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Barclays, the U.K. banking behemoth, is challenging Barclays To Host Blockchains Hackathon developers to assist refurbish the worldwide derivatives market next month at a hackathon. Disclosed to the media this week, DerivHack will take place at Barclays' Rise accelerator spaces at the same time in New York and London on September 20 and 21, 2018. The ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), Thomson Reuters, and Deloitte are co-sponsoring the hackathon.

"Kno has started shipping its single-screen and dual-screen 14.1-inch touchscreen Linux-based tablets. Unlike other mass market tablets they will mostly be sold as text book e-readers that are targeted at the educational market with web browsing and note taking support." "

Interesting tablet computer although probably too pricy and heavy.

A great Slideshare looking at QR Codes from the marketing point of view. The presentation contains a great explanation of the makeup of a QR code as well as examples of good and not so good uses in marketing. It also looks at other types of codes that compete with QR codes.

For the newbies they are just the strange lines forming a square but once known they are an effective part of the marketing strategy to easily grab the attention of the potential customers.

The qr codes serve as an effective marketing aspect that is placed along with the graphic design for the further variations.

The Quick Response codes consists of a group of data which are saved in the form of the symbols. These can be seen in any of the products you purchase form the super market...

Is the QR code so popular? If yes, then what is QR code? A bar code type that has been specifically designed to be used in the smart phones and other mobile based devices can be called as QR code, which is scanned using a camera that is found inside. You can use online QR code creator even for various business use. These codes are considered to...

Are you looking for the best QR code generator for your marketing needs? SquareScan offers you an opportunity to create a custom QR code with the ability to track your results.

QR code generation is one of the useful and an inexpensive way of attracting customers. So that they interact more with the products and...

"Now that I actually own an Surface, it's clear to me what it's about. Spoiler: it's not an iPad."

"Let me guess, you heard about Pinterest. Or more like, you can't spend 15 minutes online without hearing about it… And now you're thinking, "should I jump on the wagon too?" or "another social network to keep up with?" and on top of that, everybody is talking about using it for marketing and getting tons of traffic and, you just don't see it. Alright, I hear you. I'll give you everything you need to know about Pinterest and a bunch of resources so you can decide if you or your business are ready to join the hottest trend online."

"Here is number of ebooks are available in web design market. These ebooks are free to use and save it for future. these are the useful stuff for designers whom want to develop their creativity. So today we are providing top 10 free ebooks for web designers. I hope designers will like these ebooks and brush up their webdesign skill."

Nice list of 10 free eBooks :-)

"If you've ever visited a website that handles even the smallest bit of your personal information, there's a good chance (hopefully) that it's asked you to read through a privacy policy or two. Rather than pour over the details, many of us simply click on 'I AGREE!' and proceed with using the application. Even the companies and websites involved understand this and make it as easy as possible to satisfy lawyers as well as users. What's the harm in essentially ignoring that privacy policy? While the majority of the time it's harmless, there are some ne'er-do-wells that may gather your personal information and sell it to marketers, advertisers, or spammers. While terrible, it's not unheard of."

"we have reached the tipping point for e-textbooks, and the Xplana predicts that in the next five years digital textbook sales will surpass 25% of sales for the higher education and career education markets."

Interesting to read the move to make core college materials available on the web for minimal cost.

"Being able to solve everyday complex problems through communication and cooporation with others are the skills that students need to learn and practice to prepare for the future. Communicating effectively and efficiently with diverse audiences and solving everyday problems are important in a society that is moving at a rapid pace in a Global Market. The ability to solve everyday complex problems is an important and necessary skill for students today. Problem based learning (PBL) provides a learning environment students require to resolve everyday problems while applying previous and learning new knowledge. Cooperative learning, as a part of PBL, allows students the opportunity to communicate ideas and knowledege. As a teacher it is also important to communicate effectively with students to guide the learning process as well as model how to question and reason through a problem. The web-enhanced 3 part seminar series is designed to review and apply the basics of PBL to allow you to create a PBL unit to use within your own classroom."

For the first time in years, PCs grabbed the spotlight at CES 2012. Ultrabooks were everywhere, but was it an innovation win or an innovation failure?

"Graeme Anthony C.V.I.V - Intro Email - graeme.anthony@hotmail.co.uk Twitter - http://twitter.com/comms_anarchist Created by Graeme Anthony, brought to life by Dan Burdett - http://www.thisisheavy.co.uk"

Amazing way to promote yourself with an interactive video CV on YouTube. I hope that this chap can get a job from this CVIV.

This page contains a link to the Learning in the 21st Century: Taking It Mobile report. "This report identifies key findings from the Speak Up 2009 trends report and from interviews with innovative educators who are leveraging mobile devices for learning. Their stories illustrate emerging trends, implementation considerations and strategies for implementing mobile learning initiatives."