‘Racy’ Google Themes Draw Complaints From Colleges Using Company’s Services
By admin | July 18, 2010
‘Racy’ Google Themes Draw Complaints From Colleges Using Company’s Services
Talk about “hot” mail. A Google feature that lets users add off-color pictures to their home pages has led some campus administrators to question why the images are featured so prominently.
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Study Finds No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance
By admin | July 18, 2010
Study Finds No Link Between Social-Networking Sites and Academic Performance
Spend as much time on Facebook as you want. It won’t affect your GPA, a new study says.
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Latest Attempt to Hawk E-Textbooks: Make Them Easier for Professors to Use
By admin | July 18, 2010
Latest Attempt to Hawk E-Textbooks: Make Them Easier for Professors to Use
Publishers are integrating the electronic texts more tightly into the course-management systems instructors already use.
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Typing to Tagging: 50 Years of Cataloging
By admin | July 18, 2010
Typing to Tagging: 50 Years of Cataloging
A specialist reflects on a half-century’s worth of technological changes at libraries.
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Google Awards First Grants for New Digital Humanities Research Program
By admin | July 18, 2010
Google Awards First Grants for New Digital Humanities Research Program
The dozen grants are part of a two-year, $1-million program for data-intensive research on Google’s corpus of more than 12 million books.
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Design School Uses Technology to Encourage ‘Artrepreneurial’ Success
By admin | July 18, 2010
Design School Uses Technology to Encourage ‘Artrepreneurial’ Success
Along with their diplomas, this year’s graduates from the Rhode Island School of Design got a special gadget to help them with their own business ventures.
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E-Books Will Make Up Majority of Saint Leo U.’s Library Come Fall
By admin | July 18, 2010
E-Books Will Make Up Majority of Saint Leo U.’s Library Come Fall
With the acquisition of a new e-book database, 53 percent of the collection will consist of online material.
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Judge Reduces Student’s File-Sharing Fine by 90 Percent
By admin | July 18, 2010
Judge Reduces Student’s File-Sharing Fine by 90 Percent
A federal judge has reduced a Boston University student’s fine for illegal file-sharing by 90 percent, declaring the original fee “unconstitutionally excessive.”
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Microsoft Research Unveils Online Observatory of NASA Images of Mars
By admin | July 18, 2010
Microsoft Research Unveils Online Observatory of NASA Images of Mars
Students and amateur scientists can now explore the Martian landscape through a Web interface, bringing crowd science to the Red Planet.
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Harvard Tech Guru Responds to Conflict-of-Interest Accusations
By admin | July 18, 2010
Harvard Tech Guru Responds to Conflict-of-Interest Accusations
Jonathan Zittrain is the target of a controversial report that raises questions about corporate donations to the research center he co-founded.
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