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“I haven’t been bitten since he got his wearable computer,” she said Tuesday at the 7th annual International Conference on Wearable Computing. Zverloff, who teaches learning challenged children in the Coventry Local School District near Akron, Ohio, has six students from first to fifth-grade that have six totally different disabilities. Read the Full Article
The report, issued here Thursday, warns academe against “complacency” in the face of fast-paced technological developments and new competition from online universities and for-profit institutions. The report cautions that research universities should respond “with carefully considered strategies backed by prudent developments — not just to avoid extinction but to actively cultivate opportunity.” Read the Full […]
I like tools that are good for the long run, good for the people involved, and don’t require an advanced degree in quantum physics to use and maintain. In fact, I think learning solutions should enable us to put our energy and resources into learning, rather than authoring. That’s asking a lot, so I’m pretty […]
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This latest move shows San Francisco-based Macromedia getting back to basics. The maker of Web site creation tools such as Dreamweaver and Flash says it is finally climbing from the rubble of the dot-com implosion. Read the Full Article
At its OracleWorld conference in San Francisco next week, Oracle plans to announce the latest version of its Enterprise Manager software. Company officials said Version 4.0 will let IT staffers proactively monitor their Oracle database installations, from the underlying hardware to end-user devices. Read the Full Article
Magazines plan tablet PC editions Six major magazine publishers plan to don a new image for tablet PCs, creating digital facsimiles of their periodicals and pushing the fold on Web advertising. Video: Tablet PC devices get organized Video: Bill Gates shows off tablet PC Video: A sneak peek at the tablet PC Tablet PC: What […]
Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. have proposed their Advanced Optical Disc (AOD) technology as a standard to the DVD Forum, a consortium of 212 companies. The forum is expect to settle on full specifications for AOD by the second quarter next year, said Hideyuki Irie, a DVD Forum official. Read the Full Article