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. More...
There have been a few pilot projects for the use of iPads in the education sector. Last month, Virginia Beach schools spent $651,000 on iPads to distribute to elementary students, while a school district in... More...
Research has shown that those who frequently play computer games are less likely to go to university. The research, which was carried out by Oxford University, involved 17,000 participants born, all of who were born... More...
Researchers at the University of Missouri have unveiled tiny nuclear batteries that produce power from the decay of radioisotopes. Although such batteries are currently used in devices such as pacemakers and satellites, they are costly,... More...
Although Intel's mighty proud of the Core 2 Duo, it looks like the chip wasn't all home-grown - a lawsuit filed today by the University of Wisconsin claims that the processor infringes on patented technology... More...
The MPAA's "University Toolkit" (a piece of monitoring software that universities are being asked to install on their networks to spy on students' communications) has been taken down, due to copyright violations. The Toolkit... More...
The University of Delaware has inched up the record for solar cell efficiency with a new device that can convert 42.8 percent of the light that strikes it into electricity. That beats the old record... More...
The Academic Advising Center of the University of Colorado's College of Arts and Science made the mistake of not applying a patch to its Symantec Corporation anti-virus management console which resulted in the compromise of... More...
On March 12, Zhang Ming, dean of political sciences at Renmin University of China, posted articles detailing a row with his superior and attacking the "bureaucratization of Chinese colleges" on his well-read blog. He wrote... More...
Google and the University of Texas Libraries have agreed that over one million books will be digitized and incorporated into the Google Books Library Project. The University of Texas at Austin is the fifth largest... More...
Researchers at Brown University in the US have created a prototype rechargeable battery that is as thin as a plastic transparency and as powerful as 100 alkaline batteries. The plastic battery, created by engineers Tayhas... More...
If you love gadgets and computers and absolutely must have the latest device, then you may be a neophiliac. Neophiliacs, it seems, are people who are addicted to the new. "Some folks have an... More...
Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) announced today that The Sims(TM) 2 University, the highly-anticipated expansion pack to the best-selling PC game The Sims 2 will ship starting today in North America under the EA GAMES(TM) brand. In... More...
Electronic Arts announced today that EA's Maxis™ Studio is developing The Sims™ 2 University, the first expansion pack for the highly-acclaimed The Sims 2 PC game. The Sims 2 University will ship this March and... More...
A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by... More...
PS2's Emotion Engine infringes 17 year old patent, claims University The University of Wisconsin Madison has filed a suit against Sony and Toshiba, claiming that technology being used in the PlayStation 2's Emotion... More...
The first annual Unreal University, a two-day tutorial covering techniques for creating mods for the Unreal Tournament 2004 game engine, will be held at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, on November... More...
Tell that to the IT managers ... The SoBig and Blaster viruses could be a "blessing in disguise" as they can help IT departments apply a security policy to home users, according... More...
The RIAA have admitted that they sent an erroneous legal notice to Pennsylvania University, which would have resulted in students being denied access to a server which provides essential services, at a time when pressures... More...
We have just received an interesting tale from one Phillip Skeen. Are you tired of receiving those "University Diploma" emails in your inbox? Of course you are! Phillip has been doing a spot of... More...
The University of Western Australia (UWA), which was one of the first Australian universities to adopt Apple computers for its courses has dropped them because the hardware is too expensive. This is the second such... More...
Professor Ellis Horowitz and his colleagues at the University of Southern California (USC) have longed to improve certain areas of computer-science education and expand research opportunities. But one key ingredient has been missing: the resources... More...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. IBM.N on Wednesday said it is working with the University of Pennsylvania on a large computer that will store mammogram data, helping doctors screen for breast cancer... More...