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Eunice Vincent

Nations May Reuse More Electronics Than Thought - 0 views

www.greenercomputing.com/...reuse-more-electronics-thought

SOCIAL globalization equality IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "At least 85 percent of discarded computers imported to Peru are reused, as opposed to going directly to recycling. [... Thus,] the image of the trade in e-waste as mainly being about dumping unusable junk is, at least for Peru, inaccurate."
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social: Globalization
  • "highly dynamic flow [that] reuses and recycles almost every part and material found in a computer,"
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 31 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: basics
  • that it is possible to stop the environmentally damaging practices without diluting or eliminating informal dismantling and collection. This informal reuse and recycling sector is valuable for generating employment in the country and in making computing technology more accessible to low-income families and small businesses, the paper contends.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 31 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT: business, science&the environment
Chalana Perera

Exploiting Browser Information & Privacy - 0 views

privacy.org/003108.html

SOCIAL reliability integrity control privacy security IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business politics science ITGS

shared by Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • easy it was to exploit security loopholes
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      Easy exploitation leads to a lot of negative consequences and areas of impact include all sorts of education online, banking and financial reserves, businesses and mainstream market affairs, governmental and nongovernmental work and damage to personal information and biological/health data. This also harms intellectual property and ideas can be stolen online far easier than usual... reliability & security....
  • redirect traffic
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      Redirecting internet connection or regular user traffic could lead to a backlog of information on the web and a loss of personal details and this again as huge areas of impact including security, reliability and extended impact on finances and personal details & anonymity....this also affects systems in the social context with networks being hacked and codes and enscriptions being changed..
  • access and steal any information exchanged
    • Chalana Perera
      Chalana Perera on 18 Aug 09
       
      Stealing information can also connect to software and the usage/creation tools of software and other application....communication systems are also greatly affected such as wire tapping systems
Elvira Russ

BBC NEWS | Technology | A life recorded in bits and bytes - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8206971.stm

SOCIAL People Control IMPACT Science Health ITGS

shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
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  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
  • includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned.
    • Bhumika Regmi
      Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09
       
      The plan is that one can include all of their information on to the programme like Gordon Bell. If the system is to fail or have some sort of error, one's privacy as well as security is at stake.
  • in the future we may all be able to offload our own memory into a comprehensive e-memory.
    • Bhumika Regmi
      Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09
       
      Applications
  • Bell, a principle researcher at Microsoft Research, has now written a book about how
    • Bhumika Regmi
      Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09
       
      education
  • "You basically have a great sense of freedom, because you are able to offload your bio-memory, and just commit all of the facts to an e-memory."
  • He said that the time is right for people to take e-memories seriously.
  • "I wouldn't have said this 20 years ago because of the difficulty and the cost to do it. The opportunity now is: it doesn't cost anything to do this."
  • For Mr Bell the benefit of his experiment is simple: it makes him feel better.
  • "I have a reasonably complicated life - so I wanted to find out just how many bits were coming and going, and how to deal with it."
  • His life is kept in a database for a project called MyLifeBits.
  • Elvira Russ on 21 Aug 09
     
    Gordon Bell has digitised his entire life, from shopping receipts to phone calls.
Eunice Vincent

BBC NEWS | Technology | Sony to back open e-book format - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8201093.stm

SOCIAL equality IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business education ITGS SEP3-BM3

shared by Eunice Vincent on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context-software & application
  • 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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact-science and the environment
  • 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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues-intellectual properties
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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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      Areas of impact business
  • "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
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues reliability areas of impact education
  • Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
     
    Asia-Pacific\n
  • Shih-Chen Chiu on 19 Aug 09
     
    Asia-Pacific
shazad rouf

Fastest solar boat attempts round-the-world challenge - CNN.com - 0 views

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

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  • The boat can travel at up to 14 knots (26k/m) and would be the first solar-powered boat to travel at such high speeds. It is projected to be able to cross the Atlantic in just two weeks.
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart sensors power interaction - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8235712.stm

SOCIAL control reliability IT SYSTEMS knowledge of technology IMPACT science and environment SEP6-BM2

shared by iman mustafa on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    A range of novel ideas in human-computer interaction has been demonstrated a conference this week in Cambridge.
Chalana Perera

BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...410251.stm

ITGS PP health int systems equality

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But size is not everything and while alltheweb seemed lightning fast when I tried it, it did not appear to match the relevancy of a much smaller search engine now
  • find more of these highly rated gems and place them on the first or second page of search results, resulting in a better and more satisfying search experience."
  • the result of more than a decade of research into optimising search algorithms and architectures in a project initiated at the
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  • storage subsystems, operating in parallel to distribute user queries, search the catalogue and spider the Web.
Jeff Ratliff

Academic Earth: Online Courses & Video Lectures - 2 views

academicearth.org

education lectures SOCIAL globalization people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business ITGS health arts science politics

shared by Jeff Ratliff on 26 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Jeff Ratliff on 26 Sep 09
     
    Scholars from leading universities lecture.
Chalana Perera

BBC - Radio 4 - The Material World 24/10/2002 - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...hematerialworld_20021024.shtml

ITGS PP search engines applications int systems globalization

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • nternet search engine. But the front pages of such sites as Google, Yahoo and Altavista are hiding hugely complex and refined systems for cataloguing and analysing millions of web pages
  • cheat the engines to come top of the search rankings.
  • find out how they were invented, how they work, and what the future holds for the programs that effectively control our access to the web.
Chalana Perera

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Search engines swamped - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...1544122.stm

ITGS PP globalization reliability security int systems

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Internet users have been turning en masse to search engines for information, following the unprecedented terrorist attacks
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