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Is it time to go quad-core?

I need a new laptop. My oldest son’s laptop finally bit the dust, and he’s pretty well attached to it, both for personal and school purposes. As a likely film major, my Mac would serve him well (at least through the first year of college, at which ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Twitter Inc

Can Obama make science cool?

On Monday, I wrote about the decline of science education in the US, as well the rise of “unscience” and our growing struggle to compete with China in terms of real innovation. As if he wanted to hand me the perfect segue, President Obama announced the ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Discovery Communications,  Sally Ride,  Craig R Barrett

Falling behind in science? No kidding!

Our school district is providing H1N1 shots to any students whose parents request it. It’s an easy way to build some so-called “herd immunity” in the age group most vulnerable to this particular flu strain. In fact, my 7-year old was the very first in ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Kirk Cameron,  Twitter Inc

Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?

Tech news has been dominated this week by Google’s announcements regarding their upcoming Chrome OS. Plenty of geeks are excited at the prospect of a lightweight, user-friendly, Linux-based operating system that, if only on the basis of brand cache, ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  IBM,  Twitter Inc

YouTube automatic captioning: one more reason GOOG's not evil

Earlier this week I noted that YouTube’s partnership with Univision was one more reason to make the web service available in schools. What better way to supplement Spanish instruction than with current, relevant, and interesting content freely ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Vint Cerf,  National Geographic,  Twitter Inc

How to add value, not just more tech, with Web 2.0+

I gave a presentation this morning to the Florida Council of Independent Schools on adding value with web technologies rather than just throwing tech into schools for its own sake. Although I was originally scheduled to present in person, my wife’s ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Twitter Inc

NComputing announces new Microsoft partnership

I’ve featured NComputing a few times in this blog, largely focusing on their solutions that turn a single workstation into as many as 10 workstations using thin client technologies. In particular, I wrote about NComputing’s successful bid (beating out ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Intel,  Twitter Inc

OpenSUSE Education announces Li-f-e 11.2

Li-f-e is OpenSUSE’s Linux for Education product. While this product has been quietly maturing, it has, to some extent fallen off my radar. Particularly with their 9.10 release, Ubuntu and the related educational project Edubuntu has been all the Linux ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

YouTube/Univision deal a huge resource for teachers

Here’s one from the “One more reason not to block YouTube” files: Univision will be posting its content for free on YouTube. The details announced yesterday provide easy access to programming online for a quickly growing segment of the US population. ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

My new daughter is a lot like Linux

OK…I promise, this will be my last post this week about my new little daughter. Really. No matter what cute things she does, I’ll limit my oohing and ahhing to Twitter. However, as I was changing her diaper for the umpteenth time today, I got to ...

From CHRISTOPHER DAWSON, ZDNet,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Google Inc.

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