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There’s been much discussion about what kind of technology is best for students, with conflicting opinions arguing over the likes of the iPad and education-targeted machines like the Lenovo X130e.

While we’ve taken a keen interest in the debate, we have to admit we’d forgotten all about Google’s Chromebooks as a tool for classrooms- yet it seems they are quietly gaining (some) traction in US schools.

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In  line with the web-wide protests taking place today, Google has issued a strong statement voicing its opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House.

Google say that these bills won’t get rid of pirate sites, arguing that offenders would just change their addresses in order to continue their criminal activities.

The search engine giant says that are ‘better ways to address piracy than to ask U.S. companies to censor the Internet.’

Read their full argument below:

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Today (Jan 18th) sees what is being billed as ‘the largest internet protest in history’ as websites show their opposition against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its sibling the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US.

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Wikipedia has announced that it will be lending its weight to the campaign against two bloody awful internet censorship bills currently being considered in the US.

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Campaigning US site Stop American Censorship has created an infographic explaining how two proposed bills in the US -  PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – are being pushed through against the wishes of the ‘vast majority of Americans.’

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Those kerrrazy, stat-loving types at comScore have just come from a fun-packed totting-up session to reveal a party pack of facts about the growth of smartphones in the US.

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In one of the oddest political arguments we’ve ever heard, Illinois Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. rants away at Apple’s iPad, accusing the device of contributing to high levels of unemployment in the USA.

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We posted earlier today about how Android has taken over the UK smartphone market, and new figures reveal that it’s a familiar story across the pond, with Google’s mobile OS taking over from BlackBerry as the top US smartphone platform.

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The media bangs on much about the iPhone you couldn’t blame folks for thinking that Apple must be the biggest phone manufacturer in the world.

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The stat-collecting crew at ComScore have just unleashed their latest set of numbers for the US mobile market share, and it shows Android continuing to grab a bigger share in the smartphone sector.

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An astonishing selection of colour photographs taken by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information in rural America during 1939-1943 has been posted online.

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A new report from research bods Quantcast shows that Apple’s lead in mobile Web usage is declining in the US, while Android is surging forward at an impressive rate of knots.

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The US’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been trialling real-time translation systems, one of which uses a Google Nexus One handset to do real-time, spoken language translation from Pashto to English, and vice versa.

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When gun-lovin’ Roger Witter saw two men nick a load of  iPhones from an AT&T store Gresham, Oregon, he decided to take action.

Instead of sensibly waiting for the feds to arrive, he decided to go all Harry Callaghan on the perp’s asses, and blasted away at their departing car in an attempt to blow out its tyres.

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Stats back from the first quarter of this year show Android accelerating past  past Apple for the OS for the number-two position in the US.

The data comes from the NPD Group’s Mobile Phone Track and reflects the continuing growth of the open source OS (although Apple have since disputed these figures – see below).

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