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As a rule, the less government sticks their nose into how business works, the better things go. In some cases, government intervention is necessary such as to break up a company that is hurting the markets or to make working conditions humane in the workplace. But our economy thrives on as little intervention [...]
The Federal Communications Commission or the FCC is a part of the federal government. Its right there as the first word in their title – “Federal”. The government does a lot of things, some we like and others we don’t like so much. But overall, we pretty much have a system in place where the taxes that are collected by the government pay for their programs. It isn’t a perfect system, but it is our system for the moment.
This is an entirely new kind of technology for anyone to offer and it will take some skilled marketing and deployment experts to make it a success. If the service is too expensive for customers, they will not see the value. But the costs of hardware, internet access and support will have to be absorbed somehow. If the advertising revenue alone can do that, Google TV may explode onto the cultural landscape like nothing ever before. But there are a lot of questions to be answered before that can happen. But with this kind of potent partnership and the visionary leadership of Google, we can be assured that the Google TV revolution is coming and it will not something to be ignored
If you have children or young teenagers living at home, you know who Hannah Montana is. Hannah Montana is actually a fictional character played by a young actress by the name of Miley Cyrus. Miley is the daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus who you may remember for his country song several years ago, Achy Breaky Heart. The character is part of a television show that is part of the Disney channel line up.
The term “Big Brother” comes from a futuristic novel by George Orwell named 1984 which envisioned a future where the government would have monitors everywhere that allowed them to watch every movement in society. When Orwell wrote that novel and the year 1984 was the future, that was a ridiculous and scary proposition. But technology has moved along tremendously since then. Between increased security monitoring to fight terrorism and the good and bad uses of GPS technology, more than one doomsayer has been calling for a 1984 situation in our modern technological world.
There is a dirty little secret most of us keep quiet because it reveals something about us. It is a problem that afflicts some very good people who demonstrate good habits of diet, hygiene and how they conduct their lives. But there is one area where people seem to give in to the temptation to live very sloppy and even unsafe lives. That area is how they manage their computers
If you like to use social networks like Facebook and Twitter, you already know that you will sometimes get a contact that is a little strange. It might be a friend request from someone you don’t know and that nobody else you know is in contact with. Many times it is some marketing scam that you just ignore. On some occasions, it is a hacker who got into a friend’s account and is trying to hack further.
There are very few businesses any more that do not depend heavily on their computer systems. From a dentist’s office to a large multinational oil company or bank, computers are the backbone of the company. In many cases, many computers are networked together into a complex infrastructure that includes dozens of PCs that interact with very powerful midrange or mainframe computers. From Human Resources to Accounts Receivable to Customer Service to the retail front end, if the computer system in a company goes down, that is a genuine disaster for any company.
Some in the internet world will see The P2P Cyber Protection and Informed User Act as a restriction of privacy and the first step to shut down the freedom of the internet. But freedom must be linked with responsibility. The law only requires that if you are going to put the files and the network resources of a computer system at risk, the least you should be required to do is alert them of the risk. This law simply makes that alerting mandatory.
Google says they do not plan any massive changes to how the search engine works because of the coming of personalization. No doubt, this technology needs some time to be refined and for Google to understand what it can do. Google is so omnipresent on the internet that few of us will give up using it just because it seems that not only are you looking at Google, they are looking at you back. But just knowing that Google is getting to that point of profiling you based on your daily online thoughts can get a little spooky. I guess it is something we will have to get used to.
