http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ en-us staff@gmail.com 2008-05-14T12:31:15-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/011137.html An SF State student won a new bicycle for promising not to drive her car for a year, thanks to a local bicycle shop and a student group committed to fighting climate change. Art education major Sarah Wang won a... 11137@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-05-14T12:31:15-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/011077.html On Monday the price for a barrel of oil reached $130, with some industry analysts predicting it could hit $200 by as early as next year. So for those students commuting, visiting family over the summer or flying across the... 11077@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-05-08T13:05:18-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/011036.html In February, a group of citizens met in Oakland to express their concerns about pesticides scheduled for the light brown apple moth, or LBAM. Over a month after this meeting, the state halted the spraying. 11036@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 06-FinalCopy 2008-05-05T12:45:23-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010997.html About 15 students living in campus housing this fall will get the chance to grow their own food, reduce their energy consumption and make healthy social connections in a new green cooperative. Four adjacent town houses in University Park South—601... 10997@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-05-01T13:34:33-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010996.html Plant a sunflower, watch it grow and count the bees on it. It sounds simple, but the information that can be gained when thousands of people participate could help scientists across the country get a better understanding of how this... 10996@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-05-01T13:33:00-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010850.html Although it’s a frigid near-300 degrees Fahrenheit below zero on Titan, to the science world, Saturn’s largest moon is hot right now. So hot, in fact, that SF State Geology Professor Leonard Sklar, SF State graduate students and colleagues from... 10850@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-04-17T12:58:25-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010802.html Though offered extensive and well-organized training opportunities, both in person and on the internet, many members of SF State faculty waste class time struggling to use computers and other technology in the school's electronically enhanced classrooms. Before every semester, the... 10802@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-04-10T15:22:38-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010739.html The slowly evolving presence of SF State’s wireless network will get a big boost this summer after the installation of 100 new antennas, according to the Division of Information Technology’s Julianne Tolson. An [X]press study of SF State’s wireless Internet... 10739@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-04-03T14:14:24-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010644.html Architectural renovations take an exhausting amount of time and effort to complete. The fruit of thoughtful concept, precise realization and plain hard labor come together only in their final stages, amounting more anticipation—and pressure—for the ultimate day when ribbon and... 10644@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ x-hasmultimedia 2008-03-20T10:00:30-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010643.html Tech companies bid billions for radio and TV waves The U.S. government announced Tuesday that it had completed a $19 billion radio spectrum auction, hearing offers from participants like AT&T, Verizon and Google, according to the New York Times. The... 10643@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-03-20T09:47:36-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010650.html In December 2007 the SFSU Bookstore formed a partnership with Eco-Libris, a company determined to bring sustainability to the book industry. The company plants a tree for every dollar you donate. You can also rent books from chegg.com, a textbook... 10650@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-03-20T09:17:30-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010559.html Identification microchips, which are about the size of a grain of rice, are a helpful way of identifying a pet if they get lost. 10559@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ x-hasmultimedia 2008-03-13T18:47:28-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010552.html Though the SFSU Bookstore began advertising last week that it would start recycling batteries, cell phones, fluorescent light bulbs and ink cartridges, it is not yet ready to accept them all. Signs for the new recycling program—modeled after one that... 10552@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-03-13T10:30:00-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010551.html Has Napster taught corporations nothing? Hasbro and Mattel, the owners of the Scrabble license are demanding that Facebook.com take down the Scrabulous application based on copyright infringement, and legal action could follow according to news.com. Groups like “Save Scrabulous” have... 10551@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-03-13T10:27:53-08:00 http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/tech/010483.html An SF State sponsored shop class of sorts is giving high school students in the embattled Bayview neighborhood the chance to build something with more than just power tools. Going beyond simple woodworking, the Industrial Design Outreach program, held at... 10483@http://xpress.sfsu.edu/tech/ 07-ToPUBLISH 2008-03-06T14:40:19-08:00