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How Egypt pulled its Internet plug - Computerworld - 3 views

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    Sue Describe BGP. How does the BGP affect ISPs? Feb 4
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     Describe BGP - BGP is the border gateway protocol, the protocol at the core of the internet's routing mechanism. BGP performs interdomain routing in Transmission-Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networks. BGP is an exterior gateway protocol (EGP), which means that it performs routing between multiple autonomous systems or domains and exchanges routing and reachability information with other BGP systems. - Control the pathways  How does the BGP affect ISPs? - BGP glues all ISPs and their large customers together to form the Internet. Besides traditional routing, BGP also supports routing for new IP services such as Multiprotocol Label Switching Virtual Private Network (MPLS VPN). - Without BGP information provided by Egyptian networks, the rest of the world has no way to connect with the country's ISPs or its Web sites. Nor do its citizens have a way to reach sites or services beyond its boundaries. - "The Egyptian government has instructed the ISPs whether state owned or sate licensed, to withdraw their BGP announcements that tell other routers how to reach those ISPs" -
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Egypt, Internet access: Egyptian government restores Internet service - latimes.com - 6 views

  • bring down Egyptian government websites
  • Welcome back to the Internet, #Egypt. Well, except http://www.moiegypt.gov.eg — you stay down,"
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    Wooh How might the internet be useful for the Egyptian citizens? What does it mean "bring down Egyptian websites"? Feb 4
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    1. How might the internet be useful for the Egyptian citizens? Egyptian citizens, especially for the protesters, have organized the initial protests against the government online, through social media such as Facebook groups. The restored Internet would allow them to use to do so again and other citizens are now back to their computers and can have regular socialization online. A main ways of communication with the outside world as well as with themselves, Internet would allow the citizens to join together through websites on the internet to create groups that support what they think is best for them. In this case, they want a reelection from their current leader. 2. What does it mean "bring down Egyptian websites"? "Bring down Egyptian websites" means to stop access to those Egyptian websites through means such as having a DoS attack on the website. Also hackers can hack into the website and destroy the coding and content of the website and thus "bring down" the websites. Bringing down Egyptian websites can also mean that they are blocking all access to Egypt because there wouldn't be any portal into Egypt if all the Egyptian websites are brought down.
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Apple iPad 2 vs. Motorola Xoom - 2 views

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    Who's the winner in your opinion and why? be sure to read page 2 march 3 cream
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    In my opinion it would be Ipad, but that's only if you're too intense about the aesthetics of Apple's iPad. I am sure that many people are obsessed with the look and how famous Apple products are. Even though Motorola Xoom seems to be better. i know how good Motorola Xoom is base on the rear end camera and the wider screen. But, new Ipad is out now! There is camera too which much better design. I believe that new Ipod would get develop much more.
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Why Did Newspapers Take So Long to Copy Groupon? - BusinessWeek - 3 views

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    brief analysis Make sure to describe major terms, like groupon and livingsocial. march 7 woo
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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, E-commerce 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Online Newspaper companies, newspaper subscribers 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Globalization 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. - Groupon: a deal-of-the-day website that is localized to major geographic markets worldwide. Launched in November 2008, the first market for Groupon was Chicago. - LivingSocial: an international social buying company based in Washington, D.C. They specialize in daily deals offered in cities across the United States, as well as in Canada, Europe and Australia. - TimeLiimited: is a service just like Groupon, which emails its readers on special offers for travel and living terms The New York Times newspapers are going to start using the internet, and connection of the companies to its subscribers for a fee to their advantage, even though there is a slim chance now. It is the spread of public communication of news, the latest trends, and discounts to events and merchandise while connecting directly to personal communication means of its subscribers (through their e-mails). 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Straightforward copying Groupon is not the answer for the success online. The New York times might be able to have a chance against Groupon and LivingSocial, but these two big groups have already topped the business of connecting companies with deals to its customers and subscribers for a fee. The companies should be able to manage connection between merchants and their customers. The New York Times would have to come up with special deals that appeal to users, such as a subscription discount, so on, and so forth to grab customers' attention from Goupon and LivingSocial to the New York Time's TimesLimited. The process involves sending people e-mail offers and discounts from companies and service providers, then charging a fee for
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Judge Hands Over IP Logs of Several Geohot Sites to Sony - 4 views

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    brief analysis march 11 nat
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    Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Sony, Geohot, users of PS3, users of Geohot, twitter, youtube, Google 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Privacy and anonymity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. IP address : An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is usually a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Sources : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address iOS : iOS is Apple's mobile operating system. It was originally developed for the iPhone, and it has extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV. Geohot : George Hotz, known for working with other people to unlock the iPhone, allowing the phone to be used with other wireless carriers. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). There is no possible solution because even if Sony gets hold of all IP addresses, there will be alternate ways for users to still access GeoHot's websites and videos. Moreover, the US justice system shouldn't give rights to companies to access personal information, because it is basically invading peoples' privacy.
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Libya turns off the Internet and the Massacres begin | ZDNet - 3 views

  • Now, though, realizing that they could no longer hide their abuses from a world a Twitter tweet away, the new model autocracies, such as Libya and Bahrain have realized that they need to cut their Internet links before bringing out the guns.
  • As in Bahrain, Libya’s Internet is essentially owned and controlled by the government through a telecommunication company Libya Telecom & Technology
  • Mobile phone services in Libya are also under the control of the government. So far though the government doesn’t seem to have cut international phone services off-perhaps because that’s harder to do without cutting off local telephone service.
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  • “Should Libya block Internet traffic, as Egypt did, it will not affect http://bit.ly or any .ly domain.”
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    Brief analysis march 1 natsuno
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    Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Politics and government Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Libyan government, Libyan citizens, Libyan telecommunication company (Libya Telcom & Technology) 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Surveillance 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Internet : a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange Bit.ly : URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address. Top level domain : A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). It is hard to suggest a solution basically because it is the government's decision to shut down the internet. Therefore the only way to solve this issue is to discourage dictatorship in Libya. Main reason for the shut down of the internet was the cooperation of Libya Telecom & Technology which is owned by the dictator's son.
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Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter - NYTimes.com - 7 views

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    Go to each link in the article and describe it. march 3 Nat
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    Facebook : It is the world's largest social network site, which was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It has become a very developed source on the internet, where users can like, share, comment on something without leaving the web page that they were at. There are approximately 500 million users worldwide. Twitter : Twitter is a social networking site that was started up by a group of 10 people called Obvious, and it has become popular for its simplicity of "micro-blogging" where a twitterer or tweeter sends short messages called tweets, within 140 characters, and are shared with people that follow you, and to the public. Pew Research Center- It is a research center for the people and the press, and it is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues. Huffington post : Huffington post is a news website that began in 2005, and it has become the most heavily visited news web sites in the country. BlogHer : is a group blog, online community, and refers to an annual blogging conference for woman.  Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins founded BlogHer in 2005 in response to the question, "Where are all the women bloggers?" Tumblr : Tumblr was founded in 2007 by David Krap, and it is a social networking site that allows user to post text, images, videos ,links, quotes and audio, which can be reblogged by other users who follow your blog. Google : Google was founded in 1998, and is known as the world's most popular internet search engine. Google hosts and develops a number of internet-based services and products,and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program, which has helped them earn huge profits for their company. LiveJournal : LiveJournal is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or a diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was desig
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Bangkok Post : Cloud services open up business opportunities - 1 views

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    What does cloud computing deal with? Describe each of the characteristics cloud services must have. Explain horizontal and vertical services. Define each layer of services. Explain the infrastructure capability terms. Why is bandwidth important? march 17 cream
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    What does cloud computing deal with? Cloud computing deals with all the technology and support for the infrastructure of the cloud such as networking, database, storage, and management applications. Describe each of the characteristics cloud services must have. Fshared services (with standard framework and shared application programming interface (API)) - these services can be shared in order for all users to have access to them. Fstandard user interface - Web browsers to have access to the cloud services. Fself-service - Users must help themselves by self service when it comes to doing cloud services since actions are carried over the computer, not from human to human. Fservice metering - The Charge of the usage of the cloud services. Faccess over the internet - The medium of having access to the internet, as well as other places over the internet. Explain horizontal and vertical services. Horizontal Services - cloud applications, cloud storage, cloud servers, and cloud collaboration. These horizontal services are the services that are spread around horizontally as the infrastructure, and the base of the cloud service. It provides the technology and memory for clouds for example. Vertical Services - government services, cloud entertainment, cloud publishing and online ad networks, cloud healthcare, and cloud telecommunications. These vertical services are basically what we use the cloud services for, which field they are in, and how they are used. Define each layer of services. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - This is a service usually from outsourcing done by an organization so that the actual infrastructure to hold the storage, hardware, and other components are stored elsewhere. Why is bandwidth important? Internet bandwidth will drive the popularity of cloud services in the country, as businesses and consumers will demand more services as bandwidth increases. Speedy network reliability is needed for "megabit-per-second" services.
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    1.5 Intellectual property 2.5 Home and leisure 3.3 Networks 3.4 Internet 3.7 Databases
anonymous

Congressmen, Facebook go back and forth over personal data sharing - 3 views

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    brief analysis march 7 kuni
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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. The area of impact is that personal information about people using a site such as Facebook is being made available to businesses. Even with the safeguards and agreements put in place to stop spammers there have already been cases of misuse of information. This is particularly worrying if personal information about children and young people is being made available. 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholders are the person who uses the Facebook, and they are having the businesses by the games and the system on making money from them. They use the work on creating the privacy issues 3. Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. The ITGS social/ethical concern is that there are problem on the information that can be shared on the third parties, which will have problem on the privacy issues where you could get stolen your information. 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. App- Protocols seen by user programs, such as email and the web API- is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software, similar to the way a user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers. ... 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Facebook have strict policy on collection regarding the companies collecting information from users as well as a harsher punishment instead of just a 6 month suspension. The change of policies should be notified to every users and the team should ask for the agreement of general users.
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Google accuses China of interfering with Gmail email system | Technology | The Guardian - 4 views

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    What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? Describe LinkedIn. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? What are the 7 International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles? Explain the major criticism of this system (International...)? Explain "self-censorship is a non-negotiable legal requirement". Explain "China's political elite have a love hate relationship with the internet". march 25 woo
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    1. What evidence does Google present for Chinese government censorship? Google says that Chinese customers and advertisers have increasingly been complaining about their Gmail service in the past month. Attempts by users to send messages, mark messages as unread and use other services have generated problems for Gmail customers. Google shows potential signs that the Chinese government is increasing their censorship by revealing that Gmail's e-mailing system features have been disrupted for Gmail users as well as other Gmail interfaces such as sending e-mails. Google also reveals that the users who filed in these complaints are mostly potential threats to the Chinese government such as the activist accounts also with financial, technology, media and chemical companies users' accounts. Thus, even though there is no concrete evidence, there are signs that are most likely to be linked to the Chinese government. 2. How does this impact the Jasmine revolution? The move follows extensive attempts by the Chinese authorities to crack down on the Jasmine revolution, an online dissident movement inspired by events in the Middle East. The censorship was supposed to prevent people from getting too much information but instead, this can provoke people to go against the government since people are aware that they have been treated unfairly. 3. Describe LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site. LinkedIn operates the world's largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories. The purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people they know and trust in business. The people in the list are called Connections. Users can invite anyone to become a connection. 4. Why was LinkedIn disrupted? LinkedIn is business-social networking and Chinese can use this site as the means of evoking opposition against the government. China's president Hu Jint
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Facebook Questions defers to the crowd - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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    Would you find this app useful? march 31
anonymous

BBC News - TalkTalk offers centralised website blocking - 2 views

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    Describe talktalk. What is new about talktalk's way of blocking sites? Explain 3 possible problems with the system. may 17 nat
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BBC News - Americans face piracy website blocking - 2 views

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    If passed, it would "accelerate" the net down a path that could lead to governments everywhere sanitising online content so citizens only get what those in power think they should see... What does this mean? may 19 nat
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    This means that once the bill passes, the government will have control, and block any sites that they think people should not see, and this quote is saying that the people will only be able to see what the government approves of, leaving them with no freedom on the internet.
anonymous

How Google Chromebook Will Feel for Music Fans | Epicenter | Wired.com - 2 views

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    What are the problems with doing everything on the cloud? may 19 az
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    Doing everything on the cloud is efficient in a way that we can work on from anywhere anytime as long as we have internet connection. However, when we don't have good internet connection, there is nothing we can do since everything we have done is stored on the cloud. . Internet data storing plans might also be an obstacle while operating on the cloud because the costs increase as more data is wanted to be stored on the cloud. Moreover, The cloud is not invincible to attacks so your data is not 100% safe. Having a backup saved on a physical hard drive is a must, cause you can't rely too much in the cloud (look what happen to Amazon and Sony).
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Crime Map Beta - Trulia - 9 views

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    What is the value of this? all sept 29 Jang
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    The crime map is a site that shows the amount of crimes committed in an area. The map gives specific information about what kind crime was committed, the location and time of the crime. The site also gives data of places that crimes do not happen frequently. This crime map website can be really useful for avoiding crime scenes and being aware of crimes that are happening in your neighborhood. If you want to move to a new place you can look at the crime map to see if your new neighborhood is safe and crime free. This site is still on beta and only have information on few states in America. I think a lot of people would use this site if it have data for all the countries in the world. However keeping up with new information everyday would be very hard because there are so many crimes happening all over the world and the site would need to be updated every few minutes.
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Ellison brandishes 'speed of thought' Exalytics appliance * The Register - 4 views

  • "To deliver data analytics at the speed of thought – faster than you can type – you have to change the interface because it moves so fast," Ellison bragged. "Before you finish asking a question, it can guess and give you the answer."
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    What does 'speed of thought' mean? only Azman and Avik October 4
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iFakeProof - 0 views

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BBC News - Facebook works with Websense to add phishing safety net - 12 views

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    brief all oct 10 nat
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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Home, business 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Facebook, Websesnse, Facebook users, Malicious web developers 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Reliability 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. URL: llows all resources on the internet to be located in a uniform manner. A URL is a website address that has all the pertinent information for finding the exact location attached to it. (E.g.WWW.facebook.com) Database-driven: Web pages that store information in their database. Phishing: Tricking Internet users into providing personal data for malicious or fraudulent use.
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Amazon Malfunction Raises Doubts About Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Describe the two issues that came up from the technical problems that interrupted computer services provided by Amazon. Why is the cloud model gaining popularity? List the problems that companies reported. april 28 az
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    1) Describe the two issues that came up from the technical problems that interrupted computer services provided by Amazon. One of the issues is that Amazon need to reconsider the contracts that cover cloud services such as how much to pay for backup and recovery services, including paying extra for data centers in different locations. The reason for this is because small businesses are less apt to pay for extensive backup and recovery services. The second issue would be many companies are relying too much on remote computers that are beyond their control. So they need to reconsider that also. The technical problem that interrupted computer services provided by Amazon told its customers and users that there may be a reliability problem with Amazon's service in online computing in the cloud. Companies and businesses operation network now revolves a lot around these remote network systems, so this also affects how companies will reconsider their use of exporting their files and data as opposed to keeping them within the company walls. 2) Why is the cloud model gaining popularity? Because owning a data center is high maintenance and therefore expensive. By using the cloud model, companies are avoiding the costs and headaches of running their own data centers. They just simply tap in, over the Web, to computer processing and storage without owning the actual machines or operating software. Businesses can also save their time by outsourcing to the cloud to save having to keep track of running their own data centers. 3) List the problems that companies reported. ( Unable to access data Service interruptions Sites being shut down
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/21/amazon_web_services_outages_spans_zones/ - 4 views

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    brief april 28 jen
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    1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and Employment 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Amazon and companies using Amazon's cloud service 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article Reliability 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The hardware used in this situation is the servers used to host information for companies. Amazon's cloud model is used by the connecting to the internet network. The Availability Zones are the zones that according to Amazon, are distinct locations that are engineered to prevent failures in other Availability Zones. Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Amazon's web service that provides companies with infrastructure web service platforms in the cloud. Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) - A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, designed to make web-scale computer easier for company developers. Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) service - this service provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon's EC2 instances. The EBS volumes are off-instance storage that is independent from the life of an instance. http://aws.amazon.com/ 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). A solution to the reliability concern is for businesses and companies to filter out what they plan to put on Amazon's cloud services, and what to keep in their private network within their control. Balancing the two would beneficial and can prevent a lot of damage that a failure of a server may do the company as well as its files and data stored in the cloud. Amazon explaining how their cloud service actually works and have it backs up everything should be able to calm down businesses, and regain their trust again once everything is back up and running again.
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