IT professionals and teachers have expressed concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the school curriculum for two years while a new computer science curriculum is devised. During the Reviewing the ICT Curriculum ...
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IT services company Atos has launched its annual IT Challenge competition which asks students to design applications. For 2013 the company has partnered with car manufacturer Renault, to challenge students with the task of designing an ...
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The latest figures of the annual IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed that online sales in November are up 18 per cent from last year as the festive rush has encouraged consumers to reach into their digital pockets. In ...
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Games, apps and developer tools on offer The company behind the ultra cheap, bare-bones computer Raspberry Pi has launched an app store, giving users the option to download different applications and programs. The store has today gone ...
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Budget educational computer the Raspberry Pi now has an Apple-style applications hub that's fully accessible from the machine's own Raspbian operating system. Announced yesterday via a blog by Pi creator Eben Upton, the Pi Store is ...
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For over 50 years,America has had its eye on Santa Claus.Since 1955,NORAD(North American Aerospace Defense Command)has been running a volunteer service and hotline to track the bearded gift-giver across the night skies. NORAD's legion of ...
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National Instruments co-founder and CEO Dr.James Truchard will be joined by Dr.Robert Mullins,co-founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation at NIDays 2012,the annual Graphical System Design conference which takes place in London ...
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Raspberry Pi is available with increased memory of 512Mbyte and the new board is in stock at distributors RS and element14. This doubles the RAM from the launch configuration of the low cost embedded computer platform and the additional ...
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Adapteva,the parallel processing company,believes it is possible to open up the potential of parallel computing to everyone and it has launched a project to create a low cost supercomputer design called Parallella.It is looking for backers ...
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IT services provider Civica has secured multiple contracts with 22 UK schools to provide digital learning services. Implemented by Civica's education division, the learning environments use Civica's CloudBase learning platform and Virtual ...
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Vint Cerf–the founding father of the internet–is backing the BCS's call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate(EBacc). In 2015,the EBacc is set to replace the current GCSE examination system in five ...
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A scout hut in Aldershot has become the first to test drive Fubra Limited's new initiative to introduce young people to the world of programming. The Fubra Universe has launched as a pilot with 2nd Aldershot Scouts through a 100Mbps ...
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Cubieboard is a 100x60mm bare board ARM computer with a slightly higher specification that Raspberry Pi,for slightly more money. Built by CubieTech,and not yet available,the board is designed around the AllWinner A10 chip,popular with ...
PC World-There's been a seemingly endless parade of tiny,Linux-powered PCs entering the market in recent months,including most recently the$49 Cubieboard and the$89 UG802. It's nothing short of a revolution in computing,as I've noted ...
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The Raspberry Pi, a charity-funded pocket-sized computer that costs in the region of £20, will now be manufactured in the UK, its creators have announced. The Rev 2, which will cost £16 and £22 for the Model A or ISDN ...
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