... possible. Sift-Mail An system for filtering electronic mail. SMART A unix package designed for performance evaluation of vector space information retrieval techniques. The capability to filter USENET News is included in the standard distribution. MAXIMS MAXIMS is a collaborative electronic mail filtering system. Procmail A unix package designed to automatically filter electronic mail. Maildrop A unix ... 100 million sources of information from which to choose. Information publishers are increasingly using push technology as a competitive tactic. PointCast was the first information push ...

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... possible. Sift-Mail An system for filtering electronic mail. SMART A unix package designed for performance evaluation of vector space information retrieval techniques. The capability to filter USENET News is included in the standard distribution. MAXIMS MAXIMS is a collaborative electronic mail filtering system. Procmail A unix package designed to automatically filter electronic mail. Maildrop A unix ... 100 million sources of information from which to choose. Information publishers are increasingly using push technology as a competitive tactic. PointCast was the first information push ...

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... worth of mobile music (ringing tones, ringback tones, truetones, MP3 files, karaoke, music videos, music streaming services etc.); over 5 billion dollars worth of mobile gaming; and various news, entertainment and advertising services. In Japan mobile phone books are so popular that five of the ten best-selling printed books were originally released as mobile phone books. Similar to ... can be classified as: - general interest magazines (e.g. Frontline, India Today, The Week, etc.) - special interest magazines (women's, sports, business, scuba diving, etc.) Newspaper A newspaper is aÂ...

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... If Drudge is silenced by the White House goon squad, the media world will definitely become a little less interesting and a little less free in the news realm. Steve Silberman, a writer for Wired magazine, had a grudging praise for Matt Drudge with his role in the Clinton/Lewinsky story in one of ... for print newspapers and too titillating for the public to ignore. People flocked to the Internet in record numbers when the story broke. At Fox News Online, the Clinton scandal generated more traffic than the death of Princess Diana. At AP Online, the scandal outran the Super Bowl 3-to-1. ...

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... Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet, and beyond, during the Nixon reign as the United States President, many people were always hearing negative actions and news on the broadcasts. This is where network television stepped up and created what they called the "happy talk- format. People were simply tired of ... parent. The violence isn't just on prime time television shows or cartoons either; it is going on everyday in our local, national, and world news. Violence is in the schools, playgrounds, and public places everywhere, that our children are exposed to on a day-to-day basis. A person ...

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... /english/questions.htm. vii Reports found sexually exploited and abused children often suffer mental problems such as depression, suicidal tendencies and substance abuse. " "Asia's child sex victims ignored,"" BBC News, 15 Sep 2000. viii [On 16 April 2002,] in a 6-3 majority opinion, the [U.S. Supreme Court] ruled in the case of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, that the Child Pornography Prevention ... or picture."" " David G. Savage (Los Angeles Times), "High court rejects rule on virtual' child porn,"" The Seattle Times, 17 April 2002. ix Joining [Attorney General John] Ashcroft at a...

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... public's trust, such broadcasters are required to work within the parameters of ethical and responsible new casting. No matter what the issue, company or news being reported on, every media organization works off of a Code of Ethics. This is a sort of safeguard to the honesty of the organization ... these businesses are primarily as a result of their reputation. The media winds up being a medium that forms many of the reputations. The way a news broadcast, print, radio and even Internet presents a company has a great effect on the resulting emotion or feeling one associates with a busine...

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... RSS) Really Simple Syndication is an online file format used to let people know when a certain website or part of a website has been updated with new content, for example news bulletins. Social networking websites On social networking websites people can create profiles about themselves and then communicate with others and form online networks. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and ... 11 Microsoft Bureau of Meteorology 12 Gmail Microsoft 13 Yahoo!Mail Yahoo!Mail 14 Google Image Commonwealth Bank NetBank 15 Commonwealth Bank NetBank Wikipedia 16 Microsoft Live Search Ni...

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... passage of a sweeping law to combat terrorism, Internet and telecommunications companies have seen a surge in law enforcement requests to snoop on subscribers. Dawn Onley, staff for Government Computer News (GCN) reports that the FBI and other agencies have stepped up their monitoring of the Internet after finding Internet-related information on computers seized from Al Qaeda, the group ... up systems and, even more importantly, the human factors associated with responding to man-made and natural disasters" (Vaishtha 2002). Hackers Lend Skills According to an article in The Mercury News,...

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... get their message out to a huge audience at low cost- (Back). Also, because of the power of the World Wide Web, some facts and news headlines may be exaggerated to get the viewers attention and easily believing it. Rumors permiate a lot quicker as millions of people are online every second. ... and nothing else in today's world influences the public perception quite effectively. Unfortunately, most of what is sent to the public eye in the news today has much to do with the chaotic condition of our world, or something else that society as a whole sees as dangerous or harmful. ... programs...

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... relay chat is a worldwide chat room. IRC was started in the late 1980's by an employee of the Department of Information Processing Science, Jarkko Oikarinen. It was originally meant for news-type discussion groups and person-to-person communications. Through trial and error he was able to include and get accounts to institutions in various other countries. Users can talk (type ... the EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). This is the actual transfer of data between the companies using the Internet to conduct business. USENET The NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) is the standard protoco...

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... of nations conducting cyber space attacks are seen by U.S. officials as a growing threat to national security on a myriad of levels. "Over the last 30 months, Chinese hackers have targeted Bloomberg News, Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as well as the US Chamber of Commerce, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-Chairman of ... spectrum of the targets ranging from very classified and security protected targets such as the former Secretary of State and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Commanders to the newspaper and news organizations that produ...

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... some people want to see. In addition, over the past ten years critics have criticized the news for the philosophy of "If it bleeds, it leads" most of the top stories on the news are crimes committed or murders (snipers). Forty-eight percent of all television news on children involves crimes or violence( Maeoff 2000, p . 5). Children are programmed into accepting violence. When you ... ...

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... the day after she swept the Grammy's. (Considine, 2003) The screen has scrolls information such as artist's numbers and discussions on the bottom, which is a very similar format to the news style of CNN. When contestants sign up, they are given a million dollars to play with. Since it's only virtual money, played only for entertainment, the younger generation are learning about ... /index.html Gwin, Peter. "Latest From the Digital Music Wars- Europe pp.5 (April 2001) Expanded Academic ASAP Jones, Christopher. "Metallica Rips Napster- Wired.com (April 13, 2000) www.wired.com/news/politics...

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... want Weaknesses Unfamiliarity with target audience, generation/cultural gap May be viewed negatively by gamers as corporate/commercialization May not be able to keep up with the pace of gaming news/technology turnover Ordering components from overseas distributors means shipment time is lengthy/unreliable Opportunities Niche market, breaking into this market strongly will establish this site as the leader and founder ... them a few weeks before launch date. The key hook to drawing them in will be the prize giveaway. This can be achieved through the previously mentioned newsgroups, notif...

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... that were given by the network channels. I was flabbergasted to find out that I was not carefully monitoring the programs my child watched. In connection, "After [Kunkel and colleagues] set aside news, sports, and children shows, the study found that nearly two of every three programs (64%) on television include some sexual content. Among those shows that contain sexual material, there is ... home? A: 73% Yes and 27% no Q: For which of the following purposes, if any, do you use a computer at home? A: a. To do school work 88% b. To shop 17% c. To get news or information about current eve...

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... by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, two grad students at Duke University, and Steve Bellovin at the University of North Carolina in 1979 (Hardy, 1993). It was used to transport news and views by allowing a user to connect to a machine which has stored the Usenet postings for the past few days, weeks, or hours. The In 1979, a meeting was held among ... 's users had warped the computer-sharing network into a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized electronic post office. The main traffic on the ARPANET was not long-distance computing. Instead, it was news and personal messages. Researchers ...

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... months into the year 1999, an terrible act occurred in Littleton, Colorado, an act without clear motive, and an act that downsized anything else on the news from a "Nation In Crisis- typed piece to a fifteen second news brief that came between updates on this greater tragedy, the Columbine incident. Two boys, armed with assorted guns, homemade grenades, and pipe bombs, walked into ... ...

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... . (www.thenewamerican.com/website/tour/stop2.htm). The coverage of the site includes the breadth which covers: weekly features, back-dated features from The New American, recent issues, review of news, issues in focus, articles by Reuters and New York Times. But the depth of this site is very disappointing. Not much details are provided, most of what is presented in ... by analyzing the note at the bottom: - Note: Links to websites off thenewamerican.com do not constitute an endorsement of the website or the linked to information. In fact, some news reports may even contain bias or withh...

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... warped the high cost, computer sharing network into a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized electronic post office. The main bulk of traffic on ARPANET was not long-distance computing, it was news and personal messages. The incredibly expensive network using the fastest computers on the planet was a message base for gossip and schmooze. Throughout the 70s this very fact made the network ... on their pages they charge user to view Playboy and Hustler type material. What makes matters worse is evolution of the internet newsgroup system. USENET in its infancy was ARPANET's news and m...

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... small song catalogs on many music downloaders" computers, lots of Napster users have increased the number of music files they have downloaded since the company's legal troubles have been a major news story. • 22% of Internet users, or about 21 million Americans, have downloaded music online. • 54% of music downloaders, or more than 11 million Americans, have used Napster. &bull ... . In recent weeks, further spot checks have shown that the number now averages 140 songs per user library. Napster claimed it had 20 million users in a July press release, and news media and industry repor...

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... problem attracting these users. Demand for more interactive tools and features to enhance the overall experience exists, therefore these services are perfect. Expansion opportunities in the fields of music, entertainment, news, technology, and telephony are endless. The big question remains: "will AOL be able to capitalize on its strengths?" After the merger, it seemed the sky was the limit for the ... potential of this combination. As many as 70% of all online consumers regularly or occasionally get their news online, and with a growing population of web-users, AOL must be sure that th...

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... from generally dry, provincial politicians of the past (Sheppard 62). So strong was his personality and influence that Trudeau was chosen Canada's newsmaker of the century in a Canadian Press-Broadcast News poll of editors and broadcasters in December 1999. It was not just Trudeau's looks and style, or the fact that he dated film stars that attracted young people to him ... diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (Internet 5). The public's reaction to Trudeau's death was something that had never been seen before in Canada. Canadian television immediately interrupted scheduled programming to ...

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... more to enter all the information for the 15 or 20 bills an average household pays in a month. The good news is that your bill-paying service will store the information, so you have to enter it only once. The bad news is that if you decide to switch bill-paying services, you might have to type in all that account information ... ...

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... amount, into a piece of artwork. The threat of stolen creations applies not only to artistic images, but more frequently to the art form of writing. Be it an academic essay, a news story, or even a musical score written by an aspiring young musician, plagiarism has now become an epidemic due to the accessibility of information over the Internet. Works published with the ... ...

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