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Microsoft: Schools are failing to teach IT skills

...In January, Microsoft said that schools were rarely giving students the IT skills they needed for employment. This... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Ofsted calls out school data sharing failings

...best use of a national IT system to identify children missing from school. A survey by Oftsted found that the School to School system, which... Read more

26 August, 2010 by Kable

Northern Ireland funds £170m cloud for schools

...begins on 1 April, will see the services delivered to 1,200 schools across the country. Classroom 2000 will use a private cloud from Northgate... Read more

14 March, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

Gove earmarks £2bn fund for school buildings and IT

...A £2bn privately funded programme to build schools and provide them with IT and other equipment has been announced by... Read more

21 July, 2011 by Staff

Cabinet Office to publish key NHS, schools data

...per the Growth Review. Information allowing parents to see how effective their school is at teaching high, average and low attaining pupils across a range... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Sade Laja

Virgin to help link London schools in citywide grid

...contract with the London Grid for Learning for a network service to schools and possibly other public bodies. The first phase of the agreement will... Read more

28 January, 2011 by Kable

Microsoft to cut school software licensing costs

...Microsoft is set to change the way it calculates licensing fees for schools, which could lead to cost reductions of up to 50 percent, according... Read more

17 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

Five councils sign school IT investment contracts

...Five English councils have signed Building Schools for the Future contracts, which include multi-million pound investments in IT... Read more

10 December, 2010 by Kable

Norfolk council signs up to BT school cloud

...services has signed BT's first contract to provide cloud services for schools. Under the terms of the deal, which was confirmed on Wednesday, BT... Read more

7 October, 2010 by Kable

Schools to maintain IT spending levels

...Most UK state schools are set to keep IT budgets flat next year, according to research... Read more

22 September, 2010 by Kable

Apple's bulk-buying app scheme 'too complex' for schools

...Apple's cloistered App Store would deter schools from using its recently launched Volume Purchase Program as it complicates the... Read more

14 September, 2010 by Kevin Kwang

Radio amateurs prep launch of tiny FUNcube satellite

...the spacecraft will use a 145MHz telemetry beacon to transmit signals for schools and colleges to analyse. "They will be able to receive the data... Read more

4 January, 2012 by David Meyer

Weak IT teaching fuels tech skills crisis

Ofsted report identifies failings in secondary school ICT teaching Lacklustre teaching of IT in English schools is resulting in... Read more

14 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

Spectrum auction prompts calls for caps

...Keynote Seminar in London on Tuesday, professor Martin Cave of the London School of Economics (LSE) told delegates: "My great fear is that in 30... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

iPhone scanning apps 'misread' information

...Popular iPhone scanning apps consistently misread product information, according to the Cranfield School of Management. Its report into the accuracy of the three most downloaded... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Shelley Portet

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apexwm

JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

35 minutes ago by apexwm on Fedora 17 - The "Beefy Miracle" Arrives
SoapyTablet

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apexwm

BrownieBoy: "Such crashes are normally down to the OS and/or a rogue application, which could be fixed by re-imaging. Everybody knows how Windows...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've just started using it too, and like you I feel that Fedora is a fine GNOME 3 showcase distribution. I am torn, though, because I checked out...

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pjc158

Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

17 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

18 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

22 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

1 day ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC