If you think our broadband system is slow, it is probably much faster than South Africa’s telkom system.
Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 80 km (50 miles) from Unlimited IT’s offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card […]
An all too familiar letter came across the Engineering Technology (ETD) listserv the other day:
‘Declining enrollment in electronics programs for a decade. Has anyone had success in turning the trend around, what suggestions do they have.’
Maybe you have seen this letter. Maybe you were about to write a similar letter. Below is my reply to […]
I read Eric Bogatin’s Blog today dealing with Sensor Motes. What are senor motes?
“Motes, small, remote sensor nodes as part of a larger network of distributed sensors, have been around for a while.”
As you see by the picture in Erics blog, they are slightly bigger than a quarter.
Eric wrote at the end:
The two applications that […]
From Inside Higher Ed this week, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program released a report chock-full of recommendations for the federal government to bolster its commitment to the country’s community colleges and help transform them into “engines of opportunity and prosperity.”
The new administration and Congress should transform our community colleges into engines of opportunity and […]
Here is something cool on the tech front that we should see in a few years - lithium batteries that charge in a few seconds.
U.S. engineers have found a way to make lithium batteries that are smaller, lighter, longer lasting and capable of recharging in seconds. The researchers believe the quick-charging batteries could open up […]
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