WWW.

I was just browsing in my textbook, and I learned something new. Do you ever wonder what WWW. stands for? It's before every think you look at on the web servers. wheather you want to check your e-mail, search google. WWW stands for World Wide Web. I thought that was interesting. People can confuse the interent and the world wide web. Before reading about it I didn't know the difference. The internet allows your to connect to the web servers to browse the files that are stored, this includes google, hotmail, ect.

Computers in Polite Society

I use e-mail only to communicate important private messages. I rarely use it to send junk mail. I am not big on looking at forwards and reading them. If I cannot get a hold of someone via MSN messenger, or facebook, I will write an e-mail. I am able to write an e-mail and get the point across. I don’t try and get all emotional, but I feel that communicating online is impersonal. If an important topic needs to be discussed I would rather do it in person, and if that’s not possible, over the telephone. I wasn’t aware that there were basic rules to writing e-mails. I wasn’t aware of netiquette, and the basic rules. I just discovered that you can send a vacation message. It sends a notification to the people that have sent you an e-mail to let them know that you are on vacation. That’s pretty neat. I would use that if I used my e-mail often. One netiquette I can think of is your sender should include the subject of the e-mail that’s pertains to the actual topic that’s written in the e-mail. If that makes any sense?

Shhh, It's a Secret, Privacy and Digitial Security

There are two types of business threats:
1) Surveillance of employees example of this is, having your employer to read e-mail and overview of what you do on your work computer.
and
2) The use of business-related information, including transaction information, for other purposes. An example of this would be, when you make a purchase with a check or credit card, or debit, the business where you make the purchase can obtain your personal information and use it to send you information, like business ads.

I would be more worried about the business aspect of managing personal information more so than government official. I did not realize that business could use our personal information from our purchases and add us to a data entry for ad’s. What a scary thought. I am fortunate for not living in the states, they don’t have strong privacy laws. There is not much protection for people living in the states when it comes to your personal information. If you want to protect yourself and your personal information you have to subscribe to a protection plan and pay for it. That’s outrageous!

Web2.0 and cell phones

Cell phones has advanced enromously over the past few years. Every year there is something new you can do with a cell phone. I seen an ad on Tv not long ago that you can now use your cell phone almost like video conferencing. You can set it up so that your caller can hear you speak and see you speak through a camera on your phone. Thats pretty neat.

You can do just about anything with your cell phone, you can browse the net. Set up facebook, msn, instant msg's from you hotmail account. You can text, send pictures, the list goes on. You cell phone can as as a mini computer. If you wanted to keep up with the changing technology upgrades with cell phones. It would get pretty costly. You would find yourself buying a new cell phone annually.

Voki Demonstration

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a Voki now!

Cell phones and cars

Quebec passed a new law about using cell phones while driving. It was just effective as of April 1, 2008. You are no longer allowed to drive your vehicle and talk on the cell phone. Although, there is an exception, you can talk on your cell phone if its hands free. If you have bluetooth you can use your cell phone while driving. Is it still a distraction as though you were holding a cell phone?

Now vehicle companies are starting to make vehicles with built in bluetooth. Acura is one of the vehicle companies that include it in all their vehicles. It’s neat that these companies are keeping up with the growing and changing technology…

4D Ultrasound

While I was away on vacation, I was informed of new technology called 4D ultrasound. I thought it was pretty freaky, seeing the demonstration of it, because it is still in black and white. You can see the liquid around the baby. I then wondered what type of technology is being used to creat the 4D ultrasound. I wondered if the 4D ultrasound is more harmful than the regular ultrasound? The ultrasound techonology has evolved over the past 40 years. You can set up the 4D ultrasound to e-mails, where other people of your choice can watch your ultrasound. Although, the closest place to have this 4D ultrasound is Montreal. I wonder what they will come up with next?