Colleges embrace MP4 technology for delivering instruction
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Four universities are giving students the chance to complete certificate and degree programs by downloading class material to mobile devices like iPhones and iPods in a distance-learning initiative that could be one day be commonplace in higher education.
2Digital Direction International’s HELP Math for ELL and Special Needs Recognized as a CODiE Award Finalist
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Carbondale, Colorado – March 10, 2010 – Digital Directions International (DDI) is pleased to announce that their HELP Math for ELL and Special Needs program has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious CODiE Award in the Best Instructional Solution for Special Needs Students category. The 25th Annual CODiE awards, sponsored [...]New Premier Mounts 2010 Full-Line Product Catalog Now Available
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ANAHEIM, CALIF. (March 11, 2010) – A revamped design featuring dozens of new products and a remarkably easy to use format make the 2010 edition of the Premier Mounts full-line product catalog a valuable resource for anyone designing A/V systems or installing projectors or flat-panel monitors. With more than 225 pages of [...]ARIZONA VIRTUAL ACADEMY DESIGNATED AS 2010 CENTER OF EXCELLENCE WINNER
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Elluminate Award Recognizes Best Practices, Creativity in Technology, Educational Methods
Phoenix, AZ, Mar. 11, 2010 — Elluminate, Inc., the leading provider of online collaboration tools serving seven million teachers and students in 170 countries, named Arizona Virtual Academy (AZVA) a 2010 Center of Excellence winner and named AZVA’s K-8 Principal, Nichole McCauley, an [...]DIGITAL EDUCATION GROUP LAUNCHES TECHNOLOGY CONTEST FOR K-12 TEACHERS
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Academic consulting firm wants to know how free technologies are being used in today’s classrooms; will share results with educators.
Washington D.C. (February 16, 2010) – The Digital Education Group (DEG)—a new academic consulting firm specializing in 21st century classroom technology—opened its ‘Innovative Technology in the Classroom Contest 1.0′ to all K-12 teachers [...]GroupCast d/b/a SchoolReach Dismissed from TechRadium Patent Suit
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ST. LOUIS, MO., March 11, 2010 – GroupCast, LLC and GroupCast d/b/a SchoolReach Instant Parent Contact have been dismissed from the patent infringement lawsuit filed in Texas by TechRadium, Inc. on August 4, 2009 against it and ten other defendants. GroupCast’s position remains that its products, including SchoolReach, do not infringe any [...]America Chooses The Snowy Day as Campaign Book for Jumpstart’s Read for the Record 2010
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Reading Events to be Held on Thursday, October 7, 2010 in Schools and Communities Across the Country
Boston, MA – March 11, 2010 – Thousands of American’s have shown their ongoing commitment to ending the crisis in early literacy by picking up their cell phones and voting for Jumpstart’s Read for the Record’s [...]MSI Donates Computers to Help Virginia Tech Students Form the First Ever Linux Laptop Orchestra
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CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – March 11, 2010 – MSI Computer, recently donated a number of MSI Wind U100 Netbooks to the Virginia Tech Music Department to help create the first ever Linux-based laptop orchestra. The diverse group is made up of theater arts, political science, engineering, biology and math majors and [...]Critics: Obama’s ed policies no better than Bush’s
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When it comes to education policy, President Obama is repeating the most grievous errors of his predecessor, charge a trio of venerable education policy analysts, including one—Diane Ravitch—best known for her past support of conservative positions on testing, accountability, and choice.
2Mario Day Shortbread
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Mario Day
Engadget reports Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is ‘looking forward’
to court date with Intel, sees no reason to settle (video)
Ars Technica reports HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers
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13Ubisoft DRM authentication servers go down
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That whole "forcing users to be online to play" copy protection scheme Ubisoft premiered recently seems to be having a rough start. After forcing players to retrace progress in the release version of Assassin’s Creed II, the new DRM scheme has now prevented folks from, well, actually playing both…
13Wearing your Stickybit on your sleeve, or elsewhere
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One of the start-ups hoping to make a splash at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival is Stickybits, a set of bar code stickers that you can “tag” with anything.
8Chasing Groupon, LivingSocial raises $25 million
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Despite the fact that Groupon dominates all of its smaller competitors in the daily-deals market, rival LivingSocial is trying to draw some blood by expanding with the help of a new infusion of venture funding.
8BBC iPlayer tunes into Humax Foxsat STB
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Owners of the Humax Foxsat HD and the Foxsat HDR Freesat set top boxes will be able to access the highly desirable BBC iPlayer through the red button on the remote control.
However before the viewer can use this service a little bit of planning will be needed, as the set top box [...]Sharp prepares for Freeview launch
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Sharp will be releasing the first versions of its new Freeview HD set top boxes towards the end of April.
Naturally, one of these machines will be a personal video recorder (PVR) but unusually it will offer a USB port as an additional storage connection.
The Sharp TU T1UR, which comes with three [...]West gets the switchover countdown
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Households in the West TV region that are still watching television via an analogue signal have only two weeks to switchover to a digital TV service or face missing out initially on BBC 2 and, after BBC 2 is switched off, the entire analogue signal will soon be switched off.
This will affect [...]PM is red carded by the BBC
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With the prospect of a General Election brewing the leaders of the main political parties have to get themselves in front of as many people as possible.
This can make a lot of difference to how the voters see these leaders and ultimately could affect the outcome of the election.
So what better [...]Microsoft launches VoD service
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Microsoft officially launched the MSN Video Player today.
This is a service said to rival that of the BBC iPlayer but in reality these are two different services altogether.
The BBC iPlayer offers the user a catch up service of programmes that have been shown during the previous week, but the MSN Video [...]YouTube views increase by 50%
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Music on YouTube has been a big hit in the US, with viewings for the month of January increasing by fifty per cent according to the US-based tracker service comScore.
The figures throw up some interesting facts about the market, with 173.3 million internet user watching a staggering 32.4 billion videos.
YouTube is the [...]Samsung 3D TVs launching soon
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Samsung will be launching its version of the 3D television by the end of the month in the UK.
The Korea-based firm confirmed the launch of the televisions and Blu-ray devices well in time for the start of the UK’s only 3D Channel from BSkyB.
The company has joined forces with the DreamWorks Studio [...]UK pay TV subscriptions increase
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Once again, spending on digital television services has increased.
To the end of 2009 the figure for subscription based services was £4.6 billion, which shows an increase of 6.4 per cent.
According to Future Source Consulting, in total a staggering £19.7 billion was spent on media products, with pay TV taking around a quarter [...]S4C failing to get enough viewers
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It may be funded by the TV Licence but the regional channel for Wales S4C, effectively Channel Four for Wales, showed around two hundred programmes last month and because this channel is directed at the Welsh, it is easy to think that the viewing figures would be pretty substantial.
However, according to the [...]Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too
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The Net giant unveils Google Reader Play, an attempt to put an easy-to-use, entertaining interface on its feed-reader Web application
8GDC 2010: Scaling the summits of gameplay
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roundup This week’s Game Developers Conference brings together designers, programmers, publishers, and others for the latest from the world of video play.
8Android phones get Opera Mini 5 beta
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Opera adds Android to its updated browser lineup.
8LGBT researcher calls for action to combat cyberbullying (podcast)
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The co-author of a study on cyberbullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth says more than half of LGBT youth had experienced cyberbulling within the past 30 days.
8Intel debuts six-core gaming chip
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Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.
8Report: Time for next stage of sustainable business
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Activist investor group urges companies to track their use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow.
8Intel’s Core i7-980X Extreme processor
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Intel’s dominance with the Nehalem Core i7s has been nearly complete, yet a replacement will soon arrive in the form of Gulftown, a six-core monster with 12MB of cache. How good is it? Should it replace your Pentium 4? Your Core 2 Quad Q6600? We investigate.
13Sony announces Playstation Move
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Sony unveils their first motion controller for the Playstation 3.
8Poll: Your last graphics card upgrade
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These days, consoles pretty much set the standard for the level of detail in games. Oh sure, some ports or cross-platform titles might give PC gamers slightly snazzier graphics and effects, but for the most part, one needs surprisingly little graphics horsepower to run even the latest titles. In some…
13OCZ ‘boot drive’ SSD starts at under 100 bucks
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Already, OCZ’s solid-state drive lineup includes several affordable 30GB offerings. That hasn’t stopped the company from adding another one to the mix, however: the 2.5" Onyx 32GB SSD, which is launching with a "sub 100 dollar" suggested retail price.
The 32GB Onyx has maximum rated transfer speeds of 125MB/s for…
13AMD-powered MSI Wind12 laptops now available
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Four months have passed since we first wrote about MSI’s Wind12, one of the very first systems based on AMD’s new Congo ultraportable platform. Now, MSI has announced that two Wind12 laptops have become available in North America for $429.99 and $479.99.
The higher of the two price tags applies…
13Interviews with House staffers and former representatives reveal the rich history of this governing body
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“Oral History of the U.S. House of Representatives” reveals the rich heritage of the House through interviews with House officers, aides, committee staff, former Representatives, and others. Audio, video, and transcripts include insights about legislative processes and procedures, personal and political anecdotes, and recollections about the evolving nature of the House as [...]Moodlerooms Awarded Statewide Contract for REMC $AVE Bid Project
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Baltimore, MD — Moodlerooms, Inc., provider of the enterprise learning management platform called joule™, has been selected by the REMC Association of Michigan’s Statewide $AVE Bid Project as a recommended provider of learning management solutions for eligible institutions and agencies across Michigan.
The REMC Statewide $AVE Bid Project is provided for the schools [...]edWeb.net helps the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) reach out to teachers for the upcoming Content in Context Conference.
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Princeton, NJ – May 8, 2010 – Keeping up with changes in technology and in the classroom is an ongoing challenge. As educational publishers strive to improve instructional materials for the classroom, it is more important than ever to hear from educators, in their own words, about what they need to teach [...]Expert: Many nations passing the U.S. in education
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One of the world’s foremost experts on comparing national school systems told lawmakers on March 9 that many other countries are surpassing the United States in educational attainment, reports the New York Times—including Canada, where he said 15-year-old students were, on average, more than a full school year ahead of their American [...]Texas board resumes work on social studies curriculum after notable election
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Texas’ state education board, rocked by primary elections that could push the influential panel’s far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide, reports the Associated Press.
2Google opens web store for business applications
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Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more organizations to rely on applications piped over the internet, reports the Associated Press.
2MySpace outlines makeover after executive shake-up
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Long ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users’ posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly, reports the [...]IBM, universities target easy-to-use cell phones
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Teaming up with international universities, IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cell phones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate, Reuters reports.
2More American Children Start Day with a Healthy Breakfast — Small grants enable big improvements in nutrition for at-risk youth
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Chicago (March 8, 2010) – Schools across America have cause to celebrate National School Breakfast Week (March 8-12) this year. Action for Healthy Kids reports that dozens of schools have increased the number of students that receive breakfast at school – in some cases by as much as 200% – thanks to [...]Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
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Cyclists will be able to use Google Maps to plot directions around 150 U.S. cities when bike directions go live on Google later on Tuesday.
8Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot
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The troubled actress is suing E-Trade, claiming that it mocked her in one of its cute baby ads. She is asking for $100 million.
8How Epic fit the Unreal Engine into the iPhone
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The Unreal Engine 3 is on its way to the iPhone, though creators Epic Games have had to make some compromises to get there.
8Google announces business app store for Google Apps
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Software developers can cater to Google Apps customers through a new application store announced at Google’s Campfire One event in Mountain View.
8Rock Band 3 confirmed for holidays
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Harmonix and MTV Games are getting the band back together, with Electronic Arts handling distribution once more.
8Online dating finally recognized by restaurant guide
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A new restaurant guide has a section specifically dedicated to the difficult area of online dating. Its author believes only certain very specific places are suitable for an online date.
8Pink Floyd sues EMI over iTunes payments
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One of the most imposing (and wealthiest) bands of all time sues EMI over online royalties. EMI is reportedly arguing that an album-unbundling ban applies only to physical products.
8iPhone 4G: 25 most-wanted features
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Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone will most likely arrive in June. Here’s a look at some of the feature and design upgrades we’d most like to see, including the odds of their implementation.
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