The iPad 2 represents a remarkable transition for tablets from media consumption devices to productivity tools. Yes, reading the Wall Street Journal on your iPad is still an awesome use... Read more » This is a content summary only. Click on the above title or visit techsling.com for the complete article and much more!

Open Access Week -- a global event promoting Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research. The Copiale Cipher -- cracking a historical code with computers. Details in the paper: The book describes the initiation of "DER CANDIDAT" into a secret society, some functions of which are encoded with logograms. (via Discover Magazine) Coordino -- open source...

The magic of the eReader is that you can carry many books in the space of just one—and that you can access entire bookstores and libraries from almost anywhere. Here... Read more » This is a content summary only. Click on the above title or visit techsling.com for the complete article and much more!

Superior Web Browsing and Simplified File Management on a USB Flash Drive Maxthon announces its selection as the exclusive browser for urDrive, a free preloaded application on a variety of entry-level USB Flash drives from Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc. urDrive transforms USB drives from passive storage to [...]

It’s no secret that both parties in Washington are having some trouble finding common ground these days. In fact, the amount of common ground seems to be disappearing faster than you can say ‘economic recovery,’ or ‘debt ceiling,’ or ‘mama grizzly,’ or whatever the sociopolitical buzz words of the moment are.
But from Obama to Bachmann, everyone appears to agree that the economic downturn isn’t going away quietly, and that to grow we need to innovate our way out of this recession.

It’s no secret that both parties in Washington are having some trouble finding common ground these days. In fact, the amount of common ground seems to be disappearing faster than you can say ‘economic recovery,’ or ‘debt ceiling,’ or ‘mama grizzly,’ or whatever the sociopolitical buzz words of the moment are.
But from Obama to Bachmann, everyone appears to agree that the economic downturn isn’t going away quietly, and that to grow we need to innovate our way out of this recession.

Last weekend we brought together a group of educators, administrators, and community leaders to discuss how technology can serve to transform teaching and learning inside and outside of the classroom.