A new Department for Education (DfE) report entitled The National Curriculum in England Framework offers more details of the coalition's plans to improve the teaching of computing, but provides no formal backing for Education Secretary ...
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The Duke of York and processor firm ARM have put their shoulders behind Code Club, a nationwide volunteer project to teach programming to 9-11 year-olds in after-school clubs. Thought up by computer scientist Linda Sandvik and user ...
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics, commonly known as Philips) (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is a Dutch multinational electronics company headquartered in Amsterdam. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard ...
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Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" from the UK's real problems in IT education, ...
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Pi designed the packs and branding for Goya Marinades, which is available in four varieties: Mojo Chipotle, Naranja Agria, Mojo Picante and Mojo Criollo. The revamp was intended to make the line more consistent and appear more vibrant. ...
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The Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 Roadster launched this week at Miami’s Homestead Speedway this week with some sobering news – the supercar will be priced from US$795,000, plus taxes. That’s a US$33,500 hike on the ...
A slimmed down version of the Raspberry Pi has been introduced with around half the power consumption and a lower price tag that tht original board. The new Model A version of the embedded computing platform has only 256MB of RAM included ...
BLU Products, one of the fastest growing mobile phone manufacturers in the world, announced the new Quattro Series of smartphone devices, all powered by the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 1.5 GHz quad-core processor with a fifth battery saver ...
A Denver, Colorado based startup has launched an innovative way to type on smartphones. Named ZoomKeeTM by Entropy Wrap, LLC, this patent pending technology automatically magnifies the keyboard around the characters a user is typing, ...
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The UK's education, training and technology sectors will be among the major areas of UK export growth over the next few years, claims business secretary Vince Cable - despite a forthcoming shortage of qualified computer scientists as fewer ...
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Google today announced it would again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a March security conference, but boosted the maximum amount it will pay to $3.14 million and changed the target to its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS. ...
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Google's charitable arm, its Google Giving fund, is providing funding for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The company's Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has been visiting a Cambridge school where he and Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton have ...
New Firefox phones - the first in a slew of new smartphones based on operating system alternatives to Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone - will be launched in February. Created by a Spanish startup called Geeksphone, the ...
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Figures released by Raspberry Pi distributor Premier Farnell suggest that one million units of the credit-card-sized Linux computer have sold since it was launched, the Raspberry Pi Foundation said on Tuesday. Premier Farnell announced ...
Called RaZberry (top of the picture), the hardware module pushes onto Raspberry Pi’s I/O connector. There is also a protocol stack and firmware, "as well as a license for Z-Way, which is the controller software that the Raspberry Pi ...
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