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Vendor Analysis
R.W. Baird's Trace Urdan is our favorite learning industry analyst. Trace does equity research for investors, not "research" for vendors who pay to reproduce the results on their websites and in their brochures. Trace's group distributes a newsletter, Class Notes by email. Class Notes provides information, insight, and analysis on the for-profit education sector, including [...] From Internet Time Blog on December 24, 2005 at 4:45 p.m..

Does free software chill innovation?
Pito Salas wonders if the market's expectation that broad classes of software just ought to be free is preventing some very cool apps from being developed. And before you jump all over Pito, keep in mind that he's been working hard for over a year (or is it two years?) on an open source aggregator, BlogBridge that he provides, yes, for free. (Disclosure: I'm on BlogBridge's board of advisors, without any expectation of compensation. I'm also a friend of Pito's.) [Tags: PitoSalas blogbridge OpenSource]... From Joho the Blog on December 24, 2005 at 11:48 a.m..

Troubled Boys Choir of Harlem Is Facing Eviction
Lawyers for the city's Department of Education gave the choir until the end of January to vacate the building. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Religion Journal: Bringing the Holiday Spirit to Students Far From Home
To help foreign students, colleges have a variety of programs to match students with American families. From New York Times: Education on December 24, 2005 at 2:45 a.m..

Vaporware 2005: Let Us Have It - Wired
Yes, once again it's Wired News' annual Vaporware Awards. Now in its seventh year, the Vaporware Awards celebrate all those long-awaited technological wonders that were delayed, ditched or discontinued. (And, of course, those that were never more than a r From Techno-News Blog on December 24, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Microsoft drops Mac IE - Colin Barker, CNET News
The minority of Mac users still browsing with Internet Explorer need to consider moving to another browser very quickly, as Microsoft plans to discontinue support for IE beginning Dec. 31. The news, which came in a statement on Friday, may not have come a From Techno-News Blog on December 24, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..

Web Sites Let Users Send E-Mail to Future - NAHAL TOOSI, Associated Press
In the year 2009, on the 25th of April, a man named Greg is supposed to get an e-mail. The e-mail will remind Greg that he is his best friend and worst enemy, that he once dated a woman named Michelle, and that he planned to major in computer science.... From Techno-News Blog on December 24, 2005 at 12:49 a.m..