Consumer Data Privacy Bill of Rights: A U.S. data privacy framework

The Obama administration announced what it calls its “Privacy Bill of Rights” on 2/23/2012, a long-awaited framework suggesting how companies should protect consumer information online.

FAQ: What’s in the ‘Privacy Bill of Rights?’ (Washington Post).

White House Fact Sheet.

eBusiness Club Idea Jam, Feb. 24-26, 2012

The Idea Jam brings together students from different academic disciplines to collaborate in a FREE “start-up weekend” type of event.

Read the details.

Careers: Women in High-Tech

"Susan Carreon considers herself artistic and finds math boring. So how did she become a Canadian innovator, leading the development of a world-first deposit solution for the ATMs being used by the largest banks in the United States?"

Read this Financial Post article for details.

The article mentions the CareerMash website, which shows you how to identify IT careers that combine ('mash') your primary interests with technology.

The Secret Life of Your Personal Data, Animated

The average user has 736 pieces of personal data collected by internet and cell service providers every day, and different service providers retain this information for anywhere between 12 and 60 months. See how you are creating a Digital Identity and a Digital History every day in this animated video.

The hot tech gig of 2022: Data Scientist

By the end of the decade 50 billion devices will be emitting information nonstop. Data scientists will help manage it all.

IBM's Watson is changing careers

Watson, the  Jeopardy-playing supercomputer is interesting in doing more than sparring with Alex Trebek. So it's going into business.

"Data analytics is nothing new. But the terabytes upon terabytes of unstructured data in the world (including Tweets, Facebook updates and Amazon reviews) is unprecedented. According to IBM's Saxena, 90% of the world's information was generated in the last two years. Producing data is much easier than making sense of it. That's where Watson and other next-generation analytics tools come in."

Amazon's Case For Enterprise Cloud Computing

• Slideshow: Amazon's Case For Enterprise Cloud Computing. A presentation dated 6/26/2010, but still mostly current.


• Netflix Opens Door to Leaving Amazon Web Services.

Amazon's Oregon Data Center

Amazon's New Data Center Could Save You Money

"West Coast customers who don't want the latency of sending data to Northern Virginia (region US East/Virginia) can shift to a newly opened facility in Boardman, OR, (region US West/Oregon) and no longer have to pay a premium to use the Amazon EC2 cloud data center in Silicon Valley (region US West/N. California)."

Data Centers: a growth industry in Oregon

"Data centers have become a growth industry in Oregon. Google kicked off the trend by building a large data center along the Columbia at The Dalles, five years ago. Microsoft and Yahoo both built data centers at different points on the opposite side of the river in Washington State."

"Facebook chose Prineville, Oregon's high desert country where nights are cool even in the summer to build a model data center."

And now Apple has Confirmed Plans for Another Large Data Center in Prineville.

Amazon has a newly opened facility in Boardman, OR, and "has two other data centers in the region -- an adjoining backup facility at the Port of Morrow and another modular backup at the Port of Umatilla. Port of Morrow officials say Amazon has enough land to build five more data centers at the main site."

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Amazon's New Data Center Could Save You Money

Rackspace is scouting possible locations in OR

Toughest Exam Question: What Is the Best Way to Study?

Testing yourself repeatedly before an exam teaches the brain to retrieve and apply knowledge from memory, according to an article in the WSJ.