Literacy (along with numeracy) is surely one of the most important staples for kids to be equipped with to prepare them to enter the adult world. But is the Web helping or hindering kids’ writing skills?
The majority of kids who are able to pick up reading and writing skills at a very young age without too much trouble. But there are an increasing number who are falling through the gaps in the system and leaving school not being able to spell or use grammar in even the most perfunctory manner.
The big question is whether technology in general, and the Continue Reading This Story ...
Britain’s car industry may be struggling to set the world alight but the talent is clearly still there. And it’s now being utilized to develop a supercar designed to reach speeds in excess of 1,000mph (1,600kmh). The car is codenamed Bloodhound and it could break the land speed record and the 1,000mph barrier by 2011.
The British have a great track record of breaking the land speed record, having set the fastest time in a wheeled vehicle multiple times in the past 75 years. The record is currently held by Andy Green, a Wing Commander with the RAF. In 1997, he Continue Reading This Story ...
Carbon emissions and carbon footprints have been in the news a lot over the past few years. But while politicians and celebrities have taken up the cause of reducing these, it hasn’t really affected the individual, the ordinary man and woman on the street, yet. But the issue could soon be personalized in a very real way thanks to individual carbon rationing.It’s believed, though as yet not proved beyond doubt, that carbon emissions as created by humans, is having a detrimental effect on the health of the planet. And so we’ve all been asked to help lower CO2 emissions by using our cars Continue Reading This Story ...
Five years ago today, on November 9, 2004, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 and the Web browser has never looked back. In that five years Firefox has grown from an open source product for nerds and geeks to a mainstream product with 330 million users worldwide and a 20-25 percent market share. So, what does the future hold for Firefox?
Five years ago the Internet was a wildly different place than it is now. There was no YouTube, no Facebook and Twitter, no Blorge for that matter. The Web browser market was also very different. Q2 of 2004 saw Microsoft’s Internet Explorer hit its highest market Continue Reading This Story ...
Carbon emissions and carbon footprints have been in the news a lot over the past few years. But while politicians and celebrities have taken up the cause of reducing these, it hasn’t really affected the individual, the ordinary man and woman on the street, yet. But the issue could soon be personalized in a very real way thanks to individual carbon rationing.
It’s believed, though as yet not proved beyond doubt, that carbon emissions as created by humans, is having a detrimental effect on the health of the planet. And so we’ve all been asked to help Continue Reading This Story ...
Almost twenty years ago now, Gordon Murray conceived of and designed the McLaren F1 supercar. Only 106 were ever produced and it is one of the fastest production cars in the world, reaching a speed of 391 km/h in 1998. What has Gordon Murray done since production of the McLaren F1 ended in 1998? Why, he’s gone all green of course, and is preparing to unleash his T.27 electric car on the world over the next few years.
I guess it’s a measure of how important green technology is seen these days, especially when it comes to automobiles and vehicle design, that the man who Continue Reading This Story ...
As if the e-reader market wasn’t already crowded enough, Creative is preparing its own entry in to the space.Creative, best known for its Sound Blaster computer sound cards, is preparing to enter the ever more crowded e-reader market according to Epizenter.Tentatively named MediaBook, the new e-reader was shown as running on the companies Zii technology at an annual meeting and is said to feature a touchscreen, text-to-speech function and an SD memory card Continue Reading This Story ...
Just a couple of decade ago, the only way to have a wealth of information available at your fingertips was to purchase a costly and bulky set of encyclopedias. These could take up a whole bookshelf and cost a month’s wages. Now, the Internet offers that wealth of information in the form of Wikipedia. And the WikiReader brings Wikipedia to your pocket for under $100.
The last two decades have brought us from the space-consuming print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, through the short-lived time of the CD and DVD editions, and onto the present day when the Continue Reading This Story ...
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