Skill Zone News issue 60
It is a month of birthdays. The text message is 20 years old, and the cassette tape is 50 years old, whilst the first transistor was created 65 years ago, on 16th December 1947. Will anything memorable happen in December 2012? Well, according to the Mayan Calendar,....
17th December 2012
Undermining the QR Code
The man in the street is slowly getting used to QR Codes, (those square barcodes that your smart phone can read), but unfortunately, so are the scammers.
Governments and accessibility
The European Commission has issued a directive that public sector websites must be disabled-friendly by the end of 2015, a little over three years from now.
Google bullish about profits
Multi-nationals have come under fire recently for their totally legal tax practices and have been doing some hasty PR work to look conciliatory. Not so Google's Chairman, Eric Schmidt, who told Bloomberg "It's called capitalism. We are proudly capitalistic."
The buzz about forensics
The Met Police forensic service has recently spoken about its seven year project to build a baseline for mains buzz background noise and its use in criminal proceedings. How long will it be before this technique appears in the script of CSI?
SMS celebrates 20 years
Mobile phone text messaging celebrated its twentieth birthday this month making it older than the average student. The very first message, sent on 3rd December 1992, simply read "Merry Christmas".