Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Boston College will no longer be giving their students school e-mail addresses when they join the student body. The thinking is that everyone already has an established online identity by the time they’re in college, and therefore all they will be offering are forwarding services. Read more…
Not that it’s a popular practice, but if you’re applying to college and you have a Facebook, MySpace, or some other kind of public profile, be careful - your school-to-be could check to make sure you’re the kind of person they want representing their school. For the most part, these schools don’t have time to […]
As students return to school and people return to work after summer break they are already up in arms against a new security database in France that is designed to store personal information on people as young as 13.
The information that can be collected includes addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, physical appearance, behavioral traits, fiscal […]
ARMONK, NY–(Marketwire - February 14, 2008) - IBM today announced it is teaming with University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and North Carolina State University (NC State) in Raleigh to deliver new courses on programming languages that have become the foundation of the emerging web-based economy. These skills are critical for young people […]
Oxford UK and Rotterdam NL (PRWEB) January 25, 2008 — […]
ARMONK, NY–(Marketwire - November 6, 2007) - IBM today introduced a new video game designed to help university students and young professionals develop a combination of business and information technology (IT) skills. Thousands of universities around the world now have access to Innov8, IBM’s new “serious game,” available at no charge.
Serious games are computer […]
THUWAL, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ — King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, today hosted a gathering of more than 1,500 dignitaries from around the world to officially break ground for a new world-class, graduate-level science and technology university on Saudi soil.
With one of the largest university […]
No, that’s not a typo.
It’s called the Ultimate Steal, and indeed, it is.
SAN DIEGO, July 31 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Electronics recently introduced Sony Style Campus, a new program designed to provide college students with personal computer product bundles and support services. Whether just starting their college years or looking for a personal computer upgrade in preparation for fall semester, Sony Style Campus offers a variety of […]
DEARBORN, Mich., July 10 /PRNewswire/ — An alarmingly high number of teen drivers are engaging in some very risky behavior while they are driving, including sending and reading text messages according to new research by AAA and Seventeen magazine.
The survey, featured in Seventeen magazine’s August issue, on newsstands today, shows that 61 percent of teens […]