I ran across an interesting article while reading the NY Times Technology page regarding a congressional inquiry into how online companies track consumer’s personal data. Facebook, Google and Yahoo executives were questioned on Thursday about tracking consumers for advertising purposes. Showing Washington’s increased interest into what online companies are doing with all the data they have on their customers.
This joint hearing between two House subcommittees (one on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, and the other on Communications, Technology and the Internet) brought forth views of privacy advocates versus the industries argument that privacy regulation would be a ‘huge blow” to commerce. The Social networking executives argued that they were careful with user information and gave users a choice about what data was used.
Read more about this Hearing at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/congress-questions-how-web-sites-use-personal-data/
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Bing.com
A few weeks ago I encountered Bing.com for the first time. At work my browser started going to bing.com instead of Google when I wanted to complete an online search. Since I was not aware of the Microsoft search engine I was very interested in an article I found in eWeek – “Bing’s the thing” by Jim Rapozza. Of course Microsoft is one of the few companies that is large enough to rival Google and launch a search service but how are they as a search engine.
Personally, I have not used it much but Jim thinks it is more attractive than Google and has a lot of interactive touches. These enhancements include but at not limited to providing a variety of information. The Left side is a menu which expands the search based on the information entered. The middle lists the main results which is familiar to many other search engines. A nice touch - when you hover over the right of the result, a small window containing additional information about the linked site.
Bing also has a video search, enhanced photo searches and improved shopping experience. The maps and news searches are not as good as Google but they are acceptable.
Please go to eWeek.com and read more about Bing.com. http://www.eweek.com/
Personally, I have not used it much but Jim thinks it is more attractive than Google and has a lot of interactive touches. These enhancements include but at not limited to providing a variety of information. The Left side is a menu which expands the search based on the information entered. The middle lists the main results which is familiar to many other search engines. A nice touch - when you hover over the right of the result, a small window containing additional information about the linked site.
Bing also has a video search, enhanced photo searches and improved shopping experience. The maps and news searches are not as good as Google but they are acceptable.
Please go to eWeek.com and read more about Bing.com. http://www.eweek.com/
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Amazon Kindle DX Sold Out Already
Since I did a podcast on this subject just a few weeks ago, I found this article on eweek.com very interesting.
As you already know the Amazon Kindle is a mobile device for reading many types of electronic data as well as books and newspapers. The latest version was released on June 13th and was sold out within the first few days. According to the article Amazon.com stated they would be available again on June 17th. Amazon’s cash cow, the Kindle DX retails for $489 and is expected to earn the online retailer billions in the coming years.
Read more about the Kindle DX at:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Amazons-Kindle-DX-Sold-Out-Will-Restock-June-17-167379/
As you already know the Amazon Kindle is a mobile device for reading many types of electronic data as well as books and newspapers. The latest version was released on June 13th and was sold out within the first few days. According to the article Amazon.com stated they would be available again on June 17th. Amazon’s cash cow, the Kindle DX retails for $489 and is expected to earn the online retailer billions in the coming years.
Read more about the Kindle DX at:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Amazons-Kindle-DX-Sold-Out-Will-Restock-June-17-167379/
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
My First Podcast
Enjoy my first podcast at: http://kmcornwell.podbean.com/
This podcast is about the Amazon Kindle and how it may impact the academic arena.
This podcast is about the Amazon Kindle and how it may impact the academic arena.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Welcome to My Blog...
Greetings and Welcome to my Blog!!!
I am a student at the University of Toledo. As part of my Podcasting, Vodcasting and Blogging class I have set-up this blog. I have absolutely NO experience with blogging. I am learning more and more each day.
As part of this class, I will maintain this blog updating in frequently with interesting tidbits regarding Information Technology. I plan to use this knowledge in the near future to assist non-for-profits (mainly churches) to increase to interest in their websites.
I am looking forward to gaining knowledge in these areas.
I am a student at the University of Toledo. As part of my Podcasting, Vodcasting and Blogging class I have set-up this blog. I have absolutely NO experience with blogging. I am learning more and more each day.
As part of this class, I will maintain this blog updating in frequently with interesting tidbits regarding Information Technology. I plan to use this knowledge in the near future to assist non-for-profits (mainly churches) to increase to interest in their websites.
I am looking forward to gaining knowledge in these areas.
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