Computer Had Made Teenagers Hard To Read and Count
A study in United States of America (USA) stated that the computer using among teenagers will weaken the math and reading capability. As quoted from Sunday Telegraph yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research found that computer will result the contra-productive among students achievement.
The research involved 500.000 students. The report mentioned that introducing computer(s) to ten years old will not do any good to the students math and reading. Jacob Vigdor, one of the researcher said that computer acces started five or eight years tend to show the score decreasing in math and reading.
Vigdor claimed the computer had made children becoming hard to focus, lack of socializing ability and caused children to play games a lot.
Anyhow the research summarized that the parents control over children is needed to minimize the negative effects of the using. The parents control will benefit a lot for children, Vidgor added.
Firefox Home : Nice-Looking Bar on Our iPhone
The Web-browsing app Firefox is now available on iTunes. That was a news as quoted from crave last week. The app, named Firefox Home app will syncronize our iPhone with Firefox home as our desktop browser. Some bookmark, history and tabs are recordable. Crave also wrote that Firefox Home will result to nice-looking bar to our iPhone. The apps is available for free via iTunes
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Nokia Still Relies On MeeGo and Symbian
Nokia is committed to restore the glory in the realm of smartphones. Not only that, the Finnish mobile phone vendor is also planning to not using the operating system (OS) other than Symbian or Linux MeeGo. “I have a goal to ensure that Nokia still leads in the market and become intellectuals in creating the digital world,” wrote Head of Mobile Solution Nokia Anssi Vanjoki in a blog on the official website of Nokia.
He added that the first battle that must be able to pass by Nokia now is to bring the products and services desired by consumers.
Quoted from the Times of India, Friday (7/9/2010), Nokia’s profits and sales of smartphones in the world’s is getting weaken in the second quarter, with Apple’s iPhone as the toughest challenger. Vanjoki said, it would be a tough task to make the Nokia back to lead the smartphone market. But he is optimistic, Nokia has all the assets realizing it by using Symbian OS and MeeGo. “Symbian and MeeGo is the best software for our smart devices. Therefore, we do not plan to use other software,” he said.
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