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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — News Corp.’s MySpace will offer members of its popular social network free Internet phone calls with a new feature based on eBay Inc.’s Skype service, the companies announced Tuesday.Read the Full Article
NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday launched two new programs that allow people to place calls right from the Outlook e-mail program, but analysts say businesses won’t throw away their reliable office phone systems until the software maker’s tools are just as good.Read the Full Article
As fun as creating a course in Moodle is (the subject of part 1 of this two-part series), eventually it will go live, and the real excitement can begin as administration kicks in. The first thing you will come to realize is that while you believed you had thought through every single thing, you missed […]
When the University of California at Berkeley creates an official presence on YouTube, has citizen media been co-opted by The Man? Or does it herald greater freedom of information?Read the Full Article
UNION CITY, N.J., Oct. 8 — A ban on iPods is so strictly enforced at José Martà Middle School that as many as three a week are confiscated from students — and returned only to their parents.Read the Full Article
m-Learning is made possible by the existence and application of mobile hardware and networking technology. By exploring the capabilities of these technologies, it is possible to construct a picture of how different components of m-Learning can be implemented. This paper will explore the major technologies currently in use: portable digital assistants (PDAs), Short Message Service […]
A startup called Live Mocha, based in Bellevue, WA, aims to harness the power of online social networking to help language students learn and stay motivated. The site, launched in late September at this year’s DEMO conference, combines immersive language lessons with an international community of native speakers.Read the Full Article
In a recent article, I mentioned my newfound affection for the open-source course management system Moodle. It’s a great CMS, but there’s not a lot of current information available on it. So, in this two-part tutorial, we’ll walk through the use of it, starting in Part 1 with the creation of a class and setting […]
Intel recently demonstrated a new, low-power computer chip that will use as many as eight cores, or processing units. Expected in the second half of 2008, the new chip will increase the amount of data that a machine can process and enable more-realistic graphics. But Andrew Chien, the director of Intel Research, is looking beyond […]
Earlier this week, Facebook announced the fbFund, which will provide grants to companies and individuals interested in building applications for the social-networking website. (See “Facebook Funds Developers.”) The move seems intended to encourage programmers to make applications that are more sophisticated than the bulk of what’s already been created by third-party developers. Some companies could […]
