-0.34Scavenger Hunt
The Link after each answer takes you to the web page where the information can be found.
1) Median household money income for Philadelphia County, 1997 model-based estimate $28,897
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2) Net Income for Kmart : $403 million
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3) Price earnings ratio Kmart : 60.9 Industry : 34.1
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4)Realtime stock quote for Kmart at 12:15pm September 20, 2001:
| K MART CORP (KM) | 6.96 -0.34 |
| Change | High | Low | Volume |
| -0.34 , -4.66% | 7.30 | 6.85 | 1,879,500 |
5) 30 firms that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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6) current closing price of dow jones industrial average:
9605.51 as of Sept 15, 2001 6:30pm
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closing price of dow jones industrial average on March 23, 1981: 1004.20
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7) Top 3 ways to avoid identity theft
1. Destroy papers you don't need: credit-card and ATM receipts, checks or deposit slips, health insurance benefit statements, paycheck stubs, tax records and preapproved credit-card offers. Buy a shredder and use it.
2. Do not carry your Social Security number with you, never give it out unless absolutely necessary and do not have it printed on your checks.
3. Check your credit report each year. Investigate any accounts you did not apply for directly. To check your credit, contact one of the three major agencies: TransUnion 800-888-4213 (www.tuc.com), Experian 888-EXPERIAN (www.experian.com), or Equifax 800-685-1111 (www.equifax.com). There is a fee for this service.
8) www.google.com VS www.metacrawler.com
Google and metacrawler are both internet search engines. Metacrawler appeared to be more attractive, with it's colors and pictures. However Google was the better search engine in my opinion. It's look was of a simpler design. This simpler approach is better when it comes to searching because you want to find something as quick as possible. The speed and simplicity of Google made it the better search engine.
9)Kaplan is a firm that recruits on Villanova's Campus
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10) Balloon Day- has a two-fold purpose to raise money for the poor in the Philadelphia area while bringing the Villanova
Community together for fun and appreciation of springtime. This festival involves approximately 2,000 people and is
one of the few events at Villanova that involves the entire University Community. Volunteers attend meetings in
Spring (Once-a-yeat commitment).
11 a)We examine four areas of rapid technology development that exploit the capabilities of interactive e-channels:
Web-based self-service, data mining, personalization and e-cash.
Data Mining. Through 2004, e-businesses will experience yet another explosion in the quantity of data they
manipulate. Instead of just storing the result of a transaction (e.g., a purchase decision), enterprises will have access to
much of the decision-making process leading up to that result (e.g., the navigation path, click-through behavior and
alternatives explored) recorded from the online dialogue. This will lead to challenges in data storage and management
as well as unprecedented opportunities in customer relationship management to better understand the customers'
buying patterns by analyzing these new data sources (e.g., using tools from eHNC or Blue Martini). Applications
include new customer acquisition, cross-selling, profitability analysis, churn management and fraud detection.
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11 b).
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 2, 2000, Monday, SOONER EDITION, Pg. D-3, 1017 words, KMART
HEADS LIST OF 'BUNNY' STOCKS THAT STILL MAY GET UP AND GO, JOHN DORFMAN, BOSTON
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12a) my world wav file
12b) Miles Davis - All Blues midi file
12c) Dizzy Gillespie - Take Can't Take That mp3 file
12d) Stork Animated Gif
13) I downloaded Music Match Jukebox. Here is a link to the mmorder.htm
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14a) The author of Personal Technology is Walter S. Mossberg
The two mp3-cd players that were tested are the Philips Expanium and the Pine D'music SM-200C.
The D'music's major flaw was that it caused skips in the mp3-cd's and played 5 - 10 seconds of static before starting a song.
The Philip's major flaw was that it didn't display any song information, making navigation hard. It also feels clumsy.
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14 b) Here is a link to a disaster relief fund alerted by the Wall Street Journal
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