Recent Computer News

I found recent three computer news.
The headline of the first one is “Computer Surveillance- What Does it Offer?”
This news tells us that computer surveillance is used to check employees’ e-mails, internet-use, phone calls, and computer-use in 77.7 percent of major U.S. companies. One of the reasons is that Companies’ employers are concerning about following two things. The first one is that many employees use their companies’ computers for private use in their working hours. The second one is that companies attempt to prevent employees from using companies’ computer to commit fraud crimes and using the system to send sexual materials, which causes the companies to get in a lawsuit trouble. Companies can easily install computer monitoring software, which is needed to use computer surveillance. The computer surveillance enables the companies to see not only users’ e-mail accounts and password but also the contents of emails and web-pages that users saw.
The headline of the second one is “Domestic Violence Victims Keep Track of Offenders with Computer Monitoring.”
This news tells us that more than 40 states of the U.S. have the computer system called “VINE” ( Victim information and notification everyday). The system tracks offenders by monitoring computerized booking systems and protects victims by giving information of offenders. For example, when an offender’s status in custody is changed, the victim are notified it within 15 minutes. In addition, not only victims but also offenders’ family members, the news media, and victim advocacy group can use VINE.

The headline of the third one is that “150 USD for Each Notebook from One Laptop per Child Project”
In the U.S., the project “One Laptop per Child” is making progress now. The U.S. will deliver almost 2500 laptop computers as test drive to state educators in Brazil, Libya, Pakistan, Rwanda, Thailand, and Uruguay. One laptop is US $150. Only 2 watts of power is needed to use the laptop all day. The display is switched to black and white for sunlight viewing. The laptop uses the flash-based memory, and USB port is dependent. The ultimate goal of the project is that 150 million laptops will be delivered to children of developing countries.