Archive for May, 2008

May 30 2008

Champ Tracks – ICT Round-up for 29 May 2008

Published by Miles under General

Another round-up of ICT news that you couldn’t possibly live without…
Organise that meeting:

Organising meetings can be a real pain. Fortunately, there are several web-based services out there that let you create an event, manage invitations and even take payment. Mobaganda – based on Google App Engine – is the latest. [...]

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May 22 2008

Flickr Pro accounts now available from CTX donor programme

Published by Miles under Flickr

The Flickr photo sharing service has teamed up with TechSoup/CTX Programme to offer premium “Pro” accounts to individuals within eligible organisations.
By requesting a package of two or five Pro accounts Flickr is a new way for organisations to tell their story with their own photographs.
Learn more about how to place a [...]

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May 22 2008

Rural broadband overtakes urban

Published by Miles under Internet, Research

Rural areas of the UK are better connected to broadband than their urban neighbours, a new Ofcom report published here today reveals. England only summary here and full PDF (916kb) here.
Here are the edited highlights:
Rural vs Urban
Across the UK as a whole, 59% of households in rural areas now have broadband compared to 57% [...]

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May 14 2008

Silver Surfers’ Day 2008

Published by Miles under Events

A trendy young media company, West Country solicitors, space-age computer bus, Lake District Society for the Blind, Channel 4, Central Government – all are getting involved in Silver Surfers’ Day 2008, May 23rd
Seven years on, and Silver Surfers’ Day is turning into an annual blaze of activity as an increasingly diverse range of organisations are [...]

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May 13 2008

Champ Tracks – ICT Round-up for 12 May 2008

Published by Miles under General

Blame it on the early May Bank Holiday, but we’re back after a break with another round-up of ICT news for you to check out.
Web 2.0 and social networking:

Last week it was Facebook and MySpace, this week it’s Google with Friend Connect.  Google reckons 99% of web sites are not socially networked and  Friend Connect [...]

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