Alexander Quach

10/5/10

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The Google health is a personal health record. Its been redesigned to be more user-friendly and focus more on wellness and fitness.

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The Google ME was created to fight against other social networking such as myspace and facebook. To compete with facebook,the google me has created a program called wave which has abilities such as real time chat with voice and video. It's estimated that Facebook will overtake Google Me in the next year or two.

Stakeholders: Richard Smedley, Dan Smith, and Robert Marshall.
ITGS Social/ethical issue: People and machines, globalization and cultural diversity, and control.
This article relates to me by me wanting to try and join Google ME.
I would try it out to see if it's a good social network.

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The federal institute of technology in Lausanne has created a new wheel chair which combines brain and messages with artificial intelligence. There are two webcam on the wheelchair machine which help manuver it from objects on the ground. It takes a week or two to master the wheel chair.
Stakeholder: federal institute of technology in Lausanne.
ITGS Social/ethical issue: People and machine.
Area of Impact = Health
If it is not too expensive then i think this is a very good idea.

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The new google tv is coming soon and is supposed to rival tv brands like Samsung and Toshiba. The sony internet tv is going to cost around $200-300. These devices will be release in the upcoming month.
Stakeholders:Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Andrew Keen, and Jürgen Habermas
ITGS Social/ethical issue: Intellectual propery
Area of Impact: Entertainment
I would be very happy if i was able to obtain this device.