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12 May, 2015
Programming languages don’t die easily, but development shops that cling to fading paradigms do. If you're developing apps for mobile devices and you haven't investigated Swift, take note: Swift will not only supplant Objective-C when it comes to developing apps for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and devices to come, but it will also replace C for embedded programming on Apple platforms.
08 May, 2015
After several years of speculation — really since the thing first hit Kickstarter in 2012 — Oculus VR has finally announced a consumer version of its Oculus Rift PC-based virtual reality headset. The first units will begin shipping to buyers in the first quarter of 2016, with preorders starting “later this year.”
The advantages of using a NFC, or for that matter any kind of RFID technology, are that you don’t need to implant any batteries — all the power is included in the device that interrogates the chip. In Seth’s case, that device is a nearby Android phone. The pretext for his first major demo is a hacking scenario where his NFC sends a message to the phone that contains a link to a Web page that downloads a file. If the file is then installed, an app then connects to a remote server and allows control of the device.
Labels:
Cybersafety,
ICT Capability
06 May, 2015
While it seems like software developers have taken over the world, one arena where they’re still relatively rare is politics. As I wrote last year, for example, it’s still hard to find people in the U.S. Congress who have backgrounds as programmers. However, it turns out that at least one country in the world, Singapore, has a former programmer as a prime minister, and he’s actually shared some code to demonstrate his chops.
Labels:
Asia Connection,
Education,
ICT Capability
03 May, 2015
Nearly half of the jobs in Australia are at high risk of "digital disruption" in the next 20 years, and our education system is not equipping students with the skills needed to adapt, a new report warns. PricewaterhouseCoopers chief executive Luke Sayers is calling for a national summit on the issue, saying universities need to start producing far more people literate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects (STEM) to help the workforce adapt to a rapidly changing global economy.
02 May, 2015
30 April, 2015
Even now, some trends are evident. Advances in disruptive technologies like mobile computing, the Cloud, big data/analytics, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, social media, advanced robotics and artificial intelligence are driving the changes and these will continue to be areas of huge opportunity.
one of Edward Snowden’s leaked documents said the US National Security Agency had hacked into Huawei’s email archive and internal communications. In an interview with The Australian, Huawei Enterprise Solutions Architect Paul Cooney said Huawei and its Australian clients had moved on to forge positive business relationships. This had seen Huawei build key national 4G infrastructure for Optus and Vodafone.
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