The New York Times reported that Internet sites waste huge amounts of energy and that worldwide “the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants.” The study reviewed “20,000 servers in about 70 large data centers spanning the commercial
September 2012
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Are Driving Up Health Care Costs, Not Reducing Costs
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The federal plan was that the use of EHRs would reduce health care costs, improve efficiency, and patient safety, however after spending more than $19 billion dollars on EHRs apparently health care costs have increased. Not everyone thought the increased use of EHRs would help, in 2009 a report in the…
Copyright Infringement Verdicts of Music Upheld on Appeal
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After trials, retrials, and years of appeal two defendants are now liable for fines of $675,000 and $222,000 for pirating 30 and 24 songs respectively. Joel Tenenbaum’s copyright infringement cost him $22,500 for each of the 30 songs, while Jamie Thomas-Rasset’s copyright infringement cost her $9,250 for each of…
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What’s the Deal the New 6 Strike Copyright Alert System?
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The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) claims that content theft cost America 373,000+ jobs, $16+ billion in lost wages, and $2.6+ billion in lost taxes, so the CCI proposes a new Copyright Alert System (CAS) with 6 alerts. CCI Member companies include:
- Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (“MPAA”) and
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eMails Costly to Samsung in Apple’s $1 Billion Jury Verdict
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Behind Apple’s huge verdict in the Samsung trial it’s likely that eMails may have caused the most damage to Samsung on two levels: first, Samsung destroyed eMails which led the Judge to instruct the jury that they should assume the destroyed emails were adverse to Samsung (the legal term is…
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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) -Sample Policies
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The Federal CIO Council (CIOC) recently released a BYOD Toolkit which is part of a plan “to develop government-wide BYOD guidance based on lessons learned from successful BYOD programs.” The Toolkit is “not meant to be comprehensive, but rather provides key areas for consideration” and the Toolkit includes these Sample…
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Samsung is Accused of Mistreating Chinese Workers
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China Labor Watch (CLW) reported "illegal and inhumane violations" at Samsung’s factories in China including 7 workers under the age of 16. With all the bad press resulting from Apple’s August 2012 $1billion patent infringement victory over Samsung, the title of CLW Report says volumes:
An Investigation of Eight Samsung …
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Millions of Apple Device IDs Published – FBI Security Breached?
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Computerworld reported that a hacker group published what it “claims is about 1 million unique device identifier numbers (UDIDs) for Apple devices that it said it accessed earlier this year from a computer belonging to an FBI agent.” The report went on to explain that “Apple’s UDIDs are a set…
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