I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn’t access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education administrators could access it, but several teachers and counselors were discovering (since this was the first student day back at school) that e-Sped simply didn’t look right. They reported intermittent login problems, data not appearing in forms, navigation troubles, etc. Feeling like an epidemiologist hunting down the source of salmonella outbreak, I started looking at what made these users different. It probably won’t surprise anyone that they were using Safari. Some of my Mac users were fine; these users were running Firefox since I’d had it installed on most of…

The vast array of features offered by the JVC El Kameleon KD-AVX44 creates a car audio experience that rivals all but the best preinstalled receivers.

The vast array of features offered by the JVC El Kameleon KD-AVX44 creates a car audio experience that rivals all but the best preinstalled receivers.

Transforming cells through the injection of genes is a very big deal. While it will take some time to prove, and even more time to reach the market, it’s a true medical revolution.

A flaky power-control algorithm within the iPhone 3G seems to be a likely cause of the persistent reception problems that have plagued early adopters.

A piece of the infrastructure powering Microsoft’s adCenter and paid-search technologies is today’s featured Microsoft Codename of the Day. Read on for more about “Sputnik.”

Those deeply ingrained school year patterns of summers off aren’t easily forgotten once you work all year round. Fact is, everyone slacks off a little in the summer, and this one had more distractions than ever.

The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes. As says the WINSOC scientific coordinator, ‘Living systems are intrinsically robust against cells dying or being damaged,’ so let’s do the same with our wireless networks to make them more reliable. Several prototypes have already started, including a network of geological sensors installed in the Idduki rainforest of Kerala, India, to detect landslides during the monsoon season. The research team also developed a computer simulator that emulates the spread of a fire through a forest and ’sensors have been placed in a forest in…

CNET did not review the LG 42PG20, but we did review a larger model in the series.

CNET did not review the LG 42PG20, but we did review a larger model in the series.