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Sheila Trudgett

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 5 views

www.nytimes.com/...09textbook.html

ITGS IMPACT education

shared by Sheila Trudgett on 10 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Sheila Trudgett on 10 Aug 09
     
    Possible Portfolio piece.
shazad rouf

Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...cell.phone.wallet

SOCIAL globalization control reliability IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT arts ITGS

shared by shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact: Arts, entertainment and leisure
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
  • At the end of 2008, there were an estimated 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency. That's about two cell phone subscriptions for every three people.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      Social and ethnical issues: Globalization and cultural diversity Now, almost everyone has a cell phone as it is the best way to communicate with others.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      IT systems: Communication systems
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      IMPACT: Arts
shazad rouf

Designing an Internet for kids - CNN.com - 1 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

SOCIAL security control IMPACT health ITGS IT SYSTEMS applications

shared by shazad rouf on 24 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The goal is to be both educational and entertaining. So KidZui has mapped out 8,600 channels of what kids are interested in, ranging from photosynthesis to Miley Cyrus. And we relate all of those categories to each other so kids can independently and safely browse, search and share.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      Social and ethnical issues: control; security Parents can easily control kids from going to bad sites.
  • Our goal with KidZui is to focus on the light, not the darkness. Of course, we keep all of the bad content and the bad people out of KidZui. But we focus on letting kids who want to discover, who want YouTube, to get YouTube videos that are fun and appropriate for them ... I think it is indicative of just how much kids want to be online.
  • Our goal with KidZui is to focus on the light, not the darkness. Of course, we keep all of the bad content and the bad people out of KidZui. But we focus on letting kids who want to discover, who want YouTube, to get YouTube videos that are fun and appropriate for them ... I think it is indicative of just how much kids want to be online.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      Areas of impact: Health, Education, Arts, entertainment and leisure
Shih-Chen Chiu

Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html

SOCIAL reliability security privacy authenticity IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Shih-Chen Chiu on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social& ethical issue -people and machines ITsystems in a social context -Applications -Integrated Systems Areas of impact -Business & employment -Scoence & the enviornment
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  • And technology that turns phones into credit cards and IDs poses several potential problems.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 23 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues -security -authenticity -integrity -control
  • In the late 1990s and early 2000s, banks and cell phone makers started conducting trials with U.S. customers. Limited groups of people were given the ability to scan their phones to make payments, enter stadiums and access public transit.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact -business & employment
  • If phones replace wallets, would-be thieves will see every person walking down the street talking on his or her phone as a target for robbery, said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues -security
  • Eye scans and fingerprints would make phone IDs and payments more secure, Brown said. The ID technology might work like a corporate security badge, which pulls up personal information when scanned.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues -reliability -security -integrity -privacy IT systems in a social context hardware integrated systems
anonymous

US Gov. 2.3 gegapixel camera - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ra-promises-total-surveillance

SOCIAL security privacy control people IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT science politics ITGS

shared by anonymous on 21 Aug 09 - Cached
  • it also means that people can be illuminated without being aware of it.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Aug 09
       
      What about privacy, of people who are not criminals?
  • The ability to provide real-time surveillance of large areas may be getting closer, as the Army launches a quest for a 2.3 gigapixel camera that could be packaged aboard a drone or a manned aircraft.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social > Privacy
  • In terms of specifics, the Army is looking for 2.3 gigapixels running at two frames per second. By my reckoning, this suggests continuous coverage of area of around sixty-two square miles at 0.3m resolution with a single sensor
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 27 Aug 09
       
      It systesms > harware & software
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  • Airborne cameras providing a persistent view were a key factor in Task Force ODIN’s success in Iraq; given the new technology, their successors could have even more impact. And those cameras might have some effect on the home front too.
anonymous

Sea Water into Jet Fuel - 0 views

hardware.slashdot.org/...To-Turn-Seawater-Into-Jet-Fuel

SOCIAL reliability IMPACT politics ITGS science business health

shared by anonymous on 20 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The process involves extracting carbon dioxide dissolved in the water and combining it with hydrogen — obtained by splitting water molecules using electricity — to make a hydrocarbon fuel
Andrew Beadle

Windows XP Users Speak Out | Technologizer - 0 views

technologizer.com/...windows-xp-users-on-windows-7

IT SYSTEMS Intellectual authenticity reliability applications ITGS IMPACT

shared by Andrew Beadle on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 5,000 Windows XP users have to say about their current operating system of choice, why they haven’t moved to Windows Vista, and what they think about Windows 7.
    • Andrew Beadle
      Andrew Beadle on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social Issue: Use of old interface systems- XP users think about switching over to windows 7 after vista flops...
Jeewon Yoon

New Nanolaser Key To Future Optical Computers And Technologies - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090816171003.htm

SOCIAL globalization IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT arts ITGS

shared by Jeewon Yoon on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • tiniest laser
    • Jeewon Yoon
      Jeewon Yoon on 19 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact Art
  • Nanophotonics may usher in a host of radical advances, including powerful "hyperlenses" resulting in sensors and microscopes 10 times more powerful than today's and able to see objects as small as DNA; computers and consumer electronics that use light instead of electronic signals to process information; and more efficient solar collectors.
    • Jeewon Yoon
      Jeewon Yoon on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social Globalization
  • new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry,
    • Jeewon Yoon
      Jeewon Yoon on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems Integrated systems
Ali Parrish

Music Copyrighting - 0 views

moralpanicsandthecopyrightwars.blogspot.com/...my-reply-to-bens-reply.html

SOCIAL security policies people control IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Ali Parrish on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • the Business Software Alliance is a "far less unpopular organization" than the RIAA. I think the answers are quite illuminating. First, BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop products that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers.
  • It is true that there have in the past been complaints about the music industry from the public and retailers -- retailers, almost all of whom have been driven out of business. These complaints are though about poor business practices, not business practices. The complaints aren't that the record industry is a business, but that it has been poorly run as a business.
  • The CD is not a fair fight with the download.
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  • Third, because consumers can easily purchase BSA's members products, those who copy without paying are simply scofflaws. I think the fact that the public does not object to BSA's campaign proves my point and disproves yours and the music industry's: people do not want things for free; they are willing to pay for them. If people were simply thieves, then they would have an even stronger reaction against the BSA because the price spread between copying and buying is so much vaster than with music.
Farah Alam

Slashdot IT Story | Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD - 0 views

it.slashdot.org/...edit-Unions-With-Malware-on-CD

ITGS SOCIAL security IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT business

shared by Farah Alam on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The discs have been showing up at credit unions around the country recently, a throwback to the days when viruses and Trojans were distributed via floppy disk.
  • the infected CDs
  • rather than an actual attack.
ajay tambay

BBC - dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...ge_hackers_making_the_wor.html

SOCIAL equality globalization IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business education ITGS

shared by ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Around 70 teenagers had gathered for this weekend event which is the brainchild of Rewired State - an organisation thinking of clever ways to free up public data.
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      Social - Equality , Globalization
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
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  • One group was seeking a way to scrape bus timetable information from the Transport For London website
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      IT Systems - comm sys (internet)
  • they mingled, discussed software, the rights and wrongs of file-sharing, how to get free access to Spotify's premium music streaming service - and how they'd found out about the event through a friend or some enthusiastic teacher
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      Impact - education
  • Sunday afternoon, they presented their ideas to a panel of government officials and web luminaries. Among the winners was that group trying to free up London bus data - TFHell won the "Most Likely to be Bought By Google" award. One of the judges, Ben Hammersley of Wired UK, said he "found the standard of the work produced by 15-18-year-olds in many cases infinitely superior to that produced by government professionals."
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 27 Aug 09
       
      Impact - Business
Jason Carlson

If You're Not Seeing Data, You're Not Seeing | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

www.wired.com/...augmented-reality

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  • Jason Carlson on 26 Aug 09
     
    As you shove your way through the crowd in a baseball stadium, the lenses of your digital glasses display the names, hometowns and favorite hobbies of the
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