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In a move that has stunned the technical and security communities for what is possibly the worst idea for a software application this year, LinkedIn has announced the availability of an iPhone/iPad application…
In another possible major embarrassment for Apple, numerous users are reporting problems with the motion sensors of the iPhone 5S in what is being called “sensorgate”. It appears that the gyroscope, compass…
50 years ago, Marshall McLuhan the renowned philosopher of communication theory wrote about the role of mass media (the press, radio and TV) in education. He argued that it should be treated as an educational…
Not a day goes by now without a story about on the one hand foretelling great change in higher education brought about by revolutionary changes in open online education, and on the other, loud wails of…
In an incident that highlighted for me how far Australian media organisations have moved in their drive for “efficiencies”, I discovered how hard it must be to be a journalist trying to make a living from…
When US President Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he was planning to raise the thorny issue of China’s alleged sustained hacking of US computers and ongoing theft of US intellectual property…
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Edward Snowden revealed that the US had been hacking computers and network infrastructure in Hong Kong and China for some years: “We hack network backbones…
In a further development of the PRISM story, the source of the leaks has been revealed to be 29 year old Edward Snowden who was a systems administrator working for defence contractor Booz Alan Hamilton…
The revelation that the US has been engaging in systematic surveillance of potentially every user of US-based technology since 2007 has come as a shock to everyone. PRISM, as the project is called, has…
In Daphne Koller’s TED talk about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), she discusses what she believes are the pedagogical foundations of MOOCs. For her, and also restated on the Coursera website (the…