In the Media
A/AS Level ICT students must have a knowledge and understanding of recent
developments in information technology. Here are some sites with
technology news, together with some stories we picked out:
October 2004
NHS IT Strategy (an IT disaster in the making?)
February 2004
Pupils Face Camera Phone Ban (BBC)
January 2004
Pros and Cons of Moving UK Jobs Abroad (BBC)
Hi-Tech School Library With No Books (Evening Echo)
Online GCSEs "Close to Reality" (BBC)
November 2003
Online to Help Third World (Wilmslow Express)
Area Man Knows All The Shortcut Keys
October 2003
Smart Cards Help Man City Improve Security
Half of SMEs have no IT Strategy
Spam "turning people off" e-mail
September 2003
It's Time to Tackle Threats to the Net
UK enlists world's help to predict climate
July 2003
To Rip or Not to Rip? - The ethics of software piracy
June 2003
Cows Help Refugees get on the Internet
May 2003
Exam Board to Replace Paper Marking - ICT in Education
April 2003
"The Floppy has Become a Stiff" - send your tributes to the floppy disk
March 2003
February 2003
Pupils find Internet a poor learning tool
E-mails You Wish You'd Never Sent
Why Learn When You Can Surf? - John Clare's latest rant against ICT (good reading for teachers)
Visions of Computers of the Future
January 2003
Web Browsers go Back to Basics - a good example of interface design
Rumsfeld Orders .mil Web Lockdown - the American military are worried about the amount of information on the web that could be useful to an enemy
How Dangerous are Internet Chat Rooms?
Life Looks Good for Linux - Alternative Operating System Gains in Popularity
Virus Sentence Sends Out Shockwaves - A Welsh programmer is prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act (alternative report from The Guardian)
December 2002
What's the point of picture messaging?
Technology allows in-flight care (use of IT in medicine)
Computer turned teacher into a killer (use of IT in education???)
November 2002
The Shaky Case for Computers in the Classroom
Time for a new logo? £250,000 please - from The Sunday Telegraph
October 2002
Young People and the Sunday Roast - a good example of how the Tesco Clubcard can give the company information about customer lifestyles.
What Surfers are Doing on the Net
September 2002
Imaginary People Appear on the Census (there is an update to this story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2283352.stm )
June 2002
"Snoop" Vote Postponed - opposition growing to extension of the RIP Act
IBM's Hot Tip for Data Storage
April 2002
Counting the Clicks - how web sites measure their popularity
March 2002
The Register - Biting the hand that feeds IT
February 2002
There are some excellent news stories at: http://website.lineone.net/~sine2/ including articles on cyber-terrorism, the power of the government to snoop on private citizens ("The Spy in Your Server") and the dangers of e-mail ("Beware - You've Got E-Mail")
January 2002
Killer text Messages - the first mobile phone virus is unleashed
Content a Tough Sell in Europe
How computers could replace teachers
The Bloodwrath Hoax - possibly the strangest story to emerge from September 11th
December 2001
November 2001
Internet Users Are NOT "Nerds" - Official!
Lethal Guinea Pig Kills Virtual People
Drop in Home Internet Connections
October 2001
Demand for video conferencing surges
MP wins landmark battle over MI5 files
September 2001
Disaster Planning Saves Wall Street
AS Levels to be "sat in half a day" - the government's plans for this summer's AS level exams.
