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Vicki Davis

ABC News: Newest Key to Teenage Freedom - 0 views

  • Car keys -- long perceived as the keys to teenagers' freedom -- may soon be the best way for parents to monitor their every move.
  • that allows parents to set safety limits on teen drivers through a high-tech car key.
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    Ford announces a car key will allow parents to set limits on their teenage drivers. If you want to require them to buckle up before the car cranks - you can do it. If you want them not to listen to loud music or not drive over a certain speed, you can do that too! Technology has brought freedom - it can also restrict teens as well, as many will begin to realize. They should behave responsibily or more devices such as this will emerge to elicit control at the source.
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    Computing devices are in cars and many other devices. This is an example of a device that will be used to restrict teenage drivers, from ford.
Vicki Davis

flatclassroomproject » Google Takes Over the World - 1 views

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    Flat Classroom 2006 project that has done a nice job of discussing google.
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    Very nice wiki about how Google has transformed the world from Flat Classroom 2006.
Steve Madsen

Why Android's 'kill switch' is a good thing | ITworld - 0 views

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    Article explains that malicious applications can be removed from the android phone. iPhone has the same feature. May give some inspiriation for a segment of vision?
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    Everyone's all a-twitter over the so-called "kill switch" found in Google's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Here's the thing, though: Not only is it not a big deal -- it's actually a good thing.
KathrynC C

FTP - 0 views

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    the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet is called the FTP.
MichaelJ J

protocols - 0 views

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    read this if you want to know about protocols.
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    The information which travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as a protocols
Julie Lindsay

edu 2.0: welcome to the future of education - 3 views

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    A free Web 2.0 resource and educational network that boasts over 34,000 members.
Julie Lindsay

Social Media and Young Adults | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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    "Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. In 2006, 28% of teens ages 12-17 and young adults ages 18-29 were bloggers, but by 2009 the numbers had dropped to 14% of teens and 15% of young adults. During the same period, the percentage of online adults over thirty who were bloggers rose from 7% blogging in 2006 to 11% in 2009. "
Steve Madsen

Dropbox iPhone Game Review - AppVee.com - 0 views

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    "Dropbox has been one of those extremely useful online tools for me over the past couple years and keeps getting better as time goes on. For those of you who aren't familiar with the program, it basically is a file sharing app. Once installed onto a couple computers, it then creates a folder on each user's system and syncs any files that are added into the folder. "
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    Excellent example of how different computing files can be synchronised between computers and shared. Free for PC's & Macs (2 GB). There is a version for the iPhone as well but seems pricey.
John Novak

Teaching virtual communication skills by Bob Dignen - 2 views

  •     Saves on travel costs e.g. conference calls over face-to-face meetings·       Saves time with reduced travel, good for working efficiency and work-life balance·       Brings groups of people together from all over the world who could not normally communicate·       Allows you (email) to manage your time and communicate what you want to when you want to rather than having someone drop into the office and interrupt you·       Enables (email again) higher quality communication with all the facts clearly presented in black and white without emotion in an email - at least potentially·       Increase communication flow and supports social networking and knowledge management in organisations e.g. company blogs and wikis ·       Reduces wasted time (people tend to digress and interrupt less in telephone conferences) in meetings
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    why virtual communication is helpful? examples are included
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    Click below to find online resources specific to these Cambridge titles: Click on a star to vote (14 Votes) Greetings, all. Hope life is treating you well. Just back from another stimulating conference so lots of ideas buzzing around my head.
Steve Madsen

Virgin Blue Selects Verizon Business to Manage its Core Business Applications - 0 views

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    Australian airline operator Virgin Blue Group said that it has selected Verizon Business to remotely manage the airline's core business applications.
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    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.
Riley Westwood9

Analysis: How Google Has Changed Our Lives - News and Analysis by PC Magazine - 0 views

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    A article on google about how it has changed our lives over the years.
alex c

History of Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, the U.S. Justice Department filed a motion to compel in United States district court in San Jose seeking a court order that would compel search engine company Google Inc. to turn over, "a multi-stage random sample of one million URL’s", from Google’s database, and a computer file with, "the text of each search string entered onto Google’s search engine over a one-week period (absent any information identifying the person who entered such query)."[68] Google maintains that their policy has always been to assure its users privacy and anonymity, and challenged the subpoena. On March 18, 2006, a federal judge ruled that while Google must surrender 50,000 random URLs, the Department of Justice did not meet the necessary burden to force Google to disclose any search terms entered by its users
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    Wikipedia's history of google
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    "Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies"
James D

Outsourcing Backlash: Globalization in the Knowledge Economy - 0 views

  • Historically, companies in the United States, Europe and Japan have led globalization, because those countries pushed products and services into developing countries.
  • 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.
  • Another factor making outsourcing attractive is the changing nature of technical work
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  • With this move to SODA, technologists and business people are talking, working with and understanding processes better. Communication between all parties is in terms of processes and subprocesses, more accurately mapping business needs.
  • Workers in one area of the globe will hear about practices in other parts of the world, raising awareness and intensifying their demands for equity. Labor forces in relatively disadvantaged economies will lobby to bring workforce programs into alignment with those of their global peers. Meanwhile, the values of workers and consumers in wealthier regions will promulgate globally, creating pressure across markets to adopt safe and competitive labor practices. In the long term — 10 years or more — the continuous pressure for equitable practices will normalize work/life programs and start to narrow the gap among regional labor rates.
  • For now, enterprises that are lured by low-cost labor markets will make decisions that satisfy immediate budget requirements, but many know little about domestic outsourcing, and even less about offshore outsourcing.
  • According to a 22 July 2003 article in the New York Times, IBM is now acknowledging the apparent necessity of moving service work to low-cost regions, and it is anticipating anger from displaced employees, as well as potential unionization for worker protection
  • Although there is frequent talk of "sweatshops" in many developing countries, the reality is often far different. In terms of economies of scale, domestic spending power and quality of life, many people in developing nations are compensated exceptionally well. As enterprises globalize, employers worldwide will be forced to offer more-competitive salaries and packages to their employees, especially those who are based abroad
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    " 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
Sydnee S

United States Senator - 0 views

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    Talks about how Trent Lott's scandal broke over the internet.
Julie Lindsay

15 Free Guides That Really Teach You USEFUL Stuff - 3 views

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    "Over the past months, we've written quite a few PDF manuals for you, on all kinds of diverging subjects, including BitTorrent, iTunes, iPhone, Twitter, Mac, Linux, Photoshop and several other topics. "
Kayla S

Globalization on carrers - 0 views

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    This site explains how companies are exporting more of their work. Also states that in recent studies, over 2 million workers in the U.S have lost their jobs due to business closures.
stephanie jones

How Do I Choose the Best Media Workflow? - 0 views

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    " If you are in the entertainment industry, or if you are thinking of breaking into the entertainment industry, you will need to find creative workflow that will allow you to have more control over editing, sound and other media aspects. " This website helps you to choose which workflow software you will need if you are thinking of coming into the entertainment industry.
Ralph C

The Social Debate: A Global View of Social Media For Business - 0 views

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    "The first is social media is much more than a fad (which you have probably read about, as well.) It's not just that Twitter has been at the heart of the Arab Spring and other social and political developments of recent years. Nor that Facebook has acquired so many millions of users all over the world. It's the fact that people use these new media in such a variety of ways it becomes impossible to distinguish business from pleasure. Wikipedia, for instance, has shown that people not only long to discover, they want to share. The psychological effect on business and public life has been immense; in fact I would say that there is a new business climate of openness"
Becca B.

Virtual Organizations - strategy, levels, examples, advantages, definition, model, comp... - 0 views

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    virtual organization is just like the flat classroom project its a lot of people who know nothing about anybody and connect with people from all over world
Rachel H

Microsoft Unveils New Xbox Live Statistics - Average Gamerscore: 11,286 | News & Opinio... - 0 views

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    as of october20,2011 x-box live says: more than 20 million users log on to x-box live more than 4 billion hours of gaming-multipayer-only over the last 8 years of the service existence.
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