News Blog for 09/22

I learned a lot from the presentation on Monday. The Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 program seems very interesting. But I had second thoughts about it because it’s a voice recognition program and there are many different accents out there, so would it really be 99% accurate? This doubt was confirmed by the girl who raised her hand in class that had the previous version of the program; I think these programs still need to be worked on cause basically the computer needs to take time to learn the persons accent before being able to accurately type while the person speaks. Another thing that I found useful was the Google Docs/Spreadsheet. I think I might be using that to do projects from now on. It seems pretty easy to use and great for group work. I really have been learning a lot in class cause previously I didn’t know what DOS and LINUX was. I have heard of them but never really looked into it until this class.

Computer networks are very useful however I read in an article that 58% of businesses expect an IT security breach in the next 12 months in London and Surrey regions. This actually might happen in America also. I know that my previous company was creating a disaster recovery plan. These are crucial factors for all businesses. Since networks are so broad now and easily accessible, we need to have precautions with security, viruses, and spam threats. But actually in this article London was talking about Blackberry devices and I think that they are slower in technology than America. In the US, I know many companies have been using Blackberries to communicate. I feel that it’s a very convenient way to communicate especially when not in the office.

Article link: http://www.networklondon.co.uk/articles/it-systems-security-suppot.html