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02 March, 2013
01 March, 2013
Choosing and comparing mobile, telephone or broadband contracts will become easier for consumers with the introduction of disclosure rules. Starting on Friday all telcos must provide free a two-page ''critical information summary'' to shoppers that clearly states the monthly charges and value of any contract.
Labels:
Critical + Creative Thinking,
Education,
Numeracy,
research
27 February, 2013
Bill Gates, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey — three people who became billionaire tech industry luminaries thanks to their computer programming abilities — appear in a new video released Tuesday by the Partovi brothers as part of their new computer science-education nonprofit, Code.org
Major internet service providers today will start monitoring the internet traffic to their customers' computers and will warn them if they download copyrighted materials using peer to peer network. The article says, 'A person will be given up to six opportunities to stop before the Internet provider will take more drastic steps, such as temporarily slowing their connection, or redirecting Internet traffic until they acknowledge they received a notice or review educational materials about copyright law.'
Labels:
Education,
Ethical,
Intellectual Property
If you or your kids have taken an online lesson at the Khan Academy (3,200 video lessons, 168 million views), been enlightened by a TED Talk (1,300 talks, 800 million views), watched a videotaped academic lecture (Academic Earth, Open Courseware Consortium, Open Culture), enrolled in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course, now being offered by companies like Udacity and a growing list of universities, including M.I.T., Harvard and Stanford), or simply learned to play guitar, paint a landscape or make a soufflé via YouTube — then you know that the distribution channels of education have changed — and that the future of learning is free and open.
26 February, 2013
HEWLETT-PACKARD says it is selling its webOS mobile operating system to South Korean consumer electronics titan LG to use in internet-connected televisions. HP acquired webOS as part of its $US1.2 billion ($A1.17 billion) purchase of Palm in 2010. HP used webOS to power a TouchPad tablet model that flopped after its release in 2011.
25 February, 2013
People who work from home start earlier, work up to three hours longer and get more done, a Melbourne University study found. Staying in touch with the office by email or video conference gave workers more control and left them energised, less stressed and with fewer distractions, the study, published in the Telecommunications Journal of Australia, reported.
Labels:
Personal / Social Capability
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