Desire Climax

This is a story have a genre of Romance, Drama, Mature and Harem.

The story goes like this----The Omori family are poor. Mio Omori's father died when she was young, and her mother has been hospitalised for some time with an unspecified illness. She lives alone with her little brother Hinata(commonly called Hina), doing a number of part-time jobs just to get by. One night, when going home after work, she encounters upon a violent young man who tells her he'll 'buy her', after stealing her first kiss.

The next day her mother tells Mio that their landlord has offered her a job as a maid. Mio hesitates, but her mother insists she takes the job, as she feels this is safer than some of the late-night work Mio has been doing. To her horror, Mio finds out that the violent man who stole her kiss is none other than Shoei Jinnai (who attempts to molest her), the son of their landlord and the most popular and high-achieving student at her high school; so much so that he is widely known as 'Prince'.

Mio starts to work for the Jinnais and the Prince's behavior towards her grows worse. He also starts to blame her for 'forgetting something'. After that Mio finds a ring in the forest between her house and the Jinnai's. This trigger her to remember some memories of the past, and during a fever-induced dream while ill she remembers what happened in the past between herself and the Prince.

One day, while playing together in the forest they switched their clothes, and agreed to switch identities as part of a game. When a stranger appeared asking for 'Shoei Jinnai', Mio answered and was kidnapped.

Read more about their story. A very funny and dramatic but twisted fate between the poor and rich love story.

bitter VIRGIN

This is a story about a girl being abused by her stepfather at a very young age, she lost her 2 unwanted babies. Her mother never believe the accusation told by her own daughter but after giving birth of her second baby her mother thus believe it.

And after a million of thinking, she left her hometown and transferred to another school where no one know her past and herself. The accident gave her the fear being with the boys or men. As she starts her new life in a different town and environment, a fortunate incident happen when she went to a catholic church and confess her dreadful past to her handsome classmate whose hiding from girls pursuing him and accidentally pretend to be a priest at the confession booth. After hearing the story of his classmate, he advises the girl(shocked by what he says). The girl was so ease by what he said to her. And this the start of their story.

Reading the manga was very inspiring for a student and only daughter of the family. It also give me idea of being a very strong girl of whatever happens/trails that God gave to us. Believing in Him give as the urge to faithfully trust in His glory.

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge

Yamato Nadeshiko is a teen manga. It focuses about the girl named Sunako Nakahara and her radiant creatures/housemates--Kyuohei Takano, Yukinojo Toyoma, Takenaga Oda, and Ranmaru Morii. They are only typical middle school students of Mori High School, but bearing they beautiful and cool faces with a nice body--seeing it by everyone will surely fall for them.

The story is all about Sunako becoming a lady. These was a certain deal for the four housemates and the aunt of Sunako--Ms. Nakahara or the Landlady who owns the beautiful mansion where they can live with free if they can transform Sunako into a beautiful lady.

Until they saw Sunako, they hope was shattered. They see Sunako as a Ghost Girl who actually like to be alone with her collection of dolls(an anatomy doll, a skeleton and a skull), in her dark room watching gruesome and horror movies, and eventual look like one of her collection. She even spurt out blood from her nose(nosebleed for short!) whenever she sees a beautiful person. The boys was scared to come near her until Kyuohei came to her room wearing only his pants(fresh from bath) saying he's starving. Making the story more exciting read the manga itself. You'll surely love it. You'll even laugh out your heart out. And even love Sunako-Kyouhei love fights, food and anything under the sun...Have reading the manga! Love it!

Copyrighted Infringement and Customer Informations

1. If you had a CD-R or CD-RW drive, would you make illegal copies of software programs and swap them with friends? Why or Why not? Defend your answer.

I will not make illegal copies of any software programs nor swap them to my friends; it may be easy money for us and an easy way to have software without spending a penny. But doing this act is unethical to the law, to the publishers, and companies producing programs. Such illegal acts are punishable law. "CD-R or CD-RW infringement" is the illegal copying of software using CD-R recording technology. Creating a copy and/or selling it. This is the act that some people refer to as "software piracy". This is copyright infringement in most countries and is unlikely to be fair use or fair dealing if the work remains commercially available. In some countries the laws may allow the selling of a version modified for use by blind people, students (for educational product) or similar. Differences in legislation may also make the copyright void in some jurisdictions, but not the others. Peer to peer (P2P) file sharing technologies have lowered the threshold of knowledge needed to acquire massive amounts of information. Large networks have been created which are dedicated to share knowledge, but these same networks can be used to distribute infringing material. Identifying infringing material isn't always trivial, since the users can modify the name of material being shared.

Software piracy is illegal due to the economic loss it inflicts on the copyright owner. Even if it is assumed that only a portion of those infringing the author's copyright would ever have bought the software, the author will still suffer an economic loss as a result.
2. Many companies store huge amounts of information about their customers.
Should they be free to share or sell that information? Why or Why not? Support your answer.

Customers’ information is private. Protecting the privacy of a customer is important. Valuing the trust those customers have placed in a company, and their continued confidence is important to a company.

Companies value the relationship between parties. Responsible companies makes customer keep coming back for their undeniable services to them. A company has these privacy privileges:

a. Company should put a safeguard to the information gathered about the customers is a priority.

b. A company should maintain security practices to keep personal information about the customer’s safe.

c. Companies do not sell customer information to unrelated companies so that they can market their products to you. Companies do share information about you with our financial and retail partner.

d. When companies believe that an unrelated company offers products or services that would be of interest to the customer, the company may communicate it for the customer about them. These companies will not learn about the customers’ relationship with the company unless the customer responds to their offer.

e. When it comes to privacy, the companies believe that a customer have the right to make meaningful choices. If customers tell the company not to do so, the company will not call or send direct mail to the customer for additional products or services. You can also choose how personal credit information about the customer is shared within the company of financial service providers. It is the customers’ choice.

f. The company will provide the customer with helpful information about privacy and information security. For example, on our web site, you will find tips to help you protect yourself from identity theft, and limit direct marketing from others.

Case Study no. 1

Google's Business Model

1. Who are their competitors?

• Google’s competitors are Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Disney Online, Match.com, Move.com, Sina Corp., and Daum Corp.

2. How have they used information technology to their advantage?

• As we all know that information technology is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information. And as Google used this technology their web-based are most useful and has user-friendly environment. Creating more reliable sources of information and data, making their user to communicate with the family, friends, officemates and others. They also maintain the security of their site like alerting their user of spasm and other viral infections that may affect the use of their customers.

3. How competitive are they in the market?

• Though are some company’s keep them from rising up to top, they always make sure that they are good and non-violence site. They also keep their site functional to their user. And they upgrading each system that will keep their company more beautiful and environment friendly.

4. What new services do they offer?

• Google offer new services such as Google Health, Groups, Maps for mobile, SMS, Blogger, Custom Search, Desktop, and more (just click on to google.com)

5. What makes them so unique?

• Websites are unique in a very special way. As for Google, mainly for being a popular search engine, Google has many other features that make it unique, such as Gmail, the web-based e-mail that offered 1 gigabyte of e-mail storage. This limit has recently increased to over 2.6 GB. The idea behind it is that people really don't need to delete their e-mails because it would take many e-mails to hit this limit, and users can search through their old e-mails through a special search feature. Google is a worthwhile investment. And they are name as one of the top 100 search engine.

6. How competitive are they in the international market?

• They are very competitive. They make sure that their user can avail their 100% support. They also keep their site more reliable and fun to use. Google more services to the user that make them want more and use it often.

Global-Local Database, Inc.

About Global-Local

Global-Local Database, Inc., located in Davao City, Philippines, is comprised of a team of highly competent Information Technology professionals and Computer Scientists offering software development and consulting with a wide range of software and hardware solutions. Starting as a small company doing offshore development work exclusively for Filipino clients in 1990, ConcentricLane Database launched its services to world wide clients in 1996.
Our offshore and local clients have grown significantly since then. Today, the company is actively promoting IT development in the city and is closely working with government agencies in building solutions for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and encouraging them to automate their business processes.

Global-Local exists to provide an ever-increasing level of quality software, consultation, service and responsiveness to our customers for very reasonable costs, while creating a corporate culture that fosters respect, personal growth, responsibility and opportunities for our employees. We are uniquely committed to customer service, transparency in conducting business and the long-term nature of our business vision.

Believing in continuously investing in our skills, professionalism, capabilities and internal standards, the company strives to be the leading solution provider in the city and enable businesses to improve their processes. The goal is not only to provide solutions but to generate awareness on the advantages of computerization and new technologies available. We are equipped with the infrastructure for developing high quality applications, and experience in designing, developing, implementing and supporting enterprise-type applications as well as the expertise in Voice over IP and PC Telephony solutions.

Our services range from building custom software to complete automated business solutions so uniquely tailored that we maintain to be very competitive and effective in the corporate and high-tech startup markets. We also provide support for our custom software applications as well as the commercial applications that we are licensed to sell, as we are online 24 hours everyday on the Internet.

Global-Local Database is unique in several aspects; among them is the unparalleled ability to examine a business challenge, apply appropriate technology solutions, and effectively articulate the solution to our own teams and the customer from start to finish. We guarantee customer satisfaction as we go the “extra mile” to see that our customers know we mean business when we say we are committed to them.

Global-Local Database is an ISV Partner for Microsoft, SoutheastAsia distributor for Vertical, software partner of ID-Integration, and partner of Technology Solutions LLC.

Friendster

Friendster is an Internet social network service. The Friendster site was founded in Mountain View, California, United States by Jonathan Abrams in March 2002 and is privately owned. Friendster is based on the Circle of Friends and Web of Friends techniques for networking individuals in virtual communities and demonstrates the small world phenomenon. It currently has more than 70 million members worldwide and is mostly used in Asia. Based on Alexa, Friendster ranked 2nd most visited website in the Philippines and third party friendster-layouts.com, 16th. It is estimated that nearly 90 percent of internet users in the Philippines have Friendster accounts. David Jones, vice president for global marketing of Friendster, said that "the biggest percentage of users is from the Philippines, clocking in with 39 percent of the site's traffic."

Based on a June 16, 2003 application, Friendster was awarded a patent in 2006 for a method and apparatus for calculating, displaying and acting upon relationships in a social network. Dubbed the Web of Friends because the method combines the Circle of Friends with the Web of Contacts, the system collects descriptive data about various individuals and allows those individuals to indicate other individuals with whom they have a personal relationship. The descriptive data and the relationship data are integrated and processed to reveal the series of social relationships connecting any two individuals within a social network. The pathways connecting any two individuals can be displayed. Further, the social network itself can be displayed to any number of degrees of separation. A user of the system can determine the optimal relationship path (i.e., contact pathway) to reach desired individuals. A communications tool allows individuals in the system to be introduced (or introduce themselves) and initiate direct communication.
Based on a June 27, 2008 application, Friendster, the 7th largest website in the world and top social network in Asia, announced that its users in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines will soon be able to subscribe to Friendster Text Alerts. When launched, Users are required to register the use of Friendster Text Alerts by entering their mobile number details and selecting which mobile text alerts they wish to receive on their Friendster settings page. Users will then be able to receive text message alerts for friend requests, new messages, comments, bulletins and more or when such activity takes place within their network of friends on Friendster, they will receive an SMS text message on their mobile phone. Users will also be able to respond, share and communicate on Friendster by sending a text message to Friendster to update content on their profile, send messages, and reply to friend requests. This service is not chargeable, but users are still subject to text messaging usage fees of their telephone and wireless service provider. Although no specific dates have been given yet to launch Friendster Text Alerts but it's understood it could happen in the coming weeks.

Computer Literacy

An Important Skill
By Dawn Rosenberg McKay, About.com

As I sit here typing away on my keyboard, I realize that I am as comfortable holding a computer mouse as I am holding a pen. That wasn't always the case, though. As a high school senior taking my first class in BASIC, I marveled at the freshmen who were effortlessly creating error-free and complex programs. I did not reach that level of comfort around computers until many years later, after being exposed to them a little in college and more in graduate school. Computers have come a long way since I took that first class in BASIC and, I guess, so have I.
I was shocked and disappointed, when a college professor friend of mine told me about his students, juniors and seniors at a highly competitive university, who knew little about computers, and did not know how to retrieve an emailed file and operate a simple Windows based program. "How is that possible?" I asked. Hadn't computers been a standard part of their education — hadn't they learned reading, writing, and computing?

Why Is Computer Literacy Necessary?

There is a good chance that, if you are reading this, you have some hands-on computer experience. However, I do know many people for whom surfing the Web was their first contact with a computer. Many have not gone further than that. This is written for those people.

In most places of business, a computer is standard. In the bank they use computers to look up your account information. They use computers in the auto repair shop to assess your car. You can't find books in the library by looking in a card catalog — you must use a computerized database. Doctors' offices utilize computers to store patient information. The point is this — no matter where you find employment, there is a good chance a computer will be a basic tool you will have to use. It is in your best interests to start off computer literate. It will help you get a job and it will help you

advance in your career. Computer literacy does not mean you need to know how use every single piece of software you may encounter. It does not mean you need to know how to write programs or network computers. You just need to know some basics — how to save and open a file, how to use a word processing program, and how to send and receive email — for starters. It means having some sort of level of comfort around computers rather than a look of fear and a feeling of foreboding.

How Do I Become Computer Literate?

Basic computer courses are offered by most continuing education programs. They are usually reasonably priced and conveniently scheduled. These courses can usually be found in your local school district or community college, on evenings and weekends.
Career retraining programs often offer computer courses for free or at a low fee for those who qualify. Check with your local Labor Department Office for more information on these programs.
There are also online courses and tutorials available. You don't have a computer? Don't worry. Many public libraries allow patrons to use computers with Internet access. Here are two Web sites that offer free online courses.