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Parents can’t even lock their children into their rooms these days as punishment; they are only giving them more time to play games in peace.
In fact, instead of fighting digital games, you should be learning how to play them with your children, say...
DATE: Jun 08, 2011
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Ahmed Elamin
I had no bites to my suggestion that Bermudians create an archive similar to the BBC's Domesday project, which attempts to capture a snapshot of life as it is today.
However one of the developers of the Geograph Britain and Ireland site (www.geograph...
DATE: Jun 01, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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Ahmed Elamin
BRITAIN'S BBC has relaunched its online Domesday project, which began in 1986 to record everyday life in Britain.
The demise of the ambitious project came about through digital obsolescence: the BBC chose Laserdisc to record the photographs and writ...
DATE: May 25, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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Ahmed Elamin
Educators and researchers have benefited greatly by being able to share information and techniques via the Internet. Collaboration online, especially using social networks, is also becoming important.
For researchers who want to live closer to home s...
DATE: May 11, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Google is moving quickly to eat up the social media space, in its drive to become bigger than big. It has already gone head-to-head with traditional media organisations, since they were essentially supplying Google with news for free.
But the media i...
DATE: May 04, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Well, it's like every paranoiac warned us, we are being tracked unawares, especially if you own an iPhone or an iPad.
Two British researchers have uncovered a hidden feature in iPhones and iPads that surreptitiously records its owner's location. Such...
DATE: Apr 27, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
About a month after I got my Kindle reader the screen suddenly became streaky, with vertical lines on it, making the device useless. I phoned Amazon and described the problem. The guy at the other end made a decision and immediately offered to send m...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Do you move around a lot between computers, or does your work’s security system block you from using the software you love to use? Let me point you in the direction of PortableApps.com, which holds a great collection of some of my favourite software....
DATE: Apr 13, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
Some big IT security breaches since the start of the year three involving EU institutions, and two possibly affecting me serve as warning that this is the era of the professional hackers and cyber thief.
When large, supposedly well-protected systems...
DATE: Apr 06, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
In this follow on to last week’s column I look at some of the trends driving social media and the techniques being used by marketers.
If you do not have a PR company, you can get away with the minimal, keeping in mind low effort probably means low pa...
DATE: Mar 30, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Ahmed Elamin
