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shazad rouf

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

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  • 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
Zaheen Ahmad

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Pirates look forward to business - 0 views

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  • UK's Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact).
  • "They have advertising on their sites and, as those sites attract more eyeballs, they are getting more advertising income.
  • Isohunt, Mininova and The Pirate Bay.
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  • - links to TV, film and music files held on its users' computers.
  • Peer-to-peer (p2p) software connects users to one another and shares files through means such as so-called bit torrent, which chops up files into manageable bits.
  • No copyright content is hosted on the websites themselves - they simply do the indexing of the available content.
  • damages to entertainment companies such as Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers, EMI and Sony Music Entertainment.
  • Zaheen Ahmad on 27 Aug 09
     
    For the Issue analysis
iman mustafa

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
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues- security, control & authenticity
  • 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.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems- application & communication systems
  • 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
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Area of Impact- Business & Arts, Entertainment & leisure
  • 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.
Sanchit Jain

Pirate Party launches UK poll bid - 1 views

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  • non-commercial internet file-sharing
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social and Ethical Impact: Intellectual property
  • peer-to-peer networking
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      IT Systems in a Social Context: Software Applications Communications Systems --downloading illegally off other people through the internet
  • future government policy,
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: -Government
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  • entertainment industry
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: Entertainment
Eunice Vincent

The Net closes in on internet piracy - 0 views

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  • Seven million people could be criminalised under government plans to crack down on internet piracy,
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      social: control
  • The illicit downloading of music and films on the internet,
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      it systems: communications
  • persuaded by the argument for tough laws to curb illegal file-sharing after an intensive lobbying campaign by influential people in the music and film industry.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact: arts and entertainment
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  • Individuals would be hit by restricted internet access – from slowing down broadband to blocking access altogether – and could face fines of up to £50,000.
shazad rouf

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.
    • 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

Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices - CNN.com - 1 views

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  • Dell netbooks with the integrated GPS cards will allow consumers to pop open a netbook and get directions and also also make their netbook location aware. For instance, buyers can geo-tag photos on Flickr or check weather information customized to their current location. The Wireless 700 card combines Broadcom's GPS technology and Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi positioning solutions.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      soical and ethnical issues: Control; Globalization and cultural diversity
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context: Applications
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      Arts, entertainment, and leisure
  • "Smartphones already have GPS capabilities," says Alan Sicher, senior wireless product manager at Dell. "We are now bringing it to netbooks so the devices know where you are and can help you where you want to go.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      People can rely on the navigation devices for traveling purposes.
shazad rouf

BBC NEWS | Technology | Video appears in paper magazines - 0 views

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  • The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 23 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context: Applications
  • He likened the technology to the Daily Prophet - a newspaper with moving pictures described in the Harry Potter books.
Sung Won Kwak

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony cuts price of PS3 consoles - 0 views

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  • Sony Entertainment has announced it is reducing the price of its PlayStation 3 games consoles.In Europe the price has been lowered to 299 euros, in the US to $299 and in the UK to £249.99.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      area of impact-business
  • new slim-line PS3 would be available from the first week of September. "It has the same features and functionality [as the old PS3], but now it is 32% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% less power," he said.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      it systems-Basics:hardware
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-people&machines
  • a new digital reader for the PSP - called Digital Comics - that will allow users to read Spiderman, Fantastic 4 and other DC comics on their portable, along with a range of graphic novels.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      it systems-basics:software
Shih-Chen Chiu

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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues---intellectual property
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context----software & application
  • 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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact---art entertainment & leisure
Ali Parrish

YouTube Shares Video Profits with Individual Users - 0 views

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  • The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals
  • Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.
  • For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.
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  • The Partner Program will start in the US, and YouTube says it plans an international version soon.
  • and have helped many people earn thousands of dollars a month as their videos went viral and endured over time," YouTube product manager Shenaz Zack said in the post.
Alex David

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.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social & Ethical issues- security , privacy& anonymity
  • 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.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      II Systems- Communication Systems
  • Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Areas of impact- "Politics & government" & "Arts, Entertainment & Leisure"
Ali Parrish

Culture on the Internet - 0 views

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  • Horror writer Stephen King discovered this when he tried to embrace the medium by releasing a book exclusively online in instalments. But the experiment backfired when King halted it after just six chapters were published, saying people had been unprepared to pay for things they usually just took for free. It seems people are not prepared to give up their beloved books to read from a screen or pages of print outs.
Sung Won Kwak

BBC NEWS | Business | Video game sales fall in the US - 0 views

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  • Sung Won Kwak on 17 Aug 09
     
    Entertainment.
Shih-Chen Chiu

'Facebook Lite' gets public debut - 0 views

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  • aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
  • Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context-software & applications
  • "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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues- globalization, equality of acces
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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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact- business
  • 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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues people and machines
Rafae Wathra

DLC for Games - 0 views

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    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      basics (gaming consoles are hardware)
  • 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
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social and Ethical issues: this questions the integrity of the gaming companies because they aren't delivering gamers the whole product
  • features of this console generation
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      This is a part of Basics: hardware and software because the console is the hardware and the games are software
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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
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: DLC adds to the entertainment factor in games
  • 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.
Elvira Russ

The Golden Age of Infinite Music - 0 views

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  • Elvira Russ on 30 Nov 09
     
    This article discusses how downloading music lets newer generations enjoy the same music that people did long before they were born. At the same time, this gives the record selling shops a hard time as all the downloaders take away their costumers.
Chalana Perera

Theatre captions in 8 languages (BBC Technology) - 2 views

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  • device which enables theatre goers to read live captions of a performance in eight different languages
  • received over wifi
  • battery life of up to six hours.
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  • LED backlighting
  • screen into a theatre that wouldn't distract the rest of the audience
  • 200 handsets can run simultaneously
  • I can't vouch for the authenticity of the oriental texts
  • process cannot be automated.
  • Chalana Perera on 08 Dec 09
     
    This article, my stimulus, describes how theatres now offer audience members hand held "subtitles" or enclosed "captioning" for live performances which are offered in 8 major languages, that aren't neccesarily being spoken on stage.
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