1. USB devices as keys
http://www.everythingusb.com/mazda_sassou.html
In its new concept car, Mazda has decided to replace normal mechanical car keys and...
Hi! guyz, you can have your own website and free web tools for it for Absolutely FREE, this is part of our project research and everybody enjoy our free...
Many organisations customise their "404 -Page Not Found" pages so that they are not just the standard boring one that comes with the web server software....
Ground-breaking work on broadband computer connections over powerlines
is set to make Tasmania an international leader in telecommunications. The development...
And have you looked at the pricing, speeds and download limits? A
starting price of $14.95 per month sounds great, but that only allows 20
MB data (including...
"Ground-breaking" ? ....Interesting. I remember attending a talk given by an old WordPerfect chief and hosted by the ACS in Hobart about eight years ago. Many...
Williams, Ian G
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Sep 14, 2005 4:17 am
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Well, ground-breaking compared to the sitation where suburbs within
walking distance of the centre of the capital city can't get
broadband...!
kp...
Something that may interest some people. Just think, owning your own
satellite orbing around the earth. This could even be something the
department could put...
I have recently had a few conversations with IT industry people over that ongoing problem of low numbers of students entering the IT industry. The discussion...
http://www.ric.org/bionic/ <http://www.ric.org/bionic/> A real Bionic Person: a use of robotics to provide an amputee with a
realistic working arm controlled...
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for passing that on.
Mind you, I was interested in the claim on the page that Jesse Sullivan is the 'World's First "Bionic Man"'....
Why Play Games? - An ELs Learning Sequence for grades 4 - 6 In this one day professional learning workshop we will be looking at games and their impact on...
On of the more positive things to come out of New Orleans disaster: a
discussion about how communications systems might be made more robust
and less dependent...
Imagine a person who - developed an operating system that is used in three to four billion
devices in the world. - is Director of Japan's YRP Ubiquitous...
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7998&feedId=online-news_rss2
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New cellphone software makes a camera phone into a OCR scanner:
"The software,...
This would be a very valuable session for year 10/11/12 students, or trainees, or others who would like to work in the IT industry. It covers industry-specific...
The information below about free scholarships to complete ICT courses
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Lorene Furmage
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Furmage, Lorene J
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UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING: computers are everywhere
How many things around you are being run by a computer?
Professor Ken Sakamura FREE PUBLIC LECTURE 6pm Tuesday...
Ever wanted to use Linux, but haven't known where to start? This might
help:
http://www.edubuntu.org/
Quote from the website:
Edubuntu is a version of...
Best to wait for the October release as this preview is slightly buggy.
But I agree Ubuntu (and Edubuntu) are nice.
I am dual booting Ubuntu and windows on...
I think that it won't be too far away and we might see Linux in sue in classrooms. Paul ... apart from SUSE it seems the best version of Linux out there. ... ...
I agree, SuSE is the other one I have found quite easy to use that is
still reasonably secure. Ubuntu seems to have really taken off lately.
It is built on a...
Call for Applications - 2006 Microsoft ICT Teacher Scholarships Microsoft has committed U.S. $253ml to an initiative called the Partners
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Hi Everyone, I'm not entirely in the "loop" as far as understanding the departments
direction but I don't see this happening wide scale within the state,
for...
Brendan Davey
brendan.davey@...
Sep 22, 2005 3:13 am
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Separate to the "Linux for classrooms" issue, Linux provides a good
solution for kids at home. A solution that makes it easier for every
student to have a...
Hi All, I no longer work for the education department so I have NO more information then anybody else on this topic, but I do have some ideas what MIGHT...
True, it's not going to happen overnight but it will happen.
We need the functionality of a state-wide system and that has been costly. But it's this system...
