"After several years of the research, global mobile industry body has come out with what it says are definitive data on mobile device penetration: global mobile subscriber numbers of 3.2 billion and total active connections of 5.9 billion by the end of 2012."
Say hello to the first ever file-sharing system that you can use over Facebook. After a year of invite-only and beta status, Pipe, the Facebook-integrated app is going to be available more widely starting today.
"Teaching about sound in the classroom used to involve lots of fiddly bits of kit such as Signal Generators and Decibel Meters that would cost a lot of money and only get wheeled out once a year. Thankfully if you have an iPhone or iPad you can replace quite a bit of that kit with a couple of handy apps which are either free or relatively inexpensive.
Here's a couple to get you started:"
"Presented by well known science educator, Sean M Elliott, Rough Science is a digital learning environment that explores three exciting Australian Curriculum Year 5 & 6 science topics: Layers of the Earth; Solid, Liquid & Gas; and Adaptation & Evolution. Each unit is comprised of a short video and a creative challenge. The App is accompanied by a free Rough Science Teacher Handbook, available from the iTunes store.
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In the past few years there has been an ongoing debate as to whether the proliferation of open access (OA) publishing would damage the peer review system and put the quality of scientific journal publishing at risk. Our aim was to inform this debate by comparing the scientific impact of OA journals with subscription journals, controlling for journal age, the country of the publisher, discipline and (for OA publishers) their business model.
Our results indicate that OA journals indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus are approaching the same scientific impact and quality as subscription journals, particularly in biomedicine and for journals funded by article processing charges.
Google IO 2016 is a day away and already expectations are keep mounting on the new announcements and improvements. This year from the reasonably hyped...
Is losing weight, getting in shape or just simply taking good care of your body on your resolution list this? Then you should try these top 5 fitness apps.
As we all know the Netflix' series The Get Down (part 1), which knocked the Netflix's door last year and this April the season 2 of this series is also fascinating the audience.
"Over the past five years, national interest in engineering education has been growing.2 More schools are incorporating engineering lessons-creating windmills, designing water filtration systems, planning buildings of the future-and more out-of-school programs are offering engineering activities."