College students reeling from textbook sticker shock in their campus's bookstore can send a text message to a popular book rental company to see if they can save…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said on Aug. 2 that he was investigating deals struck by Amazon.com and Apple to offer low prices on electronic books, saying the…
California's high court on Aug. 2 upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring, and contracting, reports the…
A developer of educational software since the 1960s, Brown University Computer Science Professor Andries van Dam has seen ed-tech trends come and go, but he’s recently zeroed in…
As the free and easy exchange of information online has transformed concepts of intellectual property, copyright, and originality, students’ notion of what constitutes plagiarism has changed as well,…
While Google is dominant in search, it has been watching Microsoft’s Bing and in some cases mimicking some of Bing’s innovations, reports the New York Times.
A customized Google Maps program could save lives and help prevent millions—even billions—in flood damage to the world’s largest medical center and surrounding communities after Rice University researchers…