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(AP) PALM DESERT State and local leaders celebrated Monday a new $3.4 million, 400-mile broadband connection between the Coachella Valley and the California Research & Education Network and said it will help train hundreds of students. Read the Full Story
This has not exactly been a season of peace, love and harmony on the higher education technology landscape. A patent fight has broken out among major developers of course management systems. Academic publishers and university officials are warring over open access to federally sponsored research. And textbook makers are taking a pounding for — among […]
A consortium led by Unisys will build and manage an online repository of open-source software for the European Union, making it easier for EU administrators to find and share applications.Read the Full Story
Two leading telecommunications industry organizations, the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Council and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), announced results of a new study showing FTTH deployments pass over six million North American homes, an increase of more than two million homes – over 50 percent – since last MarchRead the Full Story
The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned.Read the Full Story
NEW YORK (AP) — The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported in Wednesday’s editions.Read the Full Story
University of Wisconsin-Madison computer scientists will play a central role in the expansion of a national “Open Science Grid” (OSG), an interconnected computing infrastructure that provides scientists with a massive infusion of computing power and storage capacity to solve large, data-intensive challenges in science. Read the Full Story
Asked how often he uses Skype, a free Internet service that lets users call around the world at no cost, Andrew Venegas, a junior at San Jose State University, didn’t miss a beat.Read the Full Story
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — Microsoft Corp.’s effort to compete against Apple’s iPod juggernaut will focus on the idea that people want to be able to easily share music with friends and others.Read the Full Story
Collaboration in K-12 Schools: Anywhere, Anytime, Any Way is the fifth CoSN Emerging Technologies Report. Based upon extensive research and interviews with educators, administrators, and industry experts, the report explores the implications, technologies, costs, and current implementations of the digital tools that make collaboration—regardless of location and time—possible for groups of teachers, administrators, and students. […]