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A recent study by Leeds University has found evidence of a link between excessive internet use and depression. The information was collated from a questionnaire-based study of 1,319 young people and adults, used data compiled from respondents to…
March 6 2010, 7:58pm | Comment
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In the UK there is a new grant scheme available for low-income families with children aged 3-9, to get access to a computer and the internet to get online at home. If you are a low income family…
February 11 2010, 8:14am | Comment
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Understanding Free and Open Source Software
There are many misconceptions floating around about free and open software (foss). The purpose of this article is to address them and to better inform people. The first response I seem to get when I discuss ‘free software’…
January 5 2010, 8:35pm | Comment
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Mobilize This09 brings together those pursuing the active use of mobile technologies and associated digital literacy in their daily lives, teaching and work related duties. The event will be held at Charles Darwin University, Australia – Google map,…
October 27 2009, 8:29am | Comment
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96% of public sector in France is using open source
Unixmen.com report that almost the entire public sector in France, 96 percent, is using open source, says a market survey. The most used applications are database management systems and content management systems. A research firm, Markness, presented a summary…
October 12 2009, 8:03am | Comment
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I am pleased to see that the community of Jokaydia have embraced and developed a new outpost on Reaction Grid, which is run on the OpenSimulator platform. Jo Kay reports on her blog that the community of educators…
October 11 2009, 2:13am | Comment
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Software is owned not licensed
The software company Autodesk has failed in its bid to prevent the second-hand sale of its software. In a long-running legal battle it has not been able to convince a court that its software is merely licensed and…
October 8 2009, 12:36am | Comment
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Sign petition for open Internet in Europe
An interesting link from fsdaily, apologies for the blatant copy and paste, but I am tired… If you believe Europe merits an Internet that is free and open according to the following principles, please sign this petition and…
September 24 2009, 6:26am | Comment
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Virtual Worlds Growing in Popularity
The virtual worlds consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Some of these memberships are likely to be unused or inactive but this…
August 1 2009, 8:19am | Comment
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Chris has been experimenting with Blender again this weekend. He has produced some really nice modern sculptures. You can view the sculptures here in Second Life. You can download Blender here. Blender is a 3D graphics application released…
July 20 2009, 6:50am | Comment
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Australian Government Targets Gamers
Stephen Conroy the Australian Communications Minister, has been nominated by the British ISP industry for its annual “internet villain” award. Senator Conroy was nominated for the annual internet villain award “for continuing to promote network-level blocking despite significant…
June 28 2009, 2:31am | Comment
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The UK culture secretary, Andy Burnham, said today that the government intends to acquire powers to apply “technical measures” to crack down on persistent illegal filesharers on the internet. The Digital Britain report is due to be relaesed…
June 7 2009, 7:26am | Comment
