The Google Phone has become the stuff of mythical legend, but if messages going out on Twitter last night from Google employees are to be believed, it’s real, and it’s coming soon.
TechCrunch is reporting that Google employees last night were setting Twitter on fire with messages that they had just been given an unlocked Google Phone at a company party. The messages indicated that it was running Android 2.1, and the adjectives to describe it were running in the range of “beautiful”, “slick” and so on. In short, if these reports are real, and not some form of orchestrated Twitter prank which has been Continue Reading This Story ...
Literacy (along with numeracy) is surely one of the most important staples for kids to be equipped with to prepare them to enter the adult world. But is the Web helping or hindering kids’ writing skills?
The majority of kids who are able to pick up reading and writing skills at a very young age without too much trouble. But there are an increasing number who are falling through the gaps in the system and leaving school not being able to spell or use grammar in even the most perfunctory manner.
The big question is whether technology in general, and the Continue Reading This Story ...
Virtually since their invention, cell phones have been banned in classrooms everywhere. Now some teachers are beginning to see value in wireless handsets as teaching (and learning) tools.
A few teachers are beginning to believe that they can take advantage of the love young people have for their cell phones. One example cited by an AP story is Spanish teacher Ariana Leonard, who not only allows her students to use their cell phones during class, she requires it. In Leonard’s classes, the phones are used for class lessons, to turn Spanish vocabulary Continue Reading This Story ...
It appears that the number of people interested in helping monitor “the sum of all human knowledge” is on a sharp decline.
According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega has been studying the number of volunteers that assist in keeping Wikipedia up and running. He found that in the first three months of 2009, over 49,000 editors stopped working on the site, a significant jump from the 4,900 who stopped working on the site in the same time period in 2008.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the site, confirms the steep decline in Continue Reading This Story ...
Although it seems that few hackers are caught and brought to trial, the members of the Kryogeniks hacker “gang” have been charged with a Website hacking stunt that was costly to Comcast.
The Comcast exploit was not all that complicated, but it is said to have cost the company more than $100,000. More importantly, perhaps, the unfolding case shed some light on the motivation of hackers. The exploit engineered by the three (Christopher Allen Lewis (EBK), James Robert Black (Defiant), and Michael Paul Lebel (Slacker)) hijacked the cable giant’s home page and Web Continue Reading This Story ...
Microsoft announced today that it has officially begun work on Internet Explorer 9.
In a completely unsurprising announcement, Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live division, today announced at the Professional Developers Conference (PDC), that development began three weeks ago on Internet Explorer 9.
Of course details are sketchy with the program so early in its development cycle, but we do know that the browser will support HTML 5, have increased JavaScript performance and will also have CSS3 support.
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Five years ago today, on November 9, 2004, Mozilla launched Firefox 1.0 and the Web browser has never looked back. In that five years Firefox has grown from an open source product for nerds and geeks to a mainstream product with 330 million users worldwide and a 20-25 percent market share. So, what does the future hold for Firefox?
Five years ago the Internet was a wildly different place than it is now. There was no YouTube, no Facebook and Twitter, no Blorge for that matter. The Web browser market was also very different. Q2 of 2004 saw Microsoft’s Internet Explorer hit its highest market Continue Reading This Story ...
The Chinese government looks set to ban clinics for Internet addiction from physically punishing patients. It follows an incident in August when a 15-year-old was beaten to death.
As we noted at the time, although only a small proportion of Internet users suffer a genuine form of addiction, in a country with the population of China that adds up to a large group. One estimate says 10 million teens in the country suffer some sort of addiction problem and more than 200 facilities offer some form of treatment.
In the case of teenager Deng Sanshan, that treatment came in the form of a Continue Reading This Story ...
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