Yesterday, Intel and St. Paul Academy and Summit School (SPA) hosted a media event at the Twin Cities middle school to showcase its digital classrooms. With the help of Intel, SPA has rolled out a program where every student in 6th and 7th grade is using a tablet Intel-powered convertible classmate PC netbook in the classroom. From world languages to math and science, the 6-7th graders at SPA demonstrated how they are using classmate PCs to achieve higher levels of understanding, communicate with their teachers, collaborate with classmates and explore the world beyond the classroom. Learn more here.
Posts Tagged ‘cutting’
Chip Shot: Intel, St. Paul Academy Aim For Cutting Edge Classrooms
February 18th, 2010 |
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Services, Cost Cutting Delivers Solid Quarter for HP
November 24th, 2009 |
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Services delivered a solid quarter for HP, generating $8.9 billion in revenue. HP CEO Mark Hurd said the integration of EDS into the company was ahead of schedule, and that HP was able to cut 19,000 jobs in the wake of the EDS purchase in 2008, which helped save on the bottom line. Overall, HP generated $2.4 billion in profit on $30.8 billion in revenue.
– Hewlett-Packard reported solid quarterly numbers on the strength of its services business and it cost-control efforts, including the elimination of 19,000 jobs in the wake of merging EDS into the company.
HP Nov. 23 said revenue for its fiscal year fourth quarter 2009 came in at $30.8 billion, down…
Cutting Health Care Costs on a Mac
November 23rd, 2009 |
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Using a Mac Pro as the keystone of his rural radiology practice in Bemidji, Minnesota, Dr. Hilton Bakker is able not only to reduce the costs of his own practice but those of the hospitals who use his services. Says Bakker: “If hospitals can use Mac technology to do radiology cheaper, that’s my goal. Health care costs too much. If I can do my little bit to make it cheaper, that’s cool.â€
Cutting red tape
September 11th, 2009 |
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Where pro-business reform has been fastest
THE World Bank’s annual report tracking changes to regulations that affect business suggests that governments have handled the global economic storm well. In the year since June 2008, 131 countries introduced 287 pro-business reforms—20% more than in the previous 12 months and more than in any year since the World Bank started the survey in 2004. Poorer economies accounted for two-thirds of the action, with Rwanda turning out to be the world’s champion reformer—the first time a sub-Saharan country has claimed the prize. Eastern European and Central Asian countries were the most energetic reformers by region for the sixth year in a row while Middle Eastern and North African countries were not far behind. But businesses in low-income countries still struggle with twice the burden of regulation as those in high-income countries. Developed countries have an average of ten times as many newly registered businesses for every adult as countries in Africa and the Middle East.
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America loses its landlines: Cutting the cord
August 13th, 2009 |
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Ever greater numbers of Americans are disconnecting their home telephones, with momentous consequences
MUCH has been made of the precipitous decline of America’s newspapers. According to one much-cited calculation, the country’s last printed newspaper will land on a doorstep sometime in the first quarter of 2043. That is a positively healthy outlook, however, compared with another staple of American life: the home telephone. Telecoms operators are seeing customers abandon landlines at a rate of 700,000 per month. Some analysts now estimate that 25% of households in America rely entirely on mobile phones (or cellphones, as Americans call them)—a share that could double within the next three years. If the decline of the landline continues at its current rate, the last cord will be cut sometime in 2025.
The impact of this trend will be greater than most people realise. It will make life increasingly difficult for telecoms firms, naturally. But it will also hurt all business that require landlines, as bills rise and business models are disrupted. No less seriously, the withering fixed-line network threatens the work of the emergency services, such as the police and fire brigade. …
Emily Henry: Cutting Welfare for the Children of Immigrants will Devastate California
July 11th, 2009 |
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If these children — who are American citizens — experience such a dramatic blow to their already-limited resource bank, the consequences for the entire state will be dire.