\Education_215.jpg "Teach Yourself 2.0 or How Education Just Became Exciting (Again)")
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BLOGS
NEWS
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In July 2012, Google ran an online training course called "Power searching with Google". 155,000 students later, we have an open source effort to make education exciting (again).
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BUSINESS, BLOGS
ANALYSIS
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When I was starting my career it was the time of London's 'Big Bang' which meant that for the first time ever in Britain it did not matter whether you had attended a private school. If Margaret Thatcher, a grocer's daughter, could become Prime Minister then any of us could succeed.
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
NEWS, ANALYSIS
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I had the great honor of presenting during the morning session of the mBillionth Awards which annually celebrate mobile innovations in the South Asia region.
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GRAPHICS, BUSINESS
RUMORS
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After years of focusing on building infrastructure, one of priorities for the Chinese government is educating the focusing on building the knowledge infrastructure as well. A big market opportunity.
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HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING
ANALYSIS
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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In the 1980's, the Mork and Mindy TV series featured a comedic outer space alien played by Robin Williams who said Nanu-Nanu which loosely meant “Hello.” Today, Nano has a seriously different meaning.
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SOFTWARE
NEWS
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It is estimated that seven percent of the population has a neurocognitive disorder that inhibits the acquisition of basic numerical and arithmetic concepts. The disorder is called discalculia.
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APPLE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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ESC 2011 Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and now Chief Scientist for Fusion-io turned a "fireside chat" at the Embedded Systems Conference into a vaguely structured conversation about what was on his mind.
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has stepped into backing a for-profit company. They’ve invested in a business named Inigral which has created a Facebook app for institutions of higher learning.
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DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, BUSINESS
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Yes, it is time to start thinking about CES 2011. The lights of Las Vegas beckon again, technology is in the air. Mark Jan 6-9 and plan for head for sin city, for a peek at the latest, and, so they say, the greatest in technology.
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BLOGS
NEWS
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The instructor of NextLab at MIT, Johnatan Rotberg, is askingstudents "Can you make a cell phone change the world?" The answer is "Yes."
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BUSINESS
NEWS
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AT&T Inc. recently agreed to pay US$65 million to 330 Missouri municipalities, including about $17 million to 10 cities in the Kansas City area, to settle a 2004 class-action lawsuit about taxes on landlines.
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