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As internet access becomes ubiquitous, less identification of applications as mobile or web apps will perhaps be the greatest challenge to the developer communities.

The Android version of the Project Rome software development kit (SDK) is now available for Java and Microsoft's own cross-platform development tool Xamarin, to enable developers who are making apps for the Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform (UWP) able to communicate across platforms.

Gadgeon home automation services is when technology and convenience converge, allowing the electronic devices that you use every day-lights, TVs, audio equipment, security panels, thermostats, and so on-to communicate with one another. By having these devices collaborate, you are given the power to control all of them from one convenient interface-whether it's a touch screen, remote control, keypad, or even on your smartphone-from virtually anywhere in the world. http://gadgeonlifestyle.com/

As children, we ask "Why?" a lot. It is a part of childhood, that special time when the many forces acting upon our cognitive development converge around a singular desire to ask "Why". It becomes the central focus of our conversational style, an incessant exclamation into the void which tests the patience of any nearby adult. But asking "Why" offers so much more.

"Despite the vast array of options when it comes to EdTech, walking around exhibitions you can't help but notice that the technology is converging, and that one black screen looks like all the other black screens, the 'solutions' are solving the same things and the high prices, alas, are also ubiquitous. But what impact is this having on learning? Few educators truly use the full capabilities of the tech available to them, due to a lack of time, training, or ideas for how it can be deployed, and some teachers can allow the technology to take precedence over pedagogy and learning."

A good interactive stimulation of a volcano. Change the settings and see how the eruption changes. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Higher education faces a challenge. It may not now it yet, but it does. And the challenge is this - when learners have been accustomed to very facilitative, usable, personalisable and adaptive tools both for learning and socialising, why will they accept standardised, unintuitive, clumsy and out of date tools in formal education they are paying for? It won't be a dramatic revolution (students accept lower physical accommodation standards when they leave home for university after all), but instead there will be a quiet migration. The monolithic LMSs will be deserted, digital tumbleweed blowing down their forums. Students will abandon these in favour of their tools, the back channel will grow and it will be constituted from content and communication technologies that don't require a training course to understand and that come with a ready made community. This may seem like just a technological issue, but it runs deeper than this.