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YooJin Jung

Venezuela plans law to ban violent videogames - 0 views

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  • YooJin Jung on 02 Sep 09
     
    Venezuela plans law to ban violent videogames
Bhumika Regmi

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Spot kicks - 0 views

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SOCIAL integrity IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT business arts

shared by Bhumika Regmi on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Music is everywhere online, but mostly subject to one huge caveat - it costs. Those who don't pay tend to steal it using one of the numerous unofficial file-sharing download sites.
Farah Alam

Slashdot IT Story | Hackers (Or Pen-Testers) Hit Credit Unions With Malware On CD - 0 views

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  • The discs have been showing up at credit unions around the country recently, a throwback to the days when viruses and Trojans were distributed via floppy disk.
  • the infected CDs
  • rather than an actual attack.
iman mustafa

Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user - 0 views

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ITGS SOCIAL Control IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT buisness and employment

shared by iman mustafa on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET New
  • A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.
  • Kelly declined to speculate on who was behind the attack, but he said: "You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet."
Sanchit Jain

Castle 'rebuilt' in virtual world-TOURS OFFERED! - 0 views

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  • The 1740 virtual castle was cloned and then torn down to leave it looking like today's ruin.
  • Second Life is the best-known virtual world on the internet.
  • People are shown as digital versions of themselves, known as avatars, who can build homes and businesses, buy and sell land and have relationships.
iman mustafa

Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site - 0 views

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ITGS SOCIAL integrity IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT politics

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  • The e-mail message says: "If You dont like Obama come here, you can help to ddos his site with your installs."
  • It's not clear whether the software does turn the computer into a DoS attacking zombie, or what it does, if anything. But it would be crazy to expose your computer like that, regardless of your political leanings.
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.
Chalana Perera

Controlling editing on Wikipedia Pages - 0 views

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  • site will require that revisions to pages about living people and some organisations be approved by an editor.
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      Social : security, control, reliability
  • The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: communication (internet)
  • If a page has a number of controversial edits or is repeatedly vandalised, editors can lock a page, so that it cannot be edited by everyone.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • The two-month trial,
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 30 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact : politics&government
ajay tambay

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

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  • 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.
iman mustafa

Privacy for palm consumers - 0 views

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ITGS SOCIAL privacy IT communication systems IMPACT buisness and employment

shared by iman mustafa on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.
  • It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."
  • The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.
Farah Alam

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.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact- health
  • Laurie thinks the future will see a class divide between those who can afford the latest technology and those who can't.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      social and ethical issue- equality of access.
  • Among the futures envisaged is a world where human consciousness can be uploaded onto storage devices to live inside virtual environments.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      It systems in a social context-applications
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