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- Large-format, newspaper-friendly Kindle may be coming
- Amazon's last New York press conference gave us the Kindle 2. Now there's one scheduled for Wednesday morning at Pace University in lower Manhattan, and rumor has it that it's "a new, large format device that's optimized for reading newspapers and magazines." Pace University happens...
- Tags: Pace University, Amazon.com Inc., Retail, Wi-Fi, E-business/E-Commerce, Wireless And Mobility, Internet, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
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- Kindle draws fire at Arizona State
- According to a brief article in USA Today, students in the honors history of human culture and thought course at Arizona State University will be receiving Kindle ebook readers with the 30 required books for the course pre-loaded. The 30 required books for Humphrey's year-long course usually...
- Tags: Student, Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist
- From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Live from New York: Amazon's Kindle press conference
- I'm live on the scene at Pace University in lower Manhattan for Amazon's rumored "large-format Kindle" press conference, set to begin at 10:30 EST. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Press Conference, Amazon Kindle, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapers
- Updated: Amazon will reportedly unveil a new large-screen Kindle Wednesday. The company just scheduled a press conference for Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in New York City at Pace University. Get the subtle hint? Despite that subtle hint---holding a press conference at a university (textbooks people!)---a lot of...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- eBay power sellers: Amazon is kicking eBay's tail
- Three eBay power sellers are painting a mixed picture at best for the auction site and note that the recession and Amazon are thumping the company. These power sellers, Skip McGrath, an eBay Gold PowerSeller; Steve Lindhorst is a former eBay University instructor; and Ron Saxton, whose...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Skip McGrath, Jeffrey Lindsay, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
- Health IT and the nursing shortage
- Health IT and the nursing shortageShortage yeah right, layoffs left and right...What shortage of workers, PEOPLE cannot find jobs...Is this written by a propagandist?Make nurse training affordable.That's a nice first step.I'm old enough to remember when hospitals had nursing courses included in their environment. Not only classes, but also...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Workforce management, health care, hospital, training, financial, patient, job
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- Microsoft, Intel, Cisco: "let's bring technology to the classroom"
- Microsoft, Intel and Cisco have met up at the Learning and Technology World Forum in London today, in a bid to transform the classroom into a 21st century technology haven. Prof. Barry McGaw, the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, has been announced as...
- Tags: Assessment, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Technology, Intel Corp., GMT, Strategy, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?
- Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?Not a needed skillMany Chinese people are learning English from an early age.Imagine a situation in which a person with some Chinese in school is in a meeting with a Chinese person who has spent decades working on fluency in English. How likely...
- Tags: Chinese People
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- 'IT has no inherent value'
- 'IT has no inherent value'Finally!After all these years the "pointy haired boss" gets outed.RE: 'IT has no inherent value'Wow, the title to this article is very misleading. Some IT projects do have inherent value and if the project pushers and the project benefit receivers both agree on an IT project...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, inherent value, IT HAS
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accent
- 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accentMakes sense I approximateSince Apple has a business agreement on the iPhone with AT&T for now.Who's having sex with Einstein in the kitchen sink?Blimey.........! :DRE: 'Fish' = 'Sex'? iPhone can't understand British accentI dread to think what it'd do with my accent. I'm...
- Tags: voice recognition function, accent, Apple iPhone, English Speakers, British accent
- Discussion threads 2008-11-19
- Is George Ou right?
- Is George Ou right?Individualized drillIf every student must learn extensive details by rote, each student can work with a computer to learn at his own pace.Why the periodic table is considered important for all I'm uncertain. But so long as it must be learned, let the computer do the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Workforce management, Jargon, Technolgy, computer, Facebook, tool, programming
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Asset smart? AMD moves manufacturing off its balance sheet; Bolsters capital
- AMD said Tuesday that it will split off its manufacturing operations in a deal with the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi. AMD will also receive a capital infusion from Mubadala Development Company, which will wind up owning more than 19 percent of Intel's smaller rival. ...
- Tags: Asset, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., ATIC, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Will students replace notebooks for handhelds?
- Guest post: Imran Hussain is a blogger at startupmeme.com, and has a keen interest in technology and its effects on the lives of students. Apple demonstrated some applications aimed at medical students at this year's WWDC. First was Modality, software for medical science students by a company...
- Tags: Student, Google Docs Mobile, Notebooks, Handhelds, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Technology killing off the traditional lecture?
- Most colleges and universities use Virtual Learning Environments VLE like Moodle, Blackboard and Dokeos and it's a great way to share information, collect coursework and essays, and keeping in touch with the students as well as the students keeping in touch with the lecturers. But...
- Tags: Lecture, Lectures, Telephony, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Rising to the High-bandwidth Demands of an Evolving Academia
- The University of Plymouth is one of the United Kingdom's most prominent universities. University of Plymouth wanted to support high-bandwidth research needs on demand and enable reliable collaboration and communications anywhere. The challenge was to keep pace with teaching innovations. The university chose to implement a Cisco solution that remained...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., University Of Plymouth
- Case studies 2008-06-01
- Weightmania Mobile 1.5 (Mobile)
- A complete fitness, nutrition and exercise journal. Track workouts, meals, measurements, dieting progress, general health, diabetes and more. Includes an 8,000 food database with 14,000 serving sizes, a color-coded calendar, charts, and a statistics tool. Calculates body fat, BMI, distance-time-pace-speed, and splits. Also performs numerous calculations and conversions (such as...
- Tags: Mobile, Workout, Edward A. Greenwood, Apple Mac OS, Business Structures, Microsoft Windows, Food & Beverage, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Manufacturing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-04-25
- Open source will not save education
- Bob Zemsky right of the University of Pennsylvania had an "ah-ha" moment a few years ago, listening to some people demand grants for open source education. He described it to the Chronicle of Higher Education. The problem isn't supply. It's demand. Teachers won't or...
- Tags: Education, Open Source, Productivity, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- 25 environmental threats in our future
- Environmental scientists and policy makers have done some deep brainstorming sessions about our future, according to this article in New Scientist. 35 representatives from organizations involved in environmental policy, academia, scientific journalism in the UK have used what they call 'horizon scanning.' They've established a list of 25 future novel...
- Tags: Scientist, Threat, U.K., Virus, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOS
- Why the Wal-Mart "snub" should be a big deal for gOSgood ideabut my guess is, they will buy option 3 or 4.The problem is, most people who shop at Wal-Mart for a PC are looking to buy something they are familiar with. I don't think you could convince them...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, PC Market, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., PC, Linux, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
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