Google shake-up is effort to revive start-up spark
Google made the biggest management shake-up in a decade on Thursday, handing the reins of the company to one of its co-founders in an effort to rediscover its…
Month: January 2011
Meg Whitman joining HP board after purge
Hewlett-Packard Co is shaking up a board criticized by many as dysfunctional, bringing in five new directors including former eBay chief Meg Whitman, as new CEO Leo Apotheker…
Tech talk podcast: Evolving relationships and privacy
The New York Times presents a podcast by professor Sherry Turkle of M.I.T., who discusses her new book “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less…
To ‘friend’ or not to ‘friend’: Professor-student Facebook relationships
Kathryn Linder used to accept Facebook friend requests from her students, until the Suffolk University official considered the repercussions of blending her social and professional lives.
Study: US college students don’t learn core skills
According to the AFP, a large number of US university students fail to develop critical thinking, reasoning and writing skills because of easy classes and too little time…
3-D means headaches to many, yet companies push on
From Hollywood studios to Japanese TV makers, powerful business interests are betting 3-D will be the future of entertainment, despite a major drawback: It makes millions of people…
More WebOS tablet rumors: cloud storage, ‘Touchstone’ charging, shipping in March?
Looks like the rumor floodgate has finally opened for HP/Palm's long-awaited WebOS tablet--or tablets, as the case may be. The latest word is that the new slates may…
List names Top 10 most influential campuses on Twitter
Stanford University was named the most influential Twitter feed in higher education, according to a ranking of campuses’ Twitter activity that shows which schools best use the microblogging…
Can Apple thrive without its visionary CEO?
If investors were as visionary as Steve Jobs has proved to be during his 35 years of tech wizardry, they might be able to figure out whether Apple…
Pew study says internet users more social, civically engaged
That old stereotype that internet users are isolated and anti-social is getting harder and harder to justify, ReadWriteWeb reports.