Articles on Schooling

Xavier School now online - Jun 25, 2009

Blogs Due to the recent suspension of classes in a number of schools and universities in the country because of the AH1N1 Virus (swine flu), Xavier School has now gone online in ... Read story »

Of technological booms - Aug 27, 2009

Blogs Recently, I have been rather enthralled with the following situation. Firstly, the prices of memory cards have been dropping ever so rapidly, notably on a recent trip to Korea when an ... Read story »

Investing in alternative energy to fund Chinese education in Malaysia - Oct 15, 2009

Blogs It's no secret that cultivating palm oil makes money. In Malaysia, Chinese schools have caught onto the business idea. Nine Chinese independant schools in Malaysia's Perak state have considered cultivating palm ... Read story »

A tooth for an eye, a tooth for an eye... wait, wah? - Sep 23, 2009

Blogs It is written in the Torah to "show no pity: Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot". In today's world, the ancients would ... Read story »

Your Dream Gadgets for 2010? - Dec 25, 2009

Blogs 2010 is near and people are starting to make their New Year's resolutions.  I will be like this and I won't be like.  Resolutions made and are meant to be broken.People ... Read story »

Rotating blackout in the Internet Age - Oct 9, 2009

Blogs Just how dependent are we on technology nowadays? I would say more than 100 percent for many. Last night (October 8, 2009), electricity for most parts of the metropolis was not ... Read story »

The Most Popular Search Terms Among Children - Dec 23, 2009

Blogs Dear parents, It's 3pm in the afternoon. Your child have just been dismissed from school. Do you know what he's googling for online?Norton does. What this survey results say to me ... Read story »

Altec Lansing Mix iMT800: Old school boombox for the iPhone - Aug 28, 2009

Crave Back in the 1980s, when portable audio was synonymous with "cassette tapes", boomboxes were a mainstay of music culture. While luggable, battery-powered speaker systems still exist today, they tend to ... Read story »

Mantis shrimps unlock future DVD technology - Oct 27, 2009

Crave These mantis shrimps native to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia are not only a sight to behold, they may also unlock a piece of the puzzle in future DVD ... Read story »

Windows 7 makes window management easier - Oct 1, 2009

Crave Moving, resizing, and arranging windows on the screen has been one of those things we've done since the earliest days of Microsoft Windows. If you've used Windows since 1995, you know ... Read story »

Is lightning to blame for global warming? - Nov 4, 2009

Blogs Image: Lightning in KL by Monstermunch99@flickr When I was in school, I learned that lightning was caused by friction between the positive and negative charges in the atmosphere as hot air ... Read story »

Tele Atlas launches crowd-sourced Speed Profiles in Taiwan - Nov 5, 2009

Crave If you've not heard of Netherlands-based company Tele Atlas' Speed Profiles, you're not alone. After all, this is the first time the mapping solutions company is launching the product in ... Read story »

Eternal Internet - Nov 15, 2009

Blogs Ever thought about how Web pages are linked to each other? In his book Linked, Albert-Làszlò Barabàsi describes the topology of the Internet as a scale-free network. Webpages are connected to ... Read story »

Mobile projector for your handset--the old-fashioned way - Nov 20, 2009

Crave Pico projectors are great, but they are also prohibitively expensive. The HypnosEye Projector compromises a little on the experience with an old-school technology, and at US$80, costs only a fraction ... Read story »

Photos: A no-fuss solar-powered building - Oct 23, 2009

Features The Curio House is a home that's designed to run entirely from solar energy. We take a look at this entry for the Solar Decathlon, a solar home design competition.  Read story »

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