One of the benefits of getting comprehensive public transport information fully integrated in Google Maps is the potential to include public transport in all forms of local search. An example of this is the experiment launched over the weekend to search for hotels based upon a travel time from a location. In the example below …
This has been a very long time in coming, finally national travel planning become easier as Google Maps now includes information on National train routes and timetables. The National Rail information joins local transit data, to offer true national multi-modal travel planning to users of Google Maps on the web, and more importantly mobile via …
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If you are a tech-savy parent and are wondering how you can help your children learn useful ICT skills after the well deserved criticism of the GCSE IT curriculum, buy a Raspberry Pi when they go on sale and let your kinds discover computers perhaps in the way you did ? Oh, did I mention …
Read more “If you learnt ICT from a BBC, Sinclair or Atari, read on..”
Freedom is in Peril A sister to the more famous “Keep Calm Carry on” World War II poster, this version seems a most approriate message to all users on the internet in 2012. Interestingly according to the people at the Imperial War Museum, neither version was actually used, although the simplicity and directness of both …
Makes me proud to be a Googler ! #blogpost Google has donated £550,000 ($850,000) towards the £15 million project to renovate Bletchley Park. The donation from Mountain View is part of a $100 million charitable program that's previously helped rescue Alan Turing's personal papers. The country estate is the former home of Station X and …
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Area51a? now visible in Google Earth/Maps. Interesting contrast with the main site at Groom Lake, seems operating UAV’s needs much less space and infrastructure. Not sure what Chuck Yeager would think of robot pilots, but its clearly the future. #blogpost A new satellite image of an isolated airstrip in Nevada shows a secret but operational …
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The Mountain View based, Computer History Museum has a great online exhibit on Steve Jobs. Well worth a virtual visit, and a excellent example of museums responding quickly to public interest. #blogpost Computer History Museum
At a conference last week discussing the upcoming “Internet of Things”, there was much discussion about the security concerns of connecting infrastructure to the web. SCADA systems have for a while been connected and this story of the hacking of a water pump to destruction was mentioned by a few people. Turns out to be …
Some good news from the UK Autumn Statement on the Economy, Great to see the Open Data Institute – Tim and Nigel bring their startup to Shoreditch ! And some real logic breaking the potential Public Data Corporation into Customer and supplier orgnaisations, The Data Strategy Board and the Public Data Group. Public sector data …
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There is a long way to go, just ask your kids what they think of ICT teaching.. In the meantime to get your younger family members into programming I recommend "Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids" by Warren & Carter Sande The teaching of computer science needs to be reformed to make it more relevant …
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