Both groups are hoping to win the right to sell .eco "top-level domain names", which are similar to .com or .uk.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Green domain sparks war of words - 0 views
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Social & Ethical Issues- control & intellectual property
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Big Room also would like to see companies use .eco sites to publish all of their green information.
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IT Systems- Communication systems
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Big Room, which is endorsed by WWF International and Green Cross, also plans to generate money from the sale of .eco domain names to fund "sustainability projects".
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Areas of Impact- Environment & business
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Hackers hit Twitter and Facebook - 0 views
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in January this year Twitter announced that 33 accounts had been hacked, including those belonging to US President Barack Obama and singer Britney Spears.
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Social & Ethical issues- security , privacy& anonymity
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Denial-of-service (DOS) attacks take various forms but often involve a company's servers being flooded with data in an effort to disable them.
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II Systems- Communication Systems
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Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
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Areas of impact- "Politics & government" & "Arts, Entertainment & Leisure"
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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
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social & ethical issues- security, control & authenticity
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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.
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IT systems- application & communication systems
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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.
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Area of Impact- Business & Arts, Entertainment & leisure
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