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From 2nd to 4th February 2010, the best Digital specialists from around Europe converged upon the RAI centre in Amsterdam for the Integrated Systems Europe 2010 event. Now in its 6th year, the ISE Show allows companies to showcase their hardware to audiences that over the three day event now is in excess of 25,000 attendees. The businesses vary from audio to visual hardware and in a visual format, from small format to large format screen.
The attendees also come from a wide spectrum of businesses, with the wish to see the best cutting-edge digital technology available and how the technology is used in a multitude of environments. Pebu represented Digital Birmingham at the event to look at the opportunities for project partners linked to innovations in digital signage particularly in connection to the digital events that we are delivering in autumn 2010.
Pebu have delivered cutting-edge technology before this event, at Hello Digital 2009 having a number of touch-screen technology pieces, including the Panasonic 103″ touch-screen, which at the time of the event was the World’s largest touch-screen.
The following Case Study highlights the key areas of the show and allows the partners of Pebu an insight into how these technologies will enhance the propositions that Pebu will look to deliver.
The Multipack is “a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands” who meet every fortnight in the Old Joint Stock. Paul Lloyd from the group is arranging a hack day as part of his a.green:focus project on Saturday 20th February at One Black Bear, 191 Fazeley Street.
The aim of the day is to
build a Web site or app that encourages Web people like us to think about how we can reduce the size of our carbon footprint, both in the office and on the road.
Paul has provided the following details for the day
## Date
Saturday February 20, 2010 (and possibly Sunday if we decide we need more time)
Jon Hickman is part of the Interactive Culture research team at Birmingham City University and is working with Digital Birmingham on the project outlined below. This post first appeared over at the Interactive Cultures blog.
I will be spending much of the coming year or so working with companies across Birmingham on social media and web-based projects. The project, which I am delivering on behalf of Digital Birmingham, is a small part of a much larger programme utilising Working Neighbourhood funds managed by Birmingham City Council. The project will work with sixteen organisations between now and March 2011, and will also lead to a number of events; I will of course also be looking for opportunities to develop some academic outputs from the project.
The project builds on our experiences in our recent project, the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship in New Strategies for Radio and Music Organisations. I will be demonstrating simple uses of technologies that could make a difference to companies. We will prototype new ideas for our partners, using simple and accessible technologies that could help to make life easier, open up new opportunities, or speak to different audiences. The prototypes will be informed by our research and teaching activities within Birmingham School of Media.
If we are to believe the “slip ups” from Cabinet members about the date of the General Election, the 6th May 2010 is only three months away. Although many people will try, no-one can estimate who will be the country’s next Prime Minister and government party.
However, as time gets closer to the date in May, the three main parties are starting to release snippets of their manifestos to encourage would-be voters. The Conservative Party are no different…..
More - Digital Manifesto
Recently read an article which reported that Alzheimer’s could be staved off by becoming web-savvy. Dr Gary Small, an expert on ageing at the University of California, Los Angeles, said “Our findings point to an association between routine internet searching and neural circuitry activation in older adults.
Google, more than ordinary reading, stimulated the brain regions controlling language, reading, memory and vision.”
The study of UCLA’s Memory & Ageing Research Centre, used 24 adults aged 55 - 76, half of whom were used to performing web searches. Dr Small added: “it seems people who are more adept with internet technology are likely to remain mentally agile.”
If the above is true, I think the DB team must be the exception to the rule as we all seem to be suffering from one mental dysfunction or another, but just not Alzheimer’s!
I’ve been thinking about this a bit recently as Digital Birmingham have been looking at the way that using the social web can help Small and Medium Sized businesses to drum up work.
Recently, Pete Ashton had a problem with his boiler and he asked Twitter for recommendations.
Now, having been on various Moseley related lists in the past ten years or so I knew that it wouldn’t be long before somebody recommended Clive the Gasman. Sure enough, Jon Bounds soon popped up and did exactly that. I’ve used Clive myself because Bill Lees from the old Moseley Free group recommended him.
Online accounts at risk
The number is up for any who thinks they can count on a simple online password to keep personal details secure. Choosing an easy-to-remember sequence of numbers is so widespread it is making it easy for cyber-criminals to hack into accounts.
Andrew Penman wrote an article in the Daily Mirror on 22 Jan 10 detailing the Top 10 passwords, I had to have a quick look down the list to see how many of them I’m guilty of, and with some relief my usual passwords are not listed, but I bet it still wouldn’t take the Hackers long to crack them!
How well do you fare in the The Top Ten Passwords list:
17 minutes … in that time 1,000 accounts will be hacked! Tips on safe passwords including picking a gibberish word or taking a sentence like ‘this little piggy went to market’ and turning it into ‘tlpWENT2m’ - you should mix upper and lower case letters, avoid short passwords and don’t use the same one for several sites (well now they tell me!!) and finally, never trust anyone else with your passwords to sites such as personal banking!
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