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Google and Microsoft Look at Clouds From the Same Side Now (It's Still War Though!)

in News on March 5, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer went all misty in a speech, declaring in his strongest statement that cloud computing was mission critical for the software giant. “This is the bet for the company,” Ballmer said. “For the cloud, we’re all in.” And that’s also pretty much all the language you’ve been hearing from Google of late.

Social Media's Effect on Learning

in News on July 30, 2009 at 9:39 am PT

Social media may seem, at times, to be a flurry of meaningless updates and marketing schemes, but researchers are figuring out how the interaction it spurs can stimulate brain activity.