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skye supakul

Information about the Internet - history, development, facts, role - 0 views

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  • The dynamic, user-friendly interface of the Internet as we know it today, is breathed life into by a multi-layer global network system that connects hundreds of millions of computers. This large system is comprised of multiple local and global networks serving private, public, business, academic and government purposes, which allows for the exchange of data between more than a hundred Internet-linked countries worldwide. This makes the Internet an enormous carrier of various information resources and services, such as text and multi-media data, email, online chat, VoIP, file transfer and file sharing, ecommerce, online gaming, etc.
  • The explosive growth of the Internet over the last decade is attributed to two basic reasons - the non-centralized management of its development and the non-proprietary nature of its main functional units - the Internet protocols. This 'freedom' of the Internet determines its balanced organic growth and prevents it from suffering the consequences of monopoly.
skye supakul

How the internet is changing us: CDF report looks back, ahead | Knight Digital Media Ce... - 0 views

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  • CDF found that U.S. internet users are becoming less credulous. As of June 2011, “only 40% of users said that most or all of the information on the internet is reliable—a decline from 55% in 2000.” Also, currently 60% of U.S. internet users say that “about half or less of information online is reliable”—up from 45% in 2000. About 15% currently think that “only a small portion or none of online information is reliable.” But mainstream media sites tend to attract more trust: 73-80% said most or all of the information these sites post is “generally reliable and accurate.”
  • 2011 study found that internet users give high marks to newspapers for many characteristics, among them the quality of news content, local and national coverage, and providing trustworthy information. And 63% of internet users report they would miss the print edition of their newspaper if it was no longer available—up from 56% in 2007. However, internet users also report spending less than two hours a week reading print newspapers—an amount that has declined steadily since 2005
Christian Mayer

Social Media Has Changed The Way We Live | amotherworld - 0 views

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  • Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it’s immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps – anywhere you go, information can come with you.
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    Social media has changed the way we connect with people and get information.  Just look back at technology and the pattern of tech evolution. Typewriters replaced by computers, telephones by cell phones, libraries by the internet… the list goes on and on. The internet provides information instantaneously.  Not only that it's immediate, that information is available 24 hours a day and on many mobile platforms too. Now with Social Media such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, blogs, mobile apps - anywhere you go, information can come with you.
Christian Mayer

HowStuffWorks "How has technology changed the way we conduct business?" - 0 views

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  • Technology affects almost every aspect of our lives. Just look around you and you'll see how wired we are. Thanks to the Internet, virtually anything you desire can be delivered to your door in a matter of days. Personal information is more accessible over the Internet as well -- you can look up everything from a long-lost cousin to the registered sex offenders in your neighborhood. You can even trade stocks or file taxes online. Parents don't need to lose sleep waiting for their teenage daughter to come home -- they can just call her cell phone, or send an unobtrusive text, to check up.
skye supakul

Health 2.0: How Interactive Websites are Changing the Healthcare Industry | Medical Pra... - 0 views

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  • These days, having a website is no longer a novelty; it’s an absolute necessity for any physician concerned with staying in front of local competition, acquiring new patients and increasing patient satisfaction.  Internet access is now commonplace for the public of every age. Today the number one place people are turning to find medical resources and health care providers is the Internet, and Health care websites are the second most common sites opened on the Internet. Given this new trend in medical information-retrieval, web-based communication has become increasingly important for creating a more effective patient experience.
  • To satisfy the needs of your patient-base and streamline office workload, you need a fully-functional, interactive website that places the patient in the driver’s seat of their own medical decisions; a patient portal that enables the doctor and patient to interact in an efficient, effective and confidential fashion.
  • Health 2.0 suggests that patient-doctor interaction can take place beyond the walls of an office with the help of advanced, web-based communication technology.
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  • As a result of this new interactive technology, physicians are able to provide better resources to patients, enhance communication with patients, create a unique service that differentiates their practice from the competition, and finally, to streamline office operations and improve practice productivity.
  • An Interactive website helps maintain a seamless communication channel between patients and their providers, while improving  overall efficiency of the delivery of care a practice can provide.  Ultimately, the patient receives better care and an overall improved experience as they gain control over their health information.  Subsequently, workload for the office is reduced with a large amount of the communication and information-sharing happening over the Web and not taking valuable time in the reception area or in the examination room.
Savana Syed

Changing technology drives logistics in new directions - Liza Helps | MIPIMWorld Blog - 0 views

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  • One of the most noticeable technological advances influencing supply chain property requirements at present is the internet.
  • Indeed CBRE’s Europe Online research shows that 40% of 16-65 year olds in Europe use the internet to shop. Sweden shops most on line (69%) compared to Russia (5%).
  • “The internet slips into three types of logistics; bulky items which need a network of centres; fast moving goods which can go through the post which do not require specific locations relying on 3PL couriers; and food which in the UK started out as pick-in store and now devolving into state of the art e-fulfilment centres which need to be close to consumers by its very nature.”
Kaden Peterson

Internet wins: SOPA and PIPA both shelved - 0 views

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  • It is clear that we need to revisit the approach on how best to address the problem of foreign thieves that steal and sell American inventions and products."
  • "The Committee will continue work with both copyright owners and Internet companies to develop proposals that combat online piracy and protect America’s intellectual property," Smith continued.
  • The ideas present in both SOPA and PIPA may return, but both bills in their present form—and with their present names—are probably done for good.
Kaden Peterson

Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes - 0 views

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  • OPA has been delayed, for now.
  • and Internet domain company GoDaddy.com (which lost many accounts as a result of its support for the bill); SOPA has been shelved.
  • The Motion Picture Association of America, one of the bill’s largest sponsors, is expected to regroup.
Kaden Peterson

SOPA sent back to the drawing board in wake of Internet protests - latimes.com - 0 views

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  • The SOPA online piracy bill that helped spark this week's unprecedented Internet protests will be redrafted, its lead sponsor said Friday.
  • The move came shortly after the Senate postponed a key vote on the companion PIPA bill scheduled for next week and amid calls for consensus before Congress moves forward on any legislation to address the problem of foreign piracy websites.
  • But he warned, "The day will come when the senators who forced this move will look back and realize they made a knee-jerk reaction to a monumental problem."
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  • The White House also has called for consensus legislation.
Christian Mayer

The internet: is it changing the way we think? | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

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      Christian Mayer on 02 Mar 12
       
      Information about how the way we obtain information has changed
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
  • Every 50 years or so, American magazine the Atlantic lobs an intellectual grenade into our culture. In the summer of 1945, for example, it published an essay by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineer Vannevar Bush entitled "As We May Think". It turned out to be the blueprint for what eventually emerged as the world wide web. Two summers ago, the Atlantic published an essay by Nicholas Carr, one of the blogosphere's most prominent (and thoughtful) contrarians, under the headline "Is Google Making Us Stupid?".
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  • uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's c
  • "Over the past few years," Carr wrote, "I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn't going – so far as I can tell – but it's changing. I'm not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I'm reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument and I'd spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That's rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I'm always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."
Christian Mayer

Ron Gutman: How Technology Has Changed The Way We Access Health - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...internet-health_b_872591.html

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  • When I grew up, the primary sources of health information for most of us were our physicians or our friends and family. But over the past decade the resources we use and rely on for health information, and how we use it, have radically changed. With the ubiquitous availability of the Internet, we're now taking on the role of gathering and assessing this information ourselves, often before we visit or return to our doctors. To find health information, most of us turn to search engines or health sites -- whether to answer questions about a new physical discomfort, a known ailment or about a health matter facing a child or other person we care.
Kaden Peterson

SOPA: Why YouTube fans need to be worried about America's piracy bill | memeburn - 0 views

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  • And if you’re not in the US and think SOPA is something that’s happening far away and won’t affect you, think again. If passed into law, our lives online will be very different.
  • If passed, the act will give the United States Attorney General the ability to close down websites which infringe copyrights, as well as ban them from using online paying facilities such as PayPal and Visa.
  • YouTube may have to rethink its set up as it was created as a platform on which internet users could upload, watch and share videos with each other on the internet. When uploading a video onto YouTube, users are faced with a message stating
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  • “Do not upload any TV shows, music videos, music concerts or advertisements without permission, unless they consist entirely of content that you created yourself”.
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      Shows some videos that would be an example of what would get taken down with the SOPA and PIPA acts.
Kaden Peterson

Anonymous Goes After World Governments in Wake of Anti-SOPA Protests | Threat Level | W... - 0 views

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  • Anonymous has launched unprecedented string of attacks on government and business sites around the world, as the anger of the hive that a year ago turned on Egypt’s Mubarak regime turned on governments around the world.
  • Over the last week, Anonymous has launched unprecedented string of attacks on government and business sites around the world, as the anger of the hive that a year ago turned on Egypt’s Mubarak regime turned on governments around the world.
  • Continuous DDoSing and hacking attacks by Anonymous seems to be largely a response to proposals to strengthen intellectual property law at the expense of an open internet and to what Anonymous perceives to be overreaching of the power by various governments.
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  • in response to arrests of employees of the file sharing site Megaupload,
  • is a secretive treaty pushed and quite possibly in part penned by the same interests that just saw their plans for SOPA go up in internet flames — the entertainment industry.
Kaden Peterson

Why SOPA Is Dangerous - 0 views

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  • I’m sure you’ve heard by now that SOPA is bad and would ruin the Internet, but have you actually read the bill? If not, it’s worth reading, for two reasons.
  • First, if you are going to oppose a bill, you should know exactly what you’re opposing, not just the vague principle behind it. Second, it’ll provide you with a valuable insight: that these bills are written in an attempt to obscure the truth.
  • DEDICATED TO THEFT OF U.S. PROPERTY- An ‘Internet site is dedicated to theft of U.S. property’ if–
Isabella Golden

Uploading and downloading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • In computer networks, to download means to receive data to a local system from a remote system, or to initiate such a data transfer. Examples of a remote system from which a download might be performed include a web server, FTP server, email server, or other similar systems. A download can mean either any file that is offered for downloading or that has been downloaded, or the process of receiving such a file. It has become more common to mistake and confuse the meaning of downloading and installing or simply combine them incorrectly together.
  • The inverse operation, uploading, can refer to the sending of data from a local system to a remote system such as a server or another client with the intent that the remote system should store a copy of the data being transferred, or the initiation of such a process. The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of Bulletin board systems (BBS), facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up internet access in the 1970s.
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      Isabella Golden on 08 Mar 12
       
      this tells all about the ways to upload, and download.
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  • When applied to local transfers (sending data from one local system to another local system), it is often difficult to decide if it is an upload or download, as both source and destination are in the local control of the user. Technically if the user uses the receiving device to initiate the transfer then it would be a download and if they used the sending device to initiate it would be an upload. However, as most non-technical users tend to use the term download to refer to any data transfer, the term sideload is sometimes being used to cover all local-to-local transfers to end this confusion. [edit] Remote upload
skye supakul

On The Net - The Changing Information Cycle - 0 views

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      tells us how information is broken down
  • On the Internet, the traditional information cycle is broken in a variety of ways. News may be reported, analyzed, debated, corrected, and reinterpreted in a matter of hours. Old stories from decades ago may be re-examined. Factual information can be evaluated, expanded upon, and expounded on by a wide variety of readers.
skye supakul

The impact of Information Technology on Governments | InterParty.org - 0 views

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  • Governments, on the other hand, usually lag behind and are forced to catch up.
  • But this leaves governments vulnerable in many ways and thus, it can be said that generally speaking, information technology has a negative impact on governments.
  • governments are not leaders in technology
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  • Everyone's business and personal activities are available online. And while this trend is affecting the ability of individuals to obtain jobs or entry into excellent schools, it is also adversely affecting the government. Conversations, actions, decisions and motives are being played out on the internet in emails, social networking sites, videos and personal blogs. Government officials and employees can no longer hide in a shroud of secrecy
  • Enriching the lives of the poor in developing nations can be achieved through the use of modern day technologies such as medical treatment databases, cell phones to improve livelihoods, and computers to enable ability the citizens to compete for online jobs in the global market. Governments can become closer to its people through the use of information technology and communications, thereby increasing efficiency and helping to make their lives better.
skye supakul

How Has Technology Changed the Way We Do Our Jobs?, - Inc. Article | Inc.com - 0 views

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  • we found ourselves editing and revising copy that had come from a variety of platforms, through at least a dozen delivery methods.
  • made it easier for us to manage contacts while we were on the road and acted as a depository for story ideas. The fax machine was kept working at home and in the office, receiving story pitches, copy, designs, individualized newspapers, more copy, sketches, takeout menus, and ever more copy.
  • Without E-mail, half of what you'll read in these pages would not have materialized. Copy changed hands via every commercial on-line service you can imagine, as well as through a plethora of Internet sites.
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  • More and more is expected of us as the speed with which we can communicate ideas to our readers increases.
skye supakul

Censoring the Web Every Which Way | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com - 0 views

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  • Ah, yes, the key is "censorship is required." It's only too apparent that this notion of national censorship on a country-by-country basis will eventually lead to a completely censored and dumbed-down Internet, which will only be useful for approved shopping, Twitter, and Facebook.
  • where content must be censored to protect the hopeless public from getting too alarmed by the crazy information found on the Web
  • The government, some academics, and the police would be able to access the international net. The dark net would form and it would bring us back to a pre-Google and pre-Alta Vista, even a pre-Yahoo, era.
Christian Mayer

How Science Has Changed in the Information Age - voiceofsandiego.org: The Henrietta Lac... - 0 views

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  • We are living in the Information Age. A world where the internet, computers and smartphones are an essential part of our everyday lives, allowing us to immediately access and share information worldwide. Digital technologies have changed every aspect of our lives; from the way we work and learn to the way we play and socialize.
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