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| HP Goes Official With Its 2133 Educational Sub-Notebook |  | Hewlett-Packard has finally introduced its rumored low-cost educational sub-notebook, dubbed 2133 Mini-Note. Previously spotted last month, the device is HP's first shot at the ultra-mobile PC market and represents an optimal balance between low price and comp ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's Classmate Goes to Philippine as Neo Explore |  | Philippine PC vendor Neo has recently launched its first Netbook PC powered by an Intel processor. Just like its older Classmate PC sibling, the Neo Explore X-1, the new sub-notebook is primarily aimed at the educational market, and comes as an affordable solution to unlock new possibilities in the learning process.
According to Mariel Que, business development manager of Neo, the new PC is a "simple, practical, PC-type ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 19:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Peru Teachers Get OLPC Computer Training |  | The One Laptop Per Child charity foundation is heading towards the Peru villages this week in order to offer notebook training for the teachers from remote rural villages. The organization will set up training centers in a few regional cities, where teachers will meet the green, rugged XO notebooks.
Teachers will be the first to receive technical information and training regarding the inexpensive ultra-mobile computers as par ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 20:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel's NetBook Goes Public: Meet FTEC's SmartBook |  | Intel's NetBook puzzle has been finally solved with the introduction of two new low-end educational notebooks in Malaysia. The notebook we have previously reported was officially unveiled today by the Malayisia-based notebook vendor FTEC ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 12:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| College Adds 7 Years to Your Life Span |  | No doubt that people today won't die from each infection, and adding this to a higher life quality, it appears logical that life expectancy has raised worldwide. But a new study carried out at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard University, and published in the journal "Health Affairs," shows that some are more equal than others: those who finished a college live significantly longer than those who ended studying once hig ... [read more >>] | | 14 March 2008, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| China Universities Join Sun's SPARC Partnership Program |  | Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors.
The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors will have to attend Sun's trainings in processor architecture. Also, the Ministry of Education will establish ... [read more >>] | | 27 February 2008, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Offers 6 Million Euro for Preschool Care and Education Funding |  | Nokia announced today that it will provide funds of over 6 million Euro to Plan, one of the most important international children's organization, in order to increase preschool and early childhood care and development programs across China. This represents the largest corp ... [read more >>] | | 02 November 2007, 08:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Smarter You Are, The Later and Faster You'll Get Demented |  | It may sound paradoxical, but ‘exercised’ brains get demented much rapidly than the nerd ones. Highly instructed patients seem to outcome easier dementia symptoms in the first stages, compensating subliminally the deficits through trained "thinking power". University graduates experience memory loss 50 % faster than people with less formal education do.
At the time dementia becomes noticeable, both educational groups may disp ... [read more >>] | | 25 October 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Music Education Campaign from LG and VH1 |  | LG Mobile Phones and VH1 Save the Music Foundation announced they have joined forces for a one-year partnership focused towards music education. The partnership officially started last night, September 20th, with the VH1 Save the Music's 10th Anniversary Gala which took place at New Yo ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Russian Linux Will Be Installed in Every School |  | A Linux operating system will be installed on every school computer in Russia until 2009. Moreover, every pupil will have the opportunity to use software produced in Russia. This could significantly reduce Russia's dependence on foreign commercial software.
Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication, considers the development of the Russian operating system and software development of vital importance. In a press con ... [read more >>] | | 19 September 2007, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Prepares the Russian Attack |  | The Mountain View company plans to improve its offering in Russia by producing several educational tools for the local market. It seems like Google will try to focus on the solutions able to help the students, the schools or the teachers such as mail technologies, security products or other types of solutions. As RussiaToday reports, the Mountain View-based company will launch a special program in Russia that will bring all these ... [read more >>] | | 31 August 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Secret of Happy Marriage: A Smart Wife |  | A sexy bimbo would make you happy, isn't it? She's sensual and always ready to do what you want; moreover, you dominate and manipulate. In the end, you could fool her for a lifetime, without marrying her.
But a new research carried on by doctoral candidate Shane Worner of Australian National University reveals that married people are happier than unmarried people, and men who marry educated women are happier than me ... [read more >>] | | 24 July 2007, 14:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Makes New Friends |  | Nicholas Negroponte's "One Laptop Per Child" program is bringing Intel on board as a possible future hardware supplier and partner. Intel will become the 11th member of the board, joining the already present Google, eBay, Nortel, RedHat and Advanced Micro Devices. The foundation which runs the OLPC program plans to sell ultra low cost laptops to government agencies around the world, so the laptops could be used by children[A ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2007, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Internet Boosts Pregnancy Levels Amongst Young Chinese Women |  | In a nation struggling to impose its one-child policy, Internet is boosting fertility. About 50 % of pregnant teens in China's financial center and biggest city, Shanghai, found their partners on the Internet. "Fully 46 % of the more than 20,000 girls who called the city's pregnancy hot line during the past two years said they had sex with boys they met online," said Dr. Zhang Zhengrong of Shanghai's No. ... [read more >>] | | 12 July 2007, 13:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Linux Integrates Well in Educational Institutions Too |  | What would the connection between Linux and the education process be? Well, it's very simple and obvious. The Linux operating system and usually the free software, could represent a good, if not better alternative to those currently used by schools and other educational institutions.
The Kamloops/Thompson School District in British Columbia from Canada is one of the most excellent examples I could bring related to the su ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2007, 09:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Parents Want You Abstinent, the Gang Wants You a Woman Lover |  | The responsibility for educating your boy gets even heavier with the teenagers.
A new research about sexual communication and teenage boys led at the University of Michigan reveals that parental communication, in the rare cases where this happens, focuses on the negative sides of sex compared to mostly positive sexual information the boys achieve from the media and their peers.
286 male undergraduates aged 18-24 were put ... [read more >>] | | 09 May 2007, 19:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Amora, The Academy of Sex and Relationships |  | There may be a Penis Museum in Iceland, or Sex Museums in New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Shanghai, Bombay and other cities.
But now a new type of museum opened its doors this week in London: Amora, The Academy of Sex and Relationships, dedicated to looking at love in a new light.
Rather than emphasizing erotica and pornography, Amore focuses on educational exhibits on subjects such as orgasms, sexual chemistry an ... [read more >>] | | 21 April 2007, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Abstinence Education, Found Ineffective in Delaying/Stopping Sex |  | In an era of a staggering speed of scientific discoveries on the field of all sciences, and in this case, of biological sciences, there are still people believing that ethic and religious principles are enough to make sexual education.
When we investigate tiny molecules behind sex, memory or vision, they think that hormone teaming adolescents can be impeded to have sex because they say so.
The results of a recently finished study s ... [read more >>] | | 20 April 2007, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Multi-core University Program |  | You win some, you lose some, you give back to the people some. Well, the last one isn't part of the saying but it's what Intel is doing in China. Their program called the Multi-core University provides training for students with the help of some very innovative solutions and of course, branded with the Intel logo.
Wee Theng Tan, vice president of Intel Corporation and president of Intel China said: "As a global ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2007, 10:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Parents Are Too Embarassed to Teach Sexual Education to Their Children |  | With all the progress of our society, fathers still imagine that their daughters are virgin deep in to their 20's or that their sons are polite with the young ladies.
The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) signals that the parents are not able to provide sexual education to their children so that the youngsters search the necessary information in magazines.
A new approach made by Ofsted points out that the ma ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2007, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Plans Educational Gmail |  | Since the release of the Google App solution, the product that is often regarded as the perfect alternative for the Microsoft Office suite, the search giant also revealed a special edition of the pack especially designed with educational purposes. Although it is available in both freeware and shareware edition, Google App was released in one more flavor entitled Education Edition. In comparison with the other two versions of the ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2007, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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