Dell netbooks with the integrated GPS cards will allow consumers to pop open a netbook and get directions and also also make their netbook location aware. For instance, buyers can geo-tag photos on Flickr or check weather information customized to their current location. The Wireless 700 card combines Broadcom's GPS technology and Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi positioning solutions.
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Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices - CNN.com - 1 views
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soical and ethnical issues: Control; Globalization and cultural diversity
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IT systems in a social context: Applications
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Arts, entertainment, and leisure
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"Smartphones already have GPS capabilities," says Alan Sicher, senior wireless product manager at Dell. "We are now bringing it to netbooks so the devices know where you are and can help you where you want to go.
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People can rely on the navigation devices for traveling purposes.
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Missouri woman charged with cyberbullying | Politics and Law - CNET News - 0 views
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Thrasher is accused of posting a photo of a teenage girl, along with personal information about her, in the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist
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using communicating system to violate privacy
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Rogue pharmacies still a problem for search engines | Health Tech - CNET News - 1 views
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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.
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(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.
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"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."
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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)
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"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."
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unreliable, illegal communication system
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The NABP's own analysis of search results from Google and Yahoo turned up many drug ads from sketchy purveyors.
EU's exploding-iPhone investigation heats up | Crave - CNET - 0 views
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Claims of iPhones exploding have surfaced in Britain and France, with at least one person, a teenager, sustaining an eye injury. In addition, KIRO TV in Seattle has turned up 800 pages of documents from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that include cases of burning or flaming iPods.
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There have been many well-documented cases of laptop batteries bursting into flames, so it's plausible that iPhones could heat up too, given that they use the same (or similar) battery technology.
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I'm on my third iPhone (having upgraded twice), and I've also owned an iPod Touch. I loved them all dearly, largely because they never exploded into flames, burning me and my family alive. Just saying.
Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user - 0 views
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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
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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.
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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."
Facebook privacy lawsuit & child protection - 1 views
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a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."
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SOCIAL --> Control & Privacy/Anonymity
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the minor's medical information may have been stored
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IT SYSTEMS --> Comm. Systems/ SOCIAL --> Privacy & Control
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Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,
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SOCIAL --> Equality
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Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site - 0 views
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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."
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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.
Users file privacy lawsuit against Facebook - 1 views
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violating California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.
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Social ethicial issues: Violating privacy through social networks
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alleges the social-networking site
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charging a site that is represented through the internet(communication system)
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The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13,
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impact-Educational
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Gmail in real-time: Google does the Wave | Webware - CNET - 0 views
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It's a little bit Twitter, a little bit Friendfeed, and a little bit Facebook all in one service
Webware 100 2009 - CNET - 0 views
