US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook — (Article Review #10)

Article Title: US Judge Orders Hundreds of Sites "De-Indexed" From Google, Facebook

Article Author:

Nate Anderson

Article Publication Date:

November 29th, 2011

URL: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/us-judge-orders-hundreds-of-sites-de-indexed-from-google-twitter-bing-facebook.ars

Article Summary:

Chanel, A luxury goods maker steps in to alert the US courts about sites that are selling counterfeit luxury goods. For having won cases in the past, Chanel reports hundreds of sites to be investigated by law officials. A ban on search indexing was ordered, but was ignored by google and bing.

Relevance to Class:

The Government steps in once again to boss around Google. They are ordering them to de-index sites from their search engine which could mean that Information that needs to be found will be more harder to find than before. For the Users they would get "legit" information by the Government Standards.

Key Quote:

"I'm not sure how this court can direct a registry to change a domain name's registrar of record or Google to de-list a site, but the court does so anyway. This is probably the most problematic aspect of the court's orders."

J.P Morgan Adds Chip-Based Cards — (Article Review #9)

Article Title: J.P Morgan Adds Chip-Based Cards

Article Author:
Andrew R. Johnson

Article Publication Date:
November 22, 2011

URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204443404577052614274591518.html

Article Summary:

Chase Bank adds microchips to customer cards so it would be harder to hack and for customers to use their cards with foreign merchants.

 The problem is that US retailers haven't upgraded their cash register system to handle the new card because the cost of upgrading is too expensive.

Relevance to Class:

Information is very vital to People. These new chips are implemented to block access from a certain group of users which are called hackers. The chips allow the user which is the customer to be more secure from fraud and also to use their cards in foreign countries.

Key Quote: A J.P. Morgan Chase spokesman declined to say how many customers have applied for those cards but said by email that demand has been strong.

HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web — (Article Review #8)

Article Title: HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web

Article Author:
Don Clark

Article Publication Date:
November 11, 2011

URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203537304577030033160849296.html

Article Summary:
HTML5 is becoming widespread due to its usefulness around the web. This type
of programming is rapidly changing the face of the web because apps for mobile
devices are being developed by HTML5 and not flash. HTML5 seems to be making flash more uses because companies are turning towards HTML5.


Relevance to Class:
HTML5 is becoming the lead innovator of the web. It enables designers to be
creative once again on the web.


Key Quote:
Danny Winokur, Adobe's general manager for interactive development. "If you want
to be delivering a Web experience around multiple devices, you have to be doing it
in HTML5," he says.

Which Programming Language to Learn – Web Programming — (Article Review #7)

Article Title: Which Programming Language to Learn – Web Programming

Article Author:
James Bruce

Article Publication Date:
November 9th, 2011

Url: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/programming-language-learn-web-programming/

Article Summary:
PHP - Serves more of a user purpose (Facebook,Wikipedia and Word Press)
MySQL - Database - Presents Organized Information for the user
Javascript / Jquery - Responds to user actions on a web page.

The best to start with is PHP/MySQL for web programming because its useful for real world experience.

Relevance to Class:
How different types of web programming can influence the structure of data presented to the users.

Key Quote:
"PHP is mainly used in conjunction with MySQL to pull information from a database,
manipulate it and present it to the user."