Computer Applications - Week 03 - Operating Systems, Applications, and Networks

Another 30% decline in Music Industry expected in 2008 as Wal-Mart, Best Buy reduce CD shelf space
 “'In 2007 it became clear that the recorded-music industry is contracting and that it will be a very different beast from what it was in the 20th century,” says Mark Mulligan, an analyst at JupiterResearch.'"
 http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10498664

Music sales fall 6%, Hip-Hop falls 20% in 2007 (continuing downward trend since 2000, downward trend for teens since 1996)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10132006/business/music_sales_fall_sharp_6_1__business_.htm

Teens still want to get rich or die trying
 "...There are a lot of young people hitting 25 who are making, say, $35,000 a year, who expected they'd be millionaires or at least making six figures," says psychologist Jean Twenge. She's a professor at San Diego State University and author of  'Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and More Miserable Than Ever Before'...They're also entering adulthood with more college loans to credit cards debt...We're telling them they're special and they can do anything they want - and then they're growing up and finding out that's not true," Twenge says.
 http://www.saukvalley.com/articles/2007/01/23/news/state/300714976024485.txt

You don't know your market - Graphic design
 

Take-home print is not enough - "dynamic design" (knowledge of Flash, HTML) required

Internet News

EU praises US for giving up last vestige of control over Internet to ICAAN (prep for U.N. control?)
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061031.gttickermain31/BNStory/Technology

China Bloggers change status quo
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11437105/site/newsweek/

Online dating hits a drought
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11436250/site/newsweek/

Spanish hacker held over break-in to US Navy nuclear computers
 http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/01/16/spain.us/index.html

Boys pretend to be a girl on MySpace, catch sex pervert for police
 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,187041,00.html

Email's value keeps dropping
 http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30163

China defends Internet censorship (supported by Google, Cisco, Yahoo! and Microsoft)
 http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/02/16/ap2531468.html

China creates its own top-level domains (using Chinese characters instead of the Roman alphabet) independent of the rest of the Internet
"...The larger question is the effect China's decision will have on the Internet's infrastructure. If China truly intends to administer all of its own TLDs and operate its own root servers, it could mark the beginning of Internet fragmentation..."
 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060301-6293.html

The end of the tax-free Internet
 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1834784,00.asp

Senators propose taxing Internet shopping
 http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6004917.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

Smart mob "Dogging" has Brits in heat
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62718,00.html

Brits going for anonymous sex via Bluetooth messaging
 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,62687,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

Lawsuit in Chicago says craigslist violates Federal Fair Housing Act
 http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060209_715134.htm

MySpace to block uploading copyrighted music
 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061031.gtmyspace31/BNStory/Technology

Blind web surfers sue Target - suit alleges that the retailer's Web site is inaccessible for visually impaired
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15419164/

Internet Traffic

Internet Traffic Report (which parts the the Internet are "up" and "down"
 http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm

More Internet Traffic from Alexa
http://www.alexa.com/

 

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