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Jumsoft, a company creating and marketing high-quality, professional, user-friendly applications for Mac OS X, has rolled out 5 new iWeb themes, this time aiming its templates at educational institutions. The company believes that attracting youth to a website now calls for a truly fashionable look. The Primary, Cool... |
3 September 2008
05:40 GMT |
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A study performed by Nielsen Online indicates the preferences of British children and young adults when it comes to online navigation. Children under 12 have a strong affinity for "kids, games and toys" websites - with cartoons or simple games, which are especially designed to meet the entertainment needs of the youn... |
16 August 2008
05:32 GMT |
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According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, year after year, more and more people tend to use a search engine when they need information on something. The total number of Internet users conducting searches everyday got from almost 30%, as it was reported in 2002, to 49%, six years later. The survey al... |
7 August 2008
09:37 GMT |
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In the majority of cases, mathematics proved to be, at some point or another, a pain in the neck for each of us. No matter if it's geometry, algebra, trigonometry or whatever other fields math might have, we have all experienced bitter frustration when a problem just could not be solved or properly understood. O... |
31 July 2008
13:19 GMT |
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For a high school student, Geography may seem a difficult subject due to the large amount of information that needs to be assimilated. Unlike many, I actually liked studying Geography and the main reason was probably the fact that I found a logical way to memorize the names and locations of all the countries, cities ... |
30 June 2008
14:30 GMT |
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Every now and then, it's really helpful to get some outside guidance regarding what you, as a human being, should do in order to keep this old planet alive. Every now and then, a game is released to teach children these things - which is even better, because they are the future and they will probably have the th... |
23 May 2008
03:05 GMT |
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United States colleges and universities are reportedly adopting Dell mobile technologies for their students. According to a Dell report, a couple of higher education customers have placed massive orders for the company's notebooks, to help 115,000 students switch to mobile computing solutions.For instance, Ivy T... |
17 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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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 computing performance.The 2133 will reportedly hit the ma... |
8 April 2008
04:59 GMT |
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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.... |
31 March 2008
19:51 GMT |
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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 ... |
28 March 2008
20:46 GMT |
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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.Commercially known as the SmartBook, FTEC's creation is aimed at provi... |
25 March 2008
12:18 GMT |
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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 mo... |
14 March 2008
06:13 GMT |
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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 wil... |
27 February 2008
03:02 GMT |
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Motorola recently announced the recipients of its Innovation Generation Grants, the $3.5 million initiative offered through the Motorola Foundation to encourage people to embrace technology, science, engineering and math. This year's Innovation Generation Grants will support 106 breakthrough programs that us... |
15 November 2007
08:56 GMT |
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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 corporate investment ever made in preschool ... |
2 November 2007
08:43 GMT |
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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 % fa... |
25 October 2007
09:18 GMT |
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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 York City's Lincoln Cen... |
21 September 2007
09:42 GMT |
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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, conside... |
19 September 2007
05:35 GMT |
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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 Rus... |
31 August 2007
09:37 GMT |
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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 reve... |
24 July 2007
14:46 GMT |
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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... |
14 July 2007
03:41 GMT |
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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... |
12 July 2007
13:11 GMT |
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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... |
6 June 2007
09:25 GMT |
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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 sexu... |
9 May 2007
19:06 GMT |
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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 erot... |
21 April 2007
05:20 GMT |
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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 h... |
20 April 2007
10:22 GMT |
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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 Inte... |
17 April 2007
10:58 GMT |
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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 you... |
11 April 2007
09:12 GMT |
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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, Googl... |
11 April 2007
04:39 GMT |
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