Daily Archives: December 22, 2011

MIT to launch MITx learning platform, offer free teaching materials in 2012

MIT to launch MITx learning platform, offer free teaching materials in 2012

Want a degree from MITwithout the expense or notoriously selective application process? Well, you’re still out of luck, we’re afraid, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new MITx online learning system will at least give you a chance to access a variety of course materials for free. The institution will also make the MITx platform … Continued

RIM purportedly shopped by Microsoft and Nokia, talked with Samsung / HTC about licensing

RIM purportedly shopped by Microsoft and Nokia, talked with Samsung / HTC about licensing

Tomorrow’s headlines: local florist and rural farmer consider purchase of RIM, or at least the “In Motion” part. Hot on the heels of a report suggesting that Amazon was at least considering a purchase of Canada’s famed BlackBerry maker, in flies a separate report suggesting… well, all sorts of insane things. For one, The Wall … Continued