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		<title>Social media could transform public services</title>
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Social media could transform the NHS and other public services in the same way that file-sharing changed the music industry, a conference has heard.
Growing use of tools, such as Facebook and Twitter, offered an opportunity to reinvent services, delegates heard.
The MyPublicServices event debated ways to harness these conversations, many of which are critical, to make [...]


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		<title>Computer device &#8216;helps&#8217; diabetics</title>
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BBC- A handheld computer console game has been developed to help diabetic children monitor their condition.
The Didget system for the Nintendo DS is designed to encourage young people to test their blood sugar levels regularly.
Users download the results to their console and are rewarded with game points.
25,000 children in the UK have diabetes. Those with [...]


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		<title>Microsoft releases biggest patch on record</title>
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Microsoft Corp issued its biggest software patch on record on Tuesday to fix a range of security issues in its programs, including the yet to be released Windows 7 operating system.
In a monthly update sent to users of its software, Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, or patches, to address 34 vulnerabilities it identified across its [...]


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		<link>http://gcse-ict.net/microsoft-releases-biggest-patch-on-record/</link>
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		<title>27 interesting ways to use Twitter in the classroom</title>
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1 &#8211; Gather real-world data
Put a shout out to your Twitter network for them to tell you (and your students) something. This makes learning based on up-to-date information and real people (with a real story behind it!)
2 -Monitor the &#8220;Buzzwords&#8221;
First&#8230;Use twitterfall.com
Type in a keyword (&#8220;communism&#8221;, &#8220;appeasement&#8221;, &#8220;poverty&#8221; &#8211; whatever)
Then watch the results come pouring in [...]


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		<title>Advantages of UK Qualifications (IGCSE, A level, AQA etc)</title>
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You may not be able to travel halfway round the world and spend three years in another country at this stage of your life, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you wont be able to gain an internationally respected UK education. Every year, more than 200,000 students study for UK qualifications in their own country, either by [...]


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		<title>F.B.I. Indicts Dozens in Online Bank Fraud</title>
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In what it is calling Operation Phish Phry, the F.B.I. began arresting 53 people on Wednesday on charges of conducting a vast financial fraud based on phishing — the act of tricking Internet users into revealing their passwords and other information.
The arrests were in Southern California, Nevada and North Carolina, while the authorities in Egypt sought to [...]


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		<title>GoogleLookup: Do some awesome stuff with a spreadsheet</title>
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Using the Web, the GoogleLookup function attempts to find the values for straightforward facts about specific things. Keep in mind that while the GoogleLookup function knows quite a bit, it doesn&#8217;t know everything. Although not all of the formulas you try will work, we encourage you to experiment.
When GoogleLookup isn&#8217;t sure if an answer isn&#8217;t [...]


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		<title>Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online</title>
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According the news posted on Neowin; an anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The details have since been removed but Neowin has seen part of the list posted and can confirm the accounts are genuine and most appear to be [...]


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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Bing takes first slip in search market</title>
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After gaining market share every month since its June unveiling, Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine slipped a bit last month for the first time.
Web metrics firm Net Applications this week reported this week thatBing&#8217;s share of the global search engine market slipped from 3.52% in August to 3.39% in September. The market share of the dominant search [...]


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		<title>IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service</title>
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IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.&#8217;s expansion into the business software market.
The weapon: a bare-bones e-mail service that IBM is selling to companies for $36 annually per worker, undercutting a more comprehensive package of software applications that Google sells for $50 per user annually.
For that slightly higher price, Google is offering 25 times [...]


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