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Tweet Generally considered to be the nicer displays, AMOLED smartphone screens have now dropped in price enough that they are selling wholesale for roughly the same place as their LCD competition. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Last week I looked at app counts and submissions to the App Store to gauge how much of an impact Apple’s iOS 7 has had on development teams over the summer. What the numbers didn’t show was why iOS 7 had such big an impact. While there are certainly some programming changes that developers must contend with each time there is a major update, what I found after talking…

Tweet Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms with amazing physical properties, has been touted as the next silicon. Electrons move through it with ease, making it an ideal pick as a semiconductor in electronics like phones and computers. But graphene has a big problem: It can’t be turned “off” like silicon. The electrons flow continuously, which is a huge obstacle that must be overcome before graphene has a chance of…

Tweet More photos have found their way to the Internet that allegedly show units of the unannounced iPhone 5C in their packaging and in various colors, along with the phone’s manual. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet When it comes to online education, seeing – or even doing – isn’t necessarily believing. According to a survey of faculty attitudes on technology from Inside Higher Ed and Gallup, skepticism of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and online learning still largely prevails. The survey, which included 2,251 professors, found that only one in five respondents agrees that online learning can achieve learning outcomes that are equal to in-person…