MGT 216 Midterm

 

MGT 216 Midterm

 

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Personally I think that the apps I use the most are entertainment apps so those being apps like Instagram, Snapchat, Tik Tok, things like that. What I learned from the video in regard to identity theft is that just in the US alone 10 million people fell to ID theft in 2009, it’s been a huge problem worldwide and apparently is getting worse. According to the video because fact that we use this 9-digit number, and it is our identifier for many things it builds up and essentially gets out there that anyone can really get it if they tried. Somethings we could do to protect our data is I think just being more careful and like they said just be more cautious, like at times people are just waving their cards around not really thinking anything of it but there’s malicious people out there that will take advantage so overall I think just being extra safe and doing extra research on things before inserting personal information.

 

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              After doing some research on some popular laptops I narrowed down my options to three, the first laptop I will be talking about is the Dell-Inspiron 15.6-inch FHD + Touch Laptop- AMD Ryzen 5- 12 GB RAM – 256 GB SSD + 1 TB HDD – Black. The hard drive capacity of this laptop is 1000 gigabytes, the hard drive RPM is 5400 revolutions per minute, the hard drive interface is SATA and as for a hard drive accelerator there is not any. The system memory (RAM) of this laptop is 12 gigabytes, the type of memory (RAM) is DDR4 and the speed of it is 2400 megahertz. The graphics of this laptop is AMD Radeon Vega 8 and the type is integrated. The second computer I’m going to be talking about is the HP – Pavilion x360 2-in-1 14” Touch-Screen Laptop – Intel Core i5 – 8GB Memory – 256GB SSD – Warm Gold, the hard drive for this laptop was not listed but the system memory (RAM) is 8 gigabytes which is 4 less than the first laptop, the type of memory (RAM) is also DDR4 SDRAM and the speed is 3200 megahertz, as for the graphics of this laptop is Intel Iris Xe Graphics and the type is Integrated like the first laptop.

For the last laptop I decided to do an Apple product because Apple is always so up there so let’s see, I chose the MacBook Pro 13.3” Laptop – Apple M1 chip- 8GB Memory – 256GB SSD (Latest Model) – Space Gray. For this laptop there does not seem to be hard drive information either like the second laptop, but the system memory (RAM) is 8 gigabytes once again like the second laptop and the type of memory (RAM) for this laptop is LPDDR3. All these elements are important when deciding on which laptop to get, RAM is important because it’s the fast and temporary data storage space that you need in your computer if you want to access things there and then or in the quick future! As for the hard drive, the hard drive is probably one of the most important components when it comes to a laptop because if you have no hard drive you would not be able to save anything, run or download applications on your computer. Lastly the graphic card is also an important element because it’s used for rendering a images on the screen so essentially it takes data and converts it into something that the monitoring system can take and us to show your image. After all this research on the three laptops I think that I would chose the first laptop because of the fact that it actually tells me about its hard drive and its RAM is 12 gigabytes rather than 8, yes the computer may be a little slower but overall I think that it does the job and gives you that space needed for school and if I were to upgrade in 18 months I don’t think I would need to have much replaced because going off of the information I think Id be fine maybe just add more storage possibly.

 

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After watching the video I learned that you have to be more aware of your surrounding because there’s things like cameras or people watching like skimmers. Credit card fraud is at $16 billion per year in the US, because of there being many ways of doing it, they can simply just copy our card when you slide it and apps and things like that, they’re trying to install magnets to cards to avoid these things like adding the chip on the card and not the swipe which is super interesting me because I initially thought they just changed to that just for the convenience and because its quicker that way. They also have shielded wallets so that people cannot scan things from your wallet. Personally, what I would do differently is just be more observant, purchase things like the shield protector and use chip as much as I can instead of swiping and also check ATM’s and things like that and make sure that their aren’t additional attachments to the machine that shouldn’t be there and cover for cameras as for online shoppers something I would advise is for them to install VPNs and have good passwords and to also check statements. Overall, I liked everything about the video, I think it was very informational and taught me a lot.

 

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The article “Globalization Helps Spread Knowledge and Technology Across Boarders” By Aqib Aslam, Johannes Eugster, Giang Ho, Florence Jaumotte, Carolina Osorio-Buitron and Roberto Piazza talks about how technology helps rise the innovation and productivity globally. The article talks about the importance of technology and how it spreads throughout the world because that depends on the growth that we can make in the tech world. According to the article from 1995-2014 the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom produced three of the four innovations meaning that they are far more advanced in technology but apparently China and Korea are making a great comeback and now are playing a larger role in technology development this means that their labor productivity is on the rise. Not only do the countries and world overall benefit from this but also the tech leaders seem to be benefitting from the innovations, they state that other countries might be lacking these innovations because of the fact that they don’t have the education needed like, engineering, domestic research, and so on which is affecting their growth as a country in the tech world itself.

 

https://blogs.imf.org/2018/04/09/globalization-helps-spread-knowledge-and-technology-across-borders/