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a. Hillsong United released I Heart Revolution: With Hearts As One, in
Australia on 8 March 2008, on a flash drive embedded in a rubber
wristband. http://www.newburycomics.com/rel/v2_viewupc.php?
storenr=103&upc=88697208582
b. Malaysia uses the MyKad smart card for national identification.
http://www.secureidnews.com/2007/10/15/malaysias-national-id-cardmykad-has-multiple-smart-card-uses
c. Based off the efforts of engineer Daryl Anderson, HP released the first
LightScribe drive in 2004.
http://screenprintingnews.blogspot.com/2004_12_01_archive.html
d. The SanDisk Plaza offers digital books, music, games, and education
tools for download to its Cruzer Freedom drive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SanDisk
e. Phase-change alloys are currently used in rewritable optical data
storage.
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v6/n11/abs/nmat2009.html
f. IBM introduced using a hard disk for accounting projects in 1956.
http://www.infoworld.com/t/storage/hard-disk-drive-turns-50-749
2. Green Computing
a. Searching for environmentally friendly server cooing shows quite a
few results. Green Revolution Cooling (grcooling.com) describes a
method of fluid submersion using nonconductive white mineral oil that
is both eco-friendly and non toxic. Their GreenDEF coolant is effective
at 40C, while air needs to be at 24C. Energy is also saved by
removing server and power supply fans (not necessary with liquid
submersion), an additional 10% - 25% energy savings.
b. Facebook maintains a Data Center in Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic
Circle. While I could not find any analyst data on this method, the Data
Center is low carbon and uses sub-zero winds naturally produced in the
region to cool its servers. They also harness sustainable energy
collected from a hydroelectric dam.
3. Reputation Defender claims, through patented technology and patented,
proprietary strategies, to displace potentially damaging content in search
results by making good content rank higher. They do not really go into detail
about how they do this. DefendMyName goes into more detail by describing
the process. They state that they do the following: evaluate each persons
situation to develop a plan of action. Among their options are deleting
harmful information and deterring (and identifying) anonymous attackers
a. MySpaces privacy and content standards are as follows: they only
collect information that is voluntarily submitted or anonymous
information that does not identify you in any way (i.e. device or
browser details). They do not claim ownership rights that their users
submit, display or post, but recognizes that by doing so grants
MySpace a limited license to use/modify/delete said content. They may