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Though Twitter’s founders originally conceived of the site as a way to stay in touch with acquaintances, it turns out that it is better for broadcasting ideas or questions and answers to the outside world or for marketing a product.

According to the union, Internet connection speeds in the United States lag considerably behind those in South Korea, Japan and Sweden, which it said are "many times faster."

It’s really forcing university professors to think about their teaching style and the pedagogical techniques that they use in the classroom.

The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computer scientists, this fast-growing mountain of data is opening a tantalizing window onto the collective consciousness of Internet users.

Expand or create distance learning programs for those who need to be isolated.

Meanwhile, we need to watch for where innovations occur. That’s largely going to be Web 2.0, a hub of invention so busy that it’s difficult to keep up.

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The White House declined several requests for interviews or to say whether Mr. Obama as a matter of policy supports or opposes the use of American cyberweapons.

A wave of cyberattacks aimed at 27 American and South Korean government agencies and commercial Web sites temporarily jammed more than a third of them over the past five days, and several sites in South Korea came under renewed attack on Thursday.

It's the latest chapter in an evolving debate about the place of innovation in higher education. Is outsourcing teaching -- especially for huge and often poorly run introductory courses -- a way for colleges to catch up with other industries and rein in out-of-control costs? Or does it mean gutting what makes universities special?