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Firms team with schools, feds in cloud computing research
Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo have joined government and academia in launching a global, multi-data center test bed for experimentation and research in cloud computing, which many experts believe will be…
Yale students’ lawsuit unmasks anonymous trolls, opens Pandora’s Box
Wired reports on a legal case with important implications for the future of online anonymity--and the ability of internet users to post damaging comments online without fear of repercussions. …
Cuil shows how not to launch a search engine
Google challenger Cuil launched in blaze of glory. And it went down in a ball of flames, reports CNET. …
Longer year for Fairfax teachers
The Falls Church area high school is part of an $8 million, three-year county pilot initiative to extend teacher contracts into summer and encourage teachers to take on greater responsibilities,…
Op-ed: New book talks ed-tech’s effect on inequality
As Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz describe in their book, "The Race Between Education and Technology," America's educational progress was amazingly steady between 1870 and 1950, and the U.S. opened…
FCC to sanction Comcast for slowing net traffic
A majority of the members of the Federal Communications Commission have decided to sanction Comcast for slowing peer-to-peer traffic, reports Online Media Daily. …
New search engine takes aim at Google
There's a big new search engine launching Monday: Cuil. Developed and run by the husband-and-wife team of Stanford professor Tom Costello and former Google search architect Anna Patterson, it's pitched…
Literacy debate: Online, r u really reading?
Many children are at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age, says The New York Times. …
The odd world of eSchool teachers
Educators who supplement or replace their day jobs with online teaching for local public schools are discovering that the perks of working at home come with hurdles, reports the Washington…
e-Rate firm settles $750K lawsuit
Montgomery, Ala.-based e-Rate Consulting Services might have a shortage of funds, but there's no shortage of lawsuits, reports the Montgomery Advertiser. …