Category Archive for '(Mis) Use of Technology'
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Action, Breaking News, Failures, Palestine | 26 Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The latest crime “in the name of social customs and religious rules.”
A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.
The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Breaking News, Human Rights, Saudi Arabia | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Iran, Iraq | No Comments »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
“Human beings are often poor reporters of their own actions,” Microsoft says.
The company is not happy with evaluating human response while they interact with computers since questioning them at the time is distracting and asking questions later may not produce reliable answers, so, they wants to read the data straight from your brain as you [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Knowledge Management, Science and Technology | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
In the last two months I received countless spam emails, ads and invitations to join iPhone groups such as those at Facebook, all of which entice me to buy the new Apple mobile called, iPhone.
Until couple of weeks ago I didn’t even think of it, when a friend of mine showed me his new iPhone [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Failures, Science and Technology | 7 Comments »
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
By Gregory Levey
The Israeli government is deploying new tactics to deepen ties with American youth and evangelicals.
For the moment at least, the state of Israel has 553 friends. One of them is Leonardo DiCaprio.
The 20-something Israeli official who is showing me Israel’s new MySpace page, however, says she isn’t sure if the link to the [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Blogging, Israel | No Comments »
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Web-savvy criminals have turned Israel into the world’s highest ranking source of malicious Internet activity per user, security experts have told The Jerusalem Post.
From July through December 2006, 9 percent of all such activity could be traced back to Israel. Taiwan came next with 8%, while Poland and the US tied at 6%, according to [...]
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
I feel sick to my stomach when I see a multi-billion giant like Microsoft using “children refugees” as a cover up to market their latest web 2.0 businesses called live.com! While doing my search for my previous story, I came across a press release by UNHCR which said: “Microsoft launches “Click for Cause” initiative to [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Internet 'n Computers, News You Can Do Without | No Comments »
Monday, January 8th, 2007
This article is in response to the question posted by a new site just launched today - Love to Lead - where:
Each week for the next 16 weeks L2L will pose a question designed to stimulate debate between bloggers. Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite article and the blogger whose post receives [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Bleeding Edge, News You Can Do Without, Opinion | 7 Comments »
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
It was July 2005 when first published some information about the deployment of a new weapon in Iraq called “Active Denial System weapon.” The weapon was deployed in Iraq for testing free-fresh-flesh-samples (to make “Fried Chicken”). This weapon fires a 95GHz microwave beam at “rioters” to cause heating and intolerable pain in less than five [...]
Posted in (Mis) Use of Technology, Bleeding Edge, Defence, Human Rights, USA | 2 Comments »