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10 digital tools to help you learn foreign languages

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 enews

Duolingo (Free) Each day, the business world becomes more of a global society. Whether online or on your phone, here are 10 tools that can help you learn a foreign language. You can use either Duolingo‘s app or the website to practice vocabulary, grammar, speaking, and listening through translation. Duolingo also has a gamification element that lets the user earn gems (lingots) that can be used purchase things like extra hearts (think lives in a video game). Available for iOS and Android. Anki ($24.99) Anki is a flashcard system meant to compliment its computer version,…

Intel President: Integrated, Smart Connected Devices Fuel Next Era of Computing

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

COMPUTEX, Taipei, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – As computing continues to evolve and expand beyond the traditional PC, Intel Corporation President Renée James said Intel and the Taiwan technology ecosystem have the exciting opportunity to build on the long history of collaborative innovation to deliver seamless and truly personal computing experiences. Processor technology continues to get smaller with greater performance and lower power thanks to Moore’s Law, expanding the scale and potential for Intel technology and that of the Taiwan ecosystem, from infrastructure for cloud computing and the Internet of…

Your car is a giant computer – and it can be hacked

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

Imagine driving down the highway at 70 miles per hour, when suddenly the wheel turns hard right. You crash. And it was because someone hacked your car. It’s not far-fetched science fiction. It’s the near-term future today’s hackers are warning about. Most people aren’t aware their cars are already high-tech computers. And now we’re networking them by giving them wireless connectivity. Yet there’s a danger to turning your car into a smartphone on wheels: It makes them a powerful target for hackers. Interviews with automakers, suppliers and security advisers reveal…

Net neut supporters CRASH FCC WEBSITE with message deluge

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

Comic’s rant sparks run on commission’s public comments page A protest campaign in support of net neutrality provisions has overwhelmed the the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website. The commission briefly saw its public comments service go down on Monday, one day after comedian John Oliver delivered an extended rant in support of net neutrality on his evening program Last Week Tonight. In the 13-minute segment, Oliver calls the appointment of former lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC chairman “the equivalent of needing a babysitter and hiring a dingo” and, providing a link to the…

Microsoft’s NEW OS now runs on HALF of ALL desktop PCs

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

Gotcha! It’s the five-year-old Windows 7, not touchy 8.1 One of Microsoft’s newest operating systems now runs on half of desktops – but it’s not the one Redmond might have wished. Windows 7 accounted for 50.06 per cent of operating system market share in May according to Netmarketshare’s running monthly tally. The operating system expanded its share from 49.27 per cent in April. Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 scored a milestone of its own last month, as it also eclipsed Windows 8. Windows 8.1 claimed 6.35 per cent of desktops, up from…

The Internet of Things Moves Beyond the Buzz: Worldwide Market Forecast to Exceed $7 Trillion by 2020, IDC Says

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

While the interest and buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown steadily in recent years, the seemingly endless market promise continues to become reality. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), a transformation is underway that will see the worldwide market for IoT solutions grow from $1.9 trillion in 2013 to $7.1 trillion in 2020. IDC defines the Internet of Things as a network of networks of uniquely identifiable endpoints (or “things”) that communicate without human interaction using IP connectivity – be it “locally” or globally.…

321 Free Tools for Teachers – Free Educational Technology (9)

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

34 Sites To Download Royalty Free and Creative Commons Music For Teachers Archive’s audio and MP3 library : This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. ArtistServer : Free independent music, 11,000 mp3 downloads by more than 10,000 artists. Audiofarm : It´s the best and easiest way to find new and interesting music,…

The New Roles of Customer Service Outsourcers

June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

For years, economic pressures drove many companies to outsource their contact center operations overseas, allowing workers in Eastern Europe, India, or the Philippines to field their customer complaints or questions for a much lower hourly rate than they would have to pay Americans to do the same job. Many now agree that this was probably penny-wise and pound-foolish. “Decision-makers, when they’re looking to move their contact center services, are lured by inexpensive employees overseas. They’re not looking at everything else, to the detriment of their company,” says Gabriel Bristol, president…

Tech history in photos: Cloud computing pioneers

June 3, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

1. Urs Hölzle, Google Advances in networking led us to the cloud revolution. Here are ten people who were instrumental in making cloud computing a reality. Hölzle is senior vice president of technical infrastructure at Google. He was the eighth Google employee and played a major role in scaling the infrastructure to handle the demands of the cloud. Image: Stephen Shankland/CNET 2. Werner Vogels, Amazon Werner Vogels is the CTO and vice president of Amazon.com. Vogels is largely considered the driving force behind the growth of Amazon Web Services (AWS).…

The Next Net 25

June 3, 2014June 4, 2014 enews

A new Web revolution is picking up steam, and the next Google or Microsoft could emerge from the companies that are in the vanguard. SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) – Things are really crackling in Silicon Valley these days. There’s the frenzied startup action, the rising rivers of VC cash, even the occasional bubble-icious long-term stock prediction (Google $2,000, anyone?). There’s so much happening that the buzzword recently employed to try to encapsulate the era — “Web 2.0” — now seems hopelessly inadequate, defined and redefined into near meaninglessness by…