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What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!

The old "install this codec to see free porn" trick works on Mac too!We don't have enough information to make an informed conclusion.Unfortunately every time we here of malware infested Windows systems never is even the most basic of information provided. I have yet to see the name of the...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, NOW IT, Dawson, malware, computer, operating system, codec, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-11-22

Google is at your service

Most everything Google does is given away, yet it makes a ton of money. That's the open source principle in action. The reason it makes money is that it gives great value for time, and that's what credibility comes down to -- value for time. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Google Inc., Credibility, Dawson, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Gone fishing...

Gone fishing...Gone fishing...Good luck! Make us proud with whatever big catch you get.RE: Gone fishing...Good luck and have fun.Enjoy! I myself am going tomorrow.......for a week in the Pfälzer Wald in Germany:http://www.pfaelzerwald.de/Woods, white wine and smoked trout. Fresh from the clear mountain brooks. The white wine we will buy...

Tags: wine

Discussion threads 2008-07-11

Privacy is for the ignorant

Privacy is for the ignorantSounds like someone has given up...And that's the worse thing that can happen.I used to think that way!I used to think this way also until I started studying cybercrime what it truly is. I will repeat what I learned and heard in the last lecture for...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, Dawson, credit card

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

AOL Time Warner's future interactive

At least that's what industry analysts think. But first Steve Case might have to break Time Warner's print shackles. AOL, the magazine? Dawson's Creek with live chat running across the TV screen? Both scenarios are very real possibilities in the wake of the mega America Online-Time...

Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Dawson, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jennifer Mack, Technology News

News items 2000-01-12

Additional Resources

Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?

Tech news has been dominated this week by Google's announcements regarding their upcoming Chrome OS. Plenty of geeks are excited; so are plenty of industry insiders and business analysts. You know who aren't excited? Those who say we aren't ready for an OS dependent upon "The Cloud." by...

Tags: Tech New, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-20

YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil

Earlier this week I noted that YouTube's partnership with Univision was one more reason to make the web service available in schools. Now, Google has introduced some more useful YouTube technology: automatic captioning. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., Business Structures, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-20

How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+

My presentation to the Florida Council of Independent Schools went well, both from a content and a technical perspective, since I was able to do it remotely, all with Google Apps. Here is the presentations, as well as a few takeaways from the question/answer session. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Web, Presentation, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-19

NComputing announces new Microsoft partnership

I've featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing's successful bid beating out Intel and OLPC to provide thin-client computers to as many...

Tags: Virtualization, Partnership, Thin Client, Server, Microsoft Corp., Computing, NComputing, Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Terminal Services, Business Structures, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Finance, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-18

OpenSUSE Education announces Li-f-e 11.2

Li-f-e is OpenSUSE's Linux for Education product. While this product has been quietly maturing, it has, to some extent fallen off my radar. However, the latest features announced today with this release of OpenSUSE's educational distribution have me downloading as fast as my BitTorrent client will allow. by...

Tags: Education, Novell OpenSuse, OpenSUSE Education, Li-f-e, Linux, Aerospace & Defense, Operating Systems, Software, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-17

YouTube/Univision deal a huge resource for teachers

Here's one from the "One more reason not to block YouTube" files: Univision will be posting its content for free on YouTube. The details announced yesterday provide easy access to programming online for a quickly growing segment of the US population. Just as importantly from an educational perspective,...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Material, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-17

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

OK...I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I'll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to thinking...

Tags: Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-15

From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities

OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...

Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-13

Guess who else is married to paper?

The real problem that bothers me more than anything else, though, given the state of database and data mining technologies and the general interconnectedness of everything we do, is the inability of any of many information systems to talk to more far-flung systems. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-12

News to know: HP-3Com; AMD; Google; Blockbuster; Bing 2.0

News to know intro: Sam Diaz: HP announces $2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com; raises outlook Larry Dignan: Cisco vs. HP: 3Com acquisition ups the ante John Morris: AMD updates roadmap, promises "supercomputer in your lap" ...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Blockbuster Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Games, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-11-12

Is Google's Go language worth teaching or learning?

Whether they are teaching the languages themselves or are using the languages to teach CS concepts, many secondary and post-secondary schools teach everything from Java to C to Python to Perl to Ruby. Does Go add anything to the mix that our students can use if they don't plan...

Tags: Google Inc., Language, Scripting Languages, Programming Languages, Development Tools, C/C++, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Software Development, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-11

News to know: Logitech-LifeSize; Macworld; Droid sales; Tandberg; e-book readers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: Logitech gobbles up LifeSize; Enters video conferencing Dave Greenfield: Logitech Buys LifeSize. Now what about Polycom?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Sales, Ryan Naraine, Sam Diaz, E-book Reader, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, E-books, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-11-11

Intel e-reader combines Atom processor and accessibility

Intel announced an innovative e-reader today that wants nothing to do with being a Kindle-killer. This e-reader, in fact, arguably has more educational implications than the current generation of e-readers. Intel's product, demonstrated below, is designed to turn written text into spoken words and can convert either text...

Tags: E-reader, Processor, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10

It's a girl! (or Ed Tech, 6 years hence)

Regular readers and followers of my Twitter feed will know that yesterday was pretty eventful. My wife and I (well, mostly my wife, but I did make some moderate contribution) had a baby girl who currently remains nameless (we're leaning toward Penelope, but she was delivered by c-section so...

Tags: Web Application, Social Media, E-books, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Personal Technology, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-10