The educational potentialities of ours loved pinguino are multiple and probably still all to explore, and, of the rest, my attention for these aspects cannot that be high, since I make the teacher elementary. Useless to say that I fortemente wish the introduction of linux in the schools, beginning from those of infancy, considered the elevated formative and didactic valence of its approach to the world of the “multiaverage” and information the technology.

I will say more, seen the freedom concept and of equal opportunity that emerges on hand from the putting of free software, free and accessible to all, the pinguino it has also a strong educational character.
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Google has developed to a new feature called My Location that serves to simulate a system GPS on a mobile phone or on a palm one that is not equipped of hardware gps. In short My Location takes the information from the towers of mobile telephony in order to approximate the position of the device (the cellular one) on the map of the city.

In so far as, not having the gps, the approximation degree is slightly advanced, but, guarantees Google, however medium under i 1000 m. My Location is available for the majority of telephones cellular qualified to navigation web, included dispositive Java, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia/Symbian, not still compatible with iPhone, even if Apple seems is being given to make in such sense. There is from saying that the service is still in phase beta, but the characteristics seem to say little interesting.

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