Laptop Woes - Gary Stager
And yet in 2005, the notion of a laptop for every student appears to be more controversial than ever. In fact, the proverbial laptop has hit the fan across the country. Shame on us!
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The Risk in Using Twitter as a Public Utility
The takeaway here for me is that as fantastic as web services are, many of them are controlled by one party and are thus a single point of failure. If they go down or the particular site makes a change to the web service call, it can potentially ripple th
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Unleashed: The revolution may not be blogged
In the meantime, the absence of new business models to sustain independent blogger-journalists, and the continuing reluctance of organisations to jump right in, mean that the social media revolution looks as if it has stalled.
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30+ Solutions to Start Your Own Wiki
Whether you’re setting up an Intranet for your company or a collaborative website for your family, there are a variety of wiki solutions to choose from.
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35+ examples of businesses enbracing social software
A list of more than 35 companies who are experimenting with social media in a host of different ways. This list is by no means exhaustive, and it represents a wide variety of businesses, industries and social media tools.
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Yahoo Tries to Outdo Outlook with Zimbra
This is a strange one. It’s clear what Yahoo is attempting to do with the Zimbra Desktop program — but at this point, I’m not sure why anyone would bother switching from their current e-mail system.
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Online Teaching and Learning via Open Source
If we, in delivering applications for education create barriers to entry that prevent that army of developers from engaging we will lose the benefit of the powerhouse that is represented by the open source development community.
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The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy
— and Their Open Source Alternatives. The idea that proprietary software comes with boundaries that keeps the user experience confined to…well, being the user. That’s enough to drive any developer crazy.
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12 Best User Generated Sites For Creative Inspiration
Sites like Digg prove that user generated content works, but aggregating news is one thing, can they inspire you? Here you’ll find a list of the best user generated sites to visit when you’re looking for a little inspiration.
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An Outsourced Open Source LMS and a Pot of Gold?
The total cost of ownership comparison led us to adopt a remotely hosted open source solution. We'll examine the facts, figures, and progress of moving from WebCT to Moodle and integrating with Banner.
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How to Convince an Administrator to Use Technology | 21st Century Connections
Here is a suggested five-step conversation plan for creating greater interest in digital technologies by your school administrators...
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Open source up 26% in the enterprise
CBR is reporting that open source use in the workplace is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Up 26% since last year, businesses are using 94 different open source tools to get the job done.
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How to Save the World with knowledge management (KM)
KM is simply the art enabling trusted, context-rich conversations among the appropriate members of communities about things these communities are passionate about.
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Upgrade from Vista to Windows XP
To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft have really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal.
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Open source's future: More Microsoft, bigger talent shortages
It could be well into the next decade before we see something as dramatic as an actual Linux distribution from Microsoft. “Microsoft is still trying to work out its strategy,” he said.
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wireless.itworld.com - 'World's largest' Wi-Fi network keeps Linux under wraps
Building the world's largest enterprise Wi-Fi network sounds like a challenge, Victoria's Department of Education (DET) in Australia took it all in its stride - with the help of a little penguin.
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The Risks of Closed Source Computing
No company now would commit to a closed hardware strategy. It would cost them more than using commodity components. Just as importantly, it would commit them to a single source for support and parts. Why then do they commit to a single software supplier ?
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Total Cost of Ownership : JISC
Total Cost of Ownership is a method of identifying and understanding all of the costs associated with the acquisition, use and support of ICT, with the aim of improving decision-making about future ICT investment and deployment.
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Microsoft CEO talks Google, SaaS - Videos - ZDNet Australia
Steve Ballmer sounds totally confused about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
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Open source impossible to avoid, Gartner says - Network World
You can try to avoid open source, but it’s probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether. By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code, according to Gartner.
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