• LMS Administrator How To Guide

    By Craig Weiss If you are a LMS administrator, I want to personally thank you.  I know that it is a job that rarely gets the recognition it deserves.  I know that it is the first place someone goes when something goes wrong and yet, rarely appreciated when something goes right. I feel your pain,…

  • Cavium Thunder Rattles Xeon | EE Times

    Cavium will try to drive ARM SoCs into mainstream servers, challenging Intel’s Xeon x86 with a family of 28 nm devices using up to 48 2.5 GHz custom 64-bit ARM cores via Cavium Thunder Rattles Xeon | EE Times. Another entry into the massively multi-core low power server race. Since the fading of other competitors…

  • Watch The Daily Show Destroy Google Glass And Glass Explorers

    “a little bit”? Howzabout a lotta bit. Like this is the solution looking for a problem. Same too, the self-driving car. Dean Kamen invented, developed and marketed the Segway as a revolution in human mobility and transportation. Google is touting the self-driving car as a revolution in human mobility and transportation. Google Glass is being…

  • Audrey Watters: The Future of Ed-Tech is a Reclamation Project #DLFAB

    We can reclaim the Web and more broadly ed-tech for teaching and learning. But we must reclaim control of the data, content, and knowledge we create. We are not resources to be mined. Learners do not enter our schools and in our libraries to become products for the textbook industry and the testing industry and…

  • AnandTech | Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here

    I don’t think there is any other way to say this other than to state that the XP941 is without a doubt the fastest consumer SSD in the market. It set records in almost all of our benchmarks and beat SATA 6Gbps drives by a substantial margin. It’s not only faster than the SATA 6Gbps…

  • ISPs Create Fake Grassroots Groups To Fight Net Neutrality

  • VLC is getting Chromecast support for iOS and desktop versions

    Originally posted on Gigaom: The popular open source media player VLC could get Chromecast support soon: VLC developers recently confirmed on the official VideoLAN forum that they’re currently working on bringing Chromecast support to the media player (hat tip to Reddit user badgerflower). Lead OSX and iOS developer Felix Paul Kühne wrote: “In addition to…

  • Meet the godfather of wearables | The Verge

    He continues, “People are upset about privacy, but in one sense they are insufficiently upset because they don’t really understand what’s at risk. They are looking only at the short term.” And to him, there is only one viable answer to these potential risks: “You’re going to control your own data.” He sees the future…

  • Apple Launches Swift, A New Programming Language For Writing iOS And OS X Apps

    I remember the first big lurching migrations in Developer’s Tools when the PowerPC came into view (CodeWarrior marked the move from Pascal to C), then subsequent to that OS 9 to OS X (moved from C to Objective-C) then the last big migration was from PowerPC to Intel. Now today we got Swift to mark…

  • Testing, Testing: How Google And Amazon Can Help Make Websites Rock Solid – ReadWrite

    It’s not unprecedented: Google already offers a testing suite for Android apps, though that’s focused on making sure they run well on smartphones and tablets, not testing the cloud-based services they connect to. If Google added testing services for the websites and services those apps connect to, it would have an end-to-end lock on developing…