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How will Google Glass affect driver safety? Even though it’s not a replacement for your phone or computer, Glass has many useful hands-free features, such as a voice-activated HD video camera and a GPS device. But in a country where 80 percent of car crashes are caused by distracted drivers, will Glass actually enable better … Continued

Nowadays, American schoolchildren couldn’t imagine school in a time before they used high-tech gadgetry like iPads and SMART boards daily, or before they wrote reports from Wikipedia or read the classics on Sparknotes. But just a hundred years ago, American primary education existed in the form of the one-room schoolhouse. Film reels and television weren’t … Continued

Software-as-a-Service is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a vendor or service provider and made available to customers over a network, and is the future of applications in the cloud. Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service are cloud models useful to network architects and application developers, but SaaS … Continued

More people are using visually heavy social content such as photos and videos, and the catalysts are a rise in smartphones and tablets used to consume the data. All of this data usage is creating a data storm that could lead to our networks needing 1000x more bandwidth in the future. The consumption of mobile … Continued

[is-gateway name="HicksNewMedia" id="THETechScoop"]How do parents and teachers view the role of technology in the classroom? About 87 percent of parents say the effective implementation of technology is important to their child’s success, and half label it as extremely important. As for teachers, 92 percent of AP and NWP educators say the Internet has a major … Continued