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So about that 2009 Federal Budget

So about that 2009 Federal BudgetSigh.First, why is it that if the Federal Government doesn't pay for something that "something" no longer exists. As with Stem Cell Research Technology from schools can be and should be paid for by States and local communities. I'd save the Constitutional...

Tags: Taxes, Catholic School

Discussion threads 2008-02-05

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ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

The cloud finally comes to education

Cloud computing is one of those great buzzwords in IT that, so far, has meant very little to the average Ed Tech customer. We all have a pretty good idea what it means: lots of computers somewhere (we don't actually care where) doing lots of processing to deliver services...

Tags: Education, PC, Thin Client, Computer, Cloud, SIMtone Corp., Desktops, Productivity, Thin Clients, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-06

End the spectre of science for sale

End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...

Tags: NIH, democracy

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

My growing hatred for calculators

My growing hatred for calculatorsNokids need to think mathematically when doing math and programmatically when programming and literarily when reading literature, etc.Spreadsheeting for math? Joy. We all get to castrate mathematical symbology in order to shoehorn it into a spreadsheet cell t=sqrt(a^3)Wonderful.I guess when the only thing you know is...

Tags: Microsoft Excel, PRODUCTIVITY, calculator, Mathcad

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

My growing hatred for calculators

Is it just me, or are graphing calculators overly complicated? I've never been a big fan of calculators; I think they're a crutch on which most kids in the States rely far too heavily. However, when used correctly, they can certainly be a fine tool for automating tedious...

Tags: Student, Interface, Spreadsheet, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopMicrosoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptopThis is a great plan brought to you by Microsoft. This laptop will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system allowing these school children to be compatible with the rest of the world. They can share...

Tags: Notebooks, software, laptop computer, cheap Portuguese laptop, Portuguese laptop, Microsoft Launches, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Microsoft launches software for cheap Portuguese laptop

Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the country's technological edge in education. LISBON--Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the...

Tags: Software, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, Computer, Portugal, School Children, Government Hope, Magellan, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Reuters, laptops, education

News items 2008-10-03

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all

Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after allThe 35% of Fortune 500 companies......testing the iPhone means "35% of IT departments doing their damn jobs by testing a competing product before coming to the realisation that it isn't as good as their current solution".As for Apple getting a foothold in mainstream...

Tags: SMB/SME, Apple Inc., small and medium business, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Dell Inspiron 1525-139B

Note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Dell's Inspiron 1525 is an excellent mainstream choice for basic computing, especially because the direct-from-Dell version is highly flexible, offering extensive configuration options. For those...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron 1525, Dell 1525, Dell Inspiron, laptop computer, Intel Pentium, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-02

What if there was educational content for the Nintendo DSi?

What if there was educational content for the Nintendo DSi?RE: What if there was educational content for the Nintendo DSi?I certainly hope they do better with the browser offering. The one available for the current DS is a joke. As for educational offerings, Nintendo's systems usually seem to...

Tags: Games, Nintendo DSi, educational content, Nintendo Co. Ltd., What-If

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Creative Commons for students

Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Creative Commons

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Perens new crusade is patent law

Perens new crusade is patent lawBull, there is no lack of innovation.True, open source is not free to take others ideas but that is how it should be. Face it, open source is nothing but knock off copies of propriatary. Sorry but thats just how it is.As to...

Tags: Leadership, OPEN SOURCE, Software intellectual property, New software product, new crusade, Perens, crusade, patent law, patent, innovation

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

Creative Commons for students

I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for individual media. While the copyright holder is rightfully the student who created the...

Tags: Creative Commons, Student, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Is Apple out of ideas?

Is Apple out of ideas?At this point they might not need muchApples' greatest growth prospect lies in computers, due to its smaller market share. There's a lot of room for growth there. Within that market, Apple has been able to cement a reputation, especially with consumers, of very good...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

The cost of doing business in China: Privacy

The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...

Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You

To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...

Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?

Are you a whitelist or a blacklist guy?Whitelist.With one home office and 100 branch offices, they all go through two different Squid proxy servers to hit the Internet. I have a file, named white by the way, that contain the URL's they are allowed to hit. It would be nice...

Tags: INTERNET, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, whitelist, blacklist guy

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed

Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...

Tags: Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Collaboration, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Another setback for university P2P

Another setback for university P2PUm no.They should NOT kill P2P just because a criminal and inept organization wants to subpoena the daylights out of everyone. What they fail to realize is what ever they think they will produce from it will be negated by the fact they cannot conclusively prove...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P

Discussion threads 2008-10-01