Posts Categorized: Digital Policy

Social Media Scrutiny after UK riots

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, cyber terroism, cyber war, Digital Policy, Social Media.

Description: Source:   British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested that the government should impose limits on the “free flow of information” when it’s “used for ill.” “When people are using social media for violence, we need to stop them,” he said then. Source: CNN.com Date: Sept 8, 2011 “Instead of detailing plans to block criminals’ access to… Read more »

Banks fight fraud with new social networking weapons

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Description: An older type of social network, and it’s being used to help detect fraud. It is the connections between people in the physical world. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: March 8, 2011 Banks, telecoms providers and insurance companies, among other businesses, are using analytic software to correlate all of their various data sources to produce visualizations of relationships… Read more »

Credit Card Transactions for Everyone

Posted by & filed under business models, Digital Policy, e-payment, Ecommerce, M-commerce, revenue model, WI-Fi, wireless networks.

Description: New smartphone applications let almost anyone take payments electronically Source: Cnn.com Date: March 1, 2011 Questions for discussion: What are the implications for small business as a result of the increase of mobile payments? What industries and application can you predeict will beneifit from this technology?

Publishers of digital content face uphill battle

Posted by & filed under Copyright, digital divide, Digital Policy, e-payment, Ecommerce, industry analysis, iPad, M-commerce, revenue model.

Description: The publishing industry has not been having fun in the last few years. Newspapers, magazines and books were hurt by competition from the Internet and the changes caused by consumers choosing digital content rather than traditional ink on paper. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: Feb 25, 2011 Will Apple or Google (or someone else) end up… Read more »

Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records

Posted by & filed under Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Digital Policy, Ecommerce, healthcare, Human Resources, System development.

Description: The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Feb 26, 2011 The long-range vision is that computerized patient data is a step toward what… Read more »

New system to add Internet addresses as numbers run out

Posted by & filed under Digital Policy, Google, industry analysis, telecomunications.

Description: Who could have guessed that 4.3 billion Internet connections wouldn’t be enough? Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 15 , 2011 In 1976, Cerf and his colleagues in the R&D office of the Defense Department had to make a judgment call: how much network address space should they allocate to an experiment connecting computers in an advanced… Read more »

Telcos battle tech, bank titans for mobile payments

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Description: Paying for your morning coffee and newspaper by swiping your mobile phone instead of fumbling for cash or debit card could be just around the corner. Source: Globeandmail.com Date: Feb 14 , 2011 The telecom companies have suffered for years from the “dumb-pipe” phenomenon whereby operators spend billions building the networks on which data… Read more »

Of Canada, Caps, and Clouds

Posted by & filed under business models, Cloud Computing, Digital Policy, Ecommerce, industry analysis, M-commerce, telecomunications, WI-Fi.

Description: To protect their businesses from the cloud, ISPs north of the border won data caps on broadband usage. Source: Businessweek.com Date: Feb 3, 2011 Last week Canadians got the unwelcome news that their Internet Service Providers could cap their broadband access to downloading as little as 25 GB per month, or the equivalent of about 12… Read more »