Last year I was stung with a £75 data charge for using my iPhone in Switzerland to navigate out of a mountain area (via Google Maps).  Shocked at the charge, I phoned o2 and moaned, and then promised myself not to use data downloads again when abroad.

While in France last week I had to use my iPhone to download email and send a quick message, or let someone down.  I used the phone for about five minutes and was charged over £11 for that short period: 

Data charges in Europe are crazy, o2 please lower your rates; in comparison to the phone call charge (on the bill) they are not fair.

First blog of the year and I’m writing about the BETT show (Olympia; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week)!

Cleveratom (my company) will be at the show again this year, this time we’re partnering with City College Norwich and their excellent ‘RUGroom’ project (for students with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of Autism)), which we are involved with quite heavily embedding technology.

Students with AS will be on hand to talk about why RUGroom has just won a Beacon Award for Widening Participation.

Cleveratom are on stand U130, City College are on adjoining stand U120.

As usual we’ve a strict ‘no pressure sales policy’ and welcome visitors for chat about:

• Learning Space Design
• Software Development
• Personalised Learning
• Building Schools for the Future
• Virtual Learning Environments
• Engaging with Parents
• Digital Creativity
• Staff Training and Development

We’ll shout you a coffee.

Click here to go to the Cleveratom Press Releases page to see our three press releases.