Torrent Spy, 588
TorrentFreak Web site, 588
Torvalds, Linus, 42
Toshiba, 29, 55, 68
total cost of ownership (TCO), 543
Total Rewards loyalty program (Harrah’s), 205
Toyota Motor Corporation, 202
Toyota Motorsport, 201, 202
transaction processing systems, 196–8
defined, 196
order entry system, 196–8
payroll system, 196
transborder data flows, 111
transmission.See alsotransmission media
lines, types of, 65
speed of, 64–5, 66
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP), 86, 88, 193
transmission media, 65–70
coaxial cable, 66
fiber optic cabling, 70
satellite communications, 68–70
twisted pair of wires, 65–6
wireless communication, 66–8
transport layer, of OSI reference model, 87
transport stack software, 193
TransUnion LLC, 590
Travelocity (www.travelocity.com), 89, 268
tree topology, 71
trend analysis, data mining, 227
Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(TANF), 243–4
truck driVR, 246
TRUSTe, 257, 258, 581
TRW, 590
T-structure, 240
“turnkey” systems, 398
tweets, 82
20th Century Fox, 588
twisted pair of wires, 65–6
Twitter, 81, 82, 188, 207, 208, 274, 570, 575. See also
social media
2G (second generation) network, 67
two-tier client/server systems, 193
über-systems perspective, 361
unified communications (UC), 206
Unified Modeling Language (UML), 54, 352
Uniform Resource Locator (URL), 210–11,
254, 564
Unisys, 33
United Airlines, 89
U.S. Department of Energy, 35
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U.S. Air Force, 228, 234, 248
U.S. Army, 246
U.S. Constitution, 586
U.S. Department of Agriculture, 242
U.S. Department of Defense, 80
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 539, 571
U.S. Department of Justice, 562, 584, 585
U.S. Fair Credit Reporting Act, 585
U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
(FRCP), 573
U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 579
U.S. Military, 567
U.S. Navy, 248, 378
U.S. Patent Office, 587
U.S. Pentagon, 563
U.S. political elections, social media for, 274
U.S. Postal Inspection Service, 585
U.S. Postal Service, 203, 263–4, 265, 268
U.S. Secret Service, 585
U.S. Supreme Court, 587
University Health Care System (UHCS), 237
University Hospital, 237
University of Arizona, 228
University of California at Berkeley, 42
University of Illinois, 254
UNIX operating system, 32, 88, 193, 209
development of, 42–3
UPS (United Parcel Service), 68
Up-to-date & Contact, Now Software, 41
USA Group, 419
USA Today, 3
usage rights, for data access, 105
Use Case diagram, 352
become member use case diagram, 353
Usenet newsgroups, 81
user access policy
user acceptance testing, 366
user application development (UAD), 382–6
advantages of, 382–3
disadvantages of, 382–3
risks from, assessment of, 384–5
spreadsheets, errors in, 383
user developers, guidelines for, 385–6
user computing. See alsouser application development
(UAD)
defined, 543
framework for designing, 543
strategies for, 543–4
support for, 543
total cost of ownership (TCO), 543
U.S.S. Enterprise,246, 248
utility computing, 91
utility programs, 54