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Stephanie Grey

Manufacturer of World-Class Diesel Component - 1 views

I am happy that I was able to avail of Central Diesel's services and product. They were able to provide me with high-quality diesel generator. One good thing about them is that their highly skilled...

started by Stephanie Grey on 03 Dec 12 no follow-up yet
Felipp Crawly

Amazing Customer Service - 1 views

I would like to thank Onward Process Solutions for greatly helping me with my need for assistance in a Customer service outsourcing project. They provided me with 24/7 phone/ email answering serv...

started by Felipp Crawly on 31 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
Karen M

Ease of use more important than price - 0 views

shared by Karen M on 15 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Cellphones, smartphones and other mobile devices
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      These are the IT systems that are going to be discussed in this article.
  • small business owners attach a high value to the benefits of staying in touch with clients and colleagues at all times, wherever they are,
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      These are the benefits of using smartphones. However, the Social and Ethical Issue may be "Equality of Access" because it is possible that not everybody could afford one of these phones.
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      This also shows us the Area of Impact, "Business and Employment." Business people are the ones who use the phones in order to stay connected with their clients.
  • Dependable, easy-to-use and high-quality mobile solutions pay for themselves quickly by enabling small businesses to be more responsive, efficient and productive, and allowing them to do more with fewer resources.”
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      This is a description of the IT systems.
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  • ‘Maintenance’ and ‘Reliability’
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      These elements need to be worked on in order to make these phones even better.
  • business benefits of being in touch with clients and other business stakeholders are perhaps even more important than they are for their larger competitors.
    • Karen M
       
      This explains the benefits for the people who are being affected by these smartphones.
sarah d

Technologies - Cell-phone college classes face hurdles - 0 views

  • campus technology officials expect most college course material soon will be accessible on mobile devices
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      This relates to teh area of impact, education. If courses can be taken via cell phones, education will be very different.
  • courses via cell phone
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      This phrase tells us that cell phones are the IT system being discussed in this article.
Jaymee C

Solar start-up squeezes more juice from silicon cells | Green Tech - CNET News - 0 views

  • says it can produce a very efficient solar cell from silicon which will be in the market in two years.
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      Area of Impact: Buisness and Employment. This is because something is being advertised.
  • The Lexington, Mass.-based company on Monday plans to disclose the details of its Self-Aligned Cell (SAC) architecture, a set of technologies it has developed to convert 18 percent of sunlight to electricity with polysilicon, the most common solar cell material.
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      this may be good for the enviroment in the sense that there could be less batteries to be disposed of.
  • silicon solar cells
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      IT system= cell phones
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  • But the efficiency rating for the majority of commercially available silicon solar cells is in the 15 percent range. Panels using cells made from alternative materials, such as a combination of copper, indium, gallium, and selenide (CIGS), are lower efficiency--about 9 percent or 10 percent--but are cheaper to produce.
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      Social and Ethical Issuse: Reliablitiy. this is because if a product isn't efficient how can we trust it to be reliable?
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    This about the production of a silicon cell phone.
Kristin O

Law or no, it's simple: Don't text and drive - OregonLive.com - 0 views

  • In the first place, you'd think you wouldn't need a law, that simple common sense would be enough to tell us it's unsafe to divert attention to a tiny keyboard and screen while simultaneously piloting 2 tons of metal, rubber, glass and, let us not forget, flesh
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      he is trying to understand why people still text while they are driving when they know its dangerous
Madeline Brownstone

BBC NEWS | Technology | Who is responsible in the cloud? - 0 views

  • The Center for Democracy & Technology
  • Global Online Freedom Act (passed by a US Senate committee, but currently floating in legislative limbo), could actually become law.
helen g

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Healing hearts by remote control - 5 views

shared by helen g on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • "Technically speaking, in terms of disease treatment, the doctor has to touch the patient only when he has to operate.
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      S/E Issue- Reliability Telemedicine allows a doctor to diagnose patients through a television screen by viewing the problem and listening to the patients and local doctors speak about their problem. A question of reliability comes up; to what extent can telemedicine be an accurate way for diagnosing patients?
  • "And if I don't need to operate, I don't need to touch the patient. If I don't need to touch the patient, I don't need to be there. I can be anywhere."
  • Telemedicine began here two years ago, with the realisation that most of India's specialist doctors live in a small number of large cities - but also, that most of the time, diseases do not actually require surgery.
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      IT system- Telemedicine
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      In Bangalore India, doctors have been using telemedicine to connect to parts of rural India. Telemedicine is being used to diagnose patients and give advice as to how to deal with certain medical conditions. Many poor and illiterate people living in rural areas rely on telemedicine. Is this really as reliable?
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    Very old article: I wonder what is going on now. It's hoped that from this start in Bangalore, telemedicine will grow and grow - a spectacular way of overcoming distance and time in tackling severe medical problems.
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    Very old article: I wonder what is going on now. It's hoped that from this start in Bangalore, telemedicine will grow and grow - a spectacular way of overcoming distance and time in tackling severe medical problems.
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    Very old article: I wonder what is going on now. It's hoped that from this start in Bangalore, telemedicine will grow and grow - a spectacular way of overcoming distance and time in tackling severe medical problems.
Lenny H

Citizens Around the Country Consider Banning Traffic Cameras - 0 views

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    "Petition drives are under way in six cities with the goal of offering local residents the opportunity to vote in the next election on whether automated ticketing should continue or not."
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    This article on the banning of traffic cameras meets all of the requirements for ITGS because the article introduces and establishes/expands on the ideas found on the ITGS Triangle. Various Social and Ethical issues are established by the protest currently occurring with the protest to get red of these "robot cops". One of the Social and Ethical issues introduces is Policies. The government currently enforces the policies that allow the use of these traffic cameras on highways and on many of the streets in our communities/societies today. These policies restrict drivers from ever attempting to cross a red light or do thing that may be inappropriate when driving. With these policies, traffic cameras are allowed to take pictures of drivers and their license plate if committing a crime. States like Maryland a protesting against these policies and laws enforced by the government. This article also introduces stakeholders, which are the people driving in their cars, and the government that enforces the practice of these cameras. These Cameras are also the IT system that the article introduces. This article including or referencing an IT system is the single most important aspect of the article. If this article did not introduce the importance of an IT system it would not be reliable to analyze for the ITGS triangle.
Madeline Brownstone

India in talks with BlackBerry maker for access to corporate email service | Technology... - 1 views

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    This article Talks about Research in motion, the company of blackberry in talks with India about the services that the phones provide
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    This article meets the standards of ITGS. From assessing this article through strand 1 we see that their are a number social and ethical conditions to be considered in this story. Security is a major issue here, RIM's encryption is so secure that not even powerful governments can't crack. This brings up the issue of security because countries like India are worried that this secure network can be abused by the terrorists. This brings up the issue of the digital divide and equality of access. This issue is brought up because India was threatening to disrupt Blackberry access because India did not have access to some features that blackberry users from other countries have. This leads to another problem, Reliability and integrity. Since RIM's network is the most secure network that even the most powerful governments can't crack, because of this many Corporations use Blackberry, RIM fears that if they(RIM) allow governments get a little more access, they will lose their reliability of their majority steak holders. This brings up the number of steak holders, the steak holders are RIM. their customers, India, and other middle eastern countries who are threatening to cut off service due to inequality of access. The IT systems that are mentioned are cellphones, and RIM's network. The applications that apply to the article are Business and employment, and governments control and use of information.
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    Nick originally posted this article, but did not cache it.
Madeline Brownstone

Facebook fraud a 'major issue' | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 6 views

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    People's face book accounts are being hacked by others alarming all the users about their security.
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    This article meets the requirements for ITGS. This article talked about how face book accounts were being hacked by others and not just for the fun of it but fraud has arisen from this. One hacker signed onto a students account telling her friends that "she was "stranded" in another country"(Halliday), and needed large amounts of money. The stakeholders in this case are all 500 million users of face book, because they may be at risk of getting hacked. Social and ethical issues that have come up due to the hackings are Surveillance, Security, and people and machines. I think surveillance is definitely one because now that the owners or the ones in charge of facebook are aware of the issue, they will set up programs that will detect any unusual activity from the users. People will be informed where their account is being accessed from and if there is any suspicious activity. Security was definitely an issue because now hackers are using the identities of others to obtain what they want. People and machines is another social ethical issue. While the owner of an account might not be at risk physically, or at risk at all, the person friends may be. They would be attacked by asking them to give money, obtain secret information about the user, or simply cyber bullied. If anything this probably ties into business, although its not legal business, but there is one person making money.
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    Please go back and "cache" this page.
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    I agree with you on the issue of security and problems with hackers in this day and age. However, there is something that you may not have thought about. What happens when people create fake Facebook accounts in the name of other people? They have the power to not only use someone else's identity, and enter their friends group, but also create much damage for the person. It is harder to hack a person's account than to just create an account with anyone's desired name. It's a scary thing to know that there many be another Carmen in the world, that looks exactly like you, even taking up your likes/dislikes, and doing everything as if they were you, when it is clearly not. That is an entirely new issue of privacy, and authenticity. An email, user ID, and picture of you is all they need. Anything is possible, whether it's hacking, people not hiring or accepting you into their college because of your Facebook, or having someone take your identity. The internet isn't so safe anymore now is it?
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    This is really Carmen's bookmark. I inadvertently took control of it. Sorry, but I was trying to see if I could cache. It worked, but I ended up owning it. Ooops!
nicholas n

TOPIC: Net Neutrality-Issues of censorship or equality of access and the digital divide - 20 views

On Mohammad post I learned how the people in Iran used Twitter in the Election of the President to bring information out to the rest of the world and organize rallies within the country. This is an...

Madeline Brownstone

Twitter is Everything but a Social Network - 3 views

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    this article talks about twitter being more then just a social network, it is turning into a hub for people to share more important information such as spread of a news event, new discovery and gathering people's opinions on a large scale.
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    Ram originally posted this article but did not cache it.
Lenny H

Barack Obama and the Facebook Election - 0 views

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    This article describes the election of the 2008 election for President. Obama's election will go down as symbolic and inspiring victory for coming generations. A large amount of Obama's victory was due to the youth vote. With the rising of facebook and social networking Obama's ground swell support came from this generation of people on facebook and using social networks. He attempted to interact with American voters via online social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. Obama teamed up with Chris Hughes, a facebook co-founder in order to podcast and mobile messaging. Obama is a natural Facebook politician. On his personal Facebook profile-which featured his "Our Moment Is Now" motto-Obama named his favorite musicians as Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Dylan and listed his pastimes as basketball, writing, and "loafing w/kids" (note the hip shorthand aimed at appealing to young voters). The 72-year-old John McCain, by contrast, never managed to connect on Facebook. He gave one of his pastimes as "fishing" and listed Letters From Iwo Jima among his favorite movies. McCain even got "punked" by a Facebook prankster who posted a phony policy announcement right on McCain's online profile: "Dear supporters, today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage ... particularly marriage between two passionate females."
Ram Bhadra

tweet - 0 views

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    this is a tweet i read on ny times tweeter page.....
Omar Alvarez

Digital divide or digital development? The Internet in Mexico - 0 views

    • Omar Alvarez
       
      This article talks about the Digital Divide in Mexico
  • overty and an underdeveloped telecommunications infrastructure are significant barriers to Internet usage for millions of Mexicans (Chen and Wellman, 2003). Data collected by consulting firm Select Mexico (2004) show a wide class disparity in Internet access. The analysis divides Mexico’s populace into three income classes. The bottom third consists of about 73 percent Mexicans: mostly students, housewives, and employees of small businesses. Select found only about 17 percent of this group was Internet users. By contrast, they found that 46 percent of the upper class category is Internet users (about 13 percent of the population).
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