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

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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.
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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 on 27 Aug 09
  
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And technology that turns phones into credit cards and IDs poses several potential problems.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 23 Aug 09
  
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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 on 27 Aug 09
  
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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 on 27 Aug 09
  
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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 on 27 Aug 09
  
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'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views

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Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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"Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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The site is currently on trial in India and it is thought there are plans to extend this to China and Russia.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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In a statement Facebook said the new service would be a "faster, simpler version similar to the Facebook experience you get on a mobile phone".
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook changes privacy policy - 0 views

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shared by Shih-Chen Chiu on 28 Aug 09 - Cached

be more transparent about what data it collects and why.
- Farah Alam on 28 Aug 09
  
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privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account
- Farah Alam on 28 Aug 09
  
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The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.
- Farah Alam on 28 Aug 09
  
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There are around 950,000 developers in 180 countries who provide applications for the site.
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Facebook's Michael Richter said if a user chose to deactivate their account, the site would still store their information "even if it is for 10 years".
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"Application developers have had virtually unrestricted access to Facebook users' personal information,"
- Salman Rushdi on 31 Aug 09
  
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony to back open e-book format - 0 views

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The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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This may not mean the end of all locks on books readable on Sony's device as the ePub format has an option to implement copyright controls.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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The common format would give Sony Reader owners much more choice about where they get their e-books from.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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"Consumers should not have to worry about which device works with which store," said Steve Haber, president of Sony's digital reading business division, in a statement.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
  
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Revealed: Microsoft's touchscreen tablet - 0 views

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we might not even see one in stores
- Sophie Rawlinson on 01 Oct 09
  
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Code of Ethics - Association for Computing Machinery - 0 views

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Should a robot decide when to kill? | The Verge - 1 views

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Short Film of the Day: Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus | Film School Rejects - Stu... - 0 views

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Spider-Man, X-Men comics coming to PSP - Games - msnbc.com - 0 views

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NEW YORK - Sony is adding a digital reader service that will allow owners of its handheld gaming system, the PlayStation Portable, to download comics.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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Users will be able to read classic and new comics page by page or frame by frame. Sony says PSP owners will be able to access a range of media through the digital reader service, but it gave no further details.
- Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
  
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Green domain sparks war of words - 0 views

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Both groups are hoping to win the right to sell .eco "top-level domain names", which are similar to .com or .uk.
- Alex David on 19 Aug 09
  
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Big Room also would like to see companies use .eco sites to publish all of their green information.
- Alex David on 19 Aug 09
  
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Big Room, which is endorsed by WWF International and Green Cross, also plans to generate money from the sale of .eco domain names to fund "sustainability projects".
- Alex David on 19 Aug 09
  
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Downloading is not enough - 2 views

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Kids, it seems, like unlicensed services because they are free. But the report also acknowledges their usefulness in finding more obscure music and letting them listen to a band before they buy
- Alex David on 19 Aug 09
  
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They are willing to abandon p2p in favour of licensed services that they have to pay for, but they wouldn't pay for a streaming service like Spotify.
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It might be that young people have no faith that the streaming services are going to stay around since they operate at the discretion of the record labels, which have clamped down on many services that are popular with young music fans in the past.
- Alex David on 19 Aug 09
  
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iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09

Bill Thompson says young people's needs from online music may be too complex and transient for the industry to track.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Where tech and philosophy collide - 0 views

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"At the moment, people live longer, healthier and for the most part happier lives than they used to because of medical technology.
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Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.
- Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
  
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Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.
- Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
  
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Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook - 0 views

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in January this year Twitter announced that 33 accounts had been hacked, including those belonging to US President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears.
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Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
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Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
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DLC for Games - 0 views

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We look at patches as little more than an excuse for developers to ship a half-finished game and have us beta test it.
- Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
  
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features of this console generation
- Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
  
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The idea of downloading additional things into your game after release was supposed to be something that extended the lives of games and made them better over time
- Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
  
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Xbox owners of the same game however have only received maybe half of that content and have had to pay for it in $5 packs.
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Pirate Party launches UK poll bid - 1 views

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non-commercial internet file-sharing
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peer-to-peer networking
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future government policy,
- Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
  
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Lying - 48 views

In this situation, the man should be asked if he wants to hear straight away and the doctors should know and understand the immediate phycological impacts on sharing the truth straight away, and th...

started by Jeff Ratliff on 08 Sep 09 14 follow-ups, last by Jason Carlson on 10 Sep 09

Dozens in Congress under ethics inquiry - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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ITGS privacy politics

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Social & Ethical Issues - 6 views

Looking forward to seeing this grow into an inquiring group of ITGS students from all over the world.

IB ITGS

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