competition and dirty business in the information technology industry

competition and dirty business in the information technology industry
Paper instructions:
This assignment is about competition and dirty business in the information technology industry.
You have to find an interesting topic and write about it. It can be a timeline (ex: dirty business
within the evolution of computers), a specific event (ex: Microsoft antitrust lawsuit), or future
oriented discussion (ex: how wireless phones are killing landline).
Topic Requirements
? Use the timelines and examples we discussed in class as a starting point.
? Your topic or the companies you picked must be information technology related.
Otherwise, you will get zero points.
? Dig deep and make your paper interesting and intellectual. Boring papers (ex: Microsoft
vs. Apple) will not be graded!
Topic Ideas
You can pick anything that is IT related. Following are potential ideas but you can pick a
different topic. It is not required but international students can pick a topic related to their home
country.
? Google vs. Authors
? Land line phones (thanks to Bell(?)) vs. cell phones
? SAP vs. Oracle
? Myspace vs Facebook (or Facebook itself – don’t summarize The Social Network movie)
? Browser wars I and II
? Game Console wars I and II
? Microsoft vs. Open Source community
? (Unix vs. Linux) vs. SCO
? Apple (HTML5) vs. Adobe Flash (Flash)