Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explains why the company is betting on the cloud to provide the next wave of innovation and opportunities for technologists, business and consumers. Microsoft is betting the cloud will deliver it and its customers the most opportunities for innovation and development. And according to CEO Steve Ballmer, five key reasons are driving the company's confidence in -- and

Google executive John Herlihy has stated that desktop computers will be irrelevant within three years as users turn to smartphone technology. Then there is the much-hyped Google Wave project, and though it is still in beta it offers an insight into the company's plans for mobile computing, with users able to log on and interact with each other on the move and in real time. Laptops and netbooks

CS Odessa has released a new gadget for Google Wave that allows users to collaborate on mind maps, while EA Mobile has released new information on several of its upcoming iPhone titles. A new gadget for Google Wave has been released by CS Odessa. ConceptDraw MindWave is a free tool that can be used to map out strategies or brainstorm ideas on various topics. Through Google Wave teams can come

Before an audience of chief technology officers from across the country, Karen Cator, director of education technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra discussed the nation’s ed-tech efforts and held a frank question-and-answer session that ranged from the proposed education technology budget for fiscal 2011 to removing barriers to classroom

The survey focused on the state of American education, the challenges facing students, and the tools and resources teachers need to face those challenges. Teachers gave honest opinions on issues such as student achievement, performance pay, technology use, and administrative support—and some of their answers might surprise school leaders.

In the latest development in a dispute with broad implications for colleges nationwide, UCLA says it will continue to stream online instructional videos to students. The move comes after a trade group urged the university to review copyright laws and threatened legal action if campus officials did not stop offering free unlimited access to the educational content. UCLA officials suspended their

I read an article in EDUCAUSE Review this week that gave me whiplash. Every time I started to nod in agreement, the sentence would round on me and smack me in the face with something that seemed completely wrong. The authors, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, offer a critique of higher education arguing for more collaboration, more engagement of students with their learning, and greater access

DHS is looking forward to proposals that will include Web 2.0 technology, privacy protection, repeatability, distribution quantification ability and the reception of messages. "It should engage the private sector and industry leaders to develop their own campaign strategy and metrics to track how to get a unified cyber security message out to the American public", the agency said.

Students and teachers may not have to check their rights at the schoolhouse gate, but Facebook and cell phones are another matter. Web sites like Facebook and things like cell phone texting are rapidly bulldozing the old boundaries that defined how students and teachers interact. Now, school district administrators across the Northland, including Liberty, are trying to figure out how to regulate

SocialText 4 has been released with more focus on process related and microblogging related issues. While this release is more technical in nature than previous releases, there is plenty to cheer up even the most curmudgeonly of Enterprise 2.0 observers (who me?)

Peter Norvig - current Google Research head and the company's former director of search quality - is exploring some sort of new-age search engine aimed specifically for students. Wednesday, at the search-obsessed SMX West conference in Silicon Valley, Norvig was asked if he was doing anything in "20 per cent" time - Googlespeak for the one day a Mountain View week that engineers can use for

The Opera Web browser has taken a big step forward with the release of version 10.50, a significant update that brings some nice new features and a number of radical improvements under the hood. Opera Software contends that it has taken the lead in performance, leap-frogging its competitors. We conducted benchmarking and some hands-on tests to determine if the new Opera lives up to the hype.

We've spent some time recently looking at how Facebook has become a bigger driver of traffic to online news than news portals like MyYahoo or Google News, and our initial suspicions were confirmed with some data by the folks at HitWise. In continuing to look at this trend, Heather Hopkins, an analyst with the traffic analysis company, dug a little bit deeper into the stats and found that there

The Intel Classmate PC has been around for the last three years as a low-cost notebook meant for children to use at school and for learning. Now, Intel is looking to refresh the design with a new, convertible model that can also be used like a tablet. The convertible Classmate PC can be twisted into a slate, similar in form factor to the Apple iPad, or used as a traditional notebook with a full

Bersin & Associates, today announced the winners of the 2010 Learning Leaders Program. Based on detailed criteria compiled over years of research, the Learning Leaders Program, now in its fourth year, recognizes organizations which have developed and implemented effective and efficient approaches to employee learning and talent management, resulting in significant business improvement. The

Learning 2.0 is the next generation of learning that involves the effective integration of communication technology in education to improve information sharing, knowledge exchange, social networking and strengthening communication skill.The communication technology that supports Learning 2.0 is commonly called Web 2.0. With this technology, you can easily create and fully manage your own Web page

A Gadsden City Schools survey has confirmed what most of us already know from experience: Technology is a way of life for today’s young people. The school system in January put out a questionnaire at each of its 14 schools, quizzing students in every grade level from kindergarten through 12th about their use of technology at home. The results are impressive. Eighty-one percent of the 2,800

"My description of Singularity University after the first day," Nail said, "is that SU is a new Paul Revere, streaming in to warn humanity that technology is changing much faster than we could have previously imagined, and we'd better get ready." Even for someone like Nail, with a master's in engineering who helped run a company specializing in biotech and robotics, SU's subject matter was a

Microsoft warned of a new hole on Monday that could be exploited by attackers to take control of older Windows systems running Internet Explorer and for which proof-of-concept exploit code has been released publicly. The vulnerability affects Windows 2000-, XP- and Server 2003-based systems. It exists in the way that Visual Basic Scripting, or VBScript, interacts with Windows Help files,

YouTube said Thursday that it will start automatically captioning videos on its site, opening up a huge share of its content to people who are hearing-impaired, and a first step in creating a network of videos that could be subtitled between many languages. For now, YouTube can only transcribe videos uploaded in English into text, which can then be translated into text captions in other languages