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Wednesday, 26th May 2010

Google Releases CloudCourse, an Open Source Learning Platform

Google made a number of announcements in the past week that are of interest to educators: opening Google Wave to the public and extending Google Voice accounts to students. But one announcement that didn't receive much press was its release of CloudCourse, the new internal learning platform.

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Kids More Likely to Own a Cellphone Than a Book, Study Finds

As technology becomes more a part of our day-to-day lives, some are worried that it is stunting the education of children by taking away time from activities like reading. A startling discovery from the London-based National Literacy Trust finds that children are more likely these days to own a cell phone than they are a book. The study, which…

Mobile Chris Cameron comments

"You're Fired!" (Or Not): Advice on When to Fire Your Startup's Staff

If you are a subscriber to Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis's listserv (you are, right?), you probably found your email inbox slammed last week when the list briefly allowed recipients to reply to the entire list. In today's "Jason Nation" missive, Calacanis apologized, explaining the error and using it as a launching pad to discuss what can be an…

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BroadVision: A 1990s Leader Making its Way in a New World

A natural curiosity surfaces when a company from a different era starts using API's and leveraging the cloud. It shows how fast the world is changing as Web oriented architectures become more predominant. Mastercard, Blockbuster and Pitney Bowes are all companies we've reported about in the past few weeks that are reinventing themselves to some…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

Pew: 71% of Young Adults Change Online Privacy Settings

The same day on which Facebook has rolled back changes to its default privacy settings, Pew Research has released a report on privacy and reputation among young adults that has some interesting results. Though many have proposed that older generations of Internet users are more concerned with privacy online, Pew's study found that young adults aged…

Social Chris Cameron comments

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