According to The New York Times, today’s technologically adept college student still prefers traditional textbooks. “It wouldn’t be the same without books. They’ve defined ‘academia’ for a thousand years,” said Faton Begolli, a sophomore at Hamilton College. The Chronicle of Higher Education stated that students tend to be more conservative when it comes to school [...]
Imagine Learning, developer of the award-winning children’s language and literacy software Imagine Learning English, entered the arena of mobile learning last week with the release of its first mobile reading application, Bookster. The app, now available in the iTunes store, is compatible with iPads and iPhones, and is available as a free download. The company, [...]
Facebook has proposed a solution to a recent security flaw that allowed apps to transmit personal data that involves encrypting the relevant string of numbers, according to a post on its Developer Blog on Thursday. The new set of parameters would allow developers to apply encryption within the next few weeks, preventing data that identifies application [...]
On Wednesday, Apple unveiled a range of new products: a new operating system called Lion, an App Store for Mac OS X widgets, and FaceTime on the Mac. But perhaps the most hotly-followed announcement concerns an update to the MacBook Air laptop, which had remained relatively unchanged since its launch in 2008. So what are [...]
Two biggest and most profitable products that Microsoft offers are Office and the Windows operating system. The company has announced this week that it is set to start testing a new cloud-based online version of Office that will battle directly against Google Docs in the business market for productivity software. The new service is called Office [...]
Microsoft on Monday announced its initial arsenal of handsets built around the new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, in what many believe is the company’s last-ditch attempt to regain traction in the mobile handset arena that’s fallen into the hands of rivals like Apple and Google. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is pitching the [...]
Motorola hit Apple with two patent lawsuits on Wednesday alleging the wireless used in the Mac, iPhone, and iPod touch violate 18 different patents it owns. The company also filed a complaint against Apple with the U.S. International Trade Commission in hopes of blocking the import of any Apple products that infringe on Motorola patents. [...]
Verizon Wireless announced more concrete plans Wednesday for this year’s launch of its speedier, next-generation internet service for mobile devices. The carrier has been retooling its cellular infrastructure to cover 38 U.S. cities with its 4G data network before the end of the year. Major cities will include New York; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; [...]
A pair of Russian-born physicists working at the University of Manchester in England have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for investigating the remarkable properties of ultra-thin carbon flakes known as graphene, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. hey are Andre Geim, 51, and Konstantin Novoselov, 36. They will split the prize of [...]
Signal Hill, CA (PRWEB) September 30, 2010 The creation of science-based YouTube videos are more important than ever as education funding is stretched to the limit. A contest intended to encourage adding high-quality science videos to the YouTube website has been announced by xUmp.com, a leading internet retailer of science supplies. YouTube is currently one [...]