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Online educational empowerment

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Online learning communities flourish best if individual learners have self-governance. That is the conclusion of a US study published in the International Journal of Web Based Communities.





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Almost 90 percent of children reported experiencing sexual violence

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 15, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Almost 90% of teenagers aged 12-18 claim to have been victims of some level of sexual violence, according to a study conducted jointly by the University of Haifa and Ben Gurion University (Israel). The research surveyed 1,036 ...


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T-Mobile resumes sale of Sidekicks after data loss

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- T-Mobile USA resumed selling Sidekick phones Tuesday, more than a month after a server meltdown at Microsoft Corp. caused contact numbers, pictures and other personal information to disappear from ...


Modern matron struggling to fulfil role as leader

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 14, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Experts at The University of Nottingham say ‘modern matrons’ — with their managerial and entrepreneurial skills — are struggling to fulfil their role as leader, and this remains a major challenge in a crucially important ...


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Google providing better view of personal data

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.


Bogus e-mails from FDIC link computer users to viruses, says computer forensics expert

Bogus e-mails from FDIC link computer users to viruses, says computer forensics expert

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cyber criminals are using fake messages claiming to be from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to deliver a virus capable of stealing unsuspecting victims' bank passwords and other sensitive ...


Helping Loved Ones Bereaved By Suicide Or Self-Inflicted Death

Helping Loved Ones Bereaved By Suicide Or Self-Inflicted Death

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a University of Derby sociologist explores how families bereaved by suicide are finding ways to deal with the enormity of their loss. Caroline Simone, Subject Leader of Joint Honours ...


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Some Sidekick users may recover data: Microsoft

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft said Tuesday that some Sidekick mobile phone users may recover personal data such as contacts, calendar items and digital photos believed to have been permanently lost in a server failure.


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Facebook outlines new privacy policy

Technology / Internet

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's more than 300 million users.


Internet ratings sites draw millions interested in what others think

Technology / Internet

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Everyone's a critic, as the saying goes. Nowhere is that more true than in cyberspace. The number of user-generated ratings sites has exploded in recent years, with citizen reviewers posting millions of opinions about everything ...


Microsoft says it can restore wiped Sidekick data

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- There may be a happy ending after all for owners of Sidekick phones who thought they might have permanently lost contact numbers and other personal information they had put on the gadget.



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