Neowin News Feed for: Students

Microsoft offering Surface RT to students for $199 [Update]

Andy Weir — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:13:04 +0100

Starting today, and until August 31 2013, Microsoft will be making its Surface RT 32GB tablet available to students for just $199, through their schools and universities. Read more...

Microsoft opens fourteen Innovation Centres across India

Paul Ferson — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:52:29 +0000

Microsoft has launched fourteen Innovation Centres across four Indian states. The centres allow for students to gain certification with Microsoft's products, with seven in Andhra Pradesh alone. Read more...

$35 Android tablet releases in India, aimed at students

Paul Ferson — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:04:07 +0000

India's president, Pranab Mukherjee, has unveiled the country's Aakash-2 tablet. A successor to the original Aakash, the new model brings Android 4.0 to the table and is aimed at students especially. Read more...

Windows 8 for DreamSpark students coming August 25th

John Callaham — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 01:30:47 +0100

Students enrolled in Microsoft's DreamSpark program will be able to download the final version of Windows 8 starting on August 25th, according to a Microsoft blog post. Read more...

Samsung to release Student Edition GTab, undercutting their own product

Paul Ferson — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:30:19 +0100

Samsung are to release a new variant of their Galaxy Tab 7.0. Entitled the 'Student Edition', it includes extras and retails for the same price as a standard model.... for some reason. Read more...

Microsoft's Imagine Cup by the numbers, awesomeness

Brad Sams — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:16:35 +0100

Microsoft's Imagine Cup is a global competition that fosters innovation and creative thinking to solve some of the most complex challenges that we face everyday. Read more...

Students first to be offered $20/month Google Chrome laptop package

Andy Weir — Wed, 11 May 2011 10:02:36 +0100

The blogosphere has been abuzz with discussion in recent weeks over rumours that Google is poised to launch its new Chrome-powered notebook under an innovative package that would eschew an up-front fee in favour of... Read more...

Revealed: How schools use laptop webcams to spy on students [Video]

Tom Warren — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:21:00 +0000

Last week Neowin reported on a shocking case at the Lower Merion High School district in Pennsylvania, U.S. The FBI confirmed later that they will be opening up a criminal investigation over the matter. Students issued... Read more...

Facebook probed after law students file complaint

p858snake — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:16:02 +0100

The federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after University of Ottawa law students complained the site breaches Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without obtaining proper consent. The students, some... Read more...

Google aims Online Marketing Challenge at Students

Slimy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:09:30 +0000

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Students from anywhere in the world can sign up for the Google Online Marketing Challenge, a hands-on competition which will give undergraduate and post-graduate students direct experience with online advertising and marketing. Student groups will... Read more...

Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office

Steven Parker — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:52:12 +0100

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For college students who want Office 2007, but don't want to pay Microsoft a fortune, the software maker is offering another option: Steal it. Well, actually Microsoft isn't encouraging piracy. Rather it is launching a... Read more...

UC-Berkeley Students Face Tougher Piracy Rules

Sagittarius — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:32:48 +0100

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As part of its war on pirated music and videos, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is opening up a new front at the resident halls of the University of California-Berkeley's campus. Starting this... Read more...

Students pitch software ideas to Gates

Tom Warren — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:09:36 +0100

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Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge. Gates as well as Craig Mundie, chief... Read more...

College advises students to push back against the RIAA

Slimy — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:06:06 +0100

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In February, the RIAA offered university students the option of an early settlement with the organization, which included lowered payouts and the benefit of avoiding going to court. While some universities were quick to comply... Read more...

Students largely ignore RIAA instant settlement offers

Slimy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:29:10 +0100

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The RIAA has released figures regarding its recent campaign against file sharing at US colleges and universities: only 116 students of 400 have used their new web site to settle copyright infringement claims, meaning 284... Read more...

RIAA Pressures Students To Stop Illegal Downloads

Slimy — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:06:12 +0000

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Thanks to johnathonm for his submission to the front page. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it sent 400 letters to 13 U.S. universities advising of potential copyright infringement lawsuits against students who... Read more...

French students to get open-source software on USB key

Slimy — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 06:52:56 +0000

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French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian 15 and 16 year-old high school students at the start of the next school year. The open source software (web... Read more...

Students given free iPod MP3 players

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:55:37 +0100

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College students are to be given free iPods so they can catch up on missed lectures in their own time. South Kent College in Dover has spent Â£25,000 on Nano iPods for 250 students in... Read more...

George Washington Students to Get a Taste of iTunes U

Daylene — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:34:28 +0100

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Beginning this fall, George Washington University will team up with Apple computers to offer audio recordings of classroom lectures over the Internet using the iTunes music program. The new software, called "iTunes U," is designed... Read more...

Students Brace for iPod, Laptop Thefts

Daylene — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:52:56 +0100

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As Justin Bills walked across his condo's parking garage on a Sunday morning last fall, he noticed shattered glass surrounding his car. Through the empty window frame, he noted the iPod he left in a... Read more...