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Friday, 29 August 2008
Latest Classmate PC: now with a touchscreen
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Social Networks For Mentoring Children
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Scoble: Talking with an IBM distinguished engineer about marketing
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Monday, 25 August 2008
Microsoft’s Photosynth web service now live: Stitch Photos Together
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Vectorform: Microsoft Surface Apps
http://www.vectorform.com/
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Earthscape Basic: iPhone app that's similar to google earth
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Sunday, 24 August 2008
iPhone to get the classic game: Myst
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/08/22/iphone-to-get-the-classic-adventure-game-myst
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4160466.stm
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Amazon planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle
McGraw-Hill Education, for example, publishes 95% of their books electronically as well as in print. But there is no compelling device to read them on. The new Kindle will likely be a large screen version of the original, which is much better suited for textbooks.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/23/amazon-confirms-student-version-of-kindle/
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008
30 Free Linux Games
http://www.anewmorning.com/2008/07/24/30-free-linux-games-download-your-favorite/
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Everyone loves the twitter fail whale !
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/17682#
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School robots divide experts over teaching of phonics
Four-year-olds love a cuddly toy - especially one that can speak, has flashing lights and is allowed in class. Red the Robot is all those things, but he won't play Power Rangers. Instead, he wants to sit down to some good, old-fashioned phonics.
An army of Red the Robots is being deployed in schools and nurseries to help pupils as young as three learn to read. The 40cm-high toy can read stories and quiz pupils on their ABCs. Its manufacturer says it captures the imagination of children put off by traditional classes at a time when the government is desperately worried about children's literacy skills.
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Can 'World of Warcraft' make you smarter?
BOSTON - Parents, don't put away those video games just yet — today's gamer may be tomorrow's top surgeon.
Researchers who gathered in Boston for the American Psychological Association convention detailed a series of studies suggesting video games can be powerful learning tools — from increasing younger students' problem-solving potential to improving the suturing skills of laparoscopic surgeons.
One study even looked at whether playing "World of Warcraft," the world's biggest multiplayer online game, can improve scientific thinking.
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'Emily' will set a new precedent for photo-realistic characters in video games
Emily was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.
She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as 'uncanny valley' - which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Serious Games Job - Flash ActionScript Programmer
PIXELearning is a well-established, ASTD award-winning developer of online ‘serious games’ and immersive learning simulations. Due to rapid growth we require an Adobe Flash ActionScript developer with solid exposure to ActionScript 3 to enhance our Coventry-based R&D team.
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Monday, 18 August 2008
No Web2 Bubble ?
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Saturday, 16 August 2008
Android wants to be on any device, not just your phone
Google’s much anticipated Android mobile phone operating system, due to launch within the next few weeks, may actually be much more than a mobile OS. Industry sources tell us that although Android will indeed start as a mobile OS, Google intends to expand it to be a sort of universal operating system that will span set-top boxes for televisions, mp3 players and other communication and media devices and services.
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Serious Games Developer Raises $6M
New York, Aug. 1, 2008 - Tabula Digita,Inc., an educational gaming company delivering pre-algebra and algebra software programs to K-12 schools and consumers, announced that it recently closed its Series B funding led by Ascend Venture Group, LLC.
http://www.richardcarey.net/2008/08/14/ny-serious-games-develper-raises-6m/
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Friday, 15 August 2008
Virtual Transgender Suit
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/marc-owens-who-designed-the.php
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Want a killer idea for a new startup company ? Follow Kevin Rose on Seesmic
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WestFocus Universities' Learning Games
WestFocus, the partnership between higher education, community groups and small and medium sized businesses. Although the WestFocus partner universities are all based in South or West London, and in the Thames Valley, the demand for our services can be located anywhere in the UK.
WestFocus has developed a series of Learning Games to assist in teaching the principles of entrepreneurship. One series of games is PC-based, and offers the opportunity to simulate running various businesses - the winners being those who aviod bankruptcy and make the most money.
http://www.westfocus.org.uk/WestFocus/r1_Learning_Games.aspx
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GPS cellphones to unleash gamers onto the streets
They may not yet know it, but gamers will soon be quitting their living rooms and heading outdoors.
Handheld consoles and laptops made gaming portable, while the Nintendo Wii made gaming active. Now active, portable gaming is possible thanks to GPS and improved graphics becoming standard in cellphones.
By 2013, the world's largest handset manufacturer, Nokia, expects half of its phones to be GPS capable, giving them the ability to fix their locations on the planet to within a few metres.
Apple's iPhone, seen as a benchmark for other manufacturers, also has GPS and many handsets have motion-sensing accelerometers, just like a Wii controller. Games studios are racing to exploit a new world of what is called "pervasive gaming", where everyone carries a powerful gaming machine in their pocket.
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Being a virtual student
Being a virtual student used to mean skipping lectures after you'd signed up. Now, it's about attending lectures halfway across the world via the internet, replaying lecturers' best bits over a podcast and using online discussion groups to mull over questions. Being virtual can require much more work than anything that happens in a real lecture theatre.
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The Video Game Crash of 1983
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Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop
Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it...
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4472654.ece
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008
HSBC to order 200,000 iPhones ?
Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones.
"A decision on a piece of hardware like that would potentially be deployed, conservatively, to 200,000 people," said Hush. "You know, it's a big decision, especially when you have an existing fleet out there."
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Google Testing In-game Ads
Recent reports are now confirming that the search giant has been testing video ads for over a month, likely with its partner Bunchball. Bunchball is a member of Google's OpenSocial social networking effort and a Flash games developer with a few Facebook applications.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/85599-Google-Testing-In-game-Ads
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008
New Online Sesame Street Games
http://www.sesamestreet.org/browseallgames
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Leaked liveplace video ? Can real time rendering in the cloud really be this good ???
While there are a number of online games that offer impressive graphics (though none of this caliber), the real potential behind LivePlace and the OTOY engine is the cloud-based rendering engine, which allows games on almost any computer to play without needing a powerful graphics card. OTOY has been developed to work in any browser without a plugin, which makes the barrier for entry into this virtual world much lower than Second Life. Of course, we have no idea when City Space will actually launch, so it’s far to early to hail it as the second coming of social online worlds.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/
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Monday, 11 August 2008
Twitter users continue to stay attached to the service despite an ever-changing backdrop of alternatives.
Twitter isn’t for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it’s hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it.
No matter how long the outage du jour, Twitter users continue to stay attached to the service despite an ever-changing backdrop of alternatives.
Blogging isn’t for everyone either. But unlike blogging, Twitter enjoys a far a greater variety of users — they include people, many people, who would never think of starting a blog and people who would never touch an RSS reader. The 140 character limit is a plus for Twitter, but it isn’t all.
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Xenki: browser based viewer for OpenSim and Second Life
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/08/07/xenki-an-in-your-browser-viewer-for-opensim-and-second-life/
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Can video games can improve literacy in children?
While debate continues over the impact of videogames on children, a small study in the U.S. is examining whether videogames are actually making kids smarter.
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