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Inbox: Snooping bills, spam mountains, boring IT
Comment This year's A-Level results show the number of candidates taking IT-related subjects continues to decline. Flooding silicon.com's inbox this week was comments regarding the rather hefty bill the government's 'snooping' database has racked up. [21 Aug 2008]
Wanted - CIOs with opinions
News The subjects are chosen by the editorial team and often tap into hot topics of the week. So if you're a CIO, IT director or equivalent and think CIO Jury, with its commitment to interesting subjects, low time overhead and high visibility is for you... [18 Aug 2008]
HP dishes out research grants to academic institutions
News The institutions will conduct their research in collaboration with HP Labs into subjects including "information explosion, dynamic cloud services, content transformation, intelligent infrastructure and sustainability", according to the company. [18 Aug 2008]
Teens losing interest in IT
News Don't expect a home-grown solution to the UK's tech skills crisis any time soon - this year's A-Level results show the number of candidates taking IT-related subjects continues to decline. The figures show 5,068 people sat the computing A-Level... [15 Aug 2008]
Development of an Interactive e-Learning Management System (e-LMS) for Tanzanian Secondary Schools
White Paper This poor performance however is highly noted in science and mathematics subjects. e-learning, as defined to be the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for supporting the educational processes, has motivated Tanzania to apply ICT... [04 Aug 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2003 Group Policy Management (Part 2 of 2) (Level 300)
White Paper Other subjects the webcast discusses include deploying software, documenting GPOs and procedures, staging GPOs, testing GPOs, GPO backup, GPO restore, migrating GPOs and finally troubleshooting. This webcast covers advance Group Policy Object... [04 Aug 2008]
Case Study in Assessing Subjective QoS of a Mobile Multimedia Web Service in a Real Multi-Access Network
White Paper Subjective quality ratings were collected from 20 test users to obtain a distribution representing the service quality experienced by the subjects. This paper presents an empirical task-based user evaluation, which was carried out for the purpose... [18 Jul 2008]
Relation Between Willingness to Pay and Guaranteed Minimum Bandwidth in Multiple-Priority Service
White Paper This problem is addressed by making it easier for test subjects to visualize the quality of service available with a minimum.guaranteed bandwidth when evaluating willingness to pay. Off late, the necessity of quality guaranteed services is... [11 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment The confusions and policy switches that have surrounded the national curriculum only confirm that pushing subjects into schools inevitably requires something else to be pushed out. It is therefore a pity the government pushes educational... [09 Jul 2008]
Thinking XML: Semantic Anchors for XML
White Paper This paper looks at XML Topic Maps Published Subjects and Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF), two ideas that take the granular approach by seeking to provide anchors in the semantic stream. XML syntax is just the foundation for data... [03 Jul 2008]
IPv6 Security
White Paper When discussing IPv6 security, three major subjects tend to rear their heads. The first subject is native IPv6. While not being a true security issue in itself, all protocol implementations have security flaws. [03 Jul 2008]
IPv6: Answers to Your Questions
White Paper The questions cover a broad range of subjects: technical aspects, technological benefits, strategy and deployment costs. Like all new technologies, IPv6 raises questions. These questions are even more crucial because IPv6 is the evolution of IP... [03 Jul 2008]
Emotion Recognition in Speech Signal: Experimental Study, Development, and Application
White Paper The study deals with a corpus of 700 short utterances expressing five emotions: happiness, anger, sadness, fear, and normal (unemotional) state, which were portrayed by thirty subjects. The utterances were evaluated by twenty-three subjects, twenty... [03 Jul 2008]
palmOne Case Study: Beaufort County School District
White Paper The Beaufort County School District wanted to put more technology in students' hands at all levels and in all subjects, and to take an active role in evaluating handheld use for teaching, learning, and administration. [03 Jul 2008]
Model Canadian High School Integrates Handhelds Into Administration and Across the Curriculum
White Paper The Garden Valley Collegiate Winkler High School wanted to enhance the student learning process efficiently and to achieve collaboration across subjects. They also wanted to expand the integration of technology into curriculum and administration. [03 Jul 2008]
