CSE601 CURRENT EVENTS
Tech Sites
http://www.infoworld.com/index.html
Date: 4/16/09
“15M hits later,
YouTube Symphony makes live debut”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_en_mu/youtube_symphony
Date: 4/15/09
“The
Interview That'll Bag a Job”
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/106924/The-Interview-That-Will-Bag-a-Job
“Answering One of the
Trickiest Interview Questions”
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-answering_one_of_the_trickiest_interview_questions-663
Date: 4/14/09
“30 ways
Twitter will get you in trouble”
http://www.itworld.com/internet/66334/30-ways-twitter-will-get-you-trouble
Blogger
Mike Morgan filed suit against Goldman Sachs Monday to prevent the big bank
from taking his domain names.
“Vermont
Considers Legalizing Teen ‘Sexting’”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/12/vermont-considers-legaliz_n_185949.html
“New
game based on Iraq War sparks anger, outrage”
Date: 4/3/09
“'Sexting' Hysteria Falsely Brands Educator as Child
Pornographer “
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/sexting-hysteri.html
It
was an incident that began innocently enough, but nearly ruined the life and
three-decade career of a veteran high school teacher and administrator.
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/us_china_exams
Eight
Chinese who used high-tech communications equipment, including mobile phones
and wireless earpieces, to help their children cheat at university entrance
exams have been jailed on state secret charges, local media said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10211562-38.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0
Two
Senators are attempting to curb unsolicited text messages with a bill to strengthen
government oversight of commercial texts.
Date: 4/2/09
http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9774
Date: 3/31/09
“Mavs
owner Cuban fined $25K for Twitter comments”
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090330/ap_on_hi_te/bkn_mavericks_cuban_fined
The NBA fined the Mavericks owner $25,000 for criticizing officials
on his Twitter page
after Denver's 103-101 win over Dallas. Cuban also responded to the fine on the
microblogging site with the message:
"can't say no one makes money from twitter now. the
nba does )."
“It's Time to Drop the 'Expectation of
Privacy' Test”
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2009/03/securitymatters_0326
Based on the 1967 Katz
v. United States Supreme Court decision, this test actually has two parts.
First, the government's action can't contravene an individual's subjective
expectation of privacy; and second, that expectation of privacy must be one
that society in general recognizes as reasonable. That second part isn't based
on anything like polling data; it is more of a normative idea of what level of
privacy people should be allowed to expect, given the competing importance of
personal privacy on one hand and the government's interest in public safety on
the other. The problem is, in today's
information society, that definition test will rapidly leave us with no privacy
at all.
Date: 3/30/09
“New video game concept: losing one's virginity”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/27/videogame.losing.virginity/index.html
In an industry dominated by men, leave it to women to come up with
the winning idea in a contest to create a concept for a video game about losing
one's virginity. That's what happened this week at the Game Developers
Conference in San Francisco.
“Researchers: Cyber spies break into govt
computers”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_re_ca/canada_cyber_spy_network_1
“Giant
Internet worm set to change tactics April 1”
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090327/ap_on_hi_te/tec_conficker_countdown_1
“Will
New Tracker Tools for Your Cell Phone Give You Away? (PC World)”
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/willnewtrackertoolsforyourcellphonegiveyouaway
PC World - Cell phone apps like Loopt and the new Google Latitude allow you to track your friends' physical locations, and be tracked in return. That can be a huge boon for meeting up on a Friday night-and a real nightmare for privacy if proper safeguards aren't in place. (Read more on cell phone privacy.)