Over the span of a year and a half, I authored ~150 articles, kickstarting the Faronics blog. Topics included tech trends, I.T. security/support, social media and scam alerts, education, and classroom management.
There are many great reasons to stick with XP, but are they enough to stay off the Windows 7 bandwagon?
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This afternoon about 12:40pm (PST) a 6.7 earthquake hit off the coast of Vancouver Island. At the time you couldn’t find any official reports of the earthquake. What you could find were posts on Twitter and Facebook. Lots of them.
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My earliest experience with computers in the classroom was Grade 2 with an Apple IIe. Now devices like the iPad are popping up in classrooms everywhere. If the two were to go head to head, here’s how they’d match up.
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It looks like one of your friends didn’t just go home and pass out last night. Photos have been posted to your Facebook wall. You’ve been tagged and friends have seen. They’ve ‘liked’ it and they’ve commented. It’s too late….. or is it?
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That is the question now isn’t it? As a teacher, where do you draw the line in terms of making yourself available to your students?
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Late last week Dutch certificate authority DigiNotar was attacked by a hacker. Over 500 fake Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates were issued affecting Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Microsoft and Google. Even the United States’ CIA and Britain’s MI6 was hit.
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Facebook learns from Google+ and made some changes to its site to try and stay competitive. Have you noticed?
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Many of you may have seen that news about Windows 8 has finally started to circulate. What I wasn’t expecting—and now looking back don’t know why I didn’t see it coming—was the ribbon.
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Data breaches sizzle this August as five universities across the USA unintentionally expose over 100,000 school records.
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The overwhelming response to HP’s $99 sell off of its TouchPad inventory has prompted one last (limited) production run.
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Maybe you’ve heard that one? Where an Apple employee accidentally left an iPhone prototype in a bar? No, not the iPhone 4 incident. I’m talking about the Apple employee that left an iPhone 5 in a bar. No? Well you will. Looks like it happened again.
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As you have most likely have heard, Apple CEO Steve Jobs resigned yesterday. In fact, with the speed that news now travels, you may have known before Steve Jobs! The sun still came up this morning though, the world did not end.
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