabele Modems – Satellites – Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
- “Satellites have helped bring broadband around the world most relevant way to bring broadband to the rest of the world”
- Applications to Devices to Networks (Repeat)
Is Faster Better?
US is Between 15-18 in the world in National Broadband
North America has 57% have Broadband Adoption and average speed of 3792
Potential Reach
• 500 million which is less than 5% of the world
New question: HOW can broadband save the world?
Access – Adoption – Impact
1/3 of the world has no interest in the Internet or broadband at all
386 million have a disability and broadband can have a huge effect on the impact on these disabilities.
• Motor
• Visual
• Speech
• Hearing
3 billion ppl live on less than 2.50 a day and 805 live on less than 10 dollars a day
A 10% increase in broadband penetration can increase gross domestic product by an average of 1.3 %
Mohamnd yunad

India only uses cash, no online payments, stand in line to pay money.

Health Care –
Global Burdens of Disease
Less than 30% of the world has access to traditional Us medicines.
Remote monitoring and treatments and we can save millions of dollars.
Future: all vitial signs from your phone just like email.
Weightloss, and sleep, glucose is all able to be monitored
Handheld Ultrasound will replace the stethoscope
“We see the future is here”
Education, Energy Management, Public safety
(Fewer than 1% can find the energy we are using immediately)

Accelerating the impact
Suggestion: 2/3 of the worlds population will live in cities.
19 cities in the world
20 million people
In the 21 century
NYC and LA only US cities

The millennials are the key to the success of broadband
Private Enterprise – rely on private sector even contries who rely on government sector are coming around to the private sector
30% not interested how do we get them interested? Korea and Dominican Republic are highly interested in just getting their citizens interested
Universal Service Fund – 1st around to get telephone service to all citizens now can use for broadband…Only 4% of our country cannot get broadband
Example: 98% can get cable and only 66% use it / pay for it.
Built into our education system not only K-12 but at educational and senior citizen centers then we will close the gap of intrest and meduiums.

the best website from this discussion that I found was on the 19/20/21. It is extreamly interesting.

]]> E-book: The new E-reader tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.5001 2010-02-10T22:39:24Z 2010-04-30T18:50:53Z The following article was for my second article in the newsletter for group 1. This article was chosen due to the familiarity of the project from an assignment in my CICS 640 class. The iPad comes out and now publishers... Tyler J Dixon The following article was for my second article in the newsletter for group 1. This article was chosen due to the familiarity of the project from an assignment in my CICS 640 class. The iPad comes out and now publishers are trying to set up terms of how much E-books should cost and be sold at. I think it is important to get terms worked out and to have a set price for all E-book suppliers. This will help avoid illegal downloading and avoid the scandals that happened in the music industry. Hopefully there are no jail time and felonies committed when trying to get E-books to consumers.
This is also important to keep authors writing knowing their product still has value to their readers. If there is no value the authors will have no reason to write. Books are important to learning and society so to create a breakdown of payments is important to keep people happy.

The Publisher’s Gain Leverage to Price E-books
The publisher’s won a bout on how E-book pricing is going to be done. Since the new addition of Apple into the E-book industry with the iPad there are more controversy with what prices will be charged for E-books. This is a big move for publishers as they get ready to have another major player in the industry as Google is set to unveil Goggle Editions. Google editions will be used as a digital bookstore and not be a manufacturer of E-book devices.
This is international battle if Google enters the market and is able to strike a deal on E-book pricing. Google plans to attract E-book users who use devices other than the iPad and the Kindle such as Andriod phones as E-book readers. The iPad and Apple have set up a deal will it will act as an agent of the publishers and will take 30% cut of each sale and leave the rest with the publisher and author. Google tried to set up a deal leaving publishers and authors 63% of wholesale price but Google has now open talks about possibly moving that percentage up to 70%.
With the sale of E-books and E-book readers becoming more appealing to consumers legal battles are sure to arrive internationally as they did in the film, TV broadcasting, and music industries. The United States and it’s dominate control over the audiovisual services industry might continue its dominance in the E-book industry also. This will provide obstacles in fair competition and then also expansion for companies in the E-book industry internationally.
Sources:
Drake, W, & Wilson, E. (2008). Governing global electronic networks. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Rich, M. (2010). Publishers Win a Bout in E-book Price Fight . The New York Times, Retrieved from index2.php?reqstyleid=1#

]]> A Little Feedback and Update from the Start of Semester 2 in CICS tag:www.cicsworld.org,2010:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4975 2010-02-03T15:34:07Z 2010-02-03T15:34:33Z It is bitterly cold outside and a new semester has started in the CICS world. The last semester ended kind of rough but grades were good and looking forward to the second semester. This semester I only have class... Tyler J Dixon
It is bitterly cold outside and a new semester has started in the CICS world. The last semester ended kind of rough but grades were good and looking forward to the second semester. This semester I only have class 2 days a week and I feel this will relieve some of the stress I was under last semester. So far this semester has been a little bit of a slow start. I think some of this is due to the workload and some is due to having a semester under my belt and knowing what to expect.
One of my classes this semester is ICS 642 – Regulatory Research in Context/Problems in Information Communications – International. I am looking forward to this class and to become more update with not only things around me but the world around me. Our first assignment in the class is a newsletter assignment and it was a very rewarding assignment. I learned a lot starting with how to research and using my textbook as a research tool. These things will allow me to become a better researcher as we continue with the newsletters to follow. I feel this is a great way to keep updated and to learn. The following is my first of many articles for our fantastic newsletter.

Geodelic and South Korea Strike a Deal
South Korea is continuing to branch out in its pursuit to continue its technology innovation. A South Korean based telecommunications company, Korea Telecom, just signed a deal with Geodelic. Geodelic is a Santa Monica, California based company that provides applications for cell phones highlighting the user’s favorite locations. Geodelic will begin constructing a Seoul-specific application for Korea Telecom.
The deal is suppose to bring revenues in the high seven figures according to Geodelic CEO, Rahul Sonnad. Geodelic was founded in in early 2008. The product concept was inspired by a couple years of experience using a GPS enabled laptop with a 3G broadband card every day. The Geodelic network uses discovery, instead of having you search for information. When opening the application the location carousel automatically finds locations and information around you, based on your personal interests, location, or search criteria.
Geodelic was first introduced for customers using the T-Mobile myTouch . There are now versions for different phones including the iPhone and the android. Geodelic uses a publishing platform, inspired by Universal Studios Theme Parks and Best Buy to make it unique and attractive to Seoul. Sonnad feels the deal with Korea Telecom will provide the revenue boost needed to set it apart from its competitors; Foursquare and Gowalla.
Seoul and South Korea has come a long way from the early years in the IT industry. Korea has been routinely government controlled and sectored in form of expansion in the IT industry. In 1981, there was only 3.5 million telephone lines with a penetration of less than 10 percent. By 1994 there were 960,300 cellular subscribers and 3.8 million paging subscribers making South Korea one of the fastest growing telecommunication nations in the world. This was due to the government’s response to international pressure to open its industry and go against strong domestic monopolies. This has allowed Korea to expand in both the domestic and international markets.
South Korea’s commitment to the IT industry has been shown over the last 20 years especially in the mobile phone industry. South Korea is home to Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, the world's second and third largest handset makers by revenue, respectively. With these two large companies and South Korea’s continue pursuit of the latest innovations in mobile technology; South Korea and Geodelic are poised to make a significant gain from their deal.
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]]> ESPN 360 tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4911 2009-12-08T17:38:07Z 2009-12-08T22:11:35Z Smaller ISP companies are becoming concerned about online content providers charging ISPs "discriminatory" access fees, which they claim Disney is currently doing with ESPN360.com. ESPN360.com is an online video website that streams live and rerun sports content in addition to... Tyler J Dixon Smaller ISP companies are becoming concerned about online content providers charging ISPs "discriminatory" access fees, which they claim Disney is currently doing with ESPN360.com. ESPN360.com is an online video website that streams live and rerun sports content in addition to what is broadcasted on other ESPN channels. Smaller ISP are claiming ESPN has been striking deals with large ISPs and encouraging visitors to those sites to switch service providers if they want access to ESPN 360 content. Currently, when logging onto ESPN360.com a red box pops up informing a visitor if ESPN360 is available through their service provider. If the website is unavailable to the user, the website will provide a list of the available service providers who subscribe to the website. Although ESPN360.com has agreed to terms with over 60 ISPs, smaller ISP companies are arguing that they are not receiving the same wholesale rates as larger service providers.
In response, the American Cable Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop Internet video content providers, like ESPN360.com, from charging certain ISPs wholesale access fees to their sites at “discriminatory” rates, terms and conditions. The ACA’s main line of reasoning being that rural cable operators have to pay higher prices for content than the larger distributors, ultimately driving up monthly fees for rural cable consumers.

]]> Information Renaissance tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4909 2009-12-08T17:32:38Z 2009-12-08T22:13:21Z Executives from both Skype and Nokia announced recently that Skype is developing a new VOIP software to be released on Nokia’s new N97 smartphone. The phones will be loaded with the new Skype application before they are shipped and will... Tyler J Dixon Executives from both Skype and Nokia announced recently that Skype is developing a new VOIP software to be released on Nokia’s new N97 smartphone. The phones will be loaded with the new Skype application before they are shipped and will be pre-configured into the phone’s address book. The new VOIP application will allow users to make voice calls, send instant messages and add contacts using their Skype usernames. Currently, Skype is developing the user interface and writing the application code, projecting for the program to be demonstrated by June 2009. Other Skype applications have already been developed for mobile phones, but the application being designed for the N97 will be the first full-featured version. Skype has also recently announced they are beta testing a new version of their Windows Mobile application. Skype 3.0 is now available with two new features: file transfer and SMS text messages charged at Skype rates abroad. Applications designed for lower-end mobile devices only offer a “lite” version of Skype. This version is currently compatible with about 100 Java-enabled phones made by LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. However, the “lite” version offers only basic Skype features and will not work over Wi-Fi connections.

My opinion of this....
The launch of this new Skype application on Nokia’s new smartphone will be a profitable move because it offers an effective expense-cutting tool to corporations. Such as we have seen with the rise in popularity of video conferencing in efforts to slash traveling expenses, we have and will continue to see companies migrate to VOIP in attempt to cut expenses. Instead of using expensive international cellular service to make a call, this new Skype application will allow Nokia smartphone users to make a VOIP call over a Wi-Fi network. Although the savings may not be staggering on a per-user basis, the total savings by a large corporation could be significant. Besides the cost saving advantages of using VOIP, this new Skype application will also offer users the convenience of sending text messages to any Skype user across the globe. While I believe this new Skype application will at least be a short-term success, it will be interesting to see how or if this product performs with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

Annotated Bibliography
Adkoli, J. (Feburary 4, 2009). Shape Brings Skype to Apple iPhone. TMCnet. Retrieved February 17, 2009 from: http://iphone.tmcnet.com/topics/iphone/articles/50035-shape-brings-skype-apple-iphone.htm. Article dicusses a new Skype application offered for the 3G iPhone.

Independent. (February 15, 2009). Skype High: Getting the Mobile Market in its Sights. The Independent. Retrieved February 17, 2009 from: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/skype-high-getting-the-mobile-market-in-its-sights-1622152.html. Article discusses how the use of Skype on mobile devices can cut into the revenue of service providers.

Sayer, P. (February 17, 2009). Nokia Will Ship N97 Loaded With Skype Calling Software. PCworld. Retrieved February 17, 2009 from: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159633/nokia_will_ship_n97_loaded_with_skype_calling_software.html .Article discusses a new release of a Skype application for Nokia’s new smartphone.

]]> The future ahead.... tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4837 2009-12-08T00:36:25Z 2009-12-08T22:18:20Z These past 15 weeks have been extremely difficult for me and a time for me to learn a great deal. I have had the past 15 weeks to discover a new world that was brand new to me. This world... Tyler J Dixon These past 15 weeks have been extremely difficult for me and a time for me to learn a great deal. I have had the past 15 weeks to discover a new world that was brand new to me. This world could be called graduate school. I also learned a new topic and that is the IT world. I never envisioned myself in a technological field. It just didn’t interest me and I always have been caught up in sports and knew I wanted to be working in that field. I decided to major in CICS to allow myself knew options. I knew I would have the sports background from my undergraduate and also being a varsity swimmer. But I knew it would be helpful to venture out and get a masters in something else.
I chose CICS because it is only 11 months long and I knew it would be something I could implement into a career. It will also help me with networking and allow me skills that would still allow me to get back into the sporting world. But these past 15 weeks have been HARD! Wow was it an eye opening experience. I was able to learn all new information, complete a dozen different projects, write papers and perform research, and perform a weekly lab. This is not for the non dedicated masters candidate. This individual wouldn’t survive a rigorous course like CICS.
I now know strengths and weaknesses I never knew I had. CICS brought out the best and the worst in me. I learned how to manage time better and how to work harder under pressure. There are so many life lessons to be learned in graduate school. You have to take advantage of these and learn from each and every one. Procrastinating is no longer an option. There isn’t just one assignment due but 3 or 4 each week and you have to balance your time to get these done. I read numerous books in 601 with Dr. Steele and was able to take something from each one. I learned more about human communication than I ever thought was possible in 602 with Dr. Gillette. I did more CICSO labs in 620 with Dr. Kovac and Dr. Jones, and not to mention the case study assignment. Finally, I did a hypothetical research project and learned everything I need to know about statistics in 630 with Dr. Groom.
Every assignment had a purpose and made you not only think but learn. I did more learning in 5 months than I did my entire undergraduate career. There were no shortcuts and no easy ways out. We had to learn and study to get through classes. Now that we finished 5 months we have another 6 months ahead. This is not an easy process but a process that is very useful. We will continue to strive to succeed and look forward to the challenges ahead. There are obstacles to overcome but what is stopping us? Let us continue our progress forward and continue to amaze ourselves with what we can accomplish. I Can’t wait to see what is ahead…..

]]> Web 2.0 tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4773 2009-12-07T17:24:23Z 2009-12-08T22:21:21Z Web 2.0 There are so many applications and websites that allow us to incorporate Web.20 in our daily activities. We can go online and look anything up. We can use MapQuest o look up directions, we can use twitter to... Tyler J Dixon Web 2.0
There are so many applications and websites that allow us to incorporate Web.20 in our daily activities. We can go online and look anything up. We can use MapQuest o look up directions, we can use twitter to let the world know what we are doing, or we could look up recipes online to know what to cook for dinner. It is hard to imagine a world without the Internet. We depend on this form of information to complete our daily routines.
We even need Web 2.0 to complete graduate school. We are learning how to do a scientific blog and we use cicsworld.org to complete this feature. This is a valuable asset in the work place. We can use this feature to reach out to all our customers as well as fellow employees. This allows us to keep up today on what is going on around us and how we can use this to profit.
We can see this through the take off of Facebook, MySpace, and twitter. We now want everyone in the world to know who we are and what we are doing. Although this may backfire sometime we still want people to know about us, and we want to know about our friends. This is becoming a daily habit for us to check our accounts multiple times each day. We will sit there and be consumed for hours just checking statuses and information for people we call our friends.
Companies are becoming more involved and using these communication tolls as ways to communicate to clients and also advertise. My uncle has been using in his job for nearly 15 years. He has been using the Internet as a way to communicate through clients. He helps his clients become web accessible and use it as a tool to promote their company. He has recently started a new branch of his company called New Panda. He recognizes the importance of Web 2.0 and using this to make a living. The world has changed and we need Web 2.0 to keep up with the change in times.

]]> Accenture Challenge and Lessons Learned tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4698 2009-12-07T01:58:11Z 2009-12-08T22:22:25Z The Accenture challenge was a very new and enriching experience for me. I was able to challenge myself and see what I was capable of. The challenge wore me out and knocked me out but I can take some things... Tyler J Dixon The Accenture challenge was a very new and enriching experience for me. I was able to challenge myself and see what I was capable of. The challenge wore me out and knocked me out but I can take some things away from it. I learned that even if you don’t know much about the topic which the case is about you can still add value to the discussion. You can do this by researching and making yourself enriched in the topic. You need to eat, sleep, and drink the subject to become knowledgeable of it. Working as a team is key when you are forming a presentation and it is important to keep this team aspect all the way through the presentation. I felt as a team we didn’t know our strengths and weaknesses of our teammates and this showed. The lack of sleep and many hours spent with each other brought out sides of us we rather not see again. But when the day was over we could still be proud we completed the project. My not have been our best work but we completed it.
I think we should have stop wondering what could happen and plan for the subject matter as it was. Our team kept researching and researching the information but we never put anything in written work. We kept thinking we didn’t want to start on the case because they could change something and our work would be nullified. But instead they changed nothing and our group was left pulling the all nighter and trying to get a project together that we could have had compete over a 3 day period.
I made the mistake of waiting for the team leader to assign tasks and not going out and looking for task to do. Although I felt like I contributed my part I could have contributed more of my strengths by going out and creating some structure in our project. I was surprised by some of the things we did when we got to the presentation. Since it wasn’t my part of the project I didn’t know how we addressed the subject and I could have contributed and made that part better.
These are all things we learn by doing a project like this. This project is designed to teach us these things and allows us to learn from our mistakes. The secret is not letting this project get us down but learn improve from our mistakes and recognize our strengths. I enjoyed working on this project and feel better about myself for being able to complete such a rigorous project. We have to make sacrifices when we complete a project like this. My sacrifices were lack of sleep and in turn I saw a decline in my performance not only on the project but in my swimming the next day. So as we learn there are always highs and lows for every project. But the best news is we completed another project and we only have 2 more weeks until we are complete with our first semester of graduate school.

]]> European Renaissance tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4694 2009-12-07T01:33:16Z 2009-12-08T22:23:14Z In a course on human communication it is important to outline the important technological developments and how they effected human communication. The biggest invention came during the European Renaissance. The European renaissance started in roughly the 14th century in Florence... Tyler J Dixon In a course on human communication it is important to outline the important technological developments and how they effected human communication. The biggest invention came during the European Renaissance. The European renaissance started in roughly the 14th century in Florence Italy. The renaissance would later spread to all of Europe by the end of the 17th century. Renaissance means rebirth. This time was the rebirth of many different art forms and gave us many famous “renaissance men” during this period. These include Michelangelo, DeVenchi, and Raphael. But the main invention during this time was the printing press.
Europeans first had to use movable metal type to print a book. On small pieces of metal they would engrave letters and then arrange these to form words. This made printing very difficult and time consuming. Johan Gutenberg printed the first book with the printing press, printing the Bible. This invention didn’t take long to grow. By the 1500’s this invention was well spread throughout Europe. This invention made books easier to come by and therefore made many more people more educated.
Later people were also interested in a numerous of different topics so more books were printed about a variety of subject. It was no longer just religious and scientific works. This also made books easier to come by in all languages. If a book was first written in German it could easily be switched to English or another language. This allowed scholars to read works by a vast majority of all scholars in Europe. All ideas were able to be spread and a great deal more of research was able to be done.
This topic was brought up to me because of our enriched discussion during one of our class seminars in 602. We discussed how the first Bible was printed in Greek. This allowed for the most amounts of people to read this book. The word of the Lord could be spread around the Mediterranean faster if it was written in the most common language. After the invention of the printing press, the Bible could be printed in any language much faster and be spread around the world for all to be enriched. This effects human communication by making everyone more intelligent and able to understand each other better. This also opened printing as a new form of human communication.

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CICS 602 Class discussion

]]> CICS and Sport Television tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4597 2009-12-03T00:22:04Z 2009-12-08T22:26:22Z I would have to say being such a big sports nut this is one of my favorite times of year. I have all the sports you can handle but I also have no time to enjoy the sports I could... Tyler J Dixon I would have to say being such a big sports nut this is one of my favorite times of year. I have all the sports you can handle but I also have no time to enjoy the sports I could be watching. CICS is taking over in the final swings of the semester and I am doing my best to keep on task with that. But I am so easily distracted with the television it is hard.

For example, lets just start with my favorite team the Indianapolis Colts. They are in the 13th week of the 17 week NFL season. Every Sunday around 1o’clock I find myself turning on the television and watching them play for 3 hours. By the time the playoffs come around I am sire I will be very intrigued with every game in the NFL.

Also this is the start of the basketball season. With my favorite collegiate team Duke ranked in the top 10 I find myself wanting to watch every televised Duke game. This happens normally twice a week so that is another 4 hours devoted to the television. Although not a terribly huge NBA fan I still find myself checking the NBA scores and following the Indiana Pacers. The Pacers normally have 4 games a week and I try to catch parts of these games and that leads to another 3 hours in front of the television.

Basically I have to make sacrifices to keep on track with school and swimming. I am not able to watch every game I wanted too and I feel this is a good lesson to learn now. Because when I obtain a real job I will also not be able to watch every sporting event I want to. There is a great invention called DVR hat allows me to record shows but it still isn’t the same as watching a sporting event live. Normally if it isn’t live I have already looked at the score on the Internet. So I guess CICS is teaching me a valuable life lesson.

]]> Baby Boomer Innovations tag:www.cicsworld.org,2009:/blogs/tjdixon//370.4457 2009-11-23T02:12:46Z 2009-11-23T02:15:04Z The baby boomers have impacted the American culture numerous ways. A baby boomer is any American born between the years 1946 and 1964. During this time seventy-six million babies were born (Yamin, 1996). With the population of these Americans growing... Tyler J Dixon The baby boomers have impacted the American culture numerous ways. A baby boomer is any American born between the years 1946 and 1964. During this time seventy-six million babies were born (Yamin, 1996). With the population of these Americans growing older there are many business trying to advertise and target products to the baby boomer population.
Companies are coming up with new tech innovations and applications for this market. Companies are marking to this audience not only because of the large population but this group has the most disposable income. The baby boomers will be the wealthiest group of elderly in history. Although only 20% of the population, they will control 40% of the nation's disposable income and 77% of private investments (Court, Farrell, Forsyth, 2007).
A new innovation aimed at baby boomers is wireless monitoring. According to Qualcomm, this can provide clinical improvements, as well as reduce cost for all parties involved including patients, caregivers, and health care institutions. Doctors will fit patients with a non-invasive sensor. The sensor will gather vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, etc continuously and send the information to the patients cell phone via wireless personal or body area network (WPAN/WBAN). This information can then attendees and then forwarded to doctors if something looks wrong (Unknown).
These innovations are not just happening in the United States alone. In Japan, the population age is rising faster than the United State and manufactures are trying to keep up with the change. Japan manufactures are keeping up by selling toilets that can weigh the person, take his or her temperature, and test urine determining blood sugar and cholesterol. These results would then be sent to the doctor’s office saving the time of a routine check up (Bayless, 2003).
New innovations are also being driven in automobiles. Luxury cars such as Cadillac and Lincoln offer night-vision options. This uses infrared technology to portray the street on the windshield. Other upscale cars have motion sensors that warn drivers of objects to the side and rear of their cars. Toyota has a Prius hybrid that parallel-parks automatically. This system uses television images and computer program to determine the parking space and how to park the car in the space. The computer will then park the car automatically in the space (Bayless, 2003).
Households are being totally redone with new technologies and innovations. Smart phones are being created that allow residents to perform everyday task by just using a command. These tasks include opening the door for guests, controlling temperature and window blinds. Refrigerators and microwaves are being equipped with radio chips that will tell residents food expiration date and are able to cook the food automatically based on weight and type (Bayless, 2005).
To help baby boomers when they are older manufactures are also helping prevent the wear and tear on their bodies. One out of three people over the age of 65 will have a fall each year. With more people joining this age group researchers are using technology to help reduce the number of occurrences. Researches have invents battery-powered vibrating shoes. These will help improve the balance by stimulating the nerves (Court, Farrell, Forsyth, 2007).
New technologies are also making exciting products more convenient and useful for baby boomers. Hearing aids are becoming more abundant in the world, but they are also becoming less of a burden. Hearing aids are now less noticeable and also able to be fitted for your ear at home. Programming software is available for your own computer that allows the patient to fit him or herself. Patients do not have to make continual visits to the doctor to see if they need adjustments or if the adjustments work. Patients are now able to test the products at their house and make the change. If they need help they can get information over the phone or still go in and make an appointment with a specialist (Wright, 2003).
Baby boomers are also changing with the time and becoming more technological savvy. With research done by Accenture from winter 2008 to winter 2009 the numbers are staggering on the percentage change among baby boomers and technology. They increased reading blogs by over 67 percent, increased using social networking sites by over 58 percent (Puri, 2009). They also had a 49 percent increase in playing video games via mobile device and 49 percent increase in listening to music on an iPod or mp3 player (Puri, 2009).
With the increase in users of the Internet, companies are making technology cater to this generation. Jeff Taylor the founder of Monster.com recognized this trend and has invented Eons.com (Unknown, 2006). This is a website typical to MySpace but for anyone over the age of 50. On this sight there is an interaction of retirement aspirations, blogs, and a chance to share priceless memories of deceased friends. The challenge with this company is not finding advertisers who want to invest but making sure that there are enough customers who want to communicate online (Unknown, 2006).
Another Internet company targeting the baby boomers is www.techselector.com. This site is geared toward keeping up with the fast paced technological world by helping customers find the right gadget or tools they are wanting. This site asks questions to target your search of product and then helps you decide on the right product by offering descriptions, charts, pictures, and comparisons between the choices. The site will give you a compiled report and even offer you website of where to buy the product (Whyte, 2009).
As the majority of the baby boomer population reach retirement age companies are marking to this unique group. Baby boomers have more disposable income and also more desire to spend their money. Companies are innovating new ideas and technologies aimed at the baby boomer market. The baby boomers have changed society throughout their lifetime and as they reach retirement age they will continue to change society.

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