Archive for the 'Tech' Category
I love my iPod and use it all the time. I've tried to convince my wife and son that they each need one, but so far they have resisted the hypnotic pull of Cupertino's bestselling product.
According to this post from Engadget "iPod has new role as educational tool" Pearson Education plans to start making downloadable [...]
As a prof who has been teaching online for eight years now, I always love these kinds of articles where the writer suddenly “discovers” this thing known as learning online. From today’s Washington Post:
Angela
Bostic will get her MBA in August from the University of Maryland
University College, part of a dual master’s degree she is pursuing. [...]
According to a story in this morning's WSJ, McAfee will be releasing a report today that demonstrates that a major source of spyware, malware, and other online junk is: search engines.
Search Sites Tied
To Viruses, Spyware
McAfee Unit Study Says
Results Pages Have Links
To Risky Web Addresses
By KEVIN J. DELANEY
May 12, 2006; Page A16
New research scheduled to be [...]
After doublechecking my calendar to make sure that it was no longer April 1st, I share the following announcement:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (Nasdaq:AAPL – news), the maker of the Macintosh computer and iPod music device, on Wednesday rolled out a first-ever software patch to run Microsoft’s dominant Windows operating system on its [...]
Or Thunderbird. Or Eudora. Or a blog. Or a wiki. Or Basecamp. From today’s Wall Street Journal “Washington Wire” column (link unavailable)
TECHNICALLY CHALLENGED: Among other woes at Homeland Security,
the inspector general’s office says it can’t widely distribute
electronic announcements of new watchdog reports. A spokeswoman
explains the department lacks capacity to create a mass email list, (emphasis [...]
While I strongly disagree with Google’s decision to capitulate to the Chinese government’s censorship wishes, this proposed legislation from Congress is NOT going to do a thing to make the problem any better. From today’s USA Today:
Bill would keep servers out of China
By Jim Hopkins, USA TODAY
SANFRANCISCO — Free-speech advocates have blasted Google and otherInternet [...]
I love Apple. I use my iPod and iBook on a daily basis.
Having said that, I’m fully aware that they, like any other company, are far from perfect. But within the past few days I’m starting to notice an anti-Apple backlash developing in a few places.
First, there was Joseph Nocera’s piece (trapped behind the NYT’s [...]
