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IT News Blurbs This Week
How cyber criminals manipulate those “dumb Americans”; the perks CEOs get; admissions by cable and satellite TV companies that they are in fact watching and tracking their TV customers (including accessing their medical records) to target ads at them and a list of some of the companies, such as the US Army, who have been using those ads; and finally Daylight Savings Time: does it really save anyone anything or is it just a big expensive waste? These and more on jdnash.com.
FaceBook Virus or Ethics Violation?
FaceBook presently seems to be demanding a cell phone number as a condition of logging on. It could be a virus forwarding mobile phone numbers to China or Siberia for posting unauthorized charges to cell phones to steal money, or it could be FaceBook actually pulling the same stunt themselves for the same reason — to place unauthorized charges on the cell phones.
Using Social Media for Education
Social media may have started out as a fun way to connect with friends, but it has evolved to become a powerful tool for education and business. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter and tools such as Skype are connecting students to learning opportunities in new and exciting ways.
Virus Costs Computer Owners
The twitter.com web company has begun suspending accounts belonging to people whose computers are infected with ‘Koobface’ virus. The virus posts messages using the infected person’s accounts on social networking web sites, such as FaceBook.com, MySpace.com, and Twitter.com. The viral messages contain links, which when clicked spread the virus to the clicking party’s computer.