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21 June, 2013
20 June, 2013
Nissan letter to customers says in part: "It has been established that the current engine control module (ECM) software version may cause the vehicle's engine to stall under certain conditions. There is a possibility of the vehicle's engine stalling when driven between 10km/h and 60km/h where there is no accelerator input."
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Asia Connection,
Cybersafety,
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
Sustainability
The disastrous $180 million Victorian school intranet could be scrapped at the end of the month prompting fears that months of student work and reports would be lost. Mr Dixon said the Ultranet had already cost Victorian taxpayers at least $180 million – three times its original budget – despite being used by only 4 per cent of the intended 1.5 million teachers, parents and students.
19 June, 2013
HFT is a form of super-fast software-driven trading underpinned by sophisticated algorithms that allow trades to be executed in microseconds, profiting from small changes in share prices. In May 2010 the so-called 'Flash Crash', when the Dow Jones Industrial dropped by almost 1000 points in half an hour, was blamed on automated HFT-style trading. As a result, the US Securities and Exchange Commission rolled out rules to pause trading when there were significant swings in share prices in a short period.
Windows RT-hasn't been the most popular Microsoft product, but the tech giant is looking to remedy this by slashing the price of its Surface RT tablet for schools and colleges. The offer, which will reportedly run until August 31, 2013, will sell Surface RTs (without keyboards) to schools for only $199. The Surface RT retails for $499.
Labels:
Education,
History,
ICT Capability
German researchers have created a new DRM feature that changes the text and punctuation of an e-book ever so slightly. Called SiDiM, which Google translates to “secure documents by individual marking,” the changes are unique to each e-book sold. These alterations serve as a digital watermark that can be used to track books that have had any other DRM layers stripped out of them before being shared online. The researchers are hoping the new DRM feature will curb digital piracy by simply making consumers paranoid that they’ll be caught if they share an e-book illicitly.
18 June, 2013
The technology behind Facebook. Among web coders like Zuckerberg, PHP was all the rage in 2003. It gave them a means of building and re-building web software at a particularly fast pace, taking a shortcut around more complicated languages like C++ or Java. But as the months, then the years, passed, PHP’s knack for rapid-fire development would become particularly important to Facebook and The Hacker Way, the philosophy of constant iteration that drives Zuckerberg and his entire company. Facebook engineers like to change things, and change them quickly. PHP lets them do that.
17 June, 2013
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