Alex Ball

This year, Verizon has been hard at work upgrading and expanding cell phone coverage for Philadelphia in an effort to improve voice services, text messaging and internet access around campus.

As students spend more time on the web, professors are reaching out to them online.

Thanks to the new Photo Tagger application, Facebook users can find and tag photos of themselves automatically using digital face-recognition technology.

A Penn-led international team of researchers published a study in Nature last month suggests that certain drugs can counteract the memory-related effects of sleep deprivation.

The 2009 Innovation Week, sponsored by the Weiss Tech House, will include design competitions and speakers.

Students looking to throw a frisbee tomorrow or be an actor in a film project need look no further than YoYouWantTo.com.

uTourX, billed by its creators as “a brand new way to tour colleges,” is a new iPhone application that acts as a virtual tour guide for several U.S. college campuses.

Starting later this month, Penn students heading home to some East Coast cities will have a cheaper and more convenient way to get there.

This month, international students got a little closer to home with Vonage Mobile, a free application for PDAs and iPhones designed to reduce costs for international calls.

This September, Penn joined a consortium of 34 research universities to launch Futurity.org, an online research magazine highlighting a select sampling of university research and discoveries in a wide range of fields.