Skill Zone News issue 32
This week a lifestyle survey revealed that we now spend more than half of our waking hours online, or on the phone, or watching TV. In my leisure time I prefer to get away from the technology. You will often find me in the forests, navigating the pathways with the aid of my digital GPS, capturing the beauty of nature on my digital camera, whilst listening to that traditional English sport of cricket on my pocket-sized digital radio.
24th August 2010
Physician, heal thyself
According to Google there are 56 million pages on the web under the nhs.uk domain. An NHS review has found that it has too many websites, they cost too much, and too many are just not accessible.
IE9 is on the horizon
Microsoft says it will release its beta test version of Internet Explorer 9 in September, yet usage studies shows one in five enterprise workers continue to use the nine year old Internet Explorer 6.
When staff leave, so does your data
When people leave jobs, they always take a few things with them which, strictly speaking, belong to the company, but how many of them take confidential data files?
43,252,003,274,489,856,000 cubes
Invented by a Hungarian professor of architecture, Erno Rubik, the eponymous Rubik's Cube was an icon of the 1980s and one of the most successful of modern toys. Thirty years on, the world finally has enough computing resources to have calculated the fastest solutions.
Owning an iPhone is a risky business
Do you own an iPhone, and if you do, is it insured? A company which offers iPhone insurance says one in five policy holders made a claim in the last year.