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shazad rouf

'Shoot-em-up' helps teens battle cancer - CNN.com - 0 views

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SOCIAL reliability IMPACT health IT SYSTEMS comm sys SEP3-BM4 ITGS

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  • The organization, which focuses on using technology to create positive health outcomes in kids, was recently recognized by U.S. President Barack Obama for its innovative approach to tackling health challenges.
  • "What this game is really built to do is help teenagers be better participants in their own medical care enterprise," said Cole. "It gives them a real opportunity to affect their own health outcomes."
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

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  • 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."
shazad rouf

Fastest solar boat attempts round-the-world challenge - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • The boat can travel at up to 14 knots (26k/m) and would be the first solar-powered boat to travel at such high speeds. It is projected to be able to cross the Atlantic in just two weeks.
shazad rouf

Dell turns netbooks into navigation devices - CNN.com - 1 views

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SOCIAL IT SYSTEMS IMPACT arts ITGS control applications globalization reliability

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  • 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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      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      soical and ethnical issues: Control; Globalization and cultural diversity
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      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context: Applications
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      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      Arts, entertainment, and leisure
  • "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.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      People can rely on the navigation devices for traveling purposes.
shazad rouf

Designing an Internet for kids - CNN.com - 1 views

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  • 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
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      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
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      Areas of impact: Health, Education, Arts, entertainment and leisure
shazad rouf

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

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SOCIAL globalization control reliability IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT arts ITGS

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  • 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.
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      shazad rouf on 25 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact: Arts, entertainment and leisure
  • 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.
  • At the end of 2008, there were an estimated 4 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency. That's about two cell phone subscriptions for every three people.
    • shazad rouf
      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      Social and ethnical issues: Globalization and cultural diversity Now, almost everyone has a cell phone as it is the best way to communicate with others.
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      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      IT systems: Communication systems
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      shazad rouf on 09 Sep 09
       
      IMPACT: Arts
Omkar Naik

Hacking firms one click ahead of law - 0 views

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SOCIAL IT SYSTEMS IMPACT security privacy comm sys int systems politics business

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  • For $US100, the website provided Cioni, then living in northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL email account. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's password. And then the password of another girlfriend and the boyfriend's children.
  • Federal US law prohibited hacking into email, but without further illegal activity it was only a misdemeanour, said Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University.
  • All the services advertise that they will email a screenshot of the target's inbox or even send an email from the target's account as proof that they've cracked the password. The customer then sends payment. One service then responds with the script of a scene from a Shakespeare play, with the stolen password hidden in the copy.
Omkar Naik

BBC NEWS | UK | Small town 'online crime hotspot' - 0 views

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  • Last year, 24% of all internet purchases there were made using stolen credit card details, according to security company The Third Man.
  • Durham Police say investigations are being hampered because people are told to report fraud to their banks first.
  • Shildon, in the DL area, is a former industrial town with a population of 10,000, and police believe that just one or two people may be responsible for the crime wave.
shazad rouf

BBC NEWS | Technology | Video appears in paper magazines - 0 views

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  • The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly.
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      shazad rouf on 23 Aug 09
       
      IT systems in a social context: Applications
  • He likened the technology to the Daily Prophet - a newspaper with moving pictures described in the Harry Potter books.
iman mustafa

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
  • 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.
  • 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."
iman mustafa

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."
  • 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.
iman mustafa

Privacy for palm consumers - 0 views

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  • The discovery was made by software developer and Pre owner Joey Hess, who found that his phone was reporting his location over a secure connection back to Palm. It also sent back information about application crashes - even those not seen by a Pre owner.
  • It added: "Our privacy policy is like many policies in the industry and includes very detailed language about potential scenarios in which we might use a customer's information, all toward a goal of offering a great user experience."
  • The company issued a statement after one owner discovered his phone was sending data every day back to Palm.
iman mustafa

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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      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      social & ethical issues- security, control & authenticity
  • 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.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems- application & communication systems
  • 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.
    • Alex David
      Alex David on 19 Aug 09
       
      Area of Impact- Business & Arts, Entertainment & leisure
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    Bill Thompson says young people's needs from online music may be too complex and transient for the industry to track.
iman mustafa

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

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

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    Google issues an apology after an engineering miscalculation causes a "widespread" outage of its Gmail service.
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online politics reserved for rich - 2 views

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SOCIAL equality of access IT communication systems IMPACT politics and government SEP6-BM3

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    Online civic engagement remains in the hands of richer, better educated Americans, a US study finds.
iman mustafa

BBC NEWS | Technology | Smart sensors power interaction - 0 views

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    A range of novel ideas in human-computer interaction has been demonstrated a conference this week in Cambridge.
shazad rouf

Free parking for all? Smart parking meters hacked - CNN.com - 0 views

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security SOCIAL IMPACT politics

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  • San Francisco launched a $35-million pilot project in 2003 to deploy smart meters around the city in an effort to thwart thieves, including parking control officers who were skimming money from the meters.
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      shazad rouf on 23 Aug 09
       
      social and ethnical issues: security (positive)
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