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ajay tambay

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

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    education impact on undergraduates
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams - 0 views

  • The teachers also think the nature of the questions make it harder to cheat in exams
  • the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations.
  • they can use the internet to answer any of the four questions.
Sheila Trudgett

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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    Possible Portfolio piece.
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.
    • shazad rouf
       
      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
       
      Areas of impact: Health, Education, Arts, entertainment and leisure
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.
    • ajay tambay
       
      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 .
    • ajay tambay
       
      Impact - Business, education
ajay tambay

BBC - dot.life: Teenage hackers: Making a better world - 0 views

  • Around 70 teenagers had gathered for this weekend event which is the brainchild of Rewired State - an organisation thinking of clever ways to free up public data.
    • ajay tambay
       
      Social - Equality , Globalization
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
  • different groups as they spread themselves across the third floor of the Googleplex, taking advantage of the free wi-fi - and food - laid on by the search company.
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  • One group was seeking a way to scrape bus timetable information from the Transport For London website
    • ajay tambay
       
      IT Systems - comm sys (internet)
  • they mingled, discussed software, the rights and wrongs of file-sharing, how to get free access to Spotify's premium music streaming service - and how they'd found out about the event through a friend or some enthusiastic teacher
    • ajay tambay
       
      Impact - education
  • Sunday afternoon, they presented their ideas to a panel of government officials and web luminaries. Among the winners was that group trying to free up London bus data - TFHell won the "Most Likely to be Bought By Google" award. One of the judges, Ben Hammersley of Wired UK, said he "found the standard of the work produced by 15-18-year-olds in many cases infinitely superior to that produced by government professionals."
    • ajay tambay
       
      Impact - Business
ajay tambay

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

  • battling swine flu
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      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
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE - PEOPLE (AWARENESS) , POLICY (SPREAD INFORMATION VIA GAME)
  • The game is played online
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      IT SYSTEMS (COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS)
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  • "Its purpose is simply to create another avenue of information."
    • Sarwat Khan
       
      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.
Maliha Rahman

Users file privacy lawsuit against Facebook - 1 views

  • violating California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.
    • Maliha Rahman
       
      Social ethicial issues: Violating privacy through social networks
  • alleges the social-networking site
    • Maliha Rahman
       
      charging a site that is represented through the internet(communication system)
  • The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13,
    • Maliha Rahman
       
      impact-Educational
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  • Facebook is no stranger to privacy controversy. In July, an investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner suggested Facebook is unconcerned with members' privacy and called on it to do more.
    • Maliha Rahman
       
      Impact- political issues, filling lawsuit can also affect government
Eunice Vincent

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

  • The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      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
       
      social & ethical issues reliability areas of impact education
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    Asia-Pacific\n
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    Asia-Pacific
YooJin Jung

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

  • 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
       
      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
       
      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.
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    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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    Online civic engagement remains in the hands of richer, better educated Americans, a US study finds.
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
Chalana Perera

Microsoft and One Laptop per Child Partner to Deliver Affordable Computing to Students ... - 0 views

  • Microsoft Windows operating system available on OLPC’s low-cost XO laptops for the world’s poorest children
  • The availability of Windows, in addition to Linux, on the XO laptop will allow customers to have an expanded choice of operating environments that best fit their requirements.
  • Transforming education is a fundamental goal of Microsoft Unlimited Potential, our ambitious effort to bring sustained social and economic opportunity to people who currently don’t enjoy the benefits of technology
Elvira Russ

Caught in a phishing trap - 0 views

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    Rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Educate customers or lose them. This article discusses the impact phishing especially has on companies.
Chalana Perera

Stimulus: Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay - 0 views

  • The total figure represents less than 5% of the country's education budget.
  • Linux operating
  • particularly those in rural areas, where many still do not have internet access
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  • some teachers have chosen not to include computer-related work in their lesson plans
  • last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers
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