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Hard drive evolution could hit XP
Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years but it could cause problems for Windows XP users.
09 Mar 2010
Porn net domain name plan revived
A plan to create a .xxx net domain for adult content will be revisited three years after it was rejected by internet regulators.
09 Mar 2010
Nanotech 'fuse' for novel battery
A never-before-seen reaction in nanotubes could make for batteries that pack a mighty punch, say researchers.
09 Mar 2010
Games migrate to the social side
The merging of social networks and games is set to dominate this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
09 Mar 2010
Sony eyeing June launch of 3D TV
Electronics giant Sony says its new 3D television will be on sale in Japan from June, with a cost of £2,600 for a 46-inch screen model.
09 Mar 2010
Skynet satellite system extended
Skynet 5, the UK's single biggest space project, is to get a fourth satellite to up the bandwidth available to British forces.
09 Mar 2010
A Tale of Greed & Ignorance
Once upon a time there was a poor farmer who toiled night and day tending for his crops and animals.
He worked so hard that his knees were worn and his back was crooked.
He decided to ask his wife to help him around the farm.
'How can I possibly help you?' replied his wife. 'We have five young children to look after and I am busy enough already!'
He returned to his work tired and miserable.
Preview: Handheld Learning 2009
A conference like no other.
Cuts, cuts, cuts. Everywhere one looks in British politics at the moment the talk is of hacking great chunks out of public expenditure. The cheek of some of those involved is quite breathtaking, considering how wedded they have been to ever higher state spending.
But the truth is that the members of the British political class - with a few honourable exceptions - have spent so long advocating more spending that they have no frame of reference for talking sensibly about cuts. Getting value for money for taxpayers is a concept beyond their ken. And so what should be a hard-headed, well-informed discussion about restructuring the public finances is becoming, instead, quite ridiculous and hysterical.
So says Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal. How ironic to read this in a newspaper, albeit in the European section, from the very streets from which this crisis began.
Yet at a time when the world is undergoing massive transformations; culturally, financially, environmentally and technologically, couldn't there be a better time to transform learning by pressing the reset switch on a Victorian past to look at things in ways more suited to learners in the 21st century?
Should a 4-year-old have an iPhone?
For our twenty-first century kids, technology is their birthright
When I recently upgraded my iPhone 3G to the 3Gs (after almost 1 year, so I got the discount) I had to decide what to do with the old one. My 4-year-old son was clamoring for it, and I said OK. But then I thought about it. It’s a pretty expensive, complex, breakable, adult device. Should a 4-year-old really have an iPhone?
The End of the mLearning Revolution
Teacher and learning consultant, Chris Nash, takes a long cold look at how the mLearning revolution failed to deliver on its promise of personalised anytime, anywhere learning. Instead, he suggests, it has become subsumed into delivering the same drill and kill techniques of other technology based learning or ironically, mobile learning in a classroom .