Hardware, Technology
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Why Schools don’t need ICT
I have written an article in this month’s ATL magazine that seems to be causing something of a stir. You can read the full article here. The closing paragraphs read as follows: Our schools are now a desert swept with the winds of yesterday’s technology; meanwhile our students can be found drinking from an oasis…
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Updating Old-Fashioned Technology
Just occasionally I find myself needing to revert to old technology. Like writing letters. Or sending faxes. Which is difficult if you are averse to paper. Step forward two cool services that make my life a little easier. 1. L-Mail. This lets me write letters by e-mail (or via a web interface) which are then…
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How much ? NHS spends money like water on ICT
According to the Guardian “BT Group will next month become the third major contractor in as many years to take a multimillion pound writedown on its work with the government’s crisis-stricken GDP12.7bn overhaul of the NHS computer system.” This is the most astonishing amount of money. The NHS is pretty much the biggest employer in…
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Ready for the Small Screen
I’ve bought an Eee PC from Asus. It runs Linux. It runs all the Office applications. It runs the Firefox browser. And it runs my e-mail client of choice. Cool. And just 200 GBP.
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The Future of ICT
It’s becoming ever more obvious that the future of ICT lies with Web Based Applications. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, etc If you want to keep an eye on the future then you could do a lot worse than to have a look at this list of the best web-based apps of 2008. It is…
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Downgrading to Vista
According to Microsoft, XP has one or two problems that just might mean you want to upgrade to Vista. Personally I’d recommended you upgrade to a Mac and run OS X – but I’ll leave you to read Microsoft’s own views on their own issues – or, as one colleague put it, “here are some…
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Moore’s Law continues… now Teraflops chip points to a faster future
Moore’s Law suggests that computers double in power every 18 months or so. But then the BBC report this: A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel. The Teraflops chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to…
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Scientists teleport two different objects – Oct 4, 2006
CNN.com reports that Scientists have managed a significant development in teleportation; this is one of those stories that may begin to look really, really important in retrospect. Beaming people in “Star Trek” fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication…