It’s not often to hear Google has failed at anything, but according to the University of Massachusetts’ Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Google Apps service offered at…
Google is continuing with its effort to become the one-stop translation shop, announcing May 11 that it has added speech capabilities to more languages on Google Translate, its…
The social networking web site Ning will remain free for educators despite moving to a fee-based model this summer, the site announced May 4. But some education technology…
A small but growing number of schools across the nation are turning classroom lessons into engaging experiences with augmented reality (AR), a technology that overlays digital information on…
If you're a teacher, administrator, or student interested in educational technology, there's an event to check out: Apple and MacLearning.org are co-sponsoring a virtual conference, AcademiX 2010, on…
Steve Jobs reportedly replied to an Apple customer's e-mail, saying that printing would eventually make its way to the iPad, the L.A. Times reports. According to a report…
The House Oversight and Government Reform Government Management Subcommittee today reported legislation mandating the creation of a permanent national office for cyberspace within the White House to oversee…
President Obama's commencement speech Sunday at Hampton University caused a little stir in tech circles after he took a swipe at some of our favorite toys — "iPods…
A Twitter glitch has allowed users to game the popularity contest by making it appear that celebrities had subscribed to read their mini-blog postings known as tweets. The…
As more and more eReading devices flood the market, users are beginning to feel the restrictions imposed by copyright and digital rights management (DRM)—restrictions that some fear could…
Recorded Books, a publisher of K-12 curriculum and independent producer of audio books, has teamed up with Transparent Language, a provider of language-learning software, to introduce three foreign…
Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s pick to fill Justice John Paul Stevens's seat on the Supreme Court, could become a voice for education rights, thanks to her background…
More than 1.6 million college graduates are about to emerge into a cutthroat job market, one where last year's graduates are still scrambling to land entry-level positions, BusinessWeek…
President Barack Obama, addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University on May 9, said that it is the responsibility of all Americans to offer every child the type…
The industry group that supports Wi-Fi is adopting a new technology that should boost data speeds more than 10 times at short distances, which could replace video cables…
Analysts have noted a growing boom in cybersecurity work, the Washington Post reports. From small, recently-established firms all the way up to the well-known defense contracting giants, local…
The New York Times reports that Zheng Yue, a young woman from China who is teaching her native language to students in this town on the Oklahoma grasslands,…
Education technology advocates hope that a new national online community will inspire entrepreneurs and educators to team up in developing and funding innovative solutions to some of education's…
Google announced on May 6 that its Google Goggles application for Android-based mobile phones now can take photos of foreign-language text and instantly translate the text using Google's…
Houston school board members no longer can accept unlimited contributions from technology vendors after federal regulators alleged the district violated the competitive bidding and gift-giving rules for the…