The Scottish teachers were asked to use Twitter and social networking sites with cautious
January 2th evening news, the Scottish teachers have been remind by the local education department, said the use of social networking sites may threat to their work such as Facebook and Twitter.
The Scottish Secondary Teachers Association thought that teachers might leak too much personal informations in the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. The association is also concerned that through these sites, teachers and students may become too familiar with each other.
Recently, the General Teaching Council of Scotland received a large number of related complaints, the Commission is preparing a set of social networking sites using the new approach.
SSTA Assistant Secretary Jim Docherty said in an interview: "Teachers should aware of two things: First, don't tell their social life to everyone, nobody will interested in it, and it's helpless to themselves. Second, not to comment on their works, employers and education issues, these comments might be misinterpreted. "
92% of mobile shopping from iOS platform
December 26th news, according to media reports, the retail analyst firm RichRelevanc latest reports show that, iOS has become the preferred platform for mobile shopping.
The analysis for RichRelevance from April to December about 3.4 billion purchase then found that consumers shopping via mobile devices, the amount accounted for 3% of total retail sales. Among them, 88% through April iOS platform shopping, mostly from the iPhone and the iPad, in December, a proportion rose to 92%.
Therefore, the growth of shopping through mobile devices primarily driven by the iOS platform, Apple and retailers are benefit from it. RichRelevance, iOS platform to complete a single average order value higher than other platforms, in December, iOS's AOV is $ 123, Android is $ 101.
RichRelevance CEO David Selinger said, although the mobile shopping less than 5% of total retail sales, a large number of retail partner sites have shown a significant effect on the mobile shopping to promote iOS platform, and mobile traffic over the past eight month has doubled, this shows that this trend faster.
As a mobile artificial system, iOS's share may less than the Android, but as a shopping platform, it clearly in the undisputed dominant position.
Chrome 15 as the world’s most popular browser
December 19th news, from media reported, according to StatCounter released the latest data showed that Google Chrome 15 has replaced IE8 as the world's most popular browser.
StatCounter surveyed for the global browser market in the past three weeks, it's showed that Chrome 15 has lead the browser market share and exceed IE8, from November 21.
In fact, since IE8 replaced IE7 in early 2010 as the most widely used browser, this is the first time IE8 loses the first place in the global share, and Chrome 15 has become the first in the ranking StatCounter first non-IE browsers device.
Data showed that in November last two weeks to December first week, Chrome 15 global market share reached of 24%, IE8 was 22.9%, Firefox 8 and IE9 were 14% and 10.4%.
IE's various versions market share also ahead of Chrome. From November 21, in the past three weeks, IE version's market share for 39.5%, Chrome for 26.5%, Firefox for 25.3%.