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The future of digital textbooks: 3 reasons to switch

Remember the days of lugging around textbooks and supplies to each class? It's likely not that hard ...

Are iPads truly educational for children?

Children these days are tech savvy even before they talk or walk. They master the finger slide on ...

Obama's science and technology advisors invite Dean Blair Smith to participate on panel

It’s no secret that technology is evolving rapidly. The last decade has brought a wide-range of ...

New Industry Advisory Board provides strategy to help shape degree programs and outcomes

How do you prepare for a job that doesn't yet exist?

Mapping one’s education in anticipation of jobs that don’t yet exist is simpler than the predictive ...

Technology and democracy: Where politics and pop culture collide

"In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in television sitcoms, ...

The hottest tech jobs in the next five years

With the constant demand for networking, wireless communications, and hardware and software ...

Equipping IT graduates with the needed skills to face a tough job market

When a student enrolls in a college or university and chooses a major, it’s a given that he or she ...

Wireless infrastructure: Can our current system handle bandwidth demands?

The world is going wireless and that means an ever-increasing demand on wireless bandwidth. Cisco ...

Is app programming a sustainable career?

One must define what is meant by the term “app programming” before one can address the question of ...

How tech jobs will be affected by the net neutrality debate

Surprisingly enough, supporters on both sides of the net neutrality debate claim that the other ...

Video gaming helps learners become better employees

It’s been nearly 40 years since the Fairchild Channel F gaming console (later eclipsed by the Atari ...

Deciding to replace or upgrade computer equipment

Technology has become an important staple in the modern business environment. Businesses today rely ...

The pros and cons of outsourcing company IT services

IT outsourcing is a competitive business strategy implemented to reduce costs and save resources. ...

Dealing with managers who do not understand technology

Communication is critical between IT and other departments and their managers. In order to bridge ...

Is 3D television the future or a fad?

In 2010, technology manufacturers had high expectations from 3D technology, and they introduced it ...

The true impact of the iPad

Apple’s iPad® was the most anticipated gadget of 2010. Featuring incomparable technical ...

IT films: "The Social Network"

Facebook®, Mark Zuckerberg’s feudal attempt to exploit the boundaries of technology, initially ...

Break the ban: Learning and teaching with cell phones

Disruptive. Noisy. Annoying. Frankly, cell phones in the secondary classroom are considered by many ...

Infusing 21st-century technology in a 21st-century education

Infusing modern technology into a 21st-century education is, at the very least, a student ...

Protecting company data against natural disasters

Data is one of a company's most valuable assets as businesses rely upon their accumulated data in ...

Flash memory: When will standard hard drives disappear?

Nearly 20 years ago, Seagate® and Hewlett-Packard® launched the first 2.1GB standard hard drives. ...

Developing a policy for blocking websites in the workplace

While the Internet is an invaluable resource in the workplace, it is also a resource that may be ...

Teaching customer service skills to IT professionals

Many IT professionals begin their working career on a help desk, hired because of their computer ...

How to teach e-mail etiquette in the workplace

Business e-mails say a lot about the caliber of people who work for the company, but also reflect ...

The future of Twitter

With more than 145 million active users in September 2010 according to its official blog, Twitter® ...

How to stay current as an IT professional

The IT field changes extremely fast, with many new technologies and products seemingly appearing ...

Google Chrome: Educators scrap computer hardware for a collaborative learning platform

The technology-centric curriculum that drives the paradigm of today’s educators includes a fresh ...

The elements of a company social networking policy

In the modern world, social networking has become an integrated part of daily living. In 2010, the ...

Toys or tools: Evaluating the application of new products

IT professionals are often exposed to a wide range of cutting-edge technology products and software ...

Helping workers avoid multitasking

In the last 10 years, employers have been placing the requirement for good multitasking skills on ...

Anticipating the future: When will all computer hardware become obsolete?

Hardware that is small, personal and powerful is on the rise. Smartphones and touch-tablets like ...

Wikis: Environments for online collaboration

The controversial news headlines plaguing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tends to cloud one’s ...

Does your child have a digital footprint?

If you are an active member of Facebook®, it is likely one of your online friends has posted the ...

Kids and technology: How early is too early?

Experts continue to tell parents that they should not let their young children interact with ...

Virtual labs give University of Phoenix students hands-on experience

From the moment modern technology began to permeate mainstream society with the personal computer ...

Buying into the social bubble

If you saw the media reports that originated in December 2010, you know that Google™ offered ...

What is the 20 cent "cloud phone"?

The 20 cent "cloud phone" is a mobile phone service that allows users to have a private ...

Is Facebook really the new Google?

Facebook™ rapidly became a significant part of society. In many circles people are often out of the ...

Bigger isn’t necessarily better: Twitter’s million follower fallacy

In August 2009, Adi Avnit of Dotmad.net wrote a guest post on the Pravda: On Media and Technology ...

Spam goes mobile

Unwanted email marketing, aka spam, is one of the biggest annoyances of being online. As an ...

Access denied: Citizens pay for Internet freedom

History commemorates those average citizens who literally pay with their lives to ensure freedom of ...

Google moving away from the PC

Soon, accessing the Internet will no longer occur primarily on a computer, it’ll occur on ...

How being Net neutral can be competitive

Net neutrality is a buzz-phrase currently flying around the Internet and scaring a lot of people. ...

When technology and culture clash

Technology has increased the success of international business ventures and educational ...

Teleporting into the future

Quantum mechanics is famously difficult to comprehend, but in some cases, actually understanding ...

Have apps killed the Web?

Needless to say, apps are everywhere. If there is a computer-based function in life that needs to ...

Learning from failure in IT

IT projects have a reputation for extremely high failure rates, with one survey finding 68% of ...

Google CEO offers a solution to online privacy issues: “Just change your name”

Before the Information Age, when a host of social networks began exposing security and privacy ...

I spy...my child on the Internet

There’s no denying that when it comes to raising children, each generation encounters a newer set of ...

What will the Library of Congress do with all those tweets?

Twitter is making its entire record of tweets, which are personal broadcasts of 140 characters or ...

Redefining urgency in the Information Age

Whether you text, Twitter®, Facebook™ or use a smartphone for personal or work e-mail, these ...

A virtual tug-of-war: A closer look at Google in China

Google™ announced in March 2010 that it was moving its Chinese site to an unfiltered Hong Kong site ...

Half of what you see: Truth in the time of Photoshop

It used to take smoke and mirrors to make things appear or disappear, but today all one needs is ...

Loving and hating Facebook

The popularity of Facebook™ has skyrocketed since its launch in February 2004. As of July 2010, the ...

Is technology helping or hurting our ability to think?

When pursuing an advanced degree, critical thinking and analysis are key characteristics for a ...

The perils of digital distraction

Although practical realities of the modern day mean most of us deal with multiple streams of ...

Bringing technology to the masses

Two of India's premier research and development institutes, The Indian Institute of Technology and ...

Don't let it come back to bite you: Protecting your online reputation

Online social networking has replaced telephone conversations, letter writing and, for some, even ...

Building an empire on 'cheezburgers': Ben Huh's online takeover

Unless you are an Internet entrepreneur, the name Ben Huh may not register as someone who has become ...

Consumers and mobile advertising

The mobile phone seems ubiquitous in U.S. society. People of all ages, including young children and ...

The future of snail mail

The end of snail mail has been predicted several times before, whenever new technologies like the ...

A "virtual" ideal city

Jane Jacobs described a world of creative and explosive city growth in her 1969 book, The Economy ...

Are social media updates search-worthy?

There are two kinds of value to be found in social media status updates, beyond their initial ...

What is your font saying?

On July 8 in a highly publicized event on national television, professional basketball star LeBron ...

Feeding the Mobile APPetite for Childhood Fitness

Summer vacation. Just that simple term brings back memories of waking up early in the morning to go ...

The future of online television

With a constant stream of handheld gadgets and a plethora of wireless connections available for ...

What is singularity?

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Videoconference etiquette

Professional broadcasters are well versed on maintaining poise and staying on topic while on camera. ...

Think twice before you post: How secure is Facebook?

Facebook™ is about sharing. As its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, reiterated in the Washington ...

Avoid Being 'Brand-Jacked' Online

Imagine searching for your brand and landing on a page that you have no control over. Who is that ...

Can Businesses Be More Social?

Many companies today are looking at social media and taking a "me too" approach. They start a ...

@Office Productivity—Are My #Tweets Distracting You?

Information technology makes life easier. You can rant on Twitter®. Share photos on Facebook™. Read ...

Best Philosophies of IT

The size of the technological change that IT has brought about in our workplaces, homes and ...

Leveraging Mentors for Career Advancement

In the IT world, constant technology advancements mean constant learning to keep up to date. But ...

Micro-Lending and Future IT Professionals

The costs of further education can be prohibitive even in countries where student loans are readily ...

The IT Profession in the Next 5 Years

New IT as a business and social tool is just beginning its life cycle, meaning that creative people ...

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