Best for Business: Android vs Windows

Best for Business: Android vs Windows

Android 6.0 Marshmallow is official, Google posts up final preview

Android 6.0 Marshmallow is official, Google posts up final preview

Windows 10 Review – Windows but not as you know it

Windows 10 Review – Windows but not as you know it

How Tablets can improve your classroom

 

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5 Tech Trends That Will Transform Education By 2025 - FORBES

Forbes
Pragati Verma,CenturyLink

Technology is reshaping how we teach, connecting classrooms and shaking up the fundamental business model of the education industry.
The disruptive potential is evident in the flow of capital investment. Venture funding to education tech companies jumped 55 percent last year to $1.87 billion, with several firms closing in on $1 billion valuations, according to venture capital research firm CB Insights.

Skoolbo: The best education app in (and for) the world

Skoolbo looks like a game. It is a game, and a competitive one at that, with each player competing against the recorded performance of another child and a computer generated competitor. 

http://www.tablet-academy.com/swivl.html
 

Cetrix Awarded 4 Year Framework Contract for London Schools

Cetrix is among 7 industry leaders and major distributors selected to supply tablet computers to schools in Greater London

St. Julian’s, Malta; 8 December 2014: Cetrix Limited, a leading European mobile device manufacturer, is awarded a four-year framework contract to supply tablet computers to schools in Greater London area. In September, London Borough of Lewisham launched a tender for suppliers to provide educational ICT solutions and specialist ICT goods and services to schools, councils and academies. The tender consisted of Lots, covering the full range of ICT goods, services and solutions operated by educational institutions including design, specify, supply, integrate, implement and test, training, support and maintenance. The scope of this tender later expanded beyond Lewisham borough to cover all schools in the Greater London area.

GAMBIA’S INSIST GLOBAL TEAMS UP WITH CETRIX TO LAUNCH EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE

A Case Study

Overview
BUSINESS ISSUE
InSIST Global initially wanted to create a low cost solution to help schools in Gambia with their administrative work which has now expanded to an ambitious multi-year project to provide an operating platform for schools that will exploit Information Communication and Technology (ICT), to make education more affordable and effective for every Gambian.

Obama signs executive order to build first-ever exascale supercomputer

By Jamie Lendino

While the US has plenty of representation in the current TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world, it lost the #1 slot to China’s several years ago. President Obama wants to fix that immediately, and as such has signed an executive order Wednesday that dictates the creation of a coordinated federal strategy for high-performance computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment. It establishes the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) — tasked with building the first exascale (1,000-petaflop) system, and by extension the fastest supercomputer in the world.

Windows 10’s default privacy settings and controls leave much to be desired

By Joel Hruska

Windows 10 launched yesterday, so it’s time to focus in on some specific issues and evaluate the OS in bite-sized chunks. First up, we’re going to investigate the setup process, privacy options, user accounts, and some under-the-hood basics related to Windows Update and overall update control. Unlike some other writers on ExtremeTech, I deliberately held off spending much time in Windows 10 before Build 10240 so that I could experience the RTM version fresh and cover the changes as I discovered them.

Google brings deep neural networks to your phone with Translate

By John Hewitt

Google’s neural networks are good for more than just making trippy art. If you download and run the company’s latest translation app, you will be using a deep neural network — and not just through the cloud, but right on your own phone. The network instantly adds twenty additional languages to the existing seven that their app could decode before, but that’s just the beginning.

How to install Windows 10 in a virtual machine

• Grant Brunner on July 30

 
Windows 10 is officially available to the world, and it’s actually a fairly solid release. It’s not perfect, but it’s still worth checking out for the novelty factor alone. That being said, upgrading a production machine immediately after a major OS release is typically frowned upon. For those of us who want to try out all the new features without putting our productivity in jeopardy, virtualization is the best bet for the time being.
Thankfully, setting up Windows 10 in a virtual machine isn’t particularly difficult. I’ll walk you through the process from tip to tail, and by the end of this post, you’ll be ready to try out Cortana and the new Xbox app.

Despite recent claims, the EmDrive remains long on speculation, short on proof

• By Joel Hruska on July 30, 2015

A new report from German researchers has made waves by claiming to validate the performance of the controversial EmDrive, but many articles on the topic have vastly oversold the results. Let’s see if we can find some clarity here. To begin with, the EmDrive is what’s known as a resonant cavity thruster. It relies on a magnetron to produce microwaves and is designed to produce thrust towards the narrow end of the cavity.

Fixed Batman: Arkham Knight for the PC delayed until at least September

Ever since Batman: Arkham Knight vanished from store shelves amid controversy around the terrible condition of the PC port, there’s been questions about when the game might be back on store shelves. A new leaked email to EB Games suggests that the Caped Crusader won’t return to PCs to conclude his adventures for quite some time. “As previously advised,” read an internal EB Games email, “we have stopped sales of Batman: Arkham Knight PC while Warner and Rocksteady work on addressing performance issues with the game. The latest information from Warner is that the updates won’t be available until Spring. Due to this we have made the difficult decision to recall all PC stock from stores to return to the vendor until an acceptable solution is released.”

Windows 10 Updates will be mandatory for Home users — only Enterprise customers get long-term deferral Joel Hruska

Windows 10 is widely believed to have gone RTM this week, even if Microsoft isn’t formally calling it that, and new changes to the company’s License Agreement reflect that shift. According to the terms of the new agreement, Home users explicitly agree to receive mandatory updates from Microsoft with no ability to control the frequency of said updates.