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In British classrooms, it's the teachers who are getting bullied (well, in North America too, actually see "We're all on Candid Camera"). In its usual irreverent style, The Register reports on its investigation into what was really being said in RateMyTeachers.com about "front-line educator" Andy Brown when he spoke about his and other educators' experiences at the Association of Teachers and … [Read more...] about UK’s cyberbullied teachers

Google brings new meaning to the term "social mapping" with My Maps. We knew about Google Maps and we knew about social-mapping on cellphones with GPS tech in services like loopt.com and Google's Dodgeball. But this blogger in Australia (and others) has picked up on the social element of personalized mapping on the Web. "Google Maps is certain to attract much more attention as it becomes a place … [Read more...] about Social mapping, Google-style

That’s what a CBS executive told the New York Times cellphones are becoming to us (or maybe our kids): a kind of “digital remote control." “In Japan, McDonald’s customers can already point their cellphones at the wrapping on their hamburgers and get nutrition information on their screens. Users there can also point their phones at magazine ads to receive insurance quotes, and board airplanes using … [Read more...] about Phones: Life’s ‘remote controls’?

The film industry’s trade association has announced its Top 25 movie piracy schools, as well as its support for the Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007, ArsTechnica.com reports. “This is a page straight out of the RIAA’s playbook,” according to ArsTechnica (see the RIAA’s latest anti-student-file-sharer news here). Columbia, Penn, B.U., UCLA, and Purdue top the MPAA’s … [Read more...] about MPAA’s college black list

Heard of Kajeet? You may from your kids soon. It’s a new cellphone, a rare one specifically aimed at 8-to-16-year-olds (but probably more appealing to, say, 8-to-11-year-olds). It has a “mature look and simple pricing,” the Washington Post reports. “Parents can set monthly allowances” for minutes, ring tones, games, and text messaging on the $99 phone’s “pay-as-you-go cellphone service” on the … [Read more...] about Phone for tweens