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Max van Mesdag

Why Apple Can't Sell Business Laptops - 1 views

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    Apple is slowly becoming a dangerous competitor again Microsoft, but the Windows operating systems still dominate the business world. What does this mean for Apple?
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    Be careful of articles like these as they are really dealing with business but not in terms of the technology or a social and ethical issue. Equality of access for these businesses is only a by product - unlike for something like the OLPC where it was the main issue...
Max van Mesdag

Who do you trust when you're spending your IT budget? - 0 views

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    When it comes to technology, most people put their trust in people not too far away from them. Does this make an impact on sales, especially if advertising may be useless?
dr tech

Business and Employment Articles... - 1 views

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businessandemployment articles

started by dr tech on 16 Nov 09 no follow-up yet
dr tech

Samasource: How African refugees are scoring Silicon Valley Internet jobs - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    How cool is this - great advertisement for the power of the net....
dr tech

List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation - 1 views

  • the HP Color LaserJET 8500 series
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      The IT System is printers - and how they place yellow dots to assign dates and times...
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    Ooh this is interesting - how printers are being used to trace us and information.
BOB SAGET

Emails spark woman's sacking - National - NZ Herald News - 0 views

  • emails
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      The IT system used is E-Mailing service.
  • sacked for sending "confrontational"
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      The social and ethical issue is Policies and Standards.
  • unfair dismissal
    • BOB SAGET
       
      unfair dissmissal SUCKS
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • Vicki Walker
    • BOB SAGET
       
      This is the first Stakeholder, the one who was sacked...
  • ProCare Health
    • BOB SAGET
       
      This is where she worked, this is the second Stakeholder.
  • Auckland
  • 4:00 AM
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    BOB SAGET. While in class with you, I mentioned this article and for some reason (probably to annoy me) you stole it before I could get to it. I'm upset and disapointed in you BOB SAGET.
BOB SAGET

Couple who took £61,000 from faulty ATM sentenced | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

  • faulty cash machine
    • dr tech
       
      So can you explain how that machine works - input process output and storage? Is it an expert system?
  • the fault arose owing to the machine being very old
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      What issues would this be?
    • BOB SAGET
       
      RELIABILITY>> DUH
BOB SAGET

Faulty light worries riders - The Oakland Press News: The best place for news in and ar... - 0 views

  • faulty traffic light
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      The IT system is a Traffic Light. The light is faulty therefore the social and ethical issue is reliability.
  • equestrians
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      The stakeholders are the people who use the Light.
  • rider and pedestrian safety
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      Security is another social and ethical issue.
BOB SAGET

Beware: Employee Monitoring Is On The Rise -- Monitoring -- InformationWeek - 0 views

  • MailSweeper and PornSweeper
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      These are the two IT systems Mailsweeper and Pornsweeper hehe...
dr tech

Leaving a Vulgar Comment Online Might Cost You Your Job - 1 views

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    Interesting article -what do you think should have happened?
Max van Mesdag

iPhone 'malware' writer gets job - 0 views

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    The writer of a worm that can enter jailbroken iPhones has accepted a job to be a hacker full time. Although he will be doing his work for good, are iPhone owners so happy about the situation?
dr tech

What jobs will still be around in 20 years? Read this to prepare your future | US news ... - 0 views

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    "More and more independent thinkers are realizing that when being an employee is the equivalent to putting all your money into one stock - a better strategy is to diversify your portfolio. So you're seeing a lot more people looking to diversify their career." Faith Popcorn, a futurist, echoes the idea that we will all have to become as agile as possible and "have many forms of talent and work that you can provide the economy".
dr tech

Tech workers are downing tools and refusing to work on unethical projects / Boing Boing - 0 views

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    "Tech workers are in demand: companies find it easier to raise cash than to hire engineers; this gives workers enormous bargaining power, and they're using it. From the Google uprisings over a Pentagon babykiller project and a Chinese surveillance project to the Microsoft uprising over ICE contracts, tech workers are emerging as part of the solution -- while their secretive, shareholder-haunted bosses are more and more the problem."
dr tech

Bank of England investigating dramatic overnight fall in pound | Business | The Guardian - 0 views

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    "The Bank of England has previously highlighted the impact of trading algorithms. "Some markets appear to have become more fragile, as evidenced by episodes of short-term volatility and illiquidity over the past couple of years," Threadneedle Street said last December, warning of a move towards "fast, electronic trading." "
dr tech

The world's most automated country moves toward setting a 'robot tax' - 0 views

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    "A new proposal could see the country reduce the amount of tax benefits for companies that invest in automated machinery."
dr tech

Zoom's Flawed Encryption Linked to China - 0 views

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    "MEETINGS ON ZOOM, the increasingly popular video conferencing service, are encrypted using an algorithm with serious, well-known weaknesses, and sometimes using keys issued by servers in China, even when meeting participants are all in North America, according to researchers at the University of Toronto."
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