CIS 625 Journal Summaries- Article 1-3

Article 1: Via video, Canadian surgeon operates in France

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   Summary:

This news is about the first transatlantic operation, Canadian and French surgeons working in New York used a remote-controlled robot to remove the gall bladder of a 68-year-old woman in France.

The success of the cross-oceanic operation suggests doctors will be able to operate on patients in isolated, medically under serviced areas, battlefronts, Third World countries, or even outer space -- without actually being there. I do think the long distance robotic surgery technology may widely use in battlefronts and third World countries.

Moreover, more and more long-distance care or treatment projects are implemented all over the world. One long distance treatment project named �Telenursing� brings treatment to patients in their homes via video just as the operation in this news. Recently, European Space Agency is also using satellites to help doctors sent specialist medical treatment to remote Canada. Furthermore, many hospitals and health organizations use the web to open On-Line Consultation For Long Distance Treatment.

 

        Article 2: IBM Intranet Unites Workers, Boosts Morale

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           Summary:

We had discussed the Intranet and e-commerce in the discussion board. And IBM is one of the world's biggest E-commerce players. This news is talking about IBM is hoping to use online tools to bolster employee morale and communication.
Its recent added host of intranet tools let employees communicate with one another more easily and work collaboratively online.

Beyond employee-to-employee collaboration, IBM is building out its intranet to provide information on all key facets of work life, including health-care benefits, unit performance updates, expense accounting, procurement, and stock purchasing. No wonder its staffs will rank the intranet as one of their top three preferred sources of company information. I do hope more company can develop their company-wide intranet to help improving the company�s efficiency and productivity. I do think the implementation of intranet like IBM may deliver the immense informational resources of an organization to each individual's desktop with minimal cost, time and effort.

The impact of the Intranet affects a corporate's operation, efficiency, development and even its culture. Increasingly, forward-thinking organizations are taking advantage of the "Intranet" as a more cost-effective approach for corporate communications.

 

        Article 3: Wireless gaining a niche in business

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First of all, let�s define the mobile commerce. It is the use of radio-based wireless devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants to conduct business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions over wired, Web-based e-commerce systems.

The article argued that wireless and mobile business transactions will increase considerably over the next few years. The author cited that wireless and mobile transactions will account for nearly 20 percent of business-to-business (B2B) transaction volume and 25 percent of business-to-consumer (B2C) traffic by 2003 worldwide.

As more and more business is conducted outside traditional corporate walls, analysts and industry experts agree that the mobile and wireless computing market is on the verge of explosive growth.

I would like to agree the estimate trend about the wireless business and technology. Advances in wireless technology increase the number of mobile device users and give pace to the rapid development of e-commerce using these devices. Mobile Technology has been very successful and grown rapidly in recent years.

On the other hand, With the increasing number of e-commerce services for mobile devices, there are challenges in making these services more personalized and to take into account the severely constrained bandwidth and restricted user interface these devices currently provide.

Here are the notes for those sources:

1. CAROLYN ABRAHAM, Via video, Canadian surgeon operates in France, September 20, 2001, <http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechnology/TGAM/
NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=UROBON&date=20010920html>
(20 September 2001), Globe Technology.com.

2.Paul McDougall, IBM Intranet Unites Workers, Boosts Morale, September 17, 2001,
<http://www.informationweek.com/thisweek/story/IWK20010913S0047>(20 September 2001),
Informationweek.com.

3.Ariel Tam, Wireless gaining a niche in business, September 19, 2001,
<http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2813294,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_mh_com>(20 September 2001), ZDnet Asia


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