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hass associates review articles Think the Internet Leads to Growth? Think Again Remember the year 2000 in the months after the Y2K bug had been crushed, when all appeared smooth sailing in the global economy? When the miracle of finding information online was so novel that The Onion ran an article, "Area Man Consults Internet Whenever Possible?" It was a time of confident predictions of an ongoing economic and political renaissance powered by information technology. Jack Welch-then the lauded chief executive officer of General Electric (GE)-had suggested the Internet was "the single most important event in the U.S. economy since the Industrial Revolution." The Group of Eight highly industrialized nations-at that point still relevant-met in Okinawa in 2000 and declared, "IT is fast becoming a vital engine of growth for the world economy. … Enormous opportunities are there to be seized by us all." In a 2000 report, then-President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers suggested (PDF), "Many economists now posit that we are entering a new, digital economy that could inaugurate an unprecedented period of sustainable, rapid growth." It hasn't quite worked out that way. Indeed, if the last 10 years have demonstrated anything, it's that for all the impact of a technology like the Internet, thinking that any new innovation will set us on a course of high growth is almost certainly wrong. That's in part because many of the studies purporting to show a relationship between the Internet and economic growth relied on shoddy data and dubious assumptions. In 1999 the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland released a study that concluded (PDF), "… the fraction of a country's population that has access to the Internet is, at least, correlated with factors that help to explain average growth performance." It did so by demonstrating a positive relationship between the number of Internet users in a country in 1999 with gross domestic product g

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/microsoft-gates-resignation-investors_n_4026506.html?ir=Technology Tre av de topp 20 investorene i Microsoft Corp er lobbyvirksomhet styret å trykke i Bill Gates å gå av som leder av programvareselskapet han medgrunnlegger 38 år siden, ifølge folk kjent med saken. Mens Microsoft-sjef Steve Ballmer har vært under press i år å forbedre selskapets ytelse og aksjekurs, synes dette å være første gang at store aksjonærer er tar sikte på porter, som fortsatt er en av de mest respekterte og innflytelsesrike figurene i teknologi. En representant for Microsoft nektet å kommentere tirsdag. Det er ingen indikasjon at Microsofts styret hadde akt ønskene til de tre investorene, som har samlet mer enn 5 prosent av selskapets aksjer, ifølge kildene. Forespurte identiteten til investorene være holdt anonyme fordi diskusjonene er privat. Gates eier ca 4,5 prosent av 277 milliarder dollar selskapet og er den største enkelte aksjonæren. De tre investorene er opptatt av at Gates' tilstedeværelse på styret effektivt blokkerer innføringen av nye strategier og begrenser kraften i ny direktør å gjøre omfattende endringer. Spesielt peker de til Gates' rolle på special committee søker etter Ballmers etterfølger. De er også bekymret for at Gates - som tilbringer mesteparten av sin tid på hans filantropiske foundation - slår kraften ut av forhold til sin nedadgående eierandel. Gates, som eide 49 prosent av Microsoft før det gikk offentlig i 1986, selger ca 80 millioner Microsoft aksjer et år under en pre-set plan, som hvis fortsatte ville forlate ham med ingen økonomisk eierandel i selskapet av 2018. Gates senket sin profil hos Microsoft etter at han ga CEO rollen til Ballmer i 2000, gi opp sitt daglige arbeid det i 2008 å fokusere på $38 milliarder Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I August sa Ballmer han ville pensjonere innen 12 måneder midt press fra aktivisten forvalter ValueAct Capital Management. Mic

http://www.wellsphere.com/brain-health-article/hundreds-of-south-african-facebook-profiles-have-been-cloned/1954857 Computer forensics expert Bennie Labuschagne said scammers used programs designed to "deep mine" online accounts to bypass security features."Cloning is very common and it is now like the 419 scams, only on social networks," he said. One of the South African Facebook victims, Dinesh Ramrathan, said yesterday: "A Facebook friend called me to find out why I had sent her a message asking for money online. I then discovered that my page had been duplicated. "My friends were caught off guard and accepted friend requests from the hacker, who then started sending requests for money." The impostor claimed that Ramrathan was in trouble and needed money urgently."I am lucky because all my Facebook friends know me personally outside of the social network so they knew that I was not in trouble," he said. Debby Bonnin's husband received a friend request from her even though they were already Facebook friends. One of sixmillion local users of Facebook, Bonnin said: "My major concern is identity theft and all the possible ramifications of that. On Facebook the prime issue is reputation. But the person behind the false profile could use your identity to access confidential information from your friends and then there could be security or financial problems that arise." Another Facebook user, Josh Delport, said his stored scores and tokens on game applications on the site had disappeared. University of KwaZulu-Natal associate professor of information systems Manoj Maharaj said that, though Facebook could not be hacked because of its hi-tech security features, the affected users might have put themselves at risk by clicking on links to external games, applications and shopping sites. "Users are clicking on these links without realising that their information is being passed on. If one of those sites is hacked, their information, such as credit card details, is easily a

The website Songsrpeople.com looks a lot like other amateur-video sites. It is wallpapered with clips featuring "the most insane amusement park ever" and "your girlfriend's six friends." The site draws tens of thousands of visitors a month, according to audience measurement firms. It also has ads for national brands, including Target Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and State Farm. But Web-security investigators at a firm called White Ops contend that most of the site's visitors aren't people. Rather, they are computer-generated visitors, or "bots," designed to fool advertisers into paying for the traffic, says White Ops, which has blacklisted the site-and thousands more like it-so that ads from clients such as Zipcar don't land there. An anonymous representative for Songsrpeople declined to discuss the site's traffic but in an email called the White Ops methodology into question. State Farm said it was looking into the matter while Target declined to comment and Amazon didn't immediately respond to requests for comment. Authorities and Internet-security experts say tens of thousands of dubious websites are popping up across the Internet. Their phony Web traffic is often fueled by "botnets," zombie armies of hijacked PCs that are controlled from unknown locations around the world, according to Internet security experts. The sites take advantage of the simple truth that advertisers pay to be seen. This creates an incentive for fraudsters to erect sites with phony traffic, collecting payments-often through middlemen and sometimes directly from advertisers. "When you walk into this world, you walk with eyes wide open," said Brian Harrington, chief marketing officer at Zipcar, which ran a recent ad campaign, assisted by White Ops to filter out bogus traffic. "You know stuff is not real." At their most sophisticated, botnets can mimic the behavior of online consumers, clicking from one site to the next, pausing at ads, watching videos, and even putting items in shopp