A quick Q&A for people concerned about how to learn to use technology in the workplace.
10 Massachusetts public schools extended their school days. As a whole, schools with longer days boosted students' MCAS scores in math, English, and science across all grade levels, according to a report to be released today.
Cellphones, laptops, digital cameras and MP3 music players are among the hottest gift items this year. For preschoolers.
Active video games are not a substitute for sports and outdoor play, but several studies show that the games can significantly increase a child’s level of activity while playing indoors.
Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, pinpoint the location of keywords, and direct the user to them.
In the end, as science-fiction writers have prophesied for years, the technology is bound to outwit the fallible human. What teacher or professor can possibly police a room full of determined goof-offs while also delivering an engaging lesson?
OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds.
Boston's push for citywide wireless Internet access, delayed by technical challenges and slower than anticipated fund-raising, is no longer expected to meet the city's original goal of blanket coverage by the end of next year, project leaders conceded.