Facebook apologized and promised to improve it's privacy control for its users, by making it more impler and more coherence for users to understand and further to take the control back.
Almost everyone has an online identity in several different sites, in ordering to make our life "easier" we can now do lots of things from the internet. but how safe is this realm? Our online identity may be easily stolen than what we expected.
We've talked about the ip address in first half of the semeseter, IPv6 summit meeting at 19, May pointed out the essential need for IPv6 and the possible issue afterwards.
It is a trend after launched of ipad in US, more than 100 local pubclishers have signed up to supply ebooks to ebook store which opereates the Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson book chains.
"Most of the available e-books will be free, out-of-copyright titles, according to Redgroup managing director Dave Fenlon." when things like this happen how do we draw a line between those with copyright and those without?
Before it was google book and now with the popularity of ipad and all the other ebook devices rised the ebook piracy issue. Now with almost the same format, ePub downloading and file sharing become easier.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, is depicited as an borderline autistic conniver in the up coming black comdedy about Facebook. Just added another drama to Facebook currently facing piracy crisis.
he Kindle still has its own platform and file format for e-books, but most of the big e-reader players, including Apple, have now adopted the ePub format.
that claims that "book piracy costs the industry nearly $3 billion, or over 10 percent of total revenue." Most people think that figure is very inflated, but the point is there are some big numbers involved and they only stand to get bigger as powerful e-readers like the iPad become more prevalent and tempt people to acquire content without paying for it because, well, too many of them have become used to it.
The popularity of ipad has raised book piracy issue. Since dowloading books is relatively fast than downloading a movie or a song, publishers are seriously facing a problem of online piracy.
Google has mistakenly collect private unsecured Wi-Fi payload data from their street view car that was meant to collect mapping data. It may be hard for google to earn back our trust after this event.
Word of mouth has always played an important role in finding the best dentist, knowing where to find the best place to fix your car, or knowing what's going on in your neighbourhood," said Matrix. "But now, word of mouth has become word of web."
If you aren't on e-mail or Facebook or one of the other sites, your five-year-old isn't getting invited to a birthday party," said Samuel. "And that's no fun for anybody.
After the class last night, I kept having a thoght that maybe our whole society structure is changing bcuase of the internet, the accessibility to the Internet. Money, education, perhaps are the main critaria to structure the society anymore.
The convention, which provides a standard framework for investigating and prosecuting crimes such as fraud, hacking, child pornography and copyright infringement across national borders, has been adopted by more than 45 countries including the US, Canada and Japan.
new laws will be needed in relation to facilitating international co-operation
Australian government is planning to accedeto the concil of Europe's Convention on Cybercrim, to further govern online content. several opinons appeared, one is saying that "age-appropriate" filtering is more effective than compelling ISPs to provide access to stored electronic communications for foreign law enforcement pruposes.
graduated-response" antipiracy laws, joining South Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand as the only nations to attack illegal downloading through a government-mandated system of warnings and penalties.
Australiam Government may take some actions to prevent online piracy, now with the iinet case is still on going, AFACT urges the government to do something to stop repeat copyright theft in cyber world.
With China, in the five usage areas: research, communications, commerce, publishing and mobility, China is at the top of each and every one.
ln the short term, when it comes to credibility the internet can get it all wrong."But in the long term, as more voices weigh in then over time the right direction is found, the facts are outed and the falsehoods are outed.