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Roland Gesthuizen

Cracks appear in Windows' corporate dominance - 0 views

  • Last year, 46 per cent of companies in North America and Europe issued Macs to employees,
  • Forty-one per cent of Apple users were directors, 43 per cent earned more than $US150,000 a year, and 28 per cent were between the ages of 18 and 24
  • Younger workers and those near or at the top of the corporate ladder were more likely to use Apple products in the office
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  • IT support for Apple products is also on the rise. Some 30 per cent of workplaces support Macs, 27 per cent support iPads and 37 per cent support iPhones.
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    Microsoft's corporate Windows business is losing ground to Apple .. Apple's gains coupled with Microsoft misses on mobile devices, which increasingly are issued by companies and used by workers, may signal that "Windows' dominance is at an end,"
John Pearce

Assessment for Learning: Home | Assessment for Learning - 1 views

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    "Welcome to the Assessment for Learning website. This site has been developed by Curriculum Corporation on behalf of the education departments of the States, Territories and Commonwealth of Australia." "There are 32 assessment tasks, covering the learning areas of English, Science, Studies of Society and Environment and Health and Physical Education, Languages Other Than English, Technology, The Arts and Mathematics - or their State and Territory equivalents.
Roland Gesthuizen

20 years on, world's first web page to be reborn - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Co... - 0 views

  • "We're going to put these things back in place, so that a web developer or someone who's interested 100 years from now can read the first documentation that came out from the world wide web team," he said.
  • by making the birth of the web visible again, the CERN team aims to emphasise the idea of freedom and openness it was built on."In the early days, you could just go in and take the code and make it your own and improve it. That is something we have all benefitted from," he said.
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    "The world's first web page has been dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the web."
Roland Gesthuizen

The algorithm - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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    "It's one of the great unseen drivers of our world-silently altering and shaping our social lives, the way we communicate, our access to information, our economies, our culture, the very future itself. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you-the algorithm!"
Roland Gesthuizen

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  • Our free photos and illustrations are ideal for corporate, personal and educational use. Every image is free, with an option to buy larger images at reasonable prices.
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Roland Gesthuizen

Apple, Microsoft, VMware: Everyone's building open-source software | ZDNet - 0 views

  • Gartner reported that on average, 29% of deployed code was open source, and that by 2015 at least 95% of mainstream IT organizations will leverage open source solutions within mission critical software deployments
  • “Open collaborative development via communities is widely understood and accepted, and corporate IT organizations are realizing that these characteristics can be applied to improve their internal development as well, and many are looking to apply them to enhance their own internal methods, typically in conjunction with adopting agile or lean methodologies.”
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    "Zemlin said that all successful tech companies are now using and contributing to open source communities. "Besides the usual suspects--Amazon, Google, IBM-- there are companies that you may not think of as being big open-source companies, even competitors, now admit that they must participate in open source."
Roland Gesthuizen

Big Data Begins: IT Hero Rising - CA Technologies Corporate Blog: Perspectives - CA Tec... - 0 views

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    "Let's get the harsh facts out there first - IT's in trouble, deep trouble. It has become way too reactionary. By IT I mean 'traditional' IT, the time honored 'old school' way of doing things. The pace of tech adoption is accelerating. By rights this should be a terrific opportunity for technologists and IT teams. In reality, old school IT has been shocked and awed by the consumerization of IT. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Swinburne Rubik's Cube robot breaks world record - ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcast... - 0 views

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    A group of Melbourne university students have created a robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube in a record-breaking 10.18 seconds.
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