News
Silver Surfers' Day
- Category: News
- Created on 2011-04-01
- Written by Daniel Dainty
Spring Online Silver Surfers Day, the national campaign that aims to get older people using computers and the Internet at thousands of events across the UK, is due next month (16-20 May).
Businesses, organisations and individuals are invited to run digital awareness sessions to help. Events can be held anywhere from sitting rooms to boardrooms, school halls to communal lounges, libraries to UK online centres. The main purpose of each session is to involve computers, the Internet and older people in some way but each organiser has the freedom to decide how.
A marketing toolkit is available for every registered event holder to help with promotion. The kit includes posters, leaflets, appointment cards and signs. There's also a cash prize of 1,000 to help with developing future computer learning activities.
Start-ups battle for mobile application downloads
- Category: News
- Created on 2011-04-01
- Written by Daniel Dainty
Twitter was launched as a start-up at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival in Austin, Texas in 2007. In 2009, the star of the show was Foursquare.com - another social media player that quickly accumulated seven million users. This year, dozens of start-up companies have flocked to Texas hoping to get their applications on to the mobile phones of trend-setting early adopters. Favoured 2011 debutantes include Scvngr - a location-based mobile app similar to Foursquare - and Instagram - a photo-sharing application for the iPhone which enables people to take photographs and immediately share them with friends through a Twitter-style feed.
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Scams Awareness Month
- Category: News
- Created on 2011-04-01
- Written by Daniel Dainty
February was "Scams Awareness Month" when the government's National Fraud Authority re-launched its "Action Fraud" 24-hour online reporting service, aimed at reducing letter post and telephone scams said to be cheating Britons out of millions of pounds per year.
In March, Action Fraud set up an additional reporting service to tackle scam e-mail messages, establishing a dedicated e-mail address - JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING - where scam messages can simply be forwarded. The plan is for all e-mails sent to Action Fraud to be shared with the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, run by the City of London Police, for collation and analysis.
"This will enable crucial intelligence to be gathered and preventative action to be taken, seeking to disrupt the fraudsters and close down the links between them", according to Dr Bernard Herdan, CEO of the National Fraud Authority, who runs Action Fraud. He added: "This is the first time we have been able to collect and analyse scam mail and e-mails in this way. Collecting intelligence is the key to us being able to disrupt the activities of fraudsters and target their networks for closure".
One bank - HSBC - has been running its own scam reporting service since last year, asking targeted e-mail recipients to forward any suspect messages involving the bank to JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING .
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Introducing the Kamazoy ICTRoadMap™
- Category: News
- Created on 2011-03-31
- Written by Daniel Dainty
Kamazoy is proud to announce the immediate availability of the new Kamazoy ICTRoadMap™ service.
Harness your technology’s reliability, deliver it to your staff and students and watch the creativity in the classroom flourish. The ICTRoadMap™ helps your school, your staff and your students to make the most of your technology by delivering fresh ideas and efficiency tips to your technical team, allowing them to provide excellent support and service to the people who need it most – your staff and students.
