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Web App Keeps Kids’ Lunch Money SafePosted on October 20, 2008

SchoolTipline.com is a Web-based application that serves the digital-age tattletale. In a time where kids are born with a cell phone in their hand, the days of the anonymous tip box outside the principal’s office are nearing an end. “SchoolTipline provides administrators with an affordable and easy-to-use Web-based service through which they can send and receive timely information and manage feedback...” Read the full post »
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Dell’s “Iron Man” Promotion: Blurring the LinesPosted on October 06, 2008

Is Dell’s announcement that it will sell and preload the hit movie Iron Man on new computers simply a marketing tactic, or could this, perhaps, become the start of something big? This appears to be the continuation of a trend that further blurs the line between the computer as an entertainment device and a piece of functional hardware. Read the full post »
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Internet Ad Blocking—TiVo on SteroidsPosted on July 23, 2008

What if your TiVo went beyond just blocking ads and eliminated all traces of every ad on your TV? Would you use it? Well, such ad blocking capability exists today on the Internet, and it's free. It's called AdBlock. Read the full post »
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