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Google To Sell Digital Textbooks Dirt Cheap

Matt Algren — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:00:05 +0000

Google made several big announcements yesterday, and while most people (including yours truly) are excited about the second generation Nexus 7 and Chromecast, Google announced another service that has the potential to be a major game changer for education. Google Textbooks will launch in early August 2013, just in time for the start of classes. […]

Techcitement Guide: Graduate Your Graduates’ Smartphones

Reuven Shechter — Wed, 23 May 2012 21:25:46 +0000

Graduation is an exciting time for any student, and that goes for anyone graduating from high school, college, or even graduate school this year. New graduates need to have the edge wherever their next step will be, whether it’s in the business world or further into academia. An important component of this edge is a […]

Too Cool For School Dorm Automation Project Causes Conflict With University

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:25:00 +0000

Berkeley college freshman Derek Low, known for his tinkering with various projects, may have created his biggest attention-getter yet with Berkeley’s Ridiculously Automated Dorm (or BRAD). Low’s dorm room makeover required several months of work and between $200 to $300 invested in off the shelf parts. The system integrates with the student’s iPhone using an […]

No Student Loans Needed For These Free Online College Courses

Tom Wyrick — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:00:39 +0000

College tuition may be rising in cost at a rate faster than even medical expenses, but several entrepreneurs want to offer you free courses via the internet. Udacity accepts new student enrollments for any of six computer software-related courses beginning on April 16. The site began last November, when Stanford computer science professor Sebastian Thrun […]

iBooks 2: Revelation For (Many) College Students

Reuven Shechter — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:07:29 +0000

College text books are way too expensive. Apple hopes to stop this long-lasting trend with the release of the recently-announced iBooks 2 for iOS (and more specifically the iPad), a cheaper and more interactive solution to the age-old paper solution. Before this, shelling out $300 a semester on books was considered a cheap semester, with […]

Cisco Finds College Students Prefer Internet To Cars And Dating

Tom Wyrick — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:31:00 +0000

The just released, and extremely long, 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report illustrates how deeply ingrained the internet is with a young person’s daily life. This study surveys 2,800 professionals and college students 30 years old or younger from 14 different countries. Nearly half of respondents (62 percent of employees surveyed and 55 percent of […]