Opinion: Community colleges must commit to change
A new report documents abysmally low student transfer and completion rates at California's two-year schools. Two L.A.-area campuses have already begun to make changes, say directors at the…
Month: October 2010
Barnes & Noble unveils color Nook eReader
Barnes & Noble Inc. is introducing a new Nook eReader with a color touch screen for $249 as competition in the fast-growing industry heats up ahead of the…
eMail spam falls after Russian crackdown
You may not have noticed, but since late last month, the world supply of Viagra ads and other e-mail spam has dropped by an estimated one-fifth, reports the…
Higher ed still prefers Gmail over competitors
Although Microsoft Outlook is the preferred eMail option for many community colleges, campus technology officials are still signing up for Google Gmail accounts for their students and staff…
Firefox add-on can hijack Facebook, Twitter logins
Secured logins have been one of the most crucial issues pertaining to web security today. Eric Butler, a freelance web application developer showed how vulnerable current day websites…
Amazon Kindle will let you lend your eBooks. Once. Maybe.
Amazon's Kindle Team announced on Friday that it plans to make lending for Kindle available "soon," reports ReadWriteWeb.
Google ‘mortified’ over Wi-Fi data gathering
Google on Friday confirmed that its Street View cars had inadvertently captured e-mail messages and passwords during their image gathering missions, the result of WiFi sniffing software that…
Feds grant $20 million to expand college access
Students in Pennsylvania and Kentucky will get an extra dose of academic advising and career counseling—aided by educational technology—after the U.S. Department of Education gave $20 million to…
Florida college looks to become eBook pioneer
An all-eTextbook campus won’t just make Florida’s Daytona State College the envy of the education-technology world. The program will also save academic careers cut short when students can’t…
Blurring the line between apps and books
Stephen Elliott, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: an app for the iPad and iPhone called “The Adderall Diaries,” reports…