Thursday, August 31, 2006

The stocks that i purchase was Burger King(bk), McDonald's(mcd), Nike, (nike),and Walt Disney World(wd)

Monday, August 28, 2006

Hispanic Americans Advertising

Chains crank up Hispanic advertising as the population burgeons

In July, burger king began providing in-store merchandising materials in English and Spanish to units upon request. The Miami-based chain anticipated 1,500 requests. Instead, 2,400 of its nearly 8,200 stores asked for the bilingual materials.
This country’s Latino population, now at 12%, is expected to reach 20% by 2005. The group’s buying power will grow too, from $600 billion this year to $900 billion in the next 10 years.
With those numbers looming large, retailers in general are spending more to reach Latino consumers. Advertising expenditures rose 11% from 1998 to 1999, from $1.71 billion to $1.89 billion, according to Hispanic Business magazine.

A new focus: as the Hispanic population in the United States grows, companies customize their marketing materials to reach those consumers.

According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the Hispanic population accounted for 40 percent of the increase in the nation's total population between the 1990 and 2000 censuses. In 2000, Hispanics represented 35.3 million people, and comprised 12.5 percent of the nation's total population.
Clearly, this is a growing sector of the U.S. population; and many retailers and manufacturers have begun directing marketing campaigns specifically aimed at the Hispanic consumer.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Hypothetical Business Situations

Should a defence attorney work for a client he or she believes is guilty?

I have been wondering the answer to that question for years, but i think that the attorney just wants to get paid and they want to have attention in the media. Say for instance a women kill all ten of her children, and the attorney gets them off, then all the criminals will go to that attorney and he or she will have money on top of money and everyone will know that they have won many cases. But then again sometimes i think that the attorney is sometimes confused by some of their clients, or they probably feel threathed if they don't defend that person.

BUSINESS

SONY SHARES HIT BY BATTERY RECALL, BUT IMPACT LIKELY LIMITED

Shares of Sony Corp. took a hit Friday after Aplple Computer Inc. announced a massive recall of Sony- made laptops computer batteries, but analysts say the impact on the stock look limited. On Thursday became the latest company to recall more than 1 million potentially flammable labtop batteries.

THANKS A HUNDRED MILLION

The market pumped up the volume on Creative Technology Thrusday after the maker of digtial music players settled a series of legal disputes with Apple Computer owner of the dominant iPod product line. As a result, Creative will become a "Made For iPod" program partner, and the company said it plans a line of Apple iPod accessory products later this year. Interestingly, Apple can also recoup part of the Creative patent settlement if Creative is successful in licensing the patent to others.

Denzal Washington Money Made for One Movie

In the movie "The Hurricane" Ketcham estimated that a best picture nomination would have been worth an additional $20 million to $30 million at the box office, not to mention additional revenues from video rental and sales. To date, "The Hurricane" has earned nearly $50 million at the box office, domestically.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

A) Computer- an electronic device that accepts data, performs computations, and makes logical decisions that produces meanful information in a form useful to humans.
B) General Purpose Computers- computers where both computation and input/output processing capabilities are such that they can be used for almost any type of application.
C) Information- data in a form that humans can understand and use.
D) Information Processing- the process of snaring information between humans and computers.
E) Application Program- a program that instructs the computer to perform a specific, user- defined task.
F) Computer System- a combination of hardware and software that interacts to accomplish a task.
G) Hardware- the tangible, physical equipment of a computer, which includes input, processing, storage, and output devices.
H) Input- data that enters the computer system via an input or storage device.
I) Input Device- a hardware device that enables the computer to accept data.
J) Microminiaturization- the on going technological process of size reduction that has enabled an entire microprocessor to occupy the space of a tiny chip.
K) Output- data that leaves the computer system via any output or storage device.
L) Output Device- a hardware device that reports information in an understand form.
M) Processing- activity with in the computer's processor where detailed instructions called software programs, tell the computer what to do to produce the desire information.
N) Processor- a hardware device that processes data into meaningful information.
O) Program- a series of detailed, step-by-step instructions that tells the computer what to do.
P) Raw Data- data fed into the computer for processing.
Q) Software- the nonphysical, electronic instructions that tells a computer what to do.
R) Sourer Documents- paper forms on which data may be written before being entered into the computer.
S) Storage Device- a hardware device that permits storage of data.
T) System Program- a program that controls the computer's circuitry and hardware devices.
U) Information Superhighway- a global network of computers that provides access through digital, voice, and video communication to information resources anywhere in the world.
V) Megahertz- one million cycles, or pulses, per second.
W) Local Area Networks- computers network limited to a small area such as a school or an office building and generally connected with cables.
X) Internet- the world’s largest wide area network.
Y) Information Utilities- business or universities that use large computers to store huge amounts of information about many subjects and make it available to the public.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

My first favorie website is www.myspace.com because it let people all over the world express thereselves and family to people they don't even know and i really like it because there are even grown ups on myspace.com as well. The second favorite is www.disneychannel.com because i can e-mail Raven Symone' because she is one of my favorite actress of all time and she has been acting since she a little girl. The next favorite website that i like which is the third favorite is www.bloger.com becuase i can write stuff and things and i have my own little password that no one knows but me, its like i have my own little word. Instead of five favorite websites i only have three that come to mind.
Over the last ten years in business computers has change because years ago one computer took up a whole room with several wires and things. Now there are over 30 computers into one room. Many businesses can do there work a lot faster then they use to. Also computers can now add up stocks, calucalate things when you put in diffrent prices. Maybe in the next ten years people may not even have to type, the people that makes the computers can connect a microphone to the computer and all you have to do is talk into the microphone and the words will appear.