Lakeville schools take plunge into high tech
The students were using netbooks, smartphones, laptops and tablets to access class materials. Just posts his lectures online for students to view. Some textbooks at Lakeville's South High School are so old that in their pages, the 9/11 terrorist …
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Feature: Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins?
The plan was launched long before netbooks or tablets hit the scene—seven years is a lifetime in the tech world. "OLPC started the netbook revolution," Vota said when we spoke. "It made companies like Asus and others realize that there was an actual …
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Are Netbooks Finally Dead?
In order to understand what is really going on with netbooks, though, we need to understand their past and look at what perhaps may replace them. In 2007, netbooks took the market by storm. These small, low-cost laptops hit the market at the beginning …
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Smartphone Sales Boom — Who Needs A Laptop?
New research by Canalys shows that 2011 global smartphone shipments topped those of client PCs — including desktops, laptops, netbooks, and tablets — for the first time. The development is a "significant milestone," says Canalys analyst Chris Jones.
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