iPads are great for education, and they’re only going to become more prevalent in the K-12 world. So it’s probably a good time to warn teachers that if you’ve got some “personal” pictures, you shouldn’t auto-sync your iDevice. Failing that, you could always suspend your kids for snooping through your tablet. That’s exactly what happened at Highland Middle School, in Anderson, Indiana. Apparently, three students were playing a game on the teacher’s iPad, and a few accidental button presses led to the teacher’s bare torso available for impressionable eyes to see. The craziest thing is that the disciplinary action fell primarily on the students: all three were suspended. According to one of the little ragamuffins:
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If you think that you have had enough of Swan Lake after watching numerous performances in the theater, perhaps it is time to expand your horizons and see a ballet performed by non-humans. In fact, the “folks” on “stage” would come with an extra pair of limbs compared to us humans. I am referring to the Ant Ballet by designer Ollie Palmer who hails from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, where this research project will reproduce the pheromones that ants use to communicate in order to have them shake their booty, so to speak.
Google must have felt hurt with Apple rolling out their very own Maps app on the iOS 6 platform, ditching the traditional Google Maps solution along the way. Although Apple’s Maps app is far from perfect and still has plenty of work to be done for it to be remotely useful to the end user, Google is all too wary of the possibility that they remain complacent, hence the latest update to Google Maps saw an additional 25 million building footprints being thrown into the database for an even more detailed and comprehensive navigational experience.
When AT&T and T-Mobile announced their decision to merge last year, Sprint was the most vocal and opposed the idea. Well now that Sprint has a deal of their own – Softbank will be buying a 70% majority stake in Sprint – it seems that it’s payback time and AT&T has stepped forward and voiced their opinion on the matter. Granted it was carefully worded, it can be summed up by saying that AT&T thinks that this deal should not be allowed to take place. In a statement released by AT&T’s vice president, Brad Burns: 
For those who follow tech news, you would know that it has been some time since we have seen Bill Gates be the main star at a Microsoft press conference, but recently, he surfaced for a rather unusual event at Microsoft’s headquarters. Joining Chief Executive Steve Ballmer alongside a slew of other dignitaries, Bill Gates helped announce a milestone in the Microsoft employee giving program that kick started 30 years ago, surpassing the magical $1 billion mark. This employee giving program began after a nudge from Gates’ parents, where Microsoft has pledged to match employee contributions to nonprofit organizations while delivering direct corporate gifts.
Earlier today, the Google filing to the SEC has been published early (an error from RR Donnelley, apparently) and the financial details for the 3rd quarter have been revealed: $14.1B in revenues for $2.18B in profits. While most companies would only dream about earnings like these, the stock market did not anticipate that Google’s profit margin would go down, and the immediate result was that Google’s stock (GOOG) went down 10% in minutes and trading had to be halted. 