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iman mustafa

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

news.bbc.co.uk/...8232971.stm

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

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  • iman mustafa on 06 Sep 09
     
    Google issues an apology after an engineering miscalculation causes a "widespread" outage of its Gmail service.
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.
Jeff Ratliff

Google threatens to leave China (Independent) - 2 views

www.independent.co.uk/...rin-engine-driver-1869546.html

SOCIAL globalization equality IT SYSTEMS int systems comm sys IMPACT politics ITGS

shared by Jeff Ratliff on 29 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Jeff Ratliff on 29 Jan 10
     
    "Last month, Google discovered that it had been the subject of a sophisticated attack on its computer systems, carried out by hackers in search of private data from more than 30 internet companies. Among the targets were the accounts of Chinese human rights activists; experts claimed the hack could be traced to the Chinese government or its proxies. In response, Google announced on Tuesday that it would stop censoring results on Google.cn - the Chinese version of its search engine - or, should Beijing oppose the move, cease operating in China altogether. "
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.
Chalana Perera

Internet Time and the Reliability of Search Engines | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

www.educause.edu/...153271

ITGS PP int systems reliability equality applications

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • earch engines are unreliable tools for data collection for research that aims to reconstruct the historical record.
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
Elvira Russ

Authors sue Google over copyright - Times Online - 1 views

business.timesonline.co.uk/...article569145.ece

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  • Elvira Russ on 12 Jan 10
     
    An organisation of more than 8,000 authors has accused Google of "massive copyright infringement," claiming that the internet search engine does not have permission to put its books in the public domain for commercial. This article includes comments from Google and which libraries have agreed. Discusses the issue thoroughly.
Jeff Ratliff

Cyberchondria - audio - 2 views

www.onthemedia.org/...144387

SOCIAL people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS science

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  • Jeff Ratliff on 15 Nov 09
     
    Web Sickness November 13, 2009 Cyberchondria refers to the practice of using Internet search engines to wrongly diagnose oneself with serious illnesses. Carolyn Butler, columnist for The Washington Post, talks about how cyberchondria came to be and she discusses her own bout with the dread disease.
Maliha Rahman

Rogue pharmacies still a problem for search engines | Health Tech - CNET News - 1 views

news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10303655-247.html

SOCIAL reliability integrity IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The study, conducted by LegitScript, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn, an Internet compliance company, found that 90 percent of the reviewed Internet pharmacy advertisements were from fake or illegal Internet pharmacies.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      (IT systems: communication system): the idea that 90% of the pharmacies advertising online through the internet are fake and illegal , and is providing people with a unreliable communication system.
  • "We were able to purchase potentially addictive drugs without a prescription or any age verification via Bing.com ads," LegitScript President John Horton told CNET News. "We also received counterfeit medication. Microsoft profits from these illegal ads, which put Internet users at risk."
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      fake unreliable advertisements selling addictive drugs without a prescription and giving out incorrect information in order to get money. (can cause serious health issues and creating an unreliable communicating environment)
  • "the Internet has become a haven for drug seekers and abusers, particularly (regarding) controlled substances. It is a much more serious and dangerous phase of the Internet."
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      unreliable, illegal communication system
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  • Microsoft disputes LegitScript's claim that 90 percent of the sponsored Internet pharmacy ads on Bing are fake or illegal, adding that it is working to weed out the rogue advertisers that do slip through. The company uses an Internet pharmacy verification service called PharmacyChecker--a competitor of LegitScript--to ensure that its sponsored prescription drug advertisements are legitimate.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      (social, integrity)getting fake internet pharmacy verification lacks intregity. in this case selling unprescribed drugs that can cause serious health issues heavy concequences
  • The authors took a closer look at 10 of the 69 online drugstores. None of the 10 required a valid prescription. Orders were placed with two of them. Of the two drugs received, both were tested and one was found to be counterfeit.
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 19 Aug 09
       
      (Impact, Health) People all over the world are using unreliable sites and purchasing counterfeit drugs which is highly risky to one's health and can badly affect a person.
  • Maliha Rahman on 27 Aug 09
     
    The NABP's own analysis of search results from Google and Yahoo turned up many drug ads from sketchy purveyors.
Sanchit Jain

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...18dna.html

SOCIAL authenticity control IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT science politics ITGS

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  • they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      there is no individuality, aynbody can be "created".SOCIAL
  • You can just engineer a crime scene,”
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      Science and the Environment, Politics and Government IMPACT
  • A potential invasion of personal privacy is another.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      Control, Policies and Standards, Integrity SOCIAL
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  • stored in law enforcement databases as a series of numbers and letters corresponding to variations at 13 spots in a person’s genome.
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: basic hardware, used in the process to create DNA
  • Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09
     
    they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.
Chalana Perera

BBC NEWS | Technology | Search users 'stop at page three' - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...4900742.stm

ITGS PP applications reliability people

shared by Chalana Perera on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results,
  • good results should have "good pages, text rich content, and good links pointing to you".
Rafae Wathra

Business Models for News, Ebook Fever, and Search Engines Top the News (Information Today) - 0 views

docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:PPCT &rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=12D553B9008F47B0&svc_dat= InfoWeb:newcat&req_dat=B4CD8BC1A80B43D794A5481B6FC40219

Portfolio2 CriterionC SOCIAL Intellectual IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT business

shared by Rafae Wathra on 08 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Rafae Wathra on 08 Feb 10
     
    About how news companies are searching for different models and the effects of paywalls.
laila-hass

Smart Dust - Computerworld - 2 views

www.computerworld.com/...Smart_Dust

sensors IMPACT ITGS 1.7_surveillance 2.3_data_logging 2.3_satellite_comm 1.3_privacy_anonymity

shared by laila-hass on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Smart dust" devices are tiny wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from light to vibrations. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon and fabrication techniques, these "motes" could eventually be the size of a grain of sand, though each would contain sensors, computing circuits, bidirectional wireless communications technology and a power supply. Motes would gather scads of data, run computations and communicate that information using two-way band radio between motes at distances approaching 1,000 feet.
  • The goal for researchers is to get these chips down to 1mm on a side. Current motes are about 5mm, says Kristofer Pister, professor of electrical engineering at UC Berkeley, who's been working with smart dust since 1997.
  • The cost of motes has been dropping steadily. Prices range from $50 to $100 each today, and Pister anticipates that they will fall to $1 within five years.
  • laila-hass on 01 Jun 11
     
    "Smart dust" devices are tiny wireless microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that can detect everything from light to vibrations."
  • Nigel Robinson on 06 Jun 11
     
    This is a great article and the smart dust devices have the potential to impact of so many industries and sectors of society. Thanks for sharing.
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