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Google opens web store for business applications
Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more organizations to rely on applications piped over the internet, reports the...
March 10 2010 / Read More »MySpace outlines makeover after executive shake-up
Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to...
March 10 2010 / Read More »IBM, universities target easy-to-use cell phones
Teaming up with international universities, IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cell phones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate, Reuters reports....
March 10 2010 / Read More »Textbook publishers add online tools to win over professors
For much of his career as a professor of physics at Chabot College, Scott Hildreth struggled to figure out which concepts he should try to reinforce in his lecture. "Now, it's totally different," Hildreth says....
March 9 2010 / Read More »Google launches tool for searching public data
Google is building on its partnership with the World Bank, U.S. Census Bureau, and other gatherers of statistics to present an array of data in visual form within Google Labs, CNET reports. ...
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Is better learning a click away? »
Clickers first appeared in college classrooms over a decade ago and have since spread to just about every college and university in the country,...
Mar 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »Universities push to get students counted in 2010 census »
Colleges, universities, and their surrounding communities have a financial interest in making sure all of their students get counted in the census, so public-relations...
Mar 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »Racial insensitivity roils University of California system »
An ugly spate of racially charged incidents has occurred across several University of California campuses, causing consternation, outcry, and fear that bigotry is alive...
Mar 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »UCLA resumes streaming video after legal complaint »
In the latest development in a dispute with broad implications for colleges nationwide, UCLA says it will continue to stream online instructional videos to...
Mar 5 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »Botnets continue to threaten campus networks »
Web security experts say university IT officials should stop using students’ Social Security numbers as identifications, because about 5,900 known botnets have stolen valuable...
Mar 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »Technology makes student aid more accessible »
Over the past decade and a half, the internet has made it easier for families to learn about, find, and apply for college scholarships,...
Mar 3 2010 / No comment / Read More »University library sees demand for Kindles soar »
For students looking to temper sober textbook readings with a literary escape into the world of vampires and zombies, Oregon State University is loaning...
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