iCNSQ Blogs has moved from iblog.cnsqonline.com to icnsq.cnsqonline.com. Still there are some bugs needed to be fixed. So Stay tune..
I was able to successfully upgrade wordpress from version 2.0.1 to version 2.2.2. Now I can now use the latest themes and add-ons.
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines–Three-year-old Filipino firm TechFactors Inc. has developed “edutainment” software to make technology education interactive and fun for children.
Citing the lack of homegrown courseware, a group of academic experts and game developers from the University of the Philippines came together to form the company.
About 90,000 Filipino kids from 170 to 180 private schools nationwide use the company’s courseware, Jimmy Caro, chief academic officer of TechFactors Inc., told INQUIRER.net in a telephone interview.
The company’s edutainment software combines video games, laboratory simulation and other interactive exercises to make ICT education “fun and engaging,” he said.
The company has developed courseware modules for pre-schoolers, elementary, and high school students.
“There’s a need for schools to help kids prepare for college,” he said, adding that the interactive courses also derive topics from mathematics, science, and English as examples to help kids learn technology, Caro added.
Every student is provided two books and a CD that contains a year’s worth of ICT courseware. Teachers are also trained in the use of the courseware.
Asked how much the courseware package costs, Caro said, “It is cheaper than going to a popular fastfood [restaurant] in a month.”
Local schools that have bought the homegrown courseware include the Philippine Cultural High School in Binondo, Ateneo de Davao, University of San Carlos, Don Bosco in Pampanga, and the National College of Business and Arts.
“We hope what were doing will have an impact on ICT education among the Filipino children,” he said.
The Filipino software company is actively looking for venture capital to help them expand capacity and reach in the market.
“There’s still room for growth because of the big demand from schools,” Caro said.
By Peter Galli
from: PCMAG.com
SAN FRANCISCO—Windows Vista has probably created the single biggest opportunity for the Linux desktop to take market share, Cole Crawford, an IT strategist at Dell, said in an address titled, “The Linux Desktop—Fact, FUD or Fantasy?” at the annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here.
For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author, entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as saying, “To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just have to work on it.”
Microsoft has also owned the desktop for more than 15 years, Crawford said, “and so the only way for them to go is down. But Linux can only go up, and its growth potential is enormous. While Linux only has 1 percent of share on the desktop versus Microsoft’s more than 90 percent, that is changing, and the Linux desktop is expected to gain some share over the next two years,” he said.
The number of developers targeting Windows decreased by 12 percent in the last year, while their targeting of Linux has increased by 34 percent over the same period, recently released information from Evans Data shows, Crawford said.
The interoperability agreements that Microsoft has signed with Linux vendors, from Novell to Xandros and Linspire, have also had largely positive results so far, he said, adding that another plus was the fact that Linux development has shifted to a model in which a significant portion of the kernel is being developed by corporate entities.
On the downside, Crawford said, was the fact that no one actually owns the kernel and this makes SLAs (service-level agreements) more challenging.
Read the rest of this eWEEK story: Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
Here are some blogging that I gathered around the ‘net.
1.) Do Blog Hopping: blog hopping means to visit blog links that are posted on other blogsites’ blog roll/links and at the same time include them on you blog roll/links areas
2.) CBOX shoutout box.: This tool is also a great way to increase blog traffic as well as to exchange links. You can get your own shout-out box on www. cbox.ws or make your own using this tutorial.
the Migration of iCNSQ Blogs is now complete and I now have re-posted all the previous post on this new server.
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For those who follow the never ending bout between the two processor company giants, Here is the full coverage of CNET.com Check it out who wins this bout. The Battle is between AMD’s Athlon 64 X2 vs. Intel’s Core 2 Duo .
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