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With the evolving IoT, individuals and companies need to up their security game. More tech connected to the web means more play room for hackers.

According to the latest data, video for homework is on the rise; mobile computing is "beyond the tipping point"; and most kids don't use traditional computers to connect to the Internet at home. Those are just three of the major trends revealed in the 2013 Speak Up Survey from Project Tomorrow, which CEO Julie Evans revealed at the FETC 2014 conference last week. The 2013 results represent more than 400,000 surveys from 9,000 schools and 2,700 districts across the country. Respondents included 325,279 students, 32,151 teachers and librarians, 39,986 parents, 4,530 district administrators and, new to this year's survey, 1,346 community members. Read more at http://thejournal.com/Articles/2014/02/03/10-Major-Technology-Trends-in-Education.aspx?Page=1#xdDhiZ2SqcbqTopz.99

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What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a web based service that allows workers to access the files and documents needed to do their job or task. Everything that is needed is stored on an internet based center and can be shared, edited and or viewed by anyone who is able to access the designated software program storage.

­Buying computers for everyone isn't enough, you also have to purchase software or software licenses to give employees the tools they require. This tells that cloud computing has many different advantages for users.

This site is essential because it discusses how cloud computing is being used in the cooperate world and it discusses how it saves time and money. When talking about a cloud computing system, it's helpful to divide it into two sections: the front end and the back end. They connect to each other through a network, usually the Internet. This site breaks this process down and makes it easier to understand

This article talks about how the cloud is at the early stages.

This is a really good link that describes how cloud computing works."Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet." This link also goes into detail about the different types of cloud computing and how it is being used.

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This article tells how there are other uses than just work for the internet and cloud computing. It also tells that insurance can be managed in cloud computing.

Talks about how places with little internet users essentially have zero access to open content; basically the only source of education is absent in these places.

This article talks about how Open Content resourcesa are turning people away from libraries and advances the Internet.

I found this website very helpful to understand the concept of cloud computing and its functions.

Network-based services, which appear to be provided by real server hardware and are in fact served up by virtual hardware simulated by software running on one or more real machines, are often called cloud computing.cloud computing is computing that involves a large number of computers connected through a communication network such as the Internet, similar to utility computing. In science, cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network, and means the ability to run a program or application on many connected computers at the same time.

This is part one of a two part article detailing the start of open content on the internet.

Gorakh Nath Sharma, a math teacher at a school in Ranchi, will be representing India as a Microsoft Innovative Educator at the annual 'Partners in Learning Global Forum.' Sharma speaks to Ruchi Chopda The relative lack of technological advancement and low internet penetration in the rural areas of the country have been a longstanding concern amongst digital experts and policymakers alike.