ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Informa, 18 Months, Garding
10 Nov 2012
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In 2004, rim exceeded two million active blackberry users. By april 2009, rim reported having 25 million users. By 2012, there will be over 60 million users. Facebook launched in 2004, twitter in 2006. Radio and television took decades to evolve, internet took less than a decade. Organizations and individuals must keep up with these rapid technology changes or risk becoming obsolete. Information technology (it) is a key enabler to all organizations and impacts all busi- ness disciplines. Knowledge work involves the discovery, analysis, transformation, synthesis, and com- munication of data, information, and knowledge. In 1965, gordon e. moore, co-founder of intel, observed a significant trend in the ad- vancement of technology that Computing power (as measured by the maximum number of transistors in an integrat- ed circuit) roughly doubles every 18 months. Connected the notion of underlying changes in the pace of technology with consumer access to lower cost and higher performance computing over time.
