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Facebook, the most popular social networking Web site in the world, was founded in a Harvard dorm room in the winter of 2004. Like Microsoft, that other famous technology company started by a Harvard dropout, Facebook was not particularly original. A quarter-century earlier, Bill Gates, asked by IBM to provide the basic programming for its new personal computer, simply bought a program from another company and renamed it. Mark Zuckerberg, the primary founder of Facebook, who dropped out of college six months after starting the site, took most of his ideas from existing social networks such as Friendster and MySpace. But while Microsoft could as easily have originated at MIT or Caltech, it was no accident that Facebook came from Harvard.

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The mobile revolution is here. More and more schools are moving toward mobile learning in the classroom as a way to take advantage of a new wave of electronic devices that offer portability and ease of use on a budget.

There's no reason why spell-check dictionaries need to be so behind the times. All the technology to build a relevant, timely spelling database already exists in search engines like Google and Microsoft's own Live Search, which have a vast vocabulary of words and names and update their dictionaries in near real time. Microsoft Word may not have heard of Marky Mark, but a Live Search or a Google query for Mark Walberg includes results for the actor, who has an "h" in his last name.

C3PO stands for Connecting Peers, Perspectives, and Pedagogy Online. This website is designed to give educators the resources they need to connect with other classrooms from around the world in order to collaborate and learn in an authentic 21st century environment. In this age of increased emphasis on literacy, higher demands for technology, and rapidly depleting school budgets, this type of free, online collaboration is both highly necessary and relevant.

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"We are, undoubtedly, in the midst of a genetic revolution. It could well mean made-to-order babies or the creation of spare organs for transplant. Soon the question of bio-technology will change from "can we?" to "should we?" "

With dozens of partner brands in existence, Persony is a leading provider of private label Web and video conferencing software. Persony's solution already enables many service providers to offer fully branded, feature-rich, and easy-to-use Web collaboration services at very affordable pricing. Service providers can focus on providing high-qauality services to their customers with Persony's leading edge technology.

As one of the most important car accessories, motorized Car DVD players just get hotter and hotter. Well, its hit may result from the visual digital impact that are becoming more and more unresistable to young people and the high tech technology that make me think we are geek. No doubt car DVD players have paved its landing success to SUVs and automobiles. They are fun, they are great but they also cause problems. The car entertainment systems like motorized DVD players had joined talking on cell phones and text messaging as the third potentially dangerous distractions that may cause fatal car accidents.

Sometimes very K-12 in focus, the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE) journal never fails to inspire with well written articles across a variety of topics interesting to educators generally.

Described as a resource for "adult educators in Colorado who wish to integrate technology into instruction". CCCOnline's very own Leecy Wise is editor for this newsletter. I find it a great refresher of skills and inspiration to try new things.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web-even if it has been modified.

With sunglasses companies like Oakley and Maui Jim already dominant, it seems Callaway has an uphill battle. Top-quality sunglasses and technology will make a difference.