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Shih-Chen Chiu

Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com - 0 views

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SOCIAL reliability security privacy authenticity IT SYSTEMS int systems IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Shih-Chen Chiu on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
  • Some analysts say that within five years, mobile phones in the United States will be able to make electronic payments, open doors, access subways, clip coupons and possibly act as another form of identification.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social& ethical issue -people and machines ITsystems in a social context -Applications -Integrated Systems Areas of impact -Business & employment -Scoence & the enviornment
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  • And technology that turns phones into credit cards and IDs poses several potential problems.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 23 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues -security -authenticity -integrity -control
  • In the late 1990s and early 2000s, banks and cell phone makers started conducting trials with U.S. customers. Limited groups of people were given the ability to scan their phones to make payments, enter stadiums and access public transit.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact -business & employment
  • If phones replace wallets, would-be thieves will see every person walking down the street talking on his or her phone as a target for robbery, said Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues -security
  • Eye scans and fingerprints would make phone IDs and payments more secure, Brown said. The ID technology might work like a corporate security badge, which pulls up personal information when scanned.
    • Shih-Chen Chiu
      Shih-Chen Chiu on 27 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues -reliability -security -integrity -privacy IT systems in a social context hardware integrated systems
Maliha Rahman

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

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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.
Elvira Russ

EU's exploding-iPhone investigation heats up | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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SOCIAL people control IT SYSTEMS health science ITGS

shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Farah Alam

BBC NEWS | Technology | Where tech and philosophy collide - 0 views

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shared by Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "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
Maliha Rahman

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech 'has changed foreign policy' - 0 views

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shared by Maliha Rahman on 23 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "Massive changes in technology have allowed the possibility of people linking up around the world,"
    • Maliha Rahman
      Maliha Rahman on 23 Aug 09
       
      Communicating system
Maliha Rahman

Response to adolescent "sexting" (ars technica) Criterion A - 2 views

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SOCIAL reliability privacy control IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health education business arts politics ITGS

shared by Maliha Rahman on 13 Sep 09 - Cached
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    This site has the article that i would be writing my portfolio about. Basically it talks about the different consequences and issues that arise due to sexting amongst teenagers.
shazad rouf

Market slumps for $3,000 luxury cell phones - CNN.com - 0 views

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IMPACT business SOCIAL IT SYSTEMS comm sys SEP3-BM45 globalization ITGS

shared by shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Got a few grand to spare for a $3,000 phone? Yeah, we didn't think so. Nobody does -- and that's a problem for the makers of luxury phones, such as Motorola, Bang & Olufson, LG and Vertu.
  • Motorola has already gotten the memo. Earlier this week, the company reportedly canceled the Ivory E18, a device tentatively priced around $3,000. The phone had met with lack of interest from telecom carriers. Motorola declined to comment.
  • But Nuovo isn't convinced. "Take watches and cars," he says. "They all run the same but everyone has a unique way of delivering them stylistically. We can do the same with phones."
Chalana Perera

BBC News | Sci/Tech | Search engine seeks billion URLs - 0 views

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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.
Eunice Vincent

NewsBank Popular Periodicals: Document Display - 0 views

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shared by Eunice Vincent on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • the  global   positioning   system  (GPS), a constellation of satellites that can pinpoint your location within 10 meters or even less anywhere on the planet.
  • GPS guides U.S. troops and military
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 10 Sep 09
       
      GPS was used by only the army when it was first invented. today it's open to the general public
  • Radio broadcasts from the satellites include the signals' precise time,
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  • high-tech weapons in Iraq
    • Eunice Vincent
      Eunice Vincent on 10 Sep 09
       
      Technology that was once used for serious matters are now being used by Palm to keep track of it's users.
Chalana Perera

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Search engines swamped - 1 views

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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
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