In case you haven’t heard, Apple announced some pretty huge education-related news at a press conference in New York this Thursday. iBooks 2 was released to the iTunes App Store; it comes optimized for the new crop of textbooks that are starting to pop up in the iBookstore. Reading one of the iBookstore’s textbooks isn’t like ...
Left: The new $79 Kindle. Right: The Kindle Fire. You’ll be seeing a lot of both on campus next semester. Let it be known that September 28, 2011 was the day that that tablets and e-readers were introduced to the mainstream student market. E-Ink Kindles Amazon today announced three new models of its E-Ink based ...
Do you know your rights? Photo courtesy of euthman. Licensed under CC BY-2.0.Last week, I received a mass email from a group called The Fire. According to their website, their mission is “to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, ...
It’s official: Women rule teh internets. Photo courtesy of Ray_from_LA. Licensed under CC BY-2.0.According to Pew Internet a non-profit organization that generates reports on the affects of the internet on American life, the “power users” of social media sites are women ages 18-29 years old. This means that “that nearly nine out of 10 (89 percent) ...
How safe is your identity? Photo courtesy of mikebaird. Licensed under CC BY-2.0.Last week, hackers breached the security of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by planting malware in the university’s computer systems. The result was the exposure of social security numbers of students, faculty, and staff. Though forensic experts don’t believe that the motive behind the ...
Liking is not the same as friending. You don’t need to worry about privacy when dealing with your school’s Facebook page. If you’ve been accepted to a college in the last few years, odds are you’ve received invitations to join some of your school’s official Facebook groups. These could include umbrella pages for the whole ...
Is this the future of student computing? While there’s been no shortage of media coverage for Apple’s new OS X Lion release, the company also quietly refreshed a few of their lower end computers as well. It’s no secret that Apple enjoys widespread popularity on most college campuses, and the fact that they updated two ...
Could this be your new laptop? Image courtesy of Rachel Wente-Chaney. Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA/ Remember the Chrome laptops that were released for testing a few months ago? Well, now we know what's become of them: Google's planning to announce today a $20/month package for students which would all
Phone service and beer: two great tastes that go great together. Image courtesy of Flickr user Jose Betancur. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I recently made the decision to jump ship on my family's cell plan with Verizon. It was a perfectly fine plan and the reception was great, but I was looking mo
The front facing camera of the iPad 2 will help you talk to attractive coeds, as demonstrated in this photo. Yesterday, Steve Jobs returned to the stage to unveil the successor to my favorite gadget, the iPad. I'm assuming you all know what the iPad is by now, so here are the big changes. Dual core
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