News tagged with collaboration

Education Budget Cuts to Cause Increase in Mobile Technology Use

(PhysOrg.com) -- As budget cuts in education continue, we will see more use of mobile technologies in the classroom in 2010, predicts Dr. Vivian Wright, a University of Alabama educator.

Technology / Other

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Passes Major Review

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's effort to deploy the first satellite mission to advance global precipitation observations from space moved closer to this goal when agency officials approved critical elements for the Global Precipitation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online collaboration with built-in clarity

(PhysOrg.com) -- Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally threaten the dominance of email as the world's premier collaboration ...

Technology / Software

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google wants businesses to ride Wave

Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Wimba providing classroom alternative in light of flu outbreaks

As U.S. cases of the H1N1 flu steadily rise, colleges and universities nationwide are arranging other means of connecting students with their peers, professors and administrators, should an outbreak occur.

Technology / Software

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The eScience revolution: Creating semantic Web platforms for massive scientific collaboration

(PhysOrg.com) -- Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific discovery ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Virtual Worlds May Be the Future Setting of Scientific Collaboration

(PhysOrg.com) -- Normally, virtual worlds are the setting of many online games and entertainment applications, but now they’re becoming a place for scientific collaboration and outreach, as well. A team of ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 2 feature

Secure, 3D Meeting Service Now Available with Lotus Sametime

IBM today announced that a new service, Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime, is now available. The service allows Lotus Sametime users to set up and use virtual meeting spaces securely behind-the-firewall ...

Technology / Software

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Classroom computers boost face-to-face learning

Computers have been used for years to facilitate learning at a distance. A new European research programme shows that computers can also enhance collaborative, face-to-face learning and problem solving.

Technology / Software

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Planning factories the right way

The new factory hall has just been completed when the owner realizes that several things have gone wrong. The doors should be on the other side and production will need more space. A new planning guideline will prevent such ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

HP, RIM form Blackberry alliance

US computer giant Hewlett-Packard and Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) announced an alliance on Monday to provide applications and services for the popular Blackberry smartphone.

Technology / Business

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The MAGIC-II Telescope is ready to team up

(PhysOrg.com) -- Together with the MAGIC-I telescope, MAGIC-2 allows stereoscopic observations using these two largest gamma-ray telescopes. Astronomers can explore sources of very-high energy gamma rays. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face Meetings in Virtual Worlds

IBM is making it easier for widely dispersed businesspeople to interact and collaborate without the time and expense of in-person meetings.

Technology / Software

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Astronomers from Princeton and Japan unite to explore the universe, near and far

Scientists from Princeton University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have agreed to collaborate over the next 10 years, using new instrumentation on the Hawaii-based Subaru Telescope ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Unlocking the dynamic web

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of the knowledge and services potentially available on the worldwide web can’t be accessed through browsers and websites. A new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 24, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0