Archive for March 17th, 2007
“Of all of the proposals aimed at improving America’s failing schools, there’s one idea kids will really like: More video games and fewer books. At least a number of educators hope so, arguing that children would get more excited about school and that video games can present real-life problems to solve. Nobody is talking about putting violent video games such as “Doom” or “Mortal Kombat” into classrooms, particularly given concerns they may encourage aggressive behavior. Instead, educators such as Indiana University associate professor Sasha Barab are developing alternative video games that can teach as well as entertain…” (Read full article here)
March 17th, 2007
“Given all of the good things we’ve been hearing about Core 2, all of the amazing performance, all of the people switching from AMD to Intel (because Intel’s Core 2 is now the best performer), the market overall has been rather slow to respond. While the zealots were heading out in droves to buy Intel, they apparently were a small minority. A report compiled by iSuppli was seen copied onto The Inquirer today, replete with graphs, showing that year on year, from 2005 to 2006, AMD shot up from #15 to #8 in annual revenue, increasing 91.6%. Intel, meanwhile, while remaining at the #1 slot, saw its revenue decline by 11.1%…” (Read full article here)
March 17th, 2007
“Fujitsu claims that it has developed a key technology that would allow the company to quintuple today’s highest commercial storage densities in hard disk media. If researchers will be able to transfer the technology into commercial products, we could see 5 TB desktop drives and 1.5 TB notebook drives in the not too distant future…” (Read full article here)
March 17th, 2007
“Skype Ltd. has released a new version of its Internet telephony and instant messaging software that adds a feature to let users create business reviews, and another one to sell expertise, as the eBay Inc. subsidiary promotes interaction among its users. Skype 3.1, available for Windows, features SkypeFind, designed to let Skype users post and find reviews of business establishments. It also introduces a test version of Skype Prime, a marketplace where Skype users can market knowledge and advice to others. The company unveiled SkypeFind last month in a beta version of Skype 3.1. Already, SkypeFind contains around 4,500 listings from 124 countries and Skype expects it to have over a million listings by year’s end…” (Read full article here)
March 17th, 2007
