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Friday 29 June 2012

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Mobile Brand: Virgin Mobile Opens Own Stores

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Warren, N.J. - Virgin Mobile has opened about a dozen Virgin Mobile-branded stores and plans to roll out more, the prepaid brand said.

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Traditional Windows Desktop to Take Backseat to Windows RT

Traditional Windows Desktop to Take Backseat to Windows RT: The upcoming launch of Windows RT for ARM-based mobile devices could signal the beginning of the end for the traditional Windows desktop, according to new data from Gartner.




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Google's Nexus Q: Made in the U.S.

Google's Nexus Q: Made in the U.S.: Forget the applications like video and audio streaming, or the built-in speakers. The most noteworthy feature of Google's new Nexus Q device may be this: It's made in the United States.
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TCEA: More free iOS apps: Spelling Hero Game (http://t.co/mgw1CXTz); Time to Go to Bed (http://t.co/AP3DptkU)

TCEA: More free iOS apps: Spelling Hero Game (http://t.co/mgw1CXTz); Time to Go to Bed (http://t.co/AP3DptkU): TCEA: More free iOS apps: Spelling Hero Game (http://t.co/mgw1CXTz); Time to Go to Bed (http://t.co/AP3DptkU)



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TCEA: "The Interactive Space Book" is a beautiful iPad iBook, and it's free! http://t.co/ZrWDQVts

TCEA: "The Interactive Space Book" is a beautiful iPad iBook, and it's free! http://t.co/ZrWDQVts: TCEA: "The Interactive Space Book" is a beautiful iPad iBook, and it's free! http://t.co/ZrWDQVts


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ServiceNow tests post-Facebook IPO waters

ServiceNow tests post-Facebook IPO waters: Silicon Valley-backed software company ServiceNow Inc. priced its initial public offering above its expected range on Thursday in a closely watched post-Facebook IPO.

The San Diego-based IT software company, backed by Menlo Park venture firms Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners, raised $209.7 million.

It had been projected to price between $15 and $17.

The IPO is being led by Morgan Stanley, which came under heavy criticism after problems with Facebook Inc.'s IPO in May, which fell by as much…




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Online courses: It’s not about value, it’s about revenue

Online courses: It’s not about value, it’s about revenue:

Thanks to Valerie Summet for pointing me to this article! I found the argument insightful. Blogs didn’t reduce the value of journalism — they eliminated the revenue streams (which is part of what John Mitchell and Dave Patterson were saying). People still value professional journalism more than citizen journalists, but it’s not still not clear how to pay for it. In higher education, we have a revenue stream problem. Online education doesn’t fix that.

Let’s take the newspapers as an example. Blogs haven’t undermined the newspapers. NYTimes.com and CNN.com get more traffic than any single blog. More people are reading the Times than ever before, in fact. Direct competition from citizen journalists hasn’t been a problem for the news industry. It turns out that most of us prefer our news from journalists. Newspapers don’t have a readership problem, they have a revenue problem. The plague on the newspaper business has come from Craigslist and Google AdWords. Craigslist fundamentally changed the classified advertising business, while Google revolutionized the rest of the advertising market. And once revenues collapsed, news conglomerates could no longer pay off the debts they accrued through a decade of leveraged buyouts and consolidations. Hence, we’re left with newspaper disruption. The same is true with books and even (as my own research shows) with political advocacy organizations. It isn’t direct competition that undermines market leaders. It’s the decline of revenue streams, making it impossible to pay for your old infrastructure.

Revenue problems for public universities are not originating in competition from online learning programs. They’re coming through systematic defunding by state legislatures. Higher education in America faces its share of problems, to be sure. Tuition soars and students are racking up mountains of debt. But the underlying revenue model faces no direct threat. A modern-day Good Will Hunting might gain his education through MIT’s online lectures rather than a Boston public library card, but the great mass of privileged 18-year-olds will keep heading off to college. Neither the University of Phoenix nor MIT’s online courses offer a replacement for the college experience that students are currently paying for. And competition does not equal disruption.

via David Karpf: UVA Board’s Lazy Business Sense.


Tagged: distance education, online courses


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Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives 2013 in Oldenburg, Germany

Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives 2013 in Oldenburg, Germany:

Another conference on secondary school education in computing, also in Germany: 6th Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives. This one has been running since 2005, which is as long as ICER.  This one is for researchers and practitioners.

Information technology surrounds us and from very early ages onwards, children are using it regularly. But in many countries Informatics Education featuring educational aspects provided by informatics is not part of compulsory curricula at schools, yet.

The International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution and Perspectives – ISSEP – is a forum for researchers and practitioners in the area of Informatics education, both in primary and secondary schools. It provides an opportunity for educators to reflect upon the goals and objectives of this subject, its curricula and various teaching/learning paradigms and topics, possible connections to everyday life and various ways of establishing Informatics Education in schools. This conference also cares about teaching/learning materials, various forms of assessment, traditional and innovative educational research designs, Informatics’ contribution to the preparation of children for the 21st century, motivating competitions, projects and activities supporting informatics education in school.

via ISSEP 2013 in Oldenburg, Germany.


Tagged: computing education, computing education research, high school CS, K12, teachers

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Keep It Simple StyleTech

Keep It Simple StyleTech: Keep It Simple StyleTech
When we talk with our clients about their requirements for a software system, application or enhancement, words and phrases like; web based, mobile, tailored, streamlined, user-friendly, intuitive, robust, secure, seamless and integrated are sprinkled liberally through the brief. The route to satisfying these requirements is invariably a bespoke software system that delivers ‘simplicity’ for the businesses of today accompanied by ‘scalability’ for businesses of tomorrow. StyleTech’s version of ‘simple’ is clever without being complex, straightforward without being basi


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Videos: Is alien life possible?

Videos: Is alien life possible?: It's hard to believe that we're the only life-form in this vast universe, and scientists are fervently seeking proof of other life-forms. Watch these videos to learn about the technologies used to track down Earth-like planets, and find out what clues we've already found.


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Apple to overhaul iTunes by end of the year

Apple to overhaul iTunes by end of the year: Apple to overhaul iTunes by end of the year

People have plenty of complaints about Apple's iTunes. It's makes organising your music a pain, crashes often, and is a slow resource hog. Plus, don't even get people started on how you can't manage content on a device that's not synced to your computer.





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BT greets Wi-Fi's 10th anniversary with OpenZone rebranding & FTTP rollout

BT greets Wi-Fi's 10th anniversary with OpenZone rebranding & FTTP rollout: BT greets Wi-Fi's 10th anniversary with OpenZone rebranding & FTTP rollout

BT has hailed the 10th anniversary of Wi-Fi's arrival in the United Kingdom with two major announcements this week.





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