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Violent Video Games May Increase Aggression in Some But Not Others, Says New Research

By Guest PostJune 10, 20101 commentTechnologyagreeableness, american psychological association, asthma attacks, behavior problems, christopher j. ferguson, cognitive skills, commercial video games, conscientiousness, diabetes, diabetes treatment, Europe, extraversion, five-factor model, neuroticism, openness, pain, pain management, pamela kato, patrick markey, perfect storm, personality trait, psychological model, psychotherapy, review of general psychology, Social networking, t. atilla ceranoglu, texas a&m international university, therapy, united states, violent video games

*Bad effects depend on certain personality traits; games can offer learning opportunities for others*

WASHINGTON – Playing violent video games can make some adolescents more hostile, particularly those who are less agreeable, less conscientious and easily angered. But for others, it may offer opportunities to learn new skills and improve social networking.

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Tech Student Projects Already Changing World

By Guest PostJune 8, 20102 commentsEducation, Technologycollege projects, imagine cup, imagine cup competition, polarvision, polarvision monitor, water monitoring system, worldwide finals

A student team from Russia will take technology that is already monitoring the health of a national park to the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in July.

REDMOND, Wash. — Two months ago, fish started dying in the rivers and streams of Russia’s Zyratkyl National Park. Perplexed park officials wanted to know why, so they turned to a new water monitoring system called Polarvision. (more…)

Microsoft Brings Developers and Designers Closer Together With Expression Studio 4 Release

By Guest PostJune 7, 2010Technologyanvil digital, blend and sketchflow, copia, cynergy, designers, developer division, developers, ereaders, expression studio 4, h.264, internet week, Microsoft, microsoft .net, microsoft corp., microsoft expression blend, miguel carrasco, new york 2010, s. soma somasegar, silverlight, vc-1, visual studio, windows® phone 7

Today at Internet Week New York 2010, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of Microsoft Expression Studio 4. The newest version of Microsoft’s professional suite of design tools, Expression 4 distinguishes itself by enabling designers and developers to collaborate and create dynamic applications using their existing skills and current toolset.

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Kentucky Department of Education Chooses Microsoft Live@edu

By Guest PostJune 4, 2010Technologychuck austin, cloud-based e-mail, kentucky department of education, microsoft exchange server, microsoft live@edu, office of education technology, sig Behrens, terry holliday, u.s. education

The Kentucky Department of Education has selected Microsoft Live@edu to bring 21st century communications and collaboration tools to more than 700,000 students, faculty and staff statewide.

The cloud-based service has already been rolled out to more than half a million people in one of the largest cloud deployments and fastest migrations of all time. The state expects to avoid $6.3 million in operational costs over four years by moving to the cloud with Live@edu.

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Office Web Apps Planner Brings Documents to the Cloud

By Guest PostJune 3, 2010Technologyaustralia, campbell, emailing to yourself, engelbert humperdinck, glenn miller orchestra, idc, international data corporation, Japan, jill campbell, latin america, microsoft business division, microsoft excel, microsoft news center, microsoft office, microsoft onenote, microsoft outlook, microsoft power point, microsoft word, office web apps, pocket pc, sharepoint, steno booster, windows longhorn

*Lead Product Planner Jill Campbell talks about Office Web Apps, the free, lightweight, Web-based versions of Microsoft Office programs that will become available this month, enabling users to access their documents anytime, anywhere.*

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U.S. Politics on Facebook

By ShamsJune 3, 2010TechnologyBarack Obama, Facebook, us politics

Facebook has just launched U.S. Politics page in an effort to bring all the U.S. (and later the World) politicians under its umbrella. 🙂

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Two Million iPads in less Than 2 Months

By ShamsJune 1, 2010Technologyapple, apple’s ceo, ebooks multi-touch user interface, hd videos, intuitive, ipads, magical power, steve ballmer, Steve Jobs, steve jobs magical power

As of today, Apple has sold more than two million ipads. The device was launched on April 3, 2010.

So it means one million ipads a month.

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The Virtual Future of Printed Media

By PravdaMay 27, 2010Technologyamerican magazine, apple, avatar, digital transformation, Forbes, internet, ipad, james cameron, media tycoon, multimedia, news corporation, paid subscription, playboy in 3d, pravda, printed media, Rupert Murdoch, virtual future, vitaly salnik, wired

Today is not the best time for printed press. It becomes obvious already that printed newspapers and magazines do not win the fight with online media.

However, the traditional media will not disappear.

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