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Mcdoogleh CDKEY

BBC News - Schools must embrace mobile technology - 0 views

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ITGS privacy Education peopleandmachines policiesandstandards globalisation equalityofaccess

shared by Mcdoogleh CDKEY on 29 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Mcdoogleh CDKEY on 29 Sep 10
     
    The need for schools to prepare for 21st century learning was top of the agenda at this year's BETT conference.They must embrace mobile technologies, games, podcasts and social networking, according to leading educationalist Professor Stephen Heppell.Schools should also break away from traditional classroom and curriculum models, he argued.The gap between those schools embracing technology and those not is getting bigger, he said.Prof Heppell was speaking to delegates at BETT, the world's biggest educational technology show.
Max van Mesdag

Buddy, Can You E-Mail Me 100 Bucks? - BusinessWeek - 1 views

www.businessweek.com/...b4156068763985.htm

Mobile Phone E-Mail Money Transfer Loan ITGS

shared by Max van Mesdag on 16 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Max van Mesdag on 16 Nov 09
     
    People in Japan already use it, but people in the United States are expected to use e-mail and mobile phones to transfer money. Will this be reliable and secure, though?
  • dr tech on 19 Nov 09
     
    Do you think this article is biased at all - from his comments about "Banking on the mobile phone is relatively safe."? Make sure when you annotate the actual IT System that you are able to explain how it works... you have not tagged it with a social and ethical issue BTW?
Mcdoogleh CDKEY

How Microsoft blew it with Windows Mobile - CNN.com - 0 views

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dr tech

Homework goes mobile for school pupils in Lesotho | Dan Griliopoulos | Global development | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ndary-school-pupils-in-lesotho

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shared by dr tech on 03 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Jan 15
     
    "Sterio.me sends homework lessons and quizzes to basic phones that have limited access to data. Phones of this type have more than 86% penetration in Lesotho. The programme is undergoing trials in local schools, supported by the Vodacom Foundation, the ministry of education and the local teachers' union, before being rolled out across the country. "
dr tech

British mobile phone users' movements 'could be sold for profit' | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...re-tracked-and-sold-for-profit

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shared by dr tech on 04 Apr 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 04 Apr 16
     
    "Many people unwittingly sign up to be location-tracked 24/7, unaware that the highly sensitive data this generates is being used and sold on for profit. Campaigners say that if this information were stolen by hackers, criminals could use it to target children as they leave school or homes after occupants have gone out."
dr tech

Major vulnerability in 5G means that anyone with $500 worth of gear can spy on a wide area's mobile activity / Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 31 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 31 Jan 19
     
    "That's why it was so important that the new 5G mobile protocol be designed to foil IMSI catchers, and why the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, or 3GPP (the body standardizing 5G) updated the Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) to resist IMSI catching techniques."
dr tech

Cash is king - for now: China signals it will slow transition to cashless society | China | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...currency-mobile-payment-system

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shared by dr tech on 01 May 24 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 May 24
     
    ""Elderly Chinese still often prefer to pay with cash and some struggle with using mobile payments." Less than a year ago, state media was lauding China's trajectory towards becoming the world's top country for cashless transactions. Xinhua reported cash had dropped to just 3.7% of the total money in circulation. But in recent months China's government has appeared to push back, with numerous announcements about "streamlining" payment systems for visitors and elderly people."
dr tech

Can Google really tell us how busy a place is? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ly-tell-us-how-busy-a-place-is

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shared by dr tech on 25 Nov 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Nov 16
     
    "ne of the creepiest - and most useful - Google inventions has been its ability to predict traffic jams by using anonymised ping-backs from mobile phones to tell how fast everyone is moving."
dr tech

Moral panic: Japanese girls risk fingerprint theft by making peace-signs in photographs / Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 12 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 12 Jan 17
     
    "he had successfully captured fingerprints from photos taken at 3m distance at sufficient resolution to recreate them and use them to fool biometric identification systems (such as fingerprint sensors that unlock mobile phones)."
dr tech

Brazil judge orders WhatsApp blocked for 72 hours, affecting 100 million people / Boing Boing - 0 views

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shared by dr tech on 03 May 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 May 16
     
    "A state judge in the Brazilian state of Sergipe has ordered all mobile phone operators in the country to block Facebook-owned WhatsApp for 72 hours, nationwide. Those five telecom providers put the ban into effect today, and it affects about 100 million people. In Brazil, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app."
dr tech

5 Security Software Myths That Can Prove Dangerous - 0 views

www.makeuseof.com/...ware-myths-can-prove-dangerous

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shared by dr tech on 05 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Mar 14
     
    "Excluding mobile operating systems for tablets and smartphones, Windows still owns about 90% of the global computing market, so it's no surprise it remains a prime target for malware. That doesn't mean other operating systems are perfectly safe, however, as they too can prove easy pickings."
dr tech

A 'Babelfish' could be the web's next big thing, says AI expert | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...anslation-lifelogging-cyberwar

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  • dr tech on 15 Mar 14
     
    "Shadbolt also forecasts that future changes to the web will mean people will be "connected all the time" to medical diagnostic systems - but also that search companies including Google and China's Baidu may face challenges as web use shifts from the desktop to handheld and mobile devices."
dr tech

UK set to ban Google Glass for drivers | Technology | theguardian.com - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...google-glass-drivers

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  • dr tech on 01 Aug 13
     
    "A spokesman for the department told Stuff, a gadget magazine, that the device could distract drivers while they are behind the wheel, defining Glass as a similar distraction to a mobile phone."
dr tech

Robots replace 90 per cent of humans in Chinese factory - productivity increases 162 per cent - 04 Aug 2015 - Computing News - 0 views

www.computing.co.uk/...ctivity-increases-162-per-cent

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  • dr tech on 04 Aug 15
     
    "Human beings have been replaced with robot arms, which have been busily crafting parts for mobile phones, with production per employee increased from 8,000 to 21,000 pieces at the same time. This amounts to a 162.5 per cent productivity improvement, and there is further bad news for the outdated meatsacks clutching their Chinese equivalent of P45s - the previous defect rate average of 25 per cent has now been reduced to just five per cent."
dr tech

University admissions service broke data laws over targeted advertising | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ia-broke-data-laws-advertising

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shared by dr tech on 09 Apr 15 - Cached
  • dr tech on 09 Apr 15
     
    "The universities admissions service, Ucas, broke data protection rules when it signed up teenagers to receive adverts about mobile phones, energy drinks and other products, the information commissioner has ruled."
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