So Far Rivals Can’t Beat iPad’s Price

The iPad 2, unveiled on Wednesday, offers several sleek improvements over its predecessor. But its most attractive feature is perhaps the same one its predecessor had: the price tag.

See New York Times Article: So Far Rivals Can’t Beat iPad’s Price

Will the iPad Revolutionize Education?

Interestingly there are several companies, such as XOOM, who have the same capabilities to create something similar to iPad2.  Apple is not the only company with that capability. However, it could be a case of "we got there first."

See: How the iPad 2 Will Revolutionize Education by Greg Ferenstein

Agile Development Certification in the Works

Oh la la - One more certification to earn...PMI is creating a certification in agile development.



See: Agile Development Certification in the Works by Susan Hall

K-12: AUPs shape Web 2.0 use, guidelines

This article reminds me of the good old days that we worked on coming up with the perfect AUP for K-12 schools. It now seems they must be updated to meet the demands of Social Networking...

See: AUPs shape Web 2.0 use, guidelines
by: Jenna Zwang

As educational technology transforms teaching and learning, many districts are finding that once-solid acceptable use policies (AUPs) must be updated to reflect students’ and teachers’ increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies and other digital media tools.

Playing in the Clouds

Unnamed sources have tipped off the gaming site Kotaku that Sony will soon be granting PlayStation 3 gamers service the ability to dump their save games to a Sony server instead of their home consoles.


See: PlayStation 3 to Allow Saved Games in the Cloud

Google Jumps Into the Art World

Google is bringing its "street view" technology indoors. With the launch of the Google Art Project, announced at a press conference in London this morning, Google jumps into the online art arena with tools that will allow web surfers to move through 17 of the most prominent art galleries in the world, with the option to look more closely at individual art works, including some that will be digitized so exhaustively that individual paint strokes and hairline cracks in the surface will be visible.

Included among the institutions that have teamed up with Google are some of the most prestigious museums in the world. In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Frick Collection are participating, as is the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington. Museums in London, Madrid, Moscow, Amsterdam and Florence, among others, are also contributing.
By Philip Kennicott


For more see: Google Art Project

Egypt Turns off the Internet

On Thursday January 27, the Egyptian government did something extraordinary--it "turned off the internet" within the country's own borders. There's no mystery about how this happened -- the Egyptian government owns the largest service provider in the country and had only to make a few phone calls to bring the remaining ISPs in line.


For more see:  Egypt Turns Off the Internet. Now What Happens?
Mubarak's regime is about to come face to face with the "Dictator's Dilemma."