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An article that may give some ideas of using a mobile device in education.

education researchers at The University of Nottingham believe it is time that phone bans were reassessed - because mobile phones can be a powerful learning aid, they say.

Australian airline operator Virgin Blue Group said that it has selected Verizon Business to remotely manage the airline's core business applications.

In addition to rapid growth over the past several years, the international expansion through V Australia prompted Virgin Blue to seek a reliable outsourcing partner. With the help of its partner, the group was seeking to free up its internal IT resources to focus on its evolving strategic IT needs, rather than day-to-day business operations.

Bus riders in Adelaide will be given the option to surf the Internet during their trip with the launch of a free Wi-Fi trial.

A list of Google competitors.

This is about the pros and cons of globalization in the world.

" Equal-Opportunity Globalization Historically, companies in the United States, Europe and Japan have led globalization, because those countries pushed products and services into developing countries. As the business of offshore sourcing grows, globalization is beginning to become widely accepted elsewhere. With "nearshore" and offshore sourcing, the global equation has changed. Enterprises in developing countries and emerging markets are now reaching into developed economies, offering a talented workforce at a fraction of the price. Developed and developing economies are exploiting each other's markets, economies and labor forces. It is natural to expect that those disadvantaged by globalization - irrespective of market - will protest and make known their issues. Likewise, local politicians and political parties may try to protect jobs and obtain votes through legislation such as the bills currently being debated in four U.S. states aimed at blocking the outsourcing of government work to offshore enterprises. Moreover, unlike previous instances of globalization - in textiles, products and manufacturing - the latest round is occurring almost instantaneously over a vast and sophisticated communication network. This has enabled business, projects, tasks and jobs to be transferred to virtual workforces across the globe quickly and transparently - a trend that is occurring so rapidly as to disorient entire professions, societies and organizations. Changing Nature of Technical Work Another factor making outsourcing attractive is the changing nature of technical work. By 2006, service-oriented architecture (SOA) will be at least partially adopted in more than 60 percent of new, large and systematically oriented application development projects (0.7 probability). The proliferation of Web services and SOA is causing software to be developed in smaller units that are easier to map to business processes. These smaller units are also ideal for an offshore envi

Write up on some flat classroom topics and what we're doing in my class this year.

Net neutrality is an important issue being addressed by the US government right now to prevent companies from sort of creating their own version of the Internet. These rules are supposed to keep things "open." I'm also sending these to my digiteen students (you can follow digiteen at http://www.twitter.com/digiteen) and Flat Classroom students (http://www.twitter.com/flatclassroom) for work on their project.

Very important overview of "net neutrality" being debated and discussed here in the USA. This would be an important topic to include under government and business for the Flat Classroom Project.

Topic #6: Outsourcing

A Comparision of countries

Article suggests uses the term digital inequality rather than digital divide. Section IV discusses the global situation.

This article has information that I need for my portion of the flatclassroomproject.

Improving the government from the outside, increasing government transparency

This article has to do with my topic for the flatclassroomproject.

This article helps me gain information for my flatclassroomproject.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Health 2.0 (as well as the closely related concept of Medicine 2.0[1]) are terms representing the possibilities between health care, eHealth and Web 2.0, and has come into use after a recent spate of articles in newspapers, and by Physicians and Medical Librarians.[2][3] A concise definition of Health 2.0 is the use of a specific set of Web tools (blogs, Podcasts, tagging, search, wikis, etc) by actors in health care including doctors, patients, and scientists, using principles of open source and generation of content by users, and the power of networks in order to personalize health care, collaborate, and promote health education.[4] A possible explanation for the reason that Health has generated its own "2.0" term are its applications across health care in general, and in particular it potential in public health promotion.

This Wikipedia entry gives more information and background about Health 2.0. It is a very helpful source and really helps you understand the use of Health 2.0 and how it involves Web 2.0

"Meet Chime.in, which launched in beta form at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday. Chime.in, which is reminiscent of Twitter, Digg, and Facebook, among others, is the latest brainchild of Bill Gross, who founded the UberMedia properties, including UberTwitter."

"Social network sites may be changing people's brains as well as their social life, research suggests."

"Workshop shows advantages of social media in job hunting"

Such programs are fascinating ways to help promote getting along and working with others. "National Mix It Up Lunch Day, now in its 10th year, is coordinated by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program. It served as the catalyst Tuesday for millions of students, including some locally, to cross social boundaries and foster respect for one another."

Now when a school has a good idea, they can post it on the Internet. The battle against cyberbullying is one example of how this is happening.

This doctor is using his iphone to see his patients. He pulls up the scans and shows them to his patient.