By Tony Bates, on August 25th, 2010
There was a news item in today’s the Globe and Mail’s Wall Street Journal business section as follows:
Fowler, G. and Baca, M. (2010) Growth of e-books bodes well for reading, Globe and Mail, Toronto, August 25.
The article cites research involving a survey (paid for by Sony) of 1,200 e-reader owners, covering iPad, [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 15th, 2010
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The Globe and Mail, one of Canada’s national papers, in its excellent series on Africa, had an article that really made me sit up. Here are some quotes from the article – try substituting e-learning for the xxxxs
‘It’s part of a phenomenon that has people [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 4th, 2010
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Marlow, I. and McNish, J. (2010) Canada’s Digital Divide, The Globe and Mail, April 3
For those of you who don’t read Toronto’s national newspaper, there was a very interesting article in the Business section on Canada’s digital divide. Canada was one of the world’s leaders initially [...]
By Tony Bates, on September 13th, 2009
Nicholson, P. (2009) Information-rich and attention-poor Globe and Mail, September 12
In one of Canada’s national newspapers, the Globe and Mail, Peter Nicholson, the President of the Council of Canadian Academies (formerly named Academy of Sciences), writes about the impact of new information technology on the nature of knowledge. He makes a number of [...]
By Tony Bates, on June 10th, 2009
Eisen, H. (2009) Green Teach: Canadian virtualization technology delivers computer access to millions of students in Brazil Backbone June/July
Backbone is a bi-monthly magazine delivered with Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper, but also available online. The magazine focuses on new IT developments.
This issue, focused on ‘green’ IT, has an interesting article about a [...]
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