Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Gizmos do not a Hemingway or a Copernicus make


Gizmos do not a Hemingway or a Copernicus make
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Sep 11 10:16 PM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Alex Lam-Niemeyer could care less that Google can churn up millions of Web pages when he's researching homework assignments. Typically, he researches his reports by scouring library stacks, just as students have done for generations.

The Philadelphia Inquirer Technology Testdrive Column
RedNova - Sep 06 11:57 PM
Sep. 4--HIGH ON PROMISES, 'STUDENT' IS A BIT LAZY: Microsoft Student 2006 Microsoft. Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4, Windows XP with Office 2003 or Office XP. $99.99.

High-tech school supplies
Seattle Times - Sep 03 1:20 AM
The picture of the growing digital divide between the technology haves and have-nots in American education kept surfacing as I reviewed...

Microsoft Sues EU
Slashdot - Sep 07 3:17 PM
mormop writes "News.com is reporting that Microsoft is hauling the European Commission into court." The case is in response to "imposed sanctions against the software giant, including a record fine of about $621 million (497 million euro) in March 2004, in a case that also covered the bundling of Microsoft's Media Player with Windows, but the company has not entirely carried them out."

Microsoft gives students new tool
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Aug 29 5:06 PM
There is no point in trying to persuade a teenager that homework is fun. But Microsoft Student 2006 may take some of the sting out of the process. The $99.99 software is a new effort by Microsoft to provide middle- and high-school students basic homework tools.

Gizmos do not a Hemingway or a Copernicus make
TimesLeader.com - Sep 09 12:25 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - Alex Lam-Niemeyer could care less that Google can churn up millions of Web pages when he's researching homework assignments. Typically, he researches his reports by scouring library stacks, just as students have done for generations.