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  • Who needs privacy? 56,000 photos taken in Philly school district kerfuffle

    Who needs privacy? 56,000 photos taken in Philly school district kerfuffle

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    This MacBook-spying story could be the creepiest story in quite some time. We already know the allegations: that the school district provided MacBooks to its students, but then took photos of the students without their knowledge or consent. Now we're getting numbers. One student claims he was photographed more than 400 times, and now it has emerged that, over a period of two years, school district officials took some 56,000 photos in total, with many of those including students in the frame. FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND! You know, you send your kids to school expecting them to learn a little bit of math, maybe about evolution and the Big Bang, but you do not expect them to have their privacy violated as if we're living in East Germany.

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  • iPad banned from several American universities over ’security’ concerns

    iPad banned from several American universities over ’security’ concerns

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Three high-profile American universities, Cornell University, Princeton University, and George Washington University, have banned the iPad from their campuses. George Washington University and Princeton University call the device a "security risk," while Cornell is concerned about students chewing through too much bandwidth. So much for the iPad being the darling of higher education.

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  • Outrage: School accused of using laptop to take photos of student at his home without his knowledge

    Outrage: School accused of using laptop to take photos of student at his home without his knowledge

    Posted on February 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It's the start of yet another lazy Saturday, so let's make things a little more interesting with a side dish of outrage. A 15-year-old student in Pennsylvania has accused his high school of spying on him using a school-supplied MacBook. The school had accused the boy “inappropriate behavior” that it found him engaged in via the built-in Webcam. Lawsuits are flying, as you might imagine.

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  • Wi-Fi school bus keeps kids quiet

    Wi-Fi school bus keeps kids quiet

    Posted on February 12, 2010 | No Comments
    A school district in Arizona has outfitted one of its school buses with a $200 mobile 3G Wi-Fi router and $60-per-month access. And guess what? Instead of punching each other and yelling all the way to school, the kids quietly tap, tap, tap away on their laptops.

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  • School district buys 131 iPod touches, for education

    School district buys 131 iPod touches, for education

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    A school district in North Carolina just placed an order for 131 iPod touches to be used to help kids with their readin' and writin'. The money to buy the Apple devices came from a combination of grants and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as "the stimulus."

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  • London school children to get free loaner iPhones in experimental, educational trial

    London school children to get free loaner iPhones in experimental, educational trial

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    It's not the first time we've seen the iPhone used as an experimental means of education, but a London school's recent announcement of its plans has caught our attention. The Gumley House Convent School -- a small, Christian School for girls ages 11 to 18 -- in London has laid out its plan to use give Apple's smartphone to a select group of 30 students as a test educational measure. Previous efforts we've seen to rope the iPhone into modern education have been mostly at the collegiate level, but Gumley's plan is still a bit vague. The girls will have free access to all of the phone's features with the exception of actual calls, and the trial will last until the end of the school year. Like we said -- the school's not given out details as to what the actual rules of use will be -- but we have a feeling this will all end in some wild bout of texting overload.

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  • IT grad can’t find job, sues her college

    IT grad can’t find job, sues her college

    Posted on August 4, 2009 | No Comments
    unemployedWho hasn't thought about suing their college for some reason or another? Trina Thompson is doing it. She's a 27-year-old IT graduate from the Bronx who's suing her alma mater, The Monroe College, for the $70,000 worth of tuition she spent there. Why? Because she doesn't have a job and she doesn't think the college has tried hard enough to help her find one.

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