Monday links
- The era of Japanese consumer electronics giants is dead
Once venerable names in consumer electronics such as Sony, Panasonic, and Sharp have been besieged by competition from rivals in the U.S., South Korea and, increasingly, China—Roger Cheng at CNET - One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education
Story at Forbes by Michael Noer about the Khan Academy for online education - 94 Percent Of Teachers Say Students Equate “Research” With Using Google
It’s almost unanimous: 94 percent of U.S. teachers say their students equate “research” with using Google or other search engines — more so than Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias.But teachers are less sure that their students are effective searchers, and they’re more skeptical than most adults about the accuracy and trustworthiness of information that’s found via search engines. —SearchEngineLand - Malware infects 13 percent of North American home networks
Some 13% of home networks in North America are infected with malware, half of them with “serious” threats, according to a report released Wednesday by a cyber-security company—ITWorld - How technology is creating a reading revolution
Reading has truly seen a big change in the last few years. With high-definition video, hyper-real video games, and high-quality audio so readily available, it is a little counter-intuitive that boring old books, and the technology behind them, are still going from strength to strength. Really, there has never been a better moment in history if you like reading books—Grant Brunner at ExtremeTech
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