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Continuing from last night, I found this in my RSS feed in MS outlook..

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/16/get-ready-for-wikia-search-first-screen-shots-shown-in-south-africa/

not sure what was going on with the mac but the quality is not that great, turn up the volume. i apologize
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Scary Memories

The Digital Memories articles was bit over the top in my opinion . It would be great to have many pictures of our lives for memories but in the context of this article it’s just a little over kill. Having all these cameras connected to you and biometic sensors to tell you if you are getting sick after of all the “business trips” you have been going on is little weird if you ask me. Do you really need some sensor to tell you are getting sick frequently after business trips? No, its obvious you are sick if you have a 100+ fever and you should know its probably because you are worn out. If we start tying ourselves up with all these gadgets we going to turn into one big human robot. What happens if something like this sensor breaks and doesn’t send the information to your dr.? Do you die? The sensor does not make sense for normal healthy people. Something like this could actually be useful for older people who live alone and need assistance. This could report back to their dr’s their current state and would help dr’s chart patient graphs and medicines.

What happened to just taking manual pictures of special moments? Its not even that hard anymore with almost everyone who has a cell phone has a camera. Would it really be necessary to have digital scan able memories because you cant find your keys? Any time we know its something we may want to look back upon and remember or just to have picture of the moment, we would take the camera, video camera or whatever it may be. We are coming close to the point where we can have our lives on film all day. Do you ever think how many cameras are watching filming you? Lets take a typical day of someone working, you drive to work which you most likely have been filmed by multiple traffic cameras, filmed probably at work on some surveillance cameras at some point, if you go into any stores after work or lunch break – more traffic cameras have followed you there then in the store then on the way back to work and back to your desk by the office cameras, and then the cameras will follow you back until you get into you private home. Why do we even need to wear the cameras when we have people filming us for us? We can scan our embedded chip in our forearm and upload that information to he internet and we can bring up video caps from our day and trace back our steps. Cool.

SMS 4LIFE

Teens in Japan have taken such a liking to text messaging as a way of private conversations in the home that cannot be over heard by their parents. “Getting a mobile phone grants teenagers a degree of privacy and right of assembly previously unavailable, which they are used to construct a networked alternative space that is available from anywhere they are”( Rheingold 5). Well this has to be true everywhere, especially if you in quiet area or now a no cell phone allowed area, you can easily type away a text mange and wait till you get one back.

Text messaging in Finland is more then teens texting their friends “thinking of you, good night, good morning, or I’m bored”(Rheingold 5). Text messaging has made its way to the business world as employers are now keeping their kanny on all the time. The reason they give is that customers like answers quick and the only way is to leave your phone on. Also a game known as botfighting via SMS, where you try to destroy anthers virtual bot with your kanny and then trash talk the opponent via SMS messaging.
The game is played via location sensing equipment. You will receive a text message from the gaming server in relation to your target, if your weapons are better then you opponents shield then you will win. If they are not you a created a loss.

Here is most of our bibliography. I did not receive the rest yet so please check my group members blogs for the rest
Brian H
not sure of Karls Blog

Espenschied, Jon. “Ten Dangerous Claims about Smartphone Security.” Computer World. March 23, 2007. .

This article examines the misconception about the security and privacy of smart phones or other handheld converged devices. Whether that’s a political candidate, a user, or an organization with valuable financial or personal data, a little more thought should go into the process of selecting and deploying any device handling important data. This article examines 10 dangerous misconceptions about smart phone and their security.

The article has very good assumptions that people may have when using or pre purchase of a smartphone. The article says why these assumptions are bad assumptions each claim is given an example or to why. The article also has great links to other sites data and smartphone’s security products and research.

The article is relative to our paper because it outlines the specific reasons why users should really be aware of their phones and not trust everything. It has a great base for the rest of the paper, and allows for more research to be done on each topic.

Malykhina, Elena. “Best Practices in Smartphone Security.” Information Week. November 3, 2006.

This article gives same idea concepts as the above two. Although a short article it gets right to the point on questions you should ask yourself has a company before purchasing smartphone’s to hand out to employees. The risks involved and the ways to help prevent information loss or hacking with some cheaper, easy and what should already be standard on employee laptops or other ways of remote entry into corporate systems (VPNs).

This article is relative to our paper because it highlights some key aspects on good practices to use when you will be using you smartphone outside of your company’s network.

Messmer, Ellen. “Questions Surround Smartphone Security.” Network World. August 22, 2005. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082205-smartphone.html.

This article gives a few examples of people opposed to the idea of some smartphone use in the corporate place for now at least. Even though in the beginning it says there are companies who specialize in providing security for mobile devices and anti-virus programs. It also says how useful the smartphone’s are in the hospital environments and specific programs the smartphone’s have on them to keep the data on them secure and how the data is securely transmitted back. But bottom line is security measures should be in place before devices are rolled out to sensitive corporations.

This article is relative to our paper because it highlights that even though smartphone’s can increase productivity, the current security suites some people think are not adequate for the field they are in. The article helps to reinforce that strict policies should be in places with very sensitive information.

Motorola. (2007) . Mobile Device Security: Securing the Handheld, Securing the Enterprise.

“This white paper identifies security threats to corporate data on mobile devices and details how mobile devices can become a “backdoor” to the enterprise. This paper also details how immediate action can be taken to defend against these threats and which issues an IT security manager should be aware of while planning a comprehensive handheld security policy.” (1)

Shaw, Keith. “Data on PDAs Mostly Unprotected, Survey Finds.” Wireless Computing Devices Newsletter. Network World. May 4, 2004.

The article sums up a small survey Pointsec Mobile Technologies did with a group of 230 business professionals. It contains some data on percentages of users who store sensitive data on their devices but don’t think much about it to secure it down.

This article gives us some hard data numbers to use and chart out or graph.

Trend Micro. (December 2005) . Security for Mobile: Protecting and Preserving Productivity.

This is a whitepaper from Trend Micro one of the leading antivirus, anti malware companies. The paper is an over view of that mobile phones are becoming so popular because of the capabilities and speeds they can achieve, almost mini computers. They paper talks about the problems these devices can cause not only to the data on the device but also when the devices returns back to the office. The paper is directed to IT professionals to help with ideas on how to protect the devices and risks with the device.

This whitepaper helps us understand what Trend Mobile software has to offer. They also gives us an understanding from a security software vender point of view how smartphone’s can be compromised.

Trust Digital. (2007) . Enterprise Smartphone Security: What to Look For in End-to-End solution.

This paper is from another security company. The company specializes in PDA security software. This paper also describes vulnerabilities of these smartphone devices. It has a great list of specific items the smartphone users should consider and be aware of. The paper then describes its current software and what the Trust Digital packages have ot offer and how they protect the smartphone device. Has great diagrams, pictures and tables of its software.

This whitepaper gives us another point of view from just a smartphone’s security software vender, Unlike Trend Micro who has a broader security suite across multiple OS’s and systems.

SonicWALL Avantal Corporation. KnowledgeStorm.com (September 1, 2007) . Getting Smart About Smartphone Security.

Short one page article with considerations for users and IT persons to think about for their smartphone’s.

Zetter, Kim. “Viruses, Trojans and Remote Snooping: Hackers Release Their Own iPhone SDK.” Wired. October 18, 2007.

This article was published on October 18, 2007 in the Gadgets:Wireless section of wired.com. This article will give some insight into what types of technologies hackers are using to hack into PDA’s and smart phones like the iPhone.

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the poor duke boy

I cant say I have always been a fan of blogs or blogging, I guess mainly because I never had the desire to see what the whole blog hype was about. I always thought a true blog was more like some one logging in and posting just random thoughts or journal type posts on some topic in the hopes someone will see this and comment back. Essentially that’s what they are but not to that boring extent anymore. Some/most have meanings to them even if they only have a few readers. I also don’t think I would have considered some of my normally trafficed sites to be “blogs” , but more called a website. Blogs have come from being the typical online journal to making people millions.

Blogging has come a long way in such a short period of time. Blogging really only became anything when the term “blog” was coined and a real blogging tool Blogger was introduced in 1999. The first major blogs were created a year later. Now its almost necessary to have a blog feature associated with your website or have your website be just a blog. Being able to interact and comment back about a particular item or post on the blog is the biggest thing that stands out and makes a blog a blog. Readers or users of like this. They can see other people’s thoughts that are interested in the same thing and in best cases interact with employees directly. Blogging features have become almost a standard on most websites and big corporations are taking the same approach.

Bill Gates in a interview with a channel 9 states “You are letting people have a sense of the people who work here. You’re building a connection. People feel more apart of this. Maybe they’ll tell us how we can better improve our products” (scoble, 13)

Scoble, R. & Israel, S. (2006). Naked Conversations. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/16972.asp

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the viral outbreak!

So now that Microsoft bought part of facebook for 240mil only 1.6% of the company, now facebook will be the 5^th most valuable internet company 15Bil!. This all happened when facebook opened the application up to the public and allowed the customizable apps. Microsoft outbid Google for the contract. Now, this is just one of the many articles written about this.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/25/perspective-facebook-is-now-5th-most-valuable-us-internet-company/

mobile facebook

Facebook has also teamed with RIM aka blackberry to offer a independent mobile app for their phones, well some you must have a newer one with OS 4.2. It is kind of nice, but you still will be brought to their regular mobile site of m.facebook.com for a lot of the functionality and viewing.

http://blackberrycool.com/2007/10/24/005892/