Fastest net service in U.S. coming to Chattanooga
In the global race to see who can offer the fastest internet service, an unlikely challenger has emerged, reports the New York Times: Chattanooga, Tenn.
Month: September 2010
Study: Online learning less effective for some
Higher education’s embrace of online courses could hurt the performance of some groups of students, according to a study that contradicts the findings of a 2009 report from…
Net neutrality foes to label policy a ‘job killer’
Broadband providers will send their chief executives to Capitol Hill next week to argue that net-neutrality rules are not necessary and could hurt job creation, trade associations announced…
The story behind a Wikipedia entry
James Bridle founded a Web site called Booktwo in September 2006 to “investigate, analyze, catalog and debate the future of literature and the publishing industry.” Over the years…
Are all degrees created equal?
A columnist for the San Diego Reader charges that, depending on what kind of job you're seeking, your education from a little-known school may be just as good…
Year of the smart phone on college campuses?
An international market research firm predicts a 55-percent jump in smart-phone sales this year—a projection that could lead to an unprecedented increase in internet-enabled phone use during colleges’…
iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves a challenge for one university
The iPhone 4 is the first to support 802.11n, which offers the highest Wi-Fi data rates and throughput. But it runs only on the crowded 2.4GHz band, and…
Google unveils tool to speed up web searches
Google, which can already feel like an appendage to our brains, is now predicting what people are thinking before they even type, reports the New York Times.
$46M in funding for digital textbook reader aimed at students
Kno Inc., a company developing a digital textbook reader for students, on Sept. 8 said it has received $46 million in the latest round of funding from venture…
Campus IT staff to supercomputers: Be cool
In Mike Shuey’s line of work, turning off a computer means losing up to 3 million processing hours—a few weeks of work, gone in an instant. But new…