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Elvira Russ

BBC NEWS | Technology | Kids' top searches include 'porn' - 0 views

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SOCIAL control people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • In a statement Symantec's internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, said that with the service, "parents can stay in the loop on what their kids are doing online".
  • "Any of us who have been teenagers are not surprised kids look for information about sex," Ms Merritt told AFP news agency.
  • "It also helps identify 'teachable moments' when parents should be talking with their kids about appropriate online behaviour and other issues in their kids' online lives."
ajay tambay

BBC NEWS | Technology | Battling swine flu in cyberspace - 1 views

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SOCIAL people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT education health ITGS SEP3-BM3

shared by ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • battling swine flu
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      AREA OF IMPACT: HEALTH
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it,"
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE - PEOPLE (AWARENESS) , POLICY (SPREAD INFORMATION VIA GAME)
  • The game is played online
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS (COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS)
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  • "Its purpose is simply to create another avenue of information."
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT: EDUCATION (SPREADING INFORMATION)
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
  • "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
Elvira Russ

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

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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

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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
Rafae Wathra

BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networks - 0 views

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SOCIAL integrity privacy IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "It's invisible to the user but logs everything: communication, users' locations, people's proximity by doing continuous Bluetooth scans."
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      This is a privacy issue (social) because these users don't know that so much information about them is being logged
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      This is also an integrity issue because the companies supplying these products don't tell the users that there is a chip in their phones.
  • Friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report.
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      This relates to communication systems because the phone companies are using communication systems in order to track the social activity of their users
  • but to carry on this "reality mining" in contexts ranging from the modelling of the spread of disease t
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      If gathering mobile data can help track the spread of disease, then its implications in improving the health of the target area (area of impact) have a lot of potential
Rafae Wathra

Twitter tweets are 40% 'babble' - 0 views

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IT SYSTEMS comm sys SOCIAL privacy IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble."
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social: Privacy This shows how little privacy that Twitter users have sinced they are being judged by complete strangers based on how they tweet (who came to the conclusion that its a lot of pointless babble)
  • In total it grabbed 2,000 messages and then put each message it grabbed into one of six categories; news, spam, self-promotion, pointless babble, conversational and those with pass-along value
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      IT systems: Communication System This shows how Twitter is used as a communication system and what people communicate with it
  • This belief, it said, was driven by the growing number of firms starting to use Twitter as a tool to drum up sales.
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Impact: Business This is an example of a way by which large businesses use technology to increase sales
YooJin Jung

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google books deal battle heats up - 0 views

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  • The date for comments to the New York court overseeing the class action suit was extended from Friday to Tuesday, after the filing system went down. As time ticks away, supporters and critics have been manning both sides of the debate to win the public case.
    • Andrew Beadle
      Andrew Beadle on 04 Sep 09
       
      SOCIAL: Policies- This article deals with policy between google and authors in sharing literary information.
  • digitise the world's books and create a vast online library
    • Andrew Beadle
      Andrew Beadle on 04 Sep 09
       
      IMPACT: Arts, Education: By digitising out of print literature, Google will open up the accessabilty of the literature to everybody, which will have a boost on education. IT SYSTEMS: Int System This is an intellectual system that will hold online information accessible to anyone.
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    The battle between critics and supporters of Google's effort to create the world's largest virtual library intensifies.
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online politics reserved for rich - 2 views

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SOCIAL equality of access IT communication systems IMPACT politics and government SEP6-BM3

shared by iman mustafa on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    Online civic engagement remains in the hands of richer, better educated Americans, a US study finds.
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Engineer error knocks out Gmail - 0 views

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SOCIAL policies and standards IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT education SEP6-BM4

shared by iman mustafa on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    Google issues an apology after an engineering miscalculation causes a "widespread" outage of its Gmail service.
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