Posts Tagged: content ownership

What Employers Are Thinking When They Look At Your Facebook Page

Posted by & filed under exam2012A, FaceBook, free speech, Human Resources.

Description: Why interview when you can Facebook stalk? Yesterday, I told you about a study suggesting that employers can judge candidates’ future work performance by spending five to ten minutes lurking on their Facebook pages. Source: Forbes .com Date: March 6, 2012 Some readers were outraged by this. “I truly wish employers would stop using… Read more »

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

Posted by & filed under Analytics, branding, Business Intelligence, business models, data analytics, data mining, Data storage, market intelligence, Personalization, revenue model.

Description: Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ” Source:… Read more »

Did The iPhone’s ‘Find My Friends’ Already Out A Cheating Wife?

Posted by & filed under Apple, Cyberforensics, EXAM ARTICLE, FaceBook, IS ethics, Privacy, Security.

Description: Welcome to iCheers, where everybody knows your whereabouts. Both Apple and Foursquare are offering new tools for iOS5 that will let us know where our friends are at all times. Source: Forbes.com Date: Oct 17, 2011 Late Saturday night, “ThomasMetz” posted to MacRumors (via 9to5Mac) about how he turned his wife’s iPhone into a… Read more »

Hackers learn to ditch black hats for white collar security jobs

Posted by & filed under cyber terroism, cyber war, EXAM ARTICLE, hackers.

Description: Computer hacking has always been a pursuit driven more by geeky passion than a quest for profits. But it is now becoming a pathway to earning serious money. Source: globeandmail.com Date: Oct 10, 2011 A decade ago, a skilled hacker who discovered a software security flaw had two choices: he could tell the company… Read more »

Facebook Keeps A History Of Everyone Who Has Ever Poked You, Along With A Lot Of Other Data

Posted by & filed under FaceBook, free speech, IS ethics, national culture, Privacy.

Description: Most of you probably know that Facebook knows a lot about you. But did you know that if you were to print it out, it might take up about 880 pages? Source: Forbes.com Date: Sept 27, 2011 European users can request their information with this Facebook form (instructions here). Max Schrems of Europe v…. Read more »

Writing Machines — Their Uses and Meaning

Posted by & filed under Artificial intelligence, Business Intelligence, Copyright, education, EXAM ARTICLE.

Description: A Sunday business column in The New York Times looked at the work of a start-up, Narrative Science, that combines computer science and journalism. Its software takes data and converts it into stories — short summary-style articles so far, but ones that don’t really read as if they were written by a machine. Source:… Read more »

Google Details Electricity Usage of Its Data Centers

Posted by & filed under Cloud Computing, Google, Green Computing, Green Tech, YouTube.

Description: Google released what was once among its most closely guarded secrets on Thursday: how much electricity its enormous computing facilities consume. Source: NYT.com Date: Sept 8, 2011 “The company said that its data centers continuously drew almost 260 million watts — about a quarter of the output of a nuclear power plant — to run Google… Read more »

Tougher legislation won’t stop Internet piracy, experts caution

Posted by & filed under business models, Copyright, digital divide.

Description: As the federal government pushes to modernize the country’s copyright laws, a new study suggests that relying on tougher legislation to stop online piracy simply won’t work. Source: Globe&Mail.com Date: March 16, 2011 It found that anti-piracy education has done little to stigmatize illegal downloading in emerging economies and that market conditions are directly to… Read more »

Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You

Posted by & filed under M-commerce, Privacy, revenue model.

Description: There is now an enormous multibillion-dollar industry based on the collection and sale of this personal and behavioral data. Source: Time.com Date: March 10, 2011 Google’s Ads Preferences believes I’m a guy interested in politics, Asian food, perfume, celebrity gossip, animated movies and crime but who doesn’t care about “books & literature” or “people &… Read more »

What is linkedin?

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Description:LinkedIn, an online social networking site aimed at professionals. Source:CNN.com Date: Feb 26, 2011 Questions for discussion: What are the benefits of using LinkedIn? Could theses benefits be relized by students trying to break into the workforce? What are the downsides of uning a social network like linkedIn?