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This year, the Technology Counts data section shifts its focus from a state to a district lens, offering a host of charts showing how local schools and districts are using standard and emerging technologies to improve education. …

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Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies …

Goo.gl good, fb.me bad: a study finds who’s quick off the mark in the link-shortening world URL shorteners have become a fact of life, given the proliferation of short messaging services (and also the demands of print, which finds URL shorteners mean you can link to long URLs in a few characters). But they’re sometimes a roadblock – at least, the one from Facebook is.

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Why short links can take a long time to get you around the web

It’s easy to grab a head of pre-chopped lettuce or pre-sliced apples when you’re running through the aisles of your grocery store, but as personal finance blog The Simple Dollar points out, you’re paying an absurdly high hourly cost for this convenience.

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The High Price of Convenience Foods [Saving Money]

If you’ve had a tough time choosing between Parallels and VMware Fusion for running Windows on your Mac, all-things-Apple site MacTech pitted the two virtualization tools against one another in a giant faceoff.

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Parallels Outdoes VMware Fusion on Most Benchmarks [Virtualization]

We knew vaguely that Google was looking toward the living room , but the NYTimes has the details on Google TV, an ambitious platform to deliver web content to Android-based set-top boxes and TVs through partnerships with Sony, Intel, and Logitech. Google hopes that the new platform will succeed where dozens of lesser efforts have failed—to truly and seamlessly integrate web content onto TVs, bringing services like Twitter and sites like YouTube, in addition to games, webapps, and, of course, Google’s search, to the big screen. The Google TV software reportedly includes a version of Google’s Chrome browser for doing some light surfing, as well.

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A Google TV Set-Top Box is Coming [Google]

Orb Audio Founder and CEO Ethan Siegel on the speaker company’s direct online sales model.

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Orb Audio’s Online Business Model

Gesture Search, Google’s umpteenth attempt to give you input options other than a tiny virtual keyboard, has made the leap down to Android 1.6 , meaning those with G1s, myTouch 3Gs, Heros, and other non-Droid, non-Nexus phones can give it a go. Having used and challenged Gesture Search since first reviewing it , I’m finding that it’s a better option for when you’re walking and typing, quickly calling, or otherwise unable to concentrate on a full typing action. Maybe those are also good times to just not have the phone out, sure, but it’s a handy alternative for such times.

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Gesture Search Available for Android 1.6 [Updates]

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MIAMI, FL–(Marketwire – March 17, 2010) – Atlantis Technology Group’s (PINKSHEETS: ATNP) Board of Directors approves the 5 for 1 forward split record date of.

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Atlantis Technology Group's BOD Approves the 5 for 1 Forward Split …

Japanese automakers and power companies plan to work together to bring their electric-vehicle-charging technology to overseas markets, seeking to speed up the adoption of technology needed to spark demand for electric cars.

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"Japanese Automakers, Others to Send EV-Charging Technology to …

“Existing companies may be rewarded in the short run with increased stock prices for focusing on strategies that extend the financial performance from the old technology , but they may pay later in the face of threatening technological …

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Securities analysts' reports slow adoption of new technology …

Having identified people technology innovation and financing as the top three tools to facilitate the growth of SMEs this MDP aims to equip SME l…

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Fostering the Human Capital, Singapore’s Style to Stay a Competitive Business Hub

Last week, I was in Las Vegas for the LeadingRE annual conference and marketing technology event speaking on social media and SEO strategies for real estate professionals. It’s always interesting to see where different verticals are at with their willingness to embrace social channels, and I’m pleased to report the top realtors globally are already engaging, or at the least starting to define their path. I gave the opening presentation to the MarTech part of the conference – a track of panels/sessions designed to help real estate professionals better integrate their marketing initiates with technology

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2010 LeadingRE Conference: TopRank Digital Marketing Sessions

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek used his South by Southwest interactive keynote to announce a fair number of subscriptions If you were hoping that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek would use his South by Southwest Interactive keynote to announce a launch date for the US, no such luck (although Rafat has a source who says possibly end of May). Ek’s biggest bit of news: Spotify now has more than 320,000 paid subscribers, up from the 250,000 number the company last acknowledged earlier this year . Nothing specific on the pace.

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Spotify has 320,000 paying subscribers – and is making money

38Degrees site becomes focus for demands that MPs consider unpopular bill more carefully The rushed process of getting the digital economy bill through Parliament – it had its first reading in the Commons on Tuesday night, having just had its third (and final) reading in the Lords on Monday night – has prompted an angry groundswell of people using 38Degrees to lobby their MPs to block it. The newly-created page on the 38Degrees site lets people find their MP via their postcode, and then email them to demand that the bill gets a proper debate – or is abandoned for this Parliament. (Disclosure: 38Degrees is a partner with the Guardian in its digital election coverage .) As the page puts it, “Peter Mandelson is rushing to force the digital economy Bill into law before the general eection.

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Anger over rushed digital economy bill leads to online lobbying effort

Google’s Chrome browser is out with a new Dev release , and the big change is inside the Mac bookmark manager, which we’ve heard was previously less than awesome to use. The new bookmark manager has drag-and-drop organizing, easy deleting and renaming, and a better look

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Chrome Dev Release Overhauls Bookmark Manager for Macs [Updates]

Seinfeld veteran and Borat director Larry Charles teams up with ‘Fake Steve Jobs’ to develop show for cable channel Epix A new US comedy series, iCon, is being developed that will satirise Apple’s co-founder and chief executive, Steve Jobs. According to cable channel Epix, the show is “a savage satire centering on a fictional Silicon Valley CEO whose ego is a study in power and greed”. The pilot will be directed by Seinfeld veteran Larry Charles, an Emmy-winning TV writer and producer who is also known for directing Borat and Brüno

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TV series to satirise Apple’s Steve Jobs

Government consultation on OS mapping closes today – and has attracted withering comments from its own advisory body (updated) From next month, you should be able to get digital forms of Ordnance Survey (OS) maps for free – free as in beer, and free as in speech – under a new initiative announced last November by the prime minister. And why’s that important today?

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How free will Ordnance Survey’s maps be? Your last chance to decide

Employing sensors and wireless technology to allow bionic eyesight, the next-gen contact lens is build with very small circuits and LEDs, allowing the user to monitor his or her heart. Using an external device for controls and …

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Augmented Contact Lens Embeds AR Technology Straight Into The Eye …

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., (NASA) — The first American research sample processed in the International Space Station’s Materials Science Laboratory was opened for study today at NASA’s Marshall Space.

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Technology Journey – Materials Science from Space to Earth …