News Card (Week 8)

APPLE CHANGES MFI POLICY IN RESPONSE TO POP CHARGER KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN

Last week, after Apple pulled the plug on the POP multi-device charging station crowdfunding campaign, the device was set to claim the dubious honor of becoming the largest refund from a Kickstarter project to date. After exceeding its funding goal almost three times over, Apple informed the device’s creator, James Siminoff, that its licensing rules wouldn’t allow a device that featured both Lightning and 30-pin adapters. Apple says it has now reviewed its specifications, possibly giving POP the green light.

Available as AC-powered and portable battery-powered models, the POP is a minimalist all-in-one charger that features two USB ports on the underside of the unit, along with four retractable cords that were originally intended to charge Apple and micro-USB devices using a 30-pin/micro-USB combo tip. However, after the release of the iPhone 5, the design was changed to replace two of the 30-pin connectors with two Lightning connectors. It was here that Siminoff ran into trouble.

Although the device in its original form was part of Apple’s MFi (Made For iPod) program before the release of the iPhone 5, when it was submitted with the integration of Lightning connectors Siminoff was told it violated the technical specifications of Apple’s MFi license, which had been updated to forbid Lightning connectors featuring alongside any other connectors in a single device.

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News Card (Week 7)

13 Secret Tech Stars of Silicon Valley

Bangalore: More than often it is the people with ranks—founders, co-founders, CEOs and others who grab the limelight for things big or small. But there are people, like undercurrents, dynamic but not visible, play a crucial role, and are least likely to grab the credit they deserve. However Business Insider initiated the novel campaign to unearth these tech stars and bring them to lime light. Here are the 13 secret tech stars of Silicon Valley.

#13 Shiva Rajaraman, for making YouTube ubiquitous

Shiva Rajaraman is Director, Product Management at Google. He helms the consumer product team focused on discovery, consumption, and devices, helping to grow views to over 3 billion views a day. Prior to his current role, he launched several of YouTube's first advertising products and initial TV and film launches.

Though there is huge buzz about Google+ being the Altair of search giant, it is YouTube which deserves the crown. Rajaraman's big push this year has been to roll out a new, consistent look wherever videos play, available in variety of platforms—iOS, Android, Xbox, Wii game consoles and many more, excluding its already huge web presence, making YouTube ubiquitous.

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News Card (week 6)

201 OPD cruisers have latest technology in video cameras

The Omaha Police Department has another tool to keep the public safe. More than 100 cruisers now have the latest technology in video cameras.

Captain Scott Gray says the cameras also gather video evidence for internal and criminal investigations. The cameras come on every time the lights and siren are activated and there is an external microphone that allows officers to record conversations when they are out of view.

The cameras were mounted last summer but there was glitch in the system that has now been corrected.

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Assignment 5 (Summarize the PDF )

PROMOTING TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Information and communication technology in education is quite important in teaching and learning process in 21^st century curriculum. Therefore, in today’s society it is needed to know how to utilize technology to fast-track educational process. As we have seen education in the urban areas, most of the teaching and learning activities are using information and communication technology as a tool to administrate school activities among principals, Administrators, teachers, and students. Particularly, principals supposed to know how to integrate technology in administration job in order to link to the all men powers of the school. 

It is extremely crucial to develop technology in school administrators as a standard of the common solution to run the school properly that has to involve all school organizations to work together by augmenting and incorporating technology in school. Therefore, educational leadership has to blueprint to create conducive environments in order to realize the perspective vision in grass root people in the fields.  The reality shown that in developed countries are using technology in teaching and learning process where to foster education such as: design the curricular, teaching and learning strategies in order to improve school qualities. Furthermore, as school leaders is essential to increase capability of technology skills to implement in the fields as a part of productivity in order to work in partnership with school men powers that are supporting, managing, and operating in the system of learning and administration. 

In addition, leaders of education have to asses and evaluate what have been implemented and planned concerned about technology and keep the responsibility in decision making based on the copyright law, privacy, security in environmentally healthy practices. Principals’ connection with computer technology is really required to get ready to facilitate technology in teaching and learning process and in administrative & managerial everyday jobs. Therefore, is needed to carry out the research survey to fix and to take actions accordingly the findings.  The influential of the leader of school is bring about to change in the environment, particularly principals has to organize the influential among the school men powers throughout training the literacy of technology.