Bring back textbooks
In schools and school board meetings, and in the news, they are often ridiculed. People say they are too heavy. They are too expensive. They induce sleep. They…
Month: March 2011
Meteoric Twitter serving a billion tweets every week
Twitter is extremely popular. You know it. We know it. Another news story reiterating that fact perhaps isn’t necessary, The ... Read more
Claim: Google Apps for Education inaccessible to blind students
An advocacy group has filed a complaint with the federal government accusing New York University (NYU) and Northwestern University of discriminating against the blind by adopting Google's eMail…
As library eBooks live long, publisher sets expiration date
The value of this magically convenient library book — otherwise known as an e-book — is the subject of a fresh and furious debate in the publishing world,…
Threats to traveling data
With small and fast laptops, powerful smartphones, tablets and readily available Wi-Fi, working on the road — on planes, in airports and hotel rooms — has never been…
AT&T puts broadband users on monthly allowance
AT&T broadband users will soon face a cap on the amount of internet data they can download a month, Wired reports.
Hewlett-Packard hikes dividend, outlines strategy
Hewlett-Packard Co. says it plans to increase its dividend for the first time in over a decade and one day soon sell "cloud computing" services to the public,…
Feeling down? Update your Facebook status, students say
Cornell University students who spent a few minutes on Facebook updating their profile pages reported self-esteem boosts, according to one of the first published studies to show social…
March Madness: Which team is smartest?
As the NCAA college basketball tournament kicks off, The Daily Beast ranks all 68 teams based on their grades and graduation rates, from first to worst.
Computer science courses use mobile apps to make coursework relevant
A Virginia Tech software engineering class in 2009 was discussing world problems and how computer science might offer solutions when a student piped up with a personal gripe,…