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Weekly Article 01.03.2013

 

Armed Robbers Hit Apple Store On New Year's Eve

• The robbers, police say, were "well informed" and had carefully chosen the time and place of their plan.

• As police officers were busy keeping an eye on areas popular with New Year revelers, four armed and masked robbers forced their way into an Apple store in central Paris and made off with as much as $1.3 million worth of iPhones, iPads and other devices.

• The robbers entered through a service entrance into the store, which had closed for the day, using violence to intimidate store employees, said Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutors office.

• They then "calmly" went through boxes full of Apple products in the basement storeroom, seeking out iPhones, iPads and laptops, said Christophe Crepin, spokesman for UNSA Police, a national police trade union.

• They knew exactly what they were taking," he said, noting that the robbery focused on the merchandise in the storeroom and left the devices on display inside the store untouched.

• They loaded the stolen goods, estimated to have a retail value of around one million euros ($1.3 million), into a Mercedes van parked nearby and sped off, he said.

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Social Bookmarking 12.17.2012

Social Bookmarking:

1. What's another way we can organize your computers? 

- You can put your information into a flash drive or add the websites to your favorite on your computer.

2.What about email? 

-Emails I can organize by saving them on my phone,checking my emails each day to see the important one's, and the delete the ones that are not, so you have less emails to organize.  

3.Your Favorite Websites? 

- I just simply add them as favorites on my computer or my mom's computer.

4.Your Blog Posts? 

- On my flash drive,folders, or on "Google Docs." 

5.RSS Feeds? 

- I really don't use RSS Feeds.

Weekly Article 12.13.2012

911 Text Message Service Coming In 2014

• Most 911 centers can't receive text messages. But that doesn't always stop people from texting the familiar number in an emergency, not knowing their pleas for help won't be seen.

• A new initiative announced Friday will finally bring the 20-year-old SMS texting technology to emergency centers across the country in the coming years.

• The top four wireless carriers in the U.S. have agreed to speed up their efforts to support text-to-911 capabilities, making it available by May 15, 2014.

• Most 911 systems are managed locally, but the next-generation 911 project is a national push to update the systems to handle modern communications, including calls over the Internet, images and photos.
  
  
  
  
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Define Social Bookmarking

The Definition Of Social Bookmarking

• Social Bookmarking:Helps internet users to organize store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

Weekly Article 12.06.2012

Netflix inks Disney deal, but no new films 'til 2016 :

• Starting with Disney's 2016 feature films, Netflix customers will be able to stream a catalog of titles from Disney and four of its subsidiaries: Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Disney nature.
• Starz currently licenses many Disney films, in addition to titles from several other studios.
• Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter estimates it will set Netflix back about $300 million per year.
• If true, that would be about 38% of the $798.4 million in cash Netflix had on hand at the end of September. On the other hand, its got four years to save up.
• Carl Icahn bought a nearly 10% stake in Netflix and said the company is a prime takeover target for tech giants.

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RSS Feed Questions

RSS Feed Questions:

  1.Why did you select the sites you subscribed to?

   - I picked these sites because they sounded interesting to me and had                                             interesting topics.

  2.Was it easy to find feeds and to subscribe to them?

  - Yes.

  3.Which sites were your favorites?

  - The news folder.

  4.What else can you use RSS feeds for?

  - To organize important websites I need for any other classes or maybe even          for weekly articles for my Web 2.0 class.

  5.How likely are you to continue to use RSS feeds in the future?

  -I dont think i'll use this in the future.