Launching the Consumer Electronics Revolution

TI's First Handheld Calculator Now a Museum Piece. Computerworld. September 26, 2007.
In 1967 the electronics revolution was inaugurated as Texas Instruments unveiled the world's first handheld calculator. Today at a ceremony at the Smithsonian Institution the TI-58 and TI-59 will be added to its collection.

Using Teen Technology as Instructional Tools

Tapping the Tools of Teen Culture in the LMC. AAron Schmidt. MultiMedia and Internet @ Schools. September 1, 2007.

Teens have grown up with blogs, instant messaging and other web-based technology. In this article methods of employing them in the classroom are presented.

Quality Concerns in Google Books

Inheritance and Loss? A Brief Survey of Google Books. Paul Duguid. First Monday. August 6, 2007.

The author used Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy as a sample of the Google Books digitization project, and discovered major problems in the book's transference from the print to the digital medium.

Illuminating Ancient Manuscripts

'Super-scope' to See Hidden Texts. Liz Seward. BBC News. September 13, 2007.

Using intense light beams produced by a synchrotron, scientists at the University of Cardiff have devised a method of reading ancient scrolls without unrolling them.

Deciding What's News

Huge Disparity Among News Sites. Heather Havenstein. PC World. September 13, 2007.
According to a survey conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, there is a big difference between mainstream news sites and those that let users determine the contents.