Earlier today, Apple held a press conference regarding the issues around the iPhone 4 – namely the antenna issues. The Engadget coverage can be found on their website. The good news is, Apple will be giving away free bumpers to help solve the issue with losing signal and dropping calls. Jobs also identified that the [...]
Last night I gave my first public talk at Ignite London’s first event. Throughout the evening I was very enlightened by the number of excellent speakers and the topics which they talked about. One thing stood out the most though, and that is what Michelle Baldwin of Pillar Nonprofit Network said, “There are approximately 1200 [...]
Just recently, I have noticed that the United Nations has an open data portal. Is it just me or did we all miss something? According to the UN Data about page, this portal is a part of the database service and project launched by the UN Statistic Division (UNSD) in 2005, called “Statistics and Public [...]
People always wonder what keeps another up at night. For me, it is the not knowing and the uncertainty. I believe the future to be 100% uncertain. The only certainty we as humans have is only the past (history) of what we have currently lived through. Unfortunately, the future cannot be predicted and all we [...]
This idea of educational institutions using open data to further the education and experience of their students is something that I have been thinking about now for a couple of months. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe, to the best of my knowledge, that there any post secondary institutions [...]
