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Farah Alam

BBC NEWS | Business | Africa's mobile banking revolution - 0 views

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shared by Farah Alam on 18 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Millions of Africans are using mobile phones to pay bills, move cash and buy basic everyday items.
  • Setting up a bank account on your phone is straightforward. All you do is register with an approved agent, provide your phone, along with an ID card, and then deposit some cash onto your account.
Sanchit Jain

Castle 'rebuilt' in virtual world-TOURS OFFERED! - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8159755.stm

SOCIAL authenticity IT SYSTEMS applications int systems IMPACT arts business ITGS

shared by Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • The 1740 virtual castle was cloned and then torn down to leave it looking like today's ruin.
  • Second Life is the best-known virtual world on the internet.
  • People are shown as digital versions of themselves, known as avatars, who can build homes and businesses, buy and sell land and have relationships.
ajay tambay

Shocker: Windows 7 to sell in UK for half the US price! - 0 views

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SOCIAL people IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT business

shared by ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • In the UK, full versions of Windows 7 Home Premium -- not an upgrade edition -- are going to cost around £65. That's less than the price the Yanks have to pay just for an upgrade version -- $120 (£72) -- and half what they'll have to cough up for a full version -- $200 (£122).
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social - People
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT systems - Applications
  • Anyway: good news, everyone! For once, we can sit back and watch Americans shafting Americans, instead of us. Over pricing, that is. Is this the end of rip-off Britain, or a glorious one-off? Sadly, we suspect the latter, but let us know what you think in the comments.
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09
       
      Impact - Business
Joe Chiverton

Vide game futures - 0 views

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SOCIAL authenticity equality globalization people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT arts business

shared by Joe Chiverton on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • • Games are getting larger, which meant longer development time and larger staff costs.
Risa Yokoi

Facebook makes people jealous! - 0 views

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SOCIAL people privacy integrity IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Risa Yokoi on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • the issues Facebook had created in their romantic relationships,"
  • a good-looking stranger
  • You don't know your partner's history with this person or the nature of their relationship,
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  • Feelings of insecurity, which would otherwise be easily quashed when the relationship is explained in person, become more frequent and more intense online
  • world's first divorce by Facebook
  • The more time you spend on the social networking site, the more likely you are to feel jealous
ajay tambay

Forecasting Malicious Internet Attacks - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...23998

SOCIAL security IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT business education ITGS

shared by ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • cyberspace is dominated by it
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT Systems - Internet
  • Today, computer scientists outline a new way of predicting the next attack so that you can block it in advance.
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09
       
      Social - Security
  • Last year, computer scientists began exploring a potentially more effective approach: predicting the sites most likely to attack and blocking them in advance. The technique, called highly predictive blacklisting, uses data from past attacks to create a network-type graph out of the pattern of links between victims .
    • ajay tambay
      ajay tambay on 19 Aug 09
       
      Impact - Business, education
Sarwat Khan

BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | MP is named Labour 'Twitter tsar' - 0 views

LABOUR USING TWITTER FOR NEXT ELECTION.

SOCIAL policies people comm sys IMPACT politics ITGS

shared by Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • Labour MP Kerry McCarthy has been given the job of improving the party's use of social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook ahead of the next election.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      AREAS OF IMPACT : POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, PEOPLE
  • She will train MPs and candidates in the best use of the internet.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS : COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
  • Rather than being something completely new, campaigning using new media is simply doing what we've always done in a new setting - and rather than replacing traditional ways of doing things, it is about making traditional campaigning methods even more effective."
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE: POLICY, PEOPLE
Sarwat Khan

BBC NEWS | Technology | Judge bans Microsoft Word sales - 0 views

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SOCIAL Intellectual IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT business ITGS

shared by Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m (£175m) for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      AREA OF IMPACT : LAW AND BUSINESS
  • XML, a mark-up language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS: APPLICATIONS
  • Microsoft's word-processor Word.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      IT SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
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  • I4i filed a patent in 1998 that outlined a means for "manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other" invoking XML as a means allowing users to format text documents.
    • Sarwat Khan
      Sarwat Khan on 19 Aug 09
       
      SOCIAL ISSUE : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
Farah Alam

Research shows that gamers are less healthy in many ways than non gamers - 1 views

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IMPACT health IT SYSTEMS applications SOCIAL people

shared by Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • A team from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found gamers were less healthy, fatter, and more depressed than non-gamers.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      This is where it shows that games impacts health of many people.
    • Farah Alam
      Farah Alam on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact- health
  • "Health risk factors, specifically a higher BMI and a larger number of poor mental-health days, differentiated adult video-game players from non gamers," he said.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      The specific issues of health that is impacted.
  • Female video-game players reported greater depression and lower health status than female non-players, while male gamers reported a higher BMI and a greater reliance on the internet than non-gamers.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Talking about the different people that are shown as examples.
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  • The team from CDC examined people's perception of their mood, personality, health status, physical and mental health, body mass index (BMI) and quality of life.
  • A UK survey from 2002, conducted by the Leisure Software Publishers Association, found the average gamer was aged between 25 and 34.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Applications, games are involved and the surey was conducted by the Leisure Software Publishers.
Rafae Wathra

DLC for Games - 0 views

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IT SYSTEMS basics SOCIAL integrity IMPACT arts business ITGS

shared by Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      basics (gaming consoles are hardware)
  • We look at patches as little more than an excuse for developers to ship a half-finished game and have us beta test it.
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social and Ethical issues: this questions the integrity of the gaming companies because they aren't delivering gamers the whole product
  • features of this console generation
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      This is a part of Basics: hardware and software because the console is the hardware and the games are software
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  • The idea of downloading additional things into your game after release was supposed to be something that extended the lives of games and made them better over time
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: DLC adds to the entertainment factor in games
  • Xbox owners of the same game however have only received maybe half of that content and have had to pay for it in $5 packs.
Sanchit Jain

Pirate Party launches UK poll bid - 1 views

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SOCIAL intellectual IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT arts politics ITGS

shared by Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • non-commercial internet file-sharing
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Social and Ethical Impact: Intellectual property
  • peer-to-peer networking
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      IT Systems in a Social Context: Software Applications Communications Systems --downloading illegally off other people through the internet
  • future government policy,
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: -Government
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  • entertainment industry
    • Sanchit Jain
      Sanchit Jain on 17 Aug 09
       
      Areas of Impact: Entertainment
Sanchit Jain

DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated - 0 views

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

SOCIAL authenticity control IT SYSTEMS basics IMPACT science politics ITGS

shared by Sanchit Jain on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • 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.
Elvira Russ

BBC NEWS | Technology | Kids' top searches include 'porn' - 0 views

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SOCIAL control people IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Elvira Russ on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • In a statement Symantec's internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, said that with the service, "parents can stay in the loop on what their kids are doing online".
  • "Any of us who have been teenagers are not surprised kids look for information about sex," Ms Merritt told AFP news agency.
  • "It also helps identify 'teachable moments' when parents should be talking with their kids about appropriate online behaviour and other issues in their kids' online lives."
Rafae Wathra

BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile data show friend networks - 0 views

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SOCIAL integrity privacy IT SYSTEMS comm sys IMPACT health ITGS

shared by Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "It's invisible to the user but logs everything: communication, users' locations, people's proximity by doing continuous Bluetooth scans."
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      This is a privacy issue (social) because these users don't know that so much information about them is being logged
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      This is also an integrity issue because the companies supplying these products don't tell the users that there is a chip in their phones.
  • Friendships can be inferred with 95% accuracy from call records and the proximity of users, says a new report.
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      This relates to communication systems because the phone companies are using communication systems in order to track the social activity of their users
  • but to carry on this "reality mining" in contexts ranging from the modelling of the spread of disease t
    • Rafae Wathra
      Rafae Wathra on 19 Aug 09
       
      If gathering mobile data can help track the spread of disease, then its implications in improving the health of the target area (area of impact) have a lot of potential
anonymous

Israeli website was hacked and pictures of wounded Palestinians - 0 views

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SOCIAL privacy security IMPACT politics IT SYSTEMS int systems

shared by anonymous on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Attackers on the official Kadima website posted images of wounded Palestinians and the aftermath of suicide bombings in Israel.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Internet system because it involves hacking into a website
  • According to AP news agency, the hacked web page was signed Gaza Hacker Team.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Secutiry and privacy, this shows that those things were violated.
  • Kadima, a centrist political party that favours a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, is the largest party in the Israeli parliament. It was unable to form a government, and is currently in opposition.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Aug 09
       
      Shows policital issues between the two states and how they have technology helps create more effects.
YooJin Jung

TomTom for iPhone 3G and 3GS: Satisfied-nav - Recombu :: read > compare > buy - 0 views

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ITGS IT SYSTEMS applications IMPACT business SOCIAL reliability

shared by YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Today TomTom released its iPhone 3G and 3GS app that offers sat-nav goodness without the clunky looking sat-nav.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      it systems-applications
  • t costs £60, which isn't that expensive when you consider how much you would pay for a standalone sat-nav, and takes eight minutes to download.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      areas of impact-business
  • The app boasts turn-by-turn navigation, automatic re-routing, safety camera info, 2D and 3D viewing modes and points of interest
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-reliability
Joe Chiverton

Credit and Debit cards stolen worth 130m - 0 views

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SOCIAL security privacy people IT SYSTEMS comm sys business ITGS

shared by Joe Chiverton on 19 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Mr Gonzalez, who had once been an informant for the US Secret Service helping to track hackers, is already in custody on separate charges of hacking into the computer systems of a national restaurant chain and eight major retailers, including TJ Maxx, involving the theft of data related to 40 million credit cards.
    • Joe Chiverton
      Joe Chiverton on 19 Aug 09
       
      This is why i put Social issues as security. As he used to work for the government trying to find hackers, therefore knowing how everything works.
YooJin Jung

Facebook must satisfy Canada's privacy commissioner by Monday - 0 views

www.canada.com/...story.html

SOCIAL privacy IT SYSTEMS comm sys ITGS IMPACT politics

shared by YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • "serious privacy gaps."
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
  • o take the California-based company to Federal Court in Ottawa to try and get a court order requiring it to change its business practices to comply with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the country's private-sector privacy law.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09
       
      area of impact-politics&government
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      area of impact-politics&government
  • Facebook users must consent to share all their personal information, except their contact details.
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 17 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
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  • "serious privacy gaps."
    • YooJin Jung
      YooJin Jung on 19 Aug 09
       
      socialðnical issue-privacy&annonymity
  • he social-networking website
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