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Engage: Apple's New Tools For Interactive Books on Ipad

Engagement is a big word in education. It combines both objective participation and subjective emotion. It's one of the few psychological terms in education that...

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In Tech, Starting ­p By Failing

Every entrepreneur hopes to start the next big thing. But sometimes the first try doesn’t go as planned.

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Jerry Yang Leaves Yahoo and a Cautionary Tale Behind

It had to be hard for Jerry Yang to walk away from Yahoo on Tuesday. You know it had to be hard or he would have walked away years ago—which is exactly what many...

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Twitter ­sage at Work Jumped 700% Last Year, Study Says

Working hard or hardly working? Managers may find themselves asking that question after examining the results of a study that found massive increases in employees'...

Online Environment to Help Vehicle Designers Collaborate
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Online Environment to Help Vehicle Designers Collaborate

The Georgia Tech Research Institute has received a $1.5 million contract from DARPA to produce an online environment that would let multiple design teams work together...

China Trains Tech-Savvy Servicemen
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China Trains Tech-Savvy Servicemen

China's People's Liberation Army is using an Intranet training system that allows soldiers to keep up with their studies while in the service.

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The Rise of the New Groupthink

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement...

What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell ­S About the Future of Education
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What Hacker Apprenticeships Tell ­S About the Future of Education

Three very similar compressed software development training programs have emerged in the past few months: Code Academy (not to be confused with the startup Codecademy)...

Sandia Cyber Project Looks to Help It Professionals with Dns Vulnerabilities
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Sandia Cyber Project Looks to Help It Professionals with Dns Vulnerabilities

Sandia National Laboratories' Casey Deccio has developed a visualization tool known as DNSViz to help network administrators within the federal government and global...

Hr and Virtual Employees
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Hr and Virtual Employees

Within the modern organization, HR does not always understand the role of virtual employees who work off-site. Given the rapid pace of technological change, there...

Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll
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Avoiding Innovation's Terrible Toll

The corporation isn't a sturdy species. In fact, only a tiny fraction reach the age of 40, according to study of more than six million firms by management professors...

Professor's Signcryption Technology Now An International Standard
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Professor's Signcryption Technology Now An International Standard

After nearly a three-year process, the research efforts of UNC Charlotte's College of Computing and Informatics' Professor, Yuliang Zheng, have been formally recognized...

In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector
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In Flop of H.p. Touchpad, an Object Lesson For the Tech Sector

The TouchPad tablet from Hewlett-Packard was one of the most closely watched new gadgets of 2011—and quickly turned out to be the year’s biggest flop.

Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools
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Teachers Resist High-Tech Push in Idaho Schools

Ann Rosenbaum, a former military police officer in the Marines, does not shrink from a fight, having even survived a close encounter with a car bomb in Iraq.

Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations
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Civilian Contractors Playing Key Roles in ­.s. Drone Operations

After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian...

Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto
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Q&a with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

It was a tough year for Nintendo. Revenue at the venerable game company plunged. Its stock price was cut in half. And initial sales of its new 3DS handheld game...

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First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside Sri's Amazing R&d

Who invented Siri?

Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)
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Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)

Marc Andreessen's view of the world boils down to software.

Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican
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Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican

Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an...

Social Media Is Having a Major Impact on Businesses
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Social Media Is Having a Major Impact on Businesses

Most companies are using digital platforms and media to interact and collaborate with customers and employees.
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