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Viewpoint: More trust could lead to less wasted ICT effort John Rudkin, an independent ICT consultant, on why we need to learn to be more open to alternatives in public sector ICT ...Article - Gary Flood - 2012-03-05 11:33 Comment: Are we losing a vital part of the public service ethos? John Rudkin, an independent ICT consultant, wonders if the old model of public service is disappearing – which could be a ...Article - Gary Flood - 2012-03-09 12:31 The public sector can't stop ignoring the non-Microsoft world John Rudkin, an independent ICT consultant, says last week's launch of the iPad3 has significance for the public sector beyond ...Article - Gary Flood - 2012-03-19 10:51 Viewpoint: When is a saving really a benefit? For education ICT consultant John Rudkin, we may be fooling ourselves with all our current talk of 'savings' Over the ...Article - Gary Flood - 2012-04-16 14:47 Viewpoint: Free your mind and your budget will follow! ... part of his two articles on savings, independent ICT consultant John Rudkin asks what may really be being hidden behind loud talk ...Article - Gary Flood - 2012-04-16 17:31 Don't mistake BYOD for basic IT security ……….Independent consultant John Rudkin is getting a bit fed up of people citing consumerisation of IT as making us more insecure. The real issue; we haven't fought off the bigger Dragon of basic poor security attitudes. (Despatch Box)...Article - Gary Flood - 2012-04-30 17:15 ______________________ ______________________
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iPad myth – No 4 – you can’t play flash on an iPadThis is sometimes a real game breaker for people who want to buy iPads and it is especially important for schools that have a lot of resources that depend on Flash. The Apple stance seems to be that until Adobe make a Flash player that is good enough it will not work with the Safari browser. In addition many web developers are adopting HTML5 as a standard for providing…
An extraordinary row has broken out between the Government and Britain's biggest exam board after a top official used his Twitter account to attack Coalition reforms.
Adobe has acquired Nitobi Software, the creator of HTML5 mobile app framework PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. PhoneGap’s open source platform allows developers to build cross-platform mobile applications with HTML5 and JavaScript, and distribute these applications to a variety of platforms. To date, PhoneGap’s open source framework has been downloaded more than 600,000 times and thousands of applications have been built using PhoneGap on Android, iOS, BlackBerry and other operating systems. The company…
, a leading small business phone systems provider built by smart software guys. He frequently guest lectures at local universities, discussing social media and new marketing methods.
You are a small business, therefore, you need an easy way to communicate with your customers and vice versa. Picking a phone system that you can rely on is a complicated, tricky business, and not really something you want to hassle with at the end of…
"There are now over 500,000 Android devices activated every day, and it’s growing at 4.4% w/w"
- Andy Rubin, June 28, 2011
By that measure, there should now be over 900,000 Android activations per day and October 20th should be the first day Google crosses the impressive milestone of 1 million activations in a single day (see chart below). They Made The Rules >From April 2010 until July 2011, Google periodically announced the number of Android device activations per day. While…
It’s getting close! With Apple set to hold its next media event on Tuesday, the folks in Cupertino have already put up a “Let’s Talk iPhone” banner outside of the Apple campus auditorium. The icons on the banner match the invites that were sent out to the press last week.As you can see, the venue resides at
4 Infinite Loop
. Apple’s auditorium only holds between 200-250 people, so expect Tuesday’s keynote to be an intimate affair.(via 9to5Mac) Similar…
UK mobile networks kept in dark and may not even be able to give prices until FridaySecrecy surrounding Apple's announcement of its "iPhone 5" on Tuesday evening UK time is so strong that UK mobile networks admit even they do not know precisely what will be unveiled, and so may not even be able to give prices until Friday.Expectations are high, though, with carriers telling the Guardian that they think the phone will be the most highly anticipated…