Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. There's no real money involved, nor is it a real lemonade stand.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for seven years now. In 2004 we published our Islands In The Wastestream study, which measured the demand for low-cost computers among U.S. How It All Started.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) has provided warrantied refurbished computers and other IT devices to nonprofits and libraries for eight years now. In 2004 we published our Islands In The Wastestream study, which measured the demand for low-cost computers among U.S.-based A Bit About How RCI Started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. What do libraries look like in the future?

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