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Google Searches For Picture Of Britishness
News Google has launched a competition which invites schoolchildren to create an image which represents what it's like to live in the United Kingdom for display on the company's famously sparse UK homepage.
[April 11, 2006, 10:00]
Time Computers To Donate Computers To Kids
News UK schoolchildren are to be given a helping hand getting wired by Time Computers, which announced Tuesday that it is to donate as much as £35m in software and hardware to kids. The initiative, organised with the help of The Times Education...
[September 29, 1999, 10:23]
'$100 Laptops' Here By Next Year
News A hand-cranked laptop that will cost roughly $100 is expected to be in the hands of schoolchildren in poorer countries by late 2006. In principle, the project seems simple: design a laptop with built-in wireless and minimal power consumption, find...
[November 17, 2005, 8:20]
Microsoft $1bn Schools Offer 'would Inflict Great Harm'
News It is a settlement that avoids long and costly litigation for the company and at the same time.really makes a difference in the lives of millions of schoolchildren in some of the most economically disadvantaged schools in the country," Microsoft...
[November 27, 2001, 12:35]
The Future Of Classroom Tech At BETT
News This start-up from the Welsh borders aims to empower schoolchildren to create multimedia content and upload it to a school portal for sharing and discussion in class. Edujam is trying to convince teachers to turn schoolchildren into creative...
[January 10, 2008, 14:58]
Australia Set To Join OLPC Project
News Australia is set to get its very own OLPC arm, to deliver XO laptops to schoolchildren across the country. The first hints of the Australian launch surfaced at linux.conf.au in Melbourne, with the organisation hoping to build support for the...
[February 5, 2008, 7:14]
Paris Unlocks Open Source For Kids
News To help make kids aware of alternatives to proprietary software, the Ile-de-France (greater Paris) region will be giving 175,000 schoolchildren and apprentices a USB-key loaded with open-source software.
[February 6, 2007, 14:18]
At Last! The Emperor
Talkback I've noticed that the water available for schoolchildren to drink in schools lacks 126 of the features that are present in Coke and Pepsi. Sounds like a long overdue breath of fresh air and good sense.
[January 16, 2007, 17:02]
Science Curriculum 'boring', Says Industry Minister
News We are having to run fast to catch up," said Hodge, who then exhorted the audience — largely made up of figures from the technology and healthcare industries — to demonstrate "the excitement of a career in science and technology and all associated...
[January 24, 2007, 13:27]
India Ditches 'potentially Harmful' $100 Laptop Plan
Talkback ' .giving the country's schoolchildren a laptop each could harm their creative thinking and analytical abilities'.
[July 28, 2006, 21:38]
Exomatiks
Downloads Exomatiks is an educational software of mathematics for schoolchildren and high school students. It composes of three modules: exercises module, calculations module and graphs module. The exercises module uses the program of the classes of the...
[December 18, 2005, 23:31]
Polyglot (Azeri Dictionaries)
Downloads This dictionary system includes Azeri-English, English-Azeri, Russian-Azeri dictionaries, and Schoolchildren Dictionaries. The dictionary consists of over 200,000 words and expressions. The Polyglot electronic dictionary system also has games to...
[October 17, 2005, 14:01]
SAS Helps Census Bureau Create School District Demographics
White Papers Census Bureau uses SAS software to prepare and review intricate mosaics of school districts that are as insightful and varied as the imaginations of the millions of schoolchildren in classrooms across the country.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
RFID Watches Aim To Stop Counterfeiters
News RFID, the much-hyped technology that's turned up on dirty laundry, on luggage and even on Japanese schoolchildren, has now made its way onto posh watches. Winwatch has teamed up with Toshiba to put the tracking tags into wristwatches, with a view...
[July 23, 2004, 16:15]
Children Are Latest Cyberthreat Warns Security Firm
News Computer security company Sophos believes that schoolchildren could represent a growing threat to other computer users because of lack of awareness about the dangers posed by computer viruses. The antivirus vendor is carrying out a study into the...
[September 26, 2000, 7:10]
2001: The Year Of Shrinking Technology
News A hundred years from now, as a class of surly schoolchildren plug in their Warwick neural interfaces and try to exchange telepathic notes without the Mr Chips Teechabot noticing, here's what they'll be desperately revising for the history test.
[December 27, 2001, 6:31]
Generation Tech
News The "simple search" feature at the Web site, which was designed in part by schoolchildren, provides as many as 50 choices to find the right title while displaying large buttons that link to fairy tales, adventure stories or books designed in...
[November 18, 2005, 16:20]
Porn Fills Police Educational Web Site
News Tayside Police who commissioned the creation of the Web site for thousands of local schoolchildren, was unaware the domain name had been taken over by a Russian porn merchant who had filled the site with adult-rated images.
[May 18, 2001, 8:25]
Government Demands Office Competition In Schools
News Open Office, Corel WordPerfect Office, Star Office, Lotus SmartSuite, Sun's One SE and EasyOffice all offer the functionality that schoolchildren and teachers need, said Becta, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, in a...
[January 16, 2007, 9:42]
Internet Addiction Spreading Among Kids
News Doctors in public and private sectors have confirmed that Net addiction is a growing problem amongst schoolchildren. Singapore is taking the lead in tackling the new illness of Internet addiction, by bringing psychologists into schools to educate...
[March 13, 2001, 8:13]
