Good news has emerged for computer users with e-mail accounts as it was revealed this week that the volume of spam has fallen in recent months. The drop in junk e-mail was quite steady between August and December before a dramatic decline was seen over the Christmas period.
One security firm noted that there were about 200 billion spam messages being sent each day in August last year. However, this had fallen quite substantially to around 50 billion by December, yet nobody really knows why.
Paul Wood, a senior analyst at Symantec …

Getting up early on New Year’s Day is not something many revellers from the night before would relish, but some people got an unwanted lie in due to a glitch with their alarm. The problem occurred with Apple’s iPhone on the first two days of the year.
The glitch stopped the built in alarm clock going off in the iPhone meaning that many people overslept. Complaints were made from users through blogs and tweets with many saying they had been late for work or risked missing planes and trains.
Whilst Apple acknowledged …

Scientists and astronomers have discovered that there are many more stars than previously thought.  These so-called stealth stars are dwarf stars, hidden within tremendously large galaxies.  Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains hundreds of billions of different kinds of stars.  Although our galaxy is a spiral one, Elliptical galaxies hold the previously undiscovered or supposed red dwarfs.

Galaxies in general are like islands in space.  The elliptical ones are the commonest.  Our universe is thought to contain around 100 sextillion stars, which is three times former estimates.  This has far-reaching …

The head of Palm, a large manufacturer of smart-phones, blames his company’s failure to turn around (and subsequent take over by HP) on the fact that the competitors in the market just moved more swiftly. His name is Jon Rubinstein, and while speaking recently at a technology conference, he admitted that, though his company had been a pioneer in their technology, they had fallen behind in the past several years. The company had pinned its hopes for a turnaround largely on the 2009 Pixi and Pre smart-phones, along with their …

Vatican City is looking for a good used solar-powered and electric Popemobile, for his Holiness to use.  Of course, a new one would be nice, too.  Pope Benedict wants us all to think about sustainable energy and the environment.  So far he’s had no luck in his quest for a greener way of getting from one place to another.
Cardinal Lajolo, who’s in charge of keeping the city state going, says that the pope would love an electric Popemobile over a gas-powered one.  He does want to make the Vatican into …

Mix Master Mike, a popular DJ formerly with the Beastie Boys, has performed all over the world. He has not yet, however, performed in space. He wants to change that. He wants to perform on the moon. He described his vision this way: “It may sound corny, but anything can be done. I’d like to scratch on the moon, a full-on, two-hour set. Then after the set, plant the flag and then come back.” For the time being, however, the Mix Master will have to be content with the product …

It wasn’t all that long ago that games were essentially designed for kids, but the incredible technical advances made in the past decade, and specifically in the past couple of years, now sees games aimed at a far wider audience, with the adults just as keen as than the youngsters, if indeed not more so in many cases. There cannot be many homes now that don’t have either Microsoft’s Xbox or Sony’s Playstation amongst its furniture.
Nothing stands still and recent announcements have been made for release dates of new extras, …

The world of technology has been eagerly awaiting news on the latest concept in cameras, the 3D camcorder, and the latest announcements of what the general public van expect has certainly not disappointed.
The remarkable speed at which modern technology advances is almost breath-taking. Devices and gadgets which we possess are becoming dated at an alarming rate of knots. It doesn’t seem all that long ago that we were quite happy to be out and about with music systems attached to our persons, that we now look back at almost cringing …

WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies
Boulder, CO (PRWEB) November 12, 2010
Fully half (51 percent) of the 183 two-and four-year colleges and universities participating in the 2010 Managing Online Education (MOE) Survey, sponsored by the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET) and The Campus Computing Project report that faculty who teach in online programs must complete a mandatory training. The mandatory training, which averages 22 hours, reflects a significant investment of institutional resources and also a significant comment of time from faculty who want to teach online courses.
“The survey data highlight …



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