ICT SupportWiMAX Cell Phones Edge Closer to Reality

WiMAX Cell Phones Edge Closer to Reality. Power-saving chips are paving the way for super-broadband handheld devices. Kate Greene. Technology Review. Online June 2006. WiMAX, the souped-up successor to the WiFi wireless standard, could greatly increase the amount of information that cell phones and other mobile devices can pull from the air. … WiMAX phones using Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) might drop fewer calls and keep working up to 50 kilometers away from base stations, compared with 16 kilometers for cellular networks and WiFi's mere 100 meters. …

Informative ReadingSurvey highlights Islam-West rift

Survey highlights Islam-West rift. BBC. June 2006. Deep mutual suspicions exist between the Muslim world and the West …Many Westerners see Muslims as fanatical, violent and intolerant. … Muslims, for their part, tend to view the West as selfish, immoral, and greedy - as well as fanatical and violent … The researchers canvassed the opinions of 14,000 people in 13 countries.
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other.
Pew Global Attitudes Project. http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253

ICT SupportWebsite helps users develop reading skills

Website helps users develop reading skills. USAToday. Online June 2006. IBM will give schools, libraries and community centers free access to a new website that allows young children and adults with limited English to practice reading aloud… The website uses newly developed speech-recognition software that "listens" to readers and helps correct errors. … IBM anticipates making it available for free next year to anyone with Web access, a high-speed Internet connection and a microphone headset. …The program primarily is intended for children ages 5 to 7 and adults who are learning to read English.

Update from IndustryIntel jumpstarts Technology Entrepreneurship programme

Intel jumpstarts Technology Entrepreneurship programme. CPILive. Online June 2006. … ‘Intel …‘Technology Entrepreneurship – Theory to Practice’ seminars … Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region. …commenced in Egypt on 6 June at the American University of Cairo … Turkey on 9 June … Developed by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, the Intel Technology Entrepreneurship Programme includes curriculum, model business plan competitions, in-classroom exercises and other tools that university professors can use to educate technical graduates on the basics of entrepreneurship…

Informative ReadingTeaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success

Teaching with Technology: The Secrets of Their Success. Victor Rivero. THE Journal. Online 2006. Foremost leaders in education technology provide five lessons on using today’s tools to engage students, recharge teachers, and in some cases, change the world. … Squeak eToys … a mediarich authoring environment with a simple, powerful, scripted object model for many kinds of objects, created by end users, that runs on many platforms and is free and open-source. … includes 2-D and 3-D graphics, images, text, particles, presentations, Web pages, videos, sound, musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) … share desktops with other users in real time … multilingual … runs on more than 20 platforms.

Informative ReadingsGlobal Education Digest 2006

Global Education Digest 2006. UNESCO. Online June 2006. ... the latest education statistics from primary to tertiary levels in more than 200 countries. It also tracks the flows of foreign or mobile students.

ICT SupportNext, a 'more revolutionary' Web

Next, a 'more revolutionary' Web. Victoria Shannon. International Herald Tribune. Online May 2006. ... the semantic Web, … sites, links, media and databases are "smarter" and able to automatically convey more meaning than those of today. … a Web site that announces a conference would also contain programming with a lot of related information embedded within it. ….click on a link and immediately transfer the time and date of the conference to his electronic calendar. The location - address, latitude, longitude, perhaps even altitude - could be sent to his or her GPS device, and the names and biographies of others invited could be sent to an instant messenger list. …

Informative ReadingNew Skills For A New Century

New Skills For A New Century: Project-based learning teaches kids the collaborative and critical thinking abilities they'll need to compete. Bob Pearlman. Edutopia. Online May 2006. Let's assume … that by 2014 every student meets the targeted standards and passes his or her state's exit exam. Will those students be successful as citizens and workers in the twentyfirst century? Not a chance. …Let's further assume …all of each state's students with top-flight portable PCs. Will these students now be successful as citizens and workers in the twenty-first century? Again, not a chance. … learning -- and schooling -- must be totally transformed. … "Today's graduates need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers, and effective communicators who are proficient in both core subjects and new, 21st-century content and skills," … These include learning and thinking skills, information- and communications-technology literacy skills, and life skills. …

ICT SupportGoogle launches Arabic Gmail

Google launches Arabic Gmail. AMEInfo. June 2006. Google has today introduced a Gmail interface in Arabic. Apart from an interface in their native language, Gmail users who speak Arabic will benefit from more than 2 gigabytes of free storage and a powerful search facility. Gmail also includes other enhancements including free POP access, virus protection and automatic forwarding and support for most web browsers.

Change the language from the Setting menu at the top of the Gmail page. The interface changes into the Arabic language, except for the email addresses.

To create an Email to use it in Arabic language: https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/&hl=ar.

To create an account, visit the site above then choose انشىء حساب فى Google (create an account) then fill in the page which is written in Arabic.