Omar's+Corner

**__Intresting Articles:__**
 * __Omar Alhinai's ITGS Corner __**


 * **Article Title** || **Article Link** || **Intresting Highlights** ||
 * Are we looking at 'TouchSkin'? || [|Sensors turn skin into gadget control pad] || * "Skinput" can be learned with only 20 minutes of training!
 * Has an accuracy in excess of 95%! ||
 * Colour e-readers with video shown off. || [|Colour e-readers with video shown off] || * 4 times more efficient than LCD screens.
 * Supports video and possibly even Wi-Fi.
 * Color is created by electrical charges moving colored oil within each pixel. ||
 * 'Historic' day as first non-Latin web addresses go live. || [|'Historic' day as first non-Latin web addresses go live] || * Thefirst country codes were: Egypt: مصر, Saudi Arabia: السعودية and United Arab Emirates: امارات.
 * 11 different langauges to be introduced. ||
 * Britons spend almost 24 hours a month online! || [|Britons spend nearly 'one day a month online'] || * British web users are spending 65% more time on the internet than three years ago.
 * The average user spends 22 hours 15 mins online each month.
 * The average value includes the whole british population, even the less fortunate and technology illiterate. ||
 * Girl kidnapped by 48-year-old 'friend'. || [|NC man charged with kidnapping, rape of local teen] || * Canandaigua girl was kidnapped and raped after meeting 48-year-old man while chatting online on her smartphone. ||
 * Facebook takes more steps in order to prevent 3rd party applications from sharing identifying information. || [|Facebook tightens grip on user ID data] || * Facebook recently learned that user information given to 3rd parties was being misused and in some cases even sold to data brokers and ad networks. ||
 * iPad opens world to a disabled boy || [|iPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People] || * Owen Cain depends on a respirator due to a debilitating motor-neutron disease since infancy. He does not have the power to maneuver a mouse but however he can use an iPad. ||

**__Intresting Videos:__** [] ||
 * **Video Title** || **Video** ||
 * 'Therapeutic' ringtones to help cure Japanese sick || Sorry, this video may not be embedded here, however, it may be found at: [] ||
 * Colour e-readers with video shown off || Sorry, this video may not be embedded here, however, it may be found at:
 * Web addresses in multi-language || media type="youtube" key="NxVrr_zSYUI" height="267" width="432" ||
 * Facebook's Privacy Troubles || media type="custom" key="6135475" ||
 * NC man charged with kidnapping, rape of local teen || media type="youtube" key="HAJ-i7s5ZVw?fs=1" height="353" width="417" align="center" ||


 * __ Triangle Analysis: __**


 * **Triangle Analysis** ||
 * [[file:Touch Skin (triangle).docx]] ||

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