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Elizabeth Gan

Teachers live in fear of cyberbully pupils - 0 views

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    This article discusses how cyberbullying is not limited to strictly school children, or students rather teachers are also victims of cyberbullying. As students create social network hate groups, secretly film or photograph their teachers, and post embarassing moments online. identities of the victims are stolen, and then are used for either harassment, or illegal activity online. Though Facebook has mentioned that they will remove any content regarding teachers if reported, it brings to light a new issue. If laws need to address how we conduct ourselves online, should we compromise our freedom of speech (any jurisdiction that has constituted it) because the content is online?
Allison Jones

Three Chinese internet activists jailed for posting material on the internet - 1 views

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    A woman who believed her daughter died after being gang-raped by thugs associated with police, was supported in her efforts for justice by internet activists who posted allegedly "slanderous" material on the Internet. Rather than naming those who had allegedly been slandered, the court argued that the slander affected the state. Bloggers reported from the courthouse and spread messages via Twitter in support of the accused.
Tom Champion

Improving Corporate Governance: A Memo to the Board - 0 views

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    The chairman of Vanguard believes corporate directors are doing a much better job than they get credit for in terms of governance but offers suggestions for improvement. Brennan believes it is crucial to take an active role in governance, to see yourself in a framework and communicate freely. It remains to be seen whether the 'attitudinal shift' that has been observed over the past 2 decades will continue to become a norm, of it is merely keeping up with the Jones's.
Sandra Rivera

Firefox, Chrome, Safari have finally killed Internet Explorer - 0 views

  • IE dropped below 60% — 59.79% to be precise. 59.79% sounds like a lot, but you need to remember that IE comes pre-installed on most computers sold in the world.
  • So, a great percentage of that 40.21% who doesn’t use explorer are people who had to actively do something (see: download another browser and install it) to give IE the boot.
  • It will be hard for IE to get that market share back. The trend is not looking good. Even if the other browsers magically started declining, IE has another problem: the mobile world.
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  • I have only ever met one person in my life with a Windows Mobile phone, and they hated using it.
  • We did it for the browser, and it was quite a challenge. We did it with hard work, advocacy, sweat. We did it for the browser… and we can do the same for the desktop world as a whole.
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    No, I don't agree that Internet Explorer is dead. However, there has been a significant progress in the adoption of alternative browsers, which is a healthy way to avoid a monopoly in browsers, which are the gate to internet for end users.  The decline in the use of IE thanks to the participation of open source browsers is acknowledged here. 
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