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Sony's PSN woes highlight a bigger security problem
The news that Sony's Playstation Network went offline in late April due to hacker activity might be easy to brush off as just a problem for console gaming types and nobody else, if it weren't for the wider implications of the particular attack...(Read more of this article)
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Smart TVs: Are They Smart?
've been working in the tech industry for long enough to see some real clunker products along the way. From PCs shaped like fish to messaging clients that relied on slow GSM networks, there have been some memorably dud products. One that stands out in memory as a particularly odd product was LG's Internet Fridge, a $17,000 food cooling device that also included an internet-connected computer in the door...(Read more of this article)
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Have eBooks become must-read articles?
Electronic books have been around a lot longer than most people think, dating all the way back to the late 1960s when the concept of the Dynabook was first mooted. It's only been in the past few years, however, that there's been real traction for the eBook concept, speeded along by devices such as Amazon's Kindle and Kobo's eReader and the willingness of publishers to come on board with electronic publishing...(Read more of this article)
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The Global Classroom
I recently attended the launch of a range of education products. On the surface, that doesn't sound terribly IT-centric, until you realise that the products in question were IT solutions tailored to the education market. At the Cromer Public School in Sydney's Northern Beaches, Panasonic has installed a number of cutting edge educationally-focused solutions for digital whiteboards and videoconferencing, working with the teachers at the school to focus their use on educational outcomes...(Read more of this article)
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