iPhone Gets the Top Spot.
After the release of 3G phone and the price cut, Apple boosted its share of smart phone market by 55% within the past three months. 30 percent of U.S. consumers who purchased Apple’s new iPhone 3G from June through August 2008 switched from other mobile carriers to join AT&T. The top four best-selling smart phones based on unit-sales to consumers were as follows:
1. Apple iPhone 3G
2. RIM Blackberry Curve
3. RIM Blackberry Pearl
4. Palm Centro
China Spies On Skype Conversations.
A surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include selected political keywords,has been discovered by a group of Canadian human rights-activists and computer experts. The system tracks text messages sent by customers of Tom-Skype, a joint venture between a Chinese wireless operator and Skype. Some of the keywords triggers the monitoring service are “Tibet”, “Communist Party” or “Democracy”. The stored messages also contained internet addresses, user names and other information which could make the senders and recipients easily identifiable. Skype confirmed that Chinese users of Skype have been spied upon and their communications and identities recorded. Skype is owned by eBay.
Identity Crisis Faced By The Facebook Generation
According to a warning given to the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this generation who use internet for everything and who have never known a world unless they surf on-line are growing up with a dangerous view of the world and their own identity. They are going through major identity crisis. People who born after 1990 have grown up in a world dominated by online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Many of these youngsters use Internet as the main medium to communicate. Their relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse. Because of the online social networking, people find the real world boring and unstimulating. Because of this online mess, youngsters are going through the stages of vulnerable to impulsive to suicide.
Chat room communication reduced sensory experience; person’s expression/body language/ voice/tone aren’t there; and this can shape one’s perceptions of the interaction differently. Online session changes the perception to a dream-like state, and this unnatural blending of mind with the other person leads to entirely different meaning to friendships and relationships.
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