Chapter 1, Problem 1IR

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Explanation of Solution

Top 5 informational websites:

• Fresh Books:
  • It is an accounting website ranging from small to medium businesses and also provides cloud based accounting applications for sending invoices to clients for billing.
  • It provides products on subscription basis and includes invoicing, paying accounts, tracking expenses and time, purchase orders and so on.
  • It is independent of location on desktop or mobile, and it allows users to access same set of books and all financial data is stored on the cloud.
• Airnb:
  • It is an online website for arranging lodges or primary homestays or for tourism experiences.
  • This website includes date and destination in a smart search form.
  • It also offers excursions on the same website.
• Mint:
  • It is a web based personal financial management website.
  • It allows users to track bank, credit card, investment, loan balances and transactions through a single user interface and also create budgets and set goals.
  • It asks users to provide username and passwords to bank accounts, credit cards, and other accounts and also store in databases in a decryptable format.
• Drop box:
  • It is an online business website that offers cloud storage; file synchronization, personal cloud and so on.
  • It is a simple online website for accessing or sharing files.
• Verge:
  • It is an online website for publishing news, guidebooks, product reviews.
  • For gaining reader’s attention, top stories are given more space.

Top 5 Research websites:

• Google Scholar:
  • It is created as an online research tool for collecting scholarly literature on web.
  • Users or researchers will be able to get reviewed papers, books, and abstracts from academic publishers, universities or other scholarly organizations...

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Explanation of Solution

Five values of Google’s philosophy:

Ten things we know to be true is Google’s philosophy. Of these five values are listed below:

• Focus on the user and all else will follow:
  • It means the main focus of the company should be providing best user experience.
  • Google’s interface is simple and clear and also the pages appear very fast.
  • So while building new tools and applications, they should work so well.
• It’s best to do one thing really well:
  • As google is world’s largest research website, it is mainly focused on problem solving.
  • Through continued iteration on difficult problems, complex problems can be easily solved.
• Fast is better than slow:
  • Speed should be kept in mind always in order to increase its efficiency...

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Explanation of Solution

Product Name	Price	Battery Life	Pros	Cons
Galaxy Tab S4	$509	9:34	Compact and lightweight Bright and vivid	Unpredictable. Awful keyboard accessory and software.
Smart Tab	$176	9:34	Great screen More versatile	It’s just OK as a standalone tablet...

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Explanation of Solution

States that have passed legislation to restrict drivers from hand-free devices:

• In many countries these devices are banned while driving.
• In many states such as California, Indiana, Mississippi, North California, South Carolina, Virgina and so on.

Hand free systems:

• It is equipment that can be used w...