12 posts and columns on learning

Woody Speaks Mandarin: Disney Brings Chinese-Language Apps to iPad

in Product News on March 21 at 2:25 pm PT

到无穷大和超越！ (To infinity and beyond!)
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Is It a Tutor, a Child Monitor or a Toy? No, It’s a Kibot (AsiaD Demo)

in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 11:42 pm PT

In a demo live on the AsiaD stage, Korea Telecom unveiled Kibot — a kid-seeking, language-teaching, monkey-looking robot aimed at young children and the parents who want to keep an eye on them.
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News Byte

Social Learning Start-Up Grockit Raises $7M

in Social on October 17, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Grockit has raised $7 million in Series D funding led by Atlas Venture and including the education-focused NewSchools Venture Fund. The company, which charges $30 per month for its materials and group study sessions, recently integrated with Facebook to help users create virtual study rooms with friends, a la the music service Turntable.fm.

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Early Adopter: Rock Prodigy Wants You to Be a Real-Life Guitar Hero

in News on April 15, 2011 at 10:10 am PT

Nothing makes you feel like a rock god more than shredding on Activision’s Guitar Hero or Electronic Arts’ Rock Band–except, of course, for actually becoming one.

Humanity's Last Hope at "Jeopardy" Is Named Rush Holt

in Enterprise on March 1, 2011 at 10:45 am PT

It took a congressman who’s also a nuclear scientist and former “Jeopardy” champion in his own right to do what Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter failed to do: Beat IBM’s Watson.

Done With Silly Game Shows, IBM's Watson Finds a Job

in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 7:45 am PT

Having licked the puny humans on TV games shows, the Watson supercomputer, or at least one like it, will be put to work on ways to help doctors make better decisions.

Kno Hires Fancy CFO, as It Preps Tablet Launch (And Possible New Funding Search)

in News on October 27, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Kno, the Silicon Valley start-up attempting to make and market a student-aimed tablet and learning platform, has hired Stuart West as its new CFO. West has worked at Yahoo, InfoSpace, TiVo and J.P. Morgan. Kno is continuing to make key hires, as it prepares to ship the product by the end of the year, after recently raising another $46 million in funding to add to a $10 million round. It could, with West’s help now, be looking for even more investment.
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Kno to Also Make a Single-Screen Tablet Textbook

in News on September 27, 2010 at 10:40 am PT

Kno, the start-up that is creating a digital tablet for students, said it is also planning on releasing a single-screen version. The company–which was started by the founder of Chegg, the online textbook rental company–had debuted a double-screen tablet at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference in June.

Memo to Apple: You Might Want to Dispatch an iPad Team to Stanford U ASAP!

in News on January 29, 2010 at 2:22 am PT

Here’s a video that the intrepid All Things Digital intern, Drake Martinet, did on the campus of Stanford University–located in the heart of Silicon Valley–right after Apple launched its new iPad tablet computer earlier this week. His mission: To find out if the students at the famous institution of higher learning–presumably one of the big consumer targets for Apple–were going to go out and get an iPad asap.

The Entire D6 Interview With the Gates Foundation's Melinda Gates (1 of 4)

in News on July 28, 2008 at 1:43 am PT

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Here’s Part 3 of 4 of an interview Walt Mossberg did with the Gates Foundation’s Melinda Gates. In this video, Melinda Gates talks about her early days as a Microsoft product manager, how to take technology to the developing world, the politics of vaccines and how the Gates Foundation can be “catalytic” wedge.