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- Google's Chrome OS: Will you give up desktop apps?
- I won't ntntI can'tI'm not online 24/7. I need local apps, as does everyone else. Say what you want. But network outages happen... Weather by forces of nature or human error, a network will eventually go down. It's only a matter of time. And knowing Google's past GMail outages, I...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Desktops, operating system, desktop, Google Inc., desktop app, netbook, Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- Clients: fat vs. thin, net vs. note
- Can I suggestNetbooks with Win 7. Just installed it on a useless Linux netbook and it works fine and only cost me A$399 (which now is almost the same as US ;-))For once try and rein in your hobby horse and let the students join the new millenium.On and...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Thin clients, PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NeatX, oh-so, netbook, thin client, Linux, desktop, operating system, tool
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Ubicomp 2009 and the fusion of our digital and physical worlds
- Recently, I used my newly downloaded Zipcar app on my iPhone to unlock and honk my booked vehicle from several yards away. It was more novel than useful, but a tall tale example of the countless invisible interactions we're having with sensing, inferring, and data transferring machines every day. It's...
- Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- 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
- Generation Y: 'Email is unfashionable and outdated'
- Steve Clayton, Microsoft extraordinaire and geek in disguise, posted an interesting set of statistics over the weekend, via Socialnomics, on the social media revolution - the movement where media and information spreads far and wide through social techniques; Twitter and Facebook being the two best examples. Students,...
- Tags: Facebook, Generation Y, Student, YouTube Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Albert Gonzalez was hacking in high school...where were the safety nets?
- I agree.....Most of our schools are not equipt for the new age of computers and programming. Most of our schools but not all are still stuck in the liberal arts mode of teaching and not letting students focus on their strengths. Its all about well rounded B-S. ...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, hacking, Albert Gonzalez
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Facebook pages for schools
- Separation is KeyI don't think Facebook is an appropriate medium for schools to communicate with students/parents/faculty. One of the issues that comes up in our household frequently is the separation of personal and professional life on Facebook, i.e., I am not "friends" with any of my professional acquaintances on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Facebook, Facebook Pages, social media
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- HiMyTribe helps iPhone, iPod touch users network with GPS [review]
- For the last couple of weeks I've been playing with Never Alone Anymore's HiMyTribe iPhone/iPod touch app, which lets users network for business or pleasure using the device's built-in GPS functionality. A social networking tool, HiMyTribe fuses aspects of Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Network, Apple iPod Touch, App, HiMyTribe, GPS, Social Networking, Handhelds, Digital Music, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Laptop or desktop+netbook for back to school?
- It's almost August, folks. We all know what that means, right? If you don't already have a computer for school, you need to get one, PDQ. For some of you in K-12, your school might have a 1:1 program and you'll take a laptop home with you...
- Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeover
- Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverJob-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverI don't know, I think the keg stand pics should stay. It shows that the student can cooperate in teamwork and be social, both of which are good for any employer....
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, extreme social networking, Job-seeking college, social networking, network, recruiting, jobseeker, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Overcoming the laptop wall
- Overcoming the laptop wallSeems fairly simpleIn my opinion, either:Construct the firewall and proxy services of the university properly so that the wireless network that students can connect to is tightly limited on what websites they can access, or potentially only the intranet. Only allow full inet access to hard wired...
- Tags: Firewalls, Notebooks, Web technology, laptop wall, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-06-04
- Twitter needs young users and regular tweeters to grow past niche
- Now that Twitter has received Oprah's Midas Touch and been the subject of a conference of its own - called Twtrcon - does that mean that it's "arrived?" Some might argue that Twitter's growth numbers in recent months are proof enough that the site has gone mainstream....
- Tags: Twitter, Productivity, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- News to know: Social media screwups; Microsoft's search; iPhone; Google
- 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. Robin Harris: The $17.5 million hard drive Jason Perlow: National Archives: What, Me Worry? Jennifer Leggio: The very worst of social media ...
- Tags: Apple AirPort Express, Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple Airport, Social Media, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?indeed well spentNothing dying about OLPC or olpc, upper or lower case. 1 million kids have XO laptops in 31 countries and 19 languages, with another million headed too them. The results have been nothing less than complete social change. If Rwanda can 20% of...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC initiative, XO-2
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Netbooks are everywhere
- I spent the last two days at a community conference hosted by our SIS vendor. Although the information sessions were great and I had a chance to introduce a new social network that I'd created for the group in Ning, the gearhead in me only noticed one thing: everyone...
- Tags: Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- How much does open source cost schools?
- Obviously, there is money to be saved by using open source software in schools. Even merely substituting OpenOffice of Microsoft Office on student computers can save thousands in licensing costs. However, a Twitter comrade (I just can't bear to call him one of my Tweeps, but thanks to...
- Tags: Desktop, Open Source, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Congress eyes LimeWire over inadvertant P2P breaches
- LimeWire is in the hotseat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music filesharing but security breaches through inadvertant file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous...
- Tags: LimeWire, P2P, U.S. Congress, Social Security Number, House Committee, Peer To Peer (P2P), Social Security, Operational Accounting, Internet, Government, Finance, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Our brilliant kids are bored
- Our brilliant kids are boredSmart kids are bored, but is this really the explanation?Smart kids have always been bored because American schools do not recognize the difference in the learning paces of children. Fast learners are not challenged by a school curriculum designed for the lowest common denominator. They...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Smart Kid, OKC, brilliant kid
- Discussion threads 2009-04-15
- Do they still need us more than we need them?
- Do they still need us more than we need them?Geek not NerdYou are mixing your names in your article and thereby invalidating your premise. Nerds are socially inept beings that may or may not be geeks. Geeks are technically gifted beings that may or may not be nerds....
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Nerds
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
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