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At Cisco Live 2011, Dave Evans, Cisco’s chief futurist and chief technologist for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), presented the 10 technology trends that will change the world in At Cisco Live 2011, Dave Evans, Cisco’s chief futurist and chief technologist for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), presented the 10 technology trends that will change the world in 10 years. More...
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Board Members: Rocket Fuel or Rocks? - Lucy P. Marcus - Harvard Business Review
A good board can be rocket fuel or it can be rocks in an organization's pockets. Much of success and failure in the boardroom comes down to the way the individuals around the table — be it on a public company board, a small private board , or a non-profit board — do their jobs . So what should an independent director do to contribute to making the boardroom a dynamic, productive place?
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The Internet has become so economically important that few countries can afford to cut off access altogether. Instead, repressive regimes allow 'Net access, but try to block individual websites they don't want their populations to see. Some users, aided by allies in the West, use circumvention technologies like Web proxies or TOR to access forbidden information. This has led to a long-running cat-and-mouse game in which censorship opponents establish new proxies while censors race to identify and block them. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed technology that they hope can decisively tilt the playing field toward free speech. Their system, called Telex , is an "end-to-middle" proxy scheme.
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Study Compares Third-Party Trackers’ Privacy Policies to Business Practices | Adweek
For the past few months, researchers at the Stanford Security Lab have been working on software to monitor the placement of cookies, beacons, and other online tracking mechanisms. The surprising result? Nearly half of the companies participating in the self-regulatory Network Advertising Initiative do not remove tracking cookies after users opt out of online behavioral ad targeting, according to Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student and research fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.
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