McGraw Hill has launched an entirely digital, cloud based textbooks for children under the age of 12 at their ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference. This is the first attempt where the digital textbook has to be used as primary text. All other versions of their digital textbooks were to be used as accompaniments ...

Ask a voracious reader- what he/she would regard as the best thing that ever happened in their lives and nine out of ten times they'll name a book, an author or a story... Reading a book is not a hobby but an addiction. It permit you to imagine, to create the characters the way you wish ...

It was unimaginable five years ago but it is true now. eBooks have become more popular than the print editions. Amazon has just announced that a mere four years after their launch of the Kindle, they are now selling more eBooks than the print version.       For those who have been following Kindle’s growth, ...

There is a wealth of online courses for the tech-minded person interested in learning to code. Most of them are either free or inexpensive.   If the desire is to learn C++, Ruby on Rails, Python or Java, these online options are a way to experiment before you go the full way to complete full training ...

Brainscape   has now come out with digital flashcards which are superior to the normal flashcard. Questions in this ask users to reflect on answers by noting their confidence on them. These confidence grades are used to find how often these cards should be spaced in the deck.   Andrew Cohen, founder of  Brainscape, who has a ...

How about designing a low cost device to outfit people with basic PC functionality at a low cost? The OLPC (one laptop per child) organization’s new XO-3 tablet to be released soon has already received order for 500,000 PC’s for Palestinian children by the UN.   India’s $35 tablet project of covering all of India with ...

With the internet continuously updating and changing its sites almost every day many small business houses need to learn more about how to make the best use of the different sites, products or tools.   Grovo a startup is an online training platform that aims at educating internet users to locate and learn about the most ...

In the US, higher education is getting slowly beyond control because of excessive cost. This is forcing students to discontinue higher education.       Higher education provides development of society and offers higher returns on investment. But today by extracting huge money for degrees, institutions are onto gathering heavy profits-which would appreciate as home assets. Some ...

Bangalore is all set to host the 3rd edition of the nanotech meet coming December. Organized by the Karnataka State IT, BT and S&T department, the two-day event is expected to see participation of nanotechnology experts from across the globe and it will also provide an opportunity to showcase exciting nanotechnology products. The 3rd Bangalore Nano which ...

The W100 3G phone by Lemon is considered the most economical 3G handset in the market. With 3g services all set to be rolled by the end of the year, it is not surprising that handset companies have geared up for a fight. Lemon has joined the race with the launch of its W100 which it ...