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Madeline Brownstone

Flames with names? That is the online question | online, world, real - Home - The Orang... - 2 views

www.ocregister.com/...online-257567-world-real.html

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 14 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Brownstone on 14 Aug 10
     
    "Last week, one of the world's most successful online gaming companies, Blizzard Entertainment of Irvine, told its global community of World of Warcraft players that they'd have to use real names in forums. The pushback was severe. The most outraged, as Register writer Ian Hamilton reported, lashed out by publishing online every public item they could find about Blizzard employees and, in some cases, their relatives."
  • Madeline Brownstone on 14 Aug 10
     
    Might be a good lead article to spur classroom debate about anonymity in social networking.
Noreen C

More Than Half of Mobile Apps Not Secure, Report Says - 5 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2369516,00.asp

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shared by Noreen C on 22 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Noreen C on 22 Sep 10
     
    An article about the unsafe nature of many mobile phone applications including commerce and finance related apps. This article allows the reader to see the increasing problem of security holes of these apps and sites like Twitter who were hit with the same problems, such as "cross site scripting."
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  • Noreen C on 22 Sep 10
     
    Security in this day an age has become a major problem. The protection of hardware, software, machines, and networks from unauthorized access is becoming increasingly harder because hackers have gotten smarter in identifying the security holes of these programs. Mobile phone applications are just one of their latest hits. More than half of the applications on mobile phones are considered unsafe and therefore vulnerable to security attacks. Third party codes were even more devastating with a "81 percent failure rate." Commerce and finance related apps did just as poorly, both exceeding just about the half way mark. The process of fixing these security holes has become quicker over, however, not quick enough. It takes sixteen days on average to fix the problems and this is rather long time in a society that can get and bit of information in the palms of their hands in nano seconds. Hackers are also going into other user's profiles, or creating fake profiles in order to spread "cross site scripting." This was recently seen as a problem for Twitter and it's users. Tweets were changed into different colors, and there were unwelcomed pop-ups that would appear to users when they clicked on a Tweet. This would then publish the original script on that user's page without their knowledge, or consent. This is a problem that has taken over mobile apps, resulting in "51 percent of all vulnerabilities." The stakeholders of this issue are mainly the users. However, it is also a problem for the companies who created the application and those who are fixing it when it goes down, if not the creator. In the world of applications on mobile phones, things are expanding quickly and largely. However, with this great expansion, there are downsides when more than half are deemed not secure. Although there are various apps that are safe, our need to have everything in our sight available to us, even the most seemingly useless app, has driven us to put our devices, privacy,security, and
  • Madeline Brownstone on 22 Sep 10
     
    Please go back and "cache" this page.
  • Noreen C on 22 Sep 10
     
    It will not let me, it says I need to upgrade my subscription in order to do so. Also, the last part of the comment is cut off. Here is the continuation: "authenticity at risk. The coolest apps that are so desired, many not be the coolest things on the market these days. Let's not let our wants surpass our judgment of these problems."
  • Madeline Brownstone on 23 Sep 10
     
    Actually, if you click on the link to the article (the one in blue) and bookmark it again (it won't loose your previous work) you can click the Cache box and it will actually cache it. Try it. Normally, you would cache it the first time you bookmark it, but that technique works after the fact.
  • Kim T on 23 Sep 10
     
    In a way, downloading an app or downloading anything in fact is like interviewing a book or finding a reliable source. It's always better to pick from an author or publisher you know about. Usually, more well known companies will release an app and if there are a lot of people complaining about it, then they will fix it. It takes patience and control to wait for a better version to come out so that you know its safe. Additionally, people should take more caution into the apps they are using and what kind of information they are registering in it.
Madeline Brownstone

The Best TED Talks To Make Use Of Social Media - 1 views

www.makeuseof.com/...ted-talks-social-media

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 10 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Brownstone on 10 Sep 10
     
    View these TED Talks
Michael M

Video of purported PlayStation Phone hits Web | The Digital Home - CNET News - 0 views

news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20028038-17.html

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shared by Michael M on 11 Jan 11 - Cached
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  • Michael M on 11 Jan 11
     
    There is supposedly a new telephone that supports the Sony game playing experience coming out, running under the Android OS, found under the website Cnet.com. The main stakeholders here are those who look forward to a gaming telephone, so basically it can run from kids to adults that look for a phone with all this phones capabilities. This development will change the life of gamers who can now take a system that can work as a psp and a phone at the same, and also an mp3 player, picture taker, and other big upgrades to the psp, play station portable. The biggest impact is the development of a new Android phone. This phone combines game play and a cell phone all in one, and the quality of game play is much higher than all phones that have come out so far, which begs questions to be asked, will the phone, which runs under Android, have problems with battery time? Will it be able to have such good game play and be able to function as a fully functional phone, without lag time? If this phone fully functions as a gaming system and a phone, then there will definitely be success to the Android Company, and Sony as well, these two companies will thrive from the money that they will make. Since the phone functions as a computer, its processor is required to be high, especially since it will be playing video games, and the RAM must also be high. The processor and RAM, or random access memory, both define the speed and capability of this cell phone/gaming system. It all comes down to the specs and the scrutiny of the stakeholders, those who will be using this cell phone
  • Michael M on 11 Jan 11
     
    I liked my own work XD
Madeline Brownstone

Privacy is dead on Facebook. Get over it. - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - T... - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...y_and_science-tech_and_gadgets

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 17 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Madeline Brownstone on 17 Dec 10
     
    I wonder how many students at BSGE think the privacy is dead.
Madeline Brownstone

How IBM's Watson Computer Excels at Jeopardy! | Retort - 0 views

blogs.plos.org/...omputer-will-excel-at-jeopardy

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 15 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Madeline Brownstone on 15 Feb 11
     
    Watch Watson on Jeopardy.
Madeline Brownstone

USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future - 0 views

www.digitalcenter.org

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 13 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Madeline Brownstone on 13 Feb 11
     
    This is a warehouse of information on digital communication.
Madeline Brownstone

Select a Laundry Room - 0 views

www.laundryview.com/lvs.php

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shared by Madeline Brownstone on 05 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Madeline Brownstone on 05 Mar 11
     
    Check this out
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