1 - 2011 | Lcolm Net

Social Networking Modern Madness

Internet

Sherry Turkle a sociologist, says “the way in which people frantically communicate online via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook can be seen as a modern form of madness”, according to a Telegraph report.

Writing in her new book, Alone Together: “A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological.”

“We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish us,” she writes.

Read more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8276948/Social-networking-sites-are-a-modern-form-of-madness.html

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Movie Planned

Media

A film about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange moved a step closer after studio producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm picked up the screen rights to the upoming Julian Assange biography The Most Dangerous Man in the World by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange’s life.

Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and Internet activist. He is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open governments.

Assange has worked as a computer programmer and was a hacker during his youth. He has lived in several countries, and has made public appearances in many parts of the world to speak about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative journalism.

Assange founded the WikiLeaks website in 2006.

Phase One Announces 80 Megapixel IQ Camera Backs

Technology

Phase One, announced a bold new generation of medium format digital camera backs. The Phase One IQ180, IQ160 and IQ140 digital camera backs feature maximum resolutions of 80, 60.5 and 40 high quality megapixels respectively. This series sets new standards for medium format camera system handling and performance.

The Phase One IQ180 captures at full-frame 80 megapixel resolution, with a dynamic range of 12.5 f-stops. It is the first product of its kind to feature a USB3 connection, facilitating faster image transfers in the future. The IQ180 also features a FireWire 800 connection, ensuring the fastest tethered capture speeds possible today. For untethered shooting, the IQ180 digital back’s new memory card interface is so fast that it eliminates buffering delays, supporting continuous shooting until a card is filled.

www.phaseone.com/iq

IBM Launches Virtual Desktop

Business

IBM is offering a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs US$150 per user annually.

“The IBM Virtual Desktop for Smart Business offering should help ease the high administrative overhead normally associated with setting up VDI deployments,” said Dan Cerutti, general manager of IBM’s Smart Business Solutions unit.

“We’ve dramatically simplified how you order and buy these things. Everything is included in the Virtual Desktop Solution,” Cerutti said.

The VDI package will allow workers to access desktops from a variety of devices, including iPads and thin clients. They could access both Microsoft Windows and Linux-based operating system desktops. Users can even run the desktops without connectivity, by use of a USB drive.

The desktops are managed centrally, on IBM System X servers running Suse Linux. The desktop virtualization is done through the Verde software, offered by Virtual Bridges