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Maliha Rahman

Facebook ignores paedophile reports (Network world) - 0 views

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    This website talks about the different complaints that came onto facebook right after the whole issue. there are also comments by the police officers, and how they think this issue has been sort of ignored by FB. Basically an overview of how this issue impacted the society and in what ways. 
Maliha Rahman

Panic Button Sparks Rise In Facebook Reports (Classic FM) - 1 views

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    This website discusses the panic button issue on facebook and how it impacted the society and also includes a bunch of quotes on what some of the stakeholders thought of the incident and their opinions. 
Chalana Perera

OLPC's Netbook Impact on Laptop PC Industry - OLPC News - 1 views

  • 1. Windows XP would have been discontinued in 2007 or 2008 as was Microsoft's original plan
  • 2. The Windows XP licence for netbooks was lowered to $30 per device
  • 3. Netbooks are selling at a rate of 35 million units per year and represent more than 30% of the notebook market and this share is increasing.
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  • 4. Intel's profits shrank 90% between Q4 2007 and Q4 2008
  • OLPC is going to make the PC/Laptop industry realize that there is an alternative to X86 for full sized keyboard/screen computing.
  • prices and market trends obviously do matter for the education aspect of the OLPC project
ajay tambay

Google Books Settlement Update (Rutgers University online newsletter) - 1 views

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    education impact on undergraduates
Rafae Wathra

The Internet Age (Information Today) - 1 views

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    Article about the impact of the internet on traditional media services
anonymous

SPAM - The Issues, Impact and Reducing SPAM (Part 1) - 0 views

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    This article describes the "spam" as a problem. Talks about issues created by spam, such as unwanted email, critical email messages missed, billions of dollars lost world wide, etc. Also talks about tracking down spam users.
YooJin Jung

Online news: the future's networked | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    criterion C; area of impact presents benefits and advantages of free news
Chalana Perera

Strategic Impact of Cyber Attacks (IRL Estonia) - 0 views

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    This article discusses the Russian cyber-attacks on Estonia and how it affected the country and what the country did to "Counter-attack" and prevent further attacks. It features several different opinions on cyber-attacks.
Chalana Perera

US plans for cyber attacks (News24) - 1 views

  • disabled US cell phone networks, slowed internet traffic to a crawl and crippled America's power grid
  • stealth cyber attack and a pair of bombings, cutting electricity to tens of millions of homes.
  • has the authority to use the full powers at his disposal
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    This article discusses the simulated cyber "shockwave" exercise that was carried out in Washington DC as to practice in preparation for predicted cyber-attacks against the US. It looks at the impacts on power systems, politics and the use of military intervention.
Chalana Perera

Cyber-attack Trends in US Corporations - Statistics (Biz Forum) - 1 views

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    This document gives an in-depth analysis into the impacts on US Corporations and non-government businesses/private firms and contractors. It includes many statistics and reviews as well as collected data from a variety of sources.
Chalana Perera

(H) Security experts say Google cyber-attack was routine (BBC) - 0 views

  • hackers got very limited information
  • phishing
  • Once an e-mail account is compromised, attackers can piggyback on it to get access to confidential files and systems throughout an organisation.
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    This article discusses some minor impacts on a few stakeholders but goes well into detail about the IT features and explains the technology and methods involved in cyber-attacks.
Chalana Perera

Experts work to untangle cyber attacks (MSNBC) - 0 views

  • zombie’ computers
  • hackers may have simply used zombie computers
  • digital battlefield
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  • 100,000 zombie computers linked together in a network known as a "botnet."
  • basic hack job
  • blizzard of digital requests
  • federal government is still very vulnerable in terms of its cyber security and that agencies have miles to go to plug the holes.
  • intrusion problem."
  • fast-spreading e-mail worm from 2004 called "MyDoom
  • malware also appears to contain a destructive Trojan designed
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    This article discusses the US ad South Korean research into suspected cyber attacks from North Korea on private and govt websites in the two countries. It discusses the programs used, the impacts and effects and how the attack takes place from one computer, creates a network through botnets and installs malware into thousands of computers which then send repeated requests, simultaneously to the same website, attacking it.
shazad rouf

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

  • 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.
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      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.
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      Areas of impact: Health, Education, Arts, entertainment and leisure
shazad rouf

Online career matchmaker helps MBAs land jobs - CNN.com - 0 views

  • "Even though the economy is not as bad as it used to be, we are still seeing a good uptake. Our traffic is still going strong," Larizadeh says.
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      areas of impact: business and employment
  • Four years and a round of venture capital funding later, what started as a hobby designed to help friends share career information has turned into a network with approximately 600,000 members.
    • shazad rouf
       
      social and ethnic issues: security
  • Schools like The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business have formed partnerships with Doostang that enable their students to access the network's premium job listings for free.
    • shazad rouf
       
      IT systems in a social sytem: Communication system
Jeewon Yoon

BBC NEWS | Technology | MySpace to acquire music service - 0 views

  • MySpace will acquire the popular music discovery service iLike that allows users listen to and share music across social networks.
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      Social Authenticity Impact Art
  • The company has 55 million registered users and has been prominent on most social networks apart from MySpace
    • Jeewon Yoon
       
      IT system Basic
anonymous

US Gov. 2.3 gegapixel camera - 0 views

  • it also means that people can be illuminated without being aware of it.
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      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.
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      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
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      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.
Sarwat Khan

BBC NEWS | Technology | Judge bans Microsoft Word sales - 0 views

  • A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i.
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      AREA OF IMPACT : LAW AND BUSINESS
  • XML, a mark-up language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      IT SYSTEMS: APPLICATIONS
  • Microsoft's word-processor Word.
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      IT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
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  • I4i filed a patent in 1998 that outlined a means for "manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other" invoking XML as a means allowing users to format text documents.
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
ajay tambay

Forecasting Malicious Internet Attacks - 0 views

  • cyberspace is dominated by it
    • ajay tambay
       
      IT Systems - Internet
  • Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it in advance.
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      Social - Security
  • Last year, computer scientists began exploring a potentially more effective approach: predicting the sites most likely to attack and blocking them in advance. The technique, called highly predictive blacklisting, uses data from past attacks to create a network-type graph out of the pattern of links between victims .
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      Impact - Business, education
Sung Won Kwak

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

  • 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
       
      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
       
      it systems-Basics:hardware
    • YooJin Jung
       
      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
       
      it systems-basics:software
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