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brief dec 2 cream

Bangkok Post: Virtual mall opens its doors www.bangkokpost.com/...virtual-mall-opens-its-doors 1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Digital citizenship and people + machines / Home and leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Broadband technologies, 3D shopping, people individuals online shopping / Designer Companies, Online Shoppers, Ubermall 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Security 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The ITGS terminology and systems is concerned to the virtual 3D online shopping. The site will allow shoppers to build new relationships by chatting with sellers and fellow customers. online 3D virtual world promoting businesses and tourist attractions that represent the country's "creative economy" policy. The new online shopping has opened in Thailand and it is likely 3D virtual mall. Shoppers can fill up their currency at anytime on the Internet by that currency software. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). The issue in this article is that this action will increase the economic issue and the business can increase their amount of products. " The company is also expanding its presence to Facebook, at apps.facebook. com/taraddotcom, in an effort to bring together its merchants and offer them the chance to sell their products through the world's most popular social network, in what is described as the first example of "social commerce" in Asia. However, there should be some security for payment online, which means that the site must be more secured in term of policy.

1.2 Security 1.11 People and machines 2.5 Home and leisure 3.4 Internet 3.6 Multimedia/digital media

brief dec 2 kuninari

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. The area of impact is people and security on the machine. 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholder is security 3. Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. The concern is about the people and machines were there are problem with the recognitions on people 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. public transfer information systems is the information that will justify the people who is using on account to find whether people is using account on their own or using other person's account. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). It might need some more technology to fix the problem on recognitions that people can be use on other account or people can't use it even they are on their own account. They should be able to find the difference on fake also, like people using photo on other person to log in to their account.

Kuni, you're suppose to upload your answers IN class. Just remember that for next time.

Describe the IT system. What problem does it solve? dec 7 Alec

1.13 home and leisure 2.5 _IT_managed_home_networks 2.5_digital_entertainment 2.5_social_networking 3.3 3.4

The IT system in this is wireless repeaters they simply repeat the wireless signal that the router sends out so that a larger area can be covered by a single signal. It solves the problem of having to spend money for more routers and also having to constantly change your signal when you move around a large area like a park because you would lose one signal while gaining another. =D

brief analysis march 3 Jen

1.11_people_machines 2.5_social_networking 3.4_internet 3.5_per_public_com

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. IT users, mainly the ones who access social networking sites through mobile devices smart phone/tablet users, the business companies. 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. The digital Divide and the Equality of Access / Globalization and Cultural Diversity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. The tablets that offer internet as well as phone features play an important role in making the system work. The tablets offer a larger screen for the access compared to mobile phones, and it is challenging business companies and sites to remake their site into different various resolutions to fit all the new screen sizes. This affects the software of the program as well as the use of internet to connect to these sites. These sites offer personal and public communications through sites like Facebook. Social Networking - the grouping of individuals who have joined together to form a virtual community or neighborhood subdivision. Smart Phone: the "smart" mobile device that offers more advanced connectivity than the normal contemporary feature phone. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Users around Thailand are now being more connected online besides the rural areas where cable TV have a larger impact. Having governmental or commercial groups to try and build signal towers as well as spread the awareness of the use of mobile phones and decreases who uses the internet, and who doesn't.

How does the attack work? Suggest ways to prevent pop-up windows.

Leisure, Business Internet

May 23

Da Woon October 10 Brief Article Analysis Answer here.

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business and employment, home and leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. in this article, the credit card user and credit card companies are the main stakeholder 3. Identify and describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. In this article, the social/ethical concern is integrity. In this article, it tells that Credit Card Company uses neural networks to keep track of every purchase people make and sorts them into patterns and categories. If people changed their purchasing pattern, the credit card calls you and ask you about did you really buy it. So, if we buy the computer first time, we changed our purchase pattern, so we are losing our integrity to Credit Card Company. So we are really hard to use our own credit card. 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Transaction - Electronic funds transfer, the electronic exchange or transfer of money from one account to another Software - any set of machine-readable instructions that directs a computer's processor to perform specific operations. Hardware - the collection of physical elements that comprise a electrical device system 5. Describe the solution stated in the article or find a solution to the concern (issue) discussed in the article. The one solution in this social/ethical concern would be making a password then using that password with signature to prove our identity when we purchase the product which is not in our pattern such as put our password on our mobile device when we purchasing product with transaction. So we don't need to get the call from Credit Card Company when we purchase the product which is not in our purchasing pattern. Also we can using biometrics on our digital device to prove that we purchase that product when we using transaction to purchase the product.

Smile October 28th  BAA

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Home and leisure, 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. The main stakeholders of the Internet users and the internet advertisement provider (such as Google) 3. Identify and describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. A social/ ethical concern in this article is privacy. This article refer to advertisement stalking you around and show up in every site that you are in. The concern is privacy because of the tracking of ads on the users. The IT systems uses cookie to track the user. For example if a user open a commercial website such as ebay and amazon the clicking into a certain product will place a cookie onto your web browser. The next time the user open the web browser, the ads will track you around. The companies that it target marketing which shows users the product that they are interest in at the right time. However is it ok for this ads to track the users around? 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Web browser: a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. Cookie: Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server. 5.Describe the solution stated in the article or find a solution to the concern (issue) discussed in the article. One solution that can help solve this problem is to install an adsblocker. Advertisement blockers will block the advertisement from showing on the web browsers. However the cookie is still in your computer. Some web browsers or operating system allow the user to delete the cookie on your computer.

Gmail tips summary Basically, Gmail gives you a plenty of space to storage for example 7 gigabytes for free, which is already a lot. Even though you are running out of the space. You are able to get more spaces for just $5 per year, is quite cheap. What is so good about Gmail? The most useful feature is that you can link your other email account, AOL, Yahoo, or Hotmail right away to your Gmail, which means you do need to open up many email to check your Inbox. a) You can set up filters to skip the Inbox and go right to the folder or a trash can. b) If you happen to find some information that is quite old, Gmail uses GooGle search engine to allow you to find it easily. c) Gmail offers " canned message" You can set up a filter so that a certain type of email always gets a canned response.

brief nat nov 22

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. Google Inc., users in the US. 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Security. 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. Boutiques.com : It is like amazon or ebay, and it directs shoppers to site where it can be purchased. Merchants pay them if the shopper buy the goods or click on it to learn more about it. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). Because it is on the internet, attention has to be paid to the issue of security. If any users buy anything, they would need to pay online by their credit cards, and some may feel reluctant to give credit card information online. To diminish this issue, Google will have to ensure a secure system where datas of each customers are kept safe and not misused.

Why won't tablets replace PCs? dec 2 nat

Why won't tablets replace PCs? Tablets are recommended, but won't replace PCs because they aren't made to carry out tasks that PCs are capable of doing. Tablets may be useful when looking at emails or searching the web, but it's not easy to use when typing up word documents. They will be handy to have it next to your PC, but it will never be your primary computer.

article analysis march 25 soobin

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. -- Leisure, Business 2.Identify all ITGS terminology and phrases (IT and Social/Ethical) -- Twitter, Trojan, Facebook, E-mail spamming, Botnet, messaging service, social inbox, spam, e-mail, networks, online-security firms, junk e-mails, blacklisted addresses, output, domain names, .cn, internet registrars, fraud, web-hosting, cybercrime, hard drives. 3.Describe one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. --Security is a concern in this article where users and spam is concerned. The security of the users' sensitive information is at risk when users click on spam links no matter from what source, from e-mails (which are decreasing now) to Twitter tweet links. By clicking onto these harmful links, users set free spam that can infiltrate the user's hard drive in search for sensitive information for example bank account numbers. 4.Describe the relationship of the main stakeholders to the IT system. ---The main stakeholder will be hackers and people who are using e-mail and social networking. The relationships between them are, normally hackers used spam mail to spend virus or hack their computer with Trojan horse, but as the email security develop hackers slowly moved to social network which is Facebook, and other many programs. They know that people are currently using social networking a lot and their privacy is open and they could easily get people's email too. Therefore by using Koobface, they could hack people's computer and information 5. Explain the relationship between the IT system and the social/ethical issue identified in question 3. -- The problem with the security is that the security of the users of their personal and public communications are at risk where spam is concerned. Spam is nowadays being planted in almost every corner of the internet, no matter where, in order to try and trick users into clicking on the harmful links in order to spread malware, such as Trojans. Spam is comm

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

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.

1.5 Intellectual property 2.5 Home and leisure 3.3 Networks 3.4 Internet 3.7 Databases

brief may 17 soo

- Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to Home and Leisure, Business and e-commerce - Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system People who are using Facebook, Facebook Company and Application Company - Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article Security, Privacy - Describe ITGS terminology and systems  Facebook Application= Apps on Facebook.com are web apps that are loaded in the context of Facebook. You can build your app using any language or tool chain that supports web programming, such as PHP, Python, Java or C#.Apps on Facebook.com are loaded into a Canvas Page. A Canvas Page is quite literally a blank canvas within Facebook on which to run your app. You populate the Canvas Page by providing a Canvas URL that contains the HTML, JavaScript and CSS that make up your app.  http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/canvas/  Symantec= Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored.  http://kb.iu.edu/data/agzf.html - If possible, describe a solution to the concern (Issues) Facebook should enhance the security systems and authentication systems. User's personal information was leaked because they didn't work hard to manage transferring user's account to application systems. Therefore, it is better to enhance and put more effort to the transferring process.

brief all sept 5 woo

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Home and Leisure, Environment, Business 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. People, British Gas, UK Customers 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Reliability and Integrity 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. - Smart meter: an electronic device which enables users to monitor the cost of their electricity and gas consumption in real time, and eventually see how much power individual appliances are using. - Smart phones and Tablets - Devices that include smart features such as reading e-mails and featuring applications for users. Both smart phones and tablets today can feature touch screens, without needing a physical keyboard to operate the various actions. - GPRS: General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). The concern that might rise from this case is that the devices, that are about to be installed on million homes, may not as effective as people have estimated. The reliability of the device depends on the device itself and the production company.

brief all oct 31 cream

1. Identify the area of impact the scenario relates to. Business, Home and Leisure 2. Identify the main stakeholders to the IT system. UK Telco BT, NewBinz2 pirate link sharing website and users, MPA (Motion picture association) 3. Identify one ITGS social/ethical concern in the article. Intellectual property 4. Describe ITGS terminology and systems. ISP - Internet Service Provider, is a company that collects monthly or yearly fee in exchange for providing the subscriber with Internet Access. The Terms of Service contract of the ISP will also state rules about hacking, protecting copyrighted materials, denial of service attacks, harassing other people, spam compromising the service, and many other issues. These are as much for the legal protection of the ISP as to let potential subscribers know what the ISP will and will not tolerate. 5. If possible, describe a solution to the concern (issue). NewBinz pirate link sharing website is essential site for various users who wish to download illegally copied materials. However, this action concerns as infringe laws and copyright among policies. Thus, This is why NewBinz would be permanently block by ISP. However, the fact is that online users are very active so the creative industries should maintain about this not just blocking the sites.