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The Long Road to Standards Adoption

Virtual

With its much-anticipated announcement this week, Apple became the latest and the last of the leading smartphone vendors to adopt Near Field Communication or NFC technology. This is despite the fact that NFC is already in hundreds of millions of mobile phones worldwide and first appeared in a Nokia “feature phone” in 2006.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

billion in 2006—about a year and a half after YouTube was founded—we all should have known something big was a foot. Facebook (founded 2004), LinkedIn (2002), and Twitter (2006) were still in their infancy at the point when we founded Tagoras, and sites like Instagram (2010) and TikTok (2016) had yet to come along. The Surge of Video.

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Today’s Conference Education Model Was Created For An Economy That No Longer Exists

Velvet Chainsaw

It is usually devoted to information transfer through a lecture or panel, rote learning and memorization of facts and figures to pass a certification test. More than 70% said they measured critical thinking, communication and collaboration in annual employee performance reviews. Partnership for 21 st Century Skills, 2006.