RAVENNA, MI — How many kids do you know who would say learning fractions is fun, or who look forward to geography lessons? Ten-year-old Joe Hasper does. And there’s one main reason for that: the introduction of iPads at his Beechnau Elementary School classroom. He and the other 80-some fourth-graders…

Boston Bruins fans are reeling after a stunning overtime loss in Game 7 Wednesday night, but others are reeling from the racist backlash that erupted over Twitter after the Washington Capitals’ Joel Ward scored the winning goal. Ward, a Canadian whose parents emigrated from Barbados, scored the game-winner over last year’s…

By Daniel Eran Dilger Published: 08:30 PM EST (05:30 PM PST) At the launch of the new iPad, Apple continued selling the previous iPad 2 at a discounted $399 price. Over its first quarter, the new price point is attracting a new audience of buyers, particularly in education. Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook predicted…

VANCOUVER, April 25, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ – With Research in Motion’s(NASDAQ:RIMM) stock trading near decade lows and a corporaterestructuring already announced, this year’s BlackBerry Worldconference, which begins May 1st in Orlando, is shaping up to be awhole lot more substantive than any prior. Cantech Letter delves intothree major storylines investors…

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VANCOUVER, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – With Research in Motion’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) stock trading near decade lows and a corporate restructuring already announced, this year’s BlackBerry World conference, which begins May 1st in Orlando, is shaping up to be a whole lot more substantive than any prior. Cantech Letter delves into SOURCE…

One of the worst-kept secrets in the technology space, Google Drive, is finally here live and yours to explore, if you’re game. But if you’re already using a cloud service, or maybe even a couple of services I actually use a combination of existing Google products, Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud…

SAN FRANCISCO Android chief Andy Rubin wrapped up his testimony on Wednesday morning in the copyright portion of the Oracle-Google trial at the U.S. District Court. See also: Trial: Android chief on why Java was picked for AndroidGoogle’s Rubin spars with Oracle over definition of fragmentationClosing statements in Oracle-Google…

Virgin Media has attracted 242,000 customers to its connected TV service Tivo over the past three months, taking its total installed base to 18%. You must be a paid subscriber to Broadcast magazine to read this article and receive complete, unrestricted access to broadcastnow.co.uk Broadcast Subscribers: If you are a…

Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot by thought alone, a step they hope will one day allow immobile people to interact with their surroundings through so-called avatars. Similar experiments have taken place in the United States and Germany, but they involved either able-bodied…