iPad trial at Leicester City Council sparks union anger

“A union has criticised Leicester City Council for considering buying iPads for its councillors despite planning up to 1,000 job cuts.” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-10859748 At the risk of being accused of continuing my one man campaign against the iPad, this story is typical of managers who don’t really know what they are…

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Google App Inventor. So easy a cat can do it?

According to Google, the Google App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic.Use the GPS-location sensor to build location…

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More competition for the iHype

It’s been around for a while but I’ve only just seen this prototype from ASUS. It’s a 12 inch tablet with a docking station that turns into a laptop. Oh and it has USB, a card reader and flash. There is also a 10 inch version as well. Don’t sell…

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iPad, schmipdad

Surely you want one of these? It looks as though it’s based on an idea for the XO-2 from the One Laptop per Child XO project It has USB, SD, Flash…..

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