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This article talks about the new developments Google Maps has made. They were able to create a new map for North Korea with a few cities and street names. This is a great accomplishment since North Korea is so isolated. 

This article is about how mobile devices should be able to improve the lack of youth employment, but we are not making the most of the opportunity.

The article explains the increased health risks due to the use of globalization. For example, the United States has many places that have now banned tobacco use such as restaurants. Therefore, in order to make business, these tobacco companies sell tobacco to the undeveloped countries through the use of globalization. As the usage of tobacco increases in the undeveloped countries, then so do the health risks.

This article from the Daily Nation goes over the fact that Google is becoming increasingly large. Google now offers a service that competes with Skype's long distance calling. The apps that Google has makes it more necessary than just an E-mail. Google maps has also made it very hard for other companies to compete with Google.

Out of teachers surveyed, 94% say that when research is needed, research is the synonym for Google.

Google has created a "GTA" - Google Teacher Academy - where teachers can attend a 2-day academy to improve their technology skills.

Google branches out in many ways to help teachers and students in general.

Google has created a website for students and teachers who need to find resourceful and official articles, documents, and facts in general.

This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

This article outlines the way that google is spreading everywhere; even in places like North Korea.

This article shows how people in Kenya are using technology and the internet to help make this newest election a peaceful one. There were many violent outbreaks of fighting in Kenya during the last elections. The Ushahidi group hopes to end this.

This article discusses Hurricane Sandy and all of its effects on the East Coast. Toward the end of it, it talks about how there are teachers from various schools around the country collaborated to help their students better understand the effects of the hurricane. It also discusses how there are some online projects that focus on disasters from around the world. 

This article is discussing how the use of electronics concerns environmentalists because of the long term health impacts with being exposed to the networks and mobile devices.  It also causes people to get brain cancer and develop brain tumors

Bharti Kher intended on staying in India for six months, but this British born artist has lived there for the last twenty years. While in India, Kher not only found her husband, but also became a famous artist. Her work is know shown all around the world. 

This article is about how the Defense Department has been purchasing thousands of mobile devices and only a fraction of them are encrypted for classified communication. The government now wants commercial mobile device producers to manufacture more that can be encrypted with more features. 

This article explains how Japan hides anti-piracy warnings on a peer to peer network. In Japan someone who pirats something that has been for sale can result in a 2 year jail time and 2,000,000 yen fine. This article relates to peer to peer networks and how they can pirate content on a peer-to-peer network

The article explains how the way people gather information is changing. Some key points addressed in the article include faster access to information and higher rates of communication.

This article discusses the investigation of Google. It was previously believed that Google broke the antitrust law, but now the investigation is over and the Federal Trade Commission decided that now law was violated. The idea that the search results of Google are not covered by the First Amendment was controversial.