30 September 2009
Google Docs is trying to win the hearts and minds of college students. Over the summer, Google hired student interns to figure out what features Google Docs was lacking that would encourage more students to use the productivity suite. Here’s what Google’s adding to attract a younger crowd—and to ward off the threat posed by Microsoft, as the software giant prepares to roll out a competing suite of Web applications early next year.
* Equation Editor
* Superscripts and Subscripts
* Translation
* and more…
via Google Docs adds student-friendly features | Business Center | Macworld.
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Posted by harryhaddon
30 September 2009
Two people from The New York Times were allegedly contacted by Apple in June about putting their product on a “new device.” And McGraw Hilll and Oberlin Press are said to be working to put their textbooks on iTunes, possibly in a DRMed format that would allow use for a period of time. And magazine executives are alleged to have presented their ideas on the future of publishing on Apple’s campus.
[More on appleinsider.com]
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Posted by harryhaddon
29 September 2009
Google is hell-bent on digitizing the worlds books, but its also aware that sometimes you just want to turn the pages. On Demand Books, makers of the Espresso Book Machine, are expected to announce that they have been granted access to Googles library of public domain digital books for use with their product. The Espresso Book Machine can print a 300-page book in four minutes, complete with a cover and a bound edge.
[Source: CNET News]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
25 September 2009
College bookstores are taking steps to turn their Web sites into e-book portals, hoping to stay relevant as publishers make a push to electronic textbooks.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education- Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
22 September 2009
Peter Schilling, director of information technology at Amherst College, has put together a list of numbers that demonstrates how the role of technology is changing at Amherst, and perhaps at other colleges.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
22 September 2009
For whatever you find interesting, fascinating, or mind-blowing on Flickr, galleries are a way to curate up to 18 public photos or videos of your fellow members into one place. It’s an opportunity to celebrate the creativity of your fellow members in a truly unique way around a theme, and idea or just because.
via Flickr: Help: Galleries.
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Posted by Teb Locke
22 September 2009
Budding journalists are blogging, broadcasting, and tweeting their way through introductory courses that have been revamped to embrace the digital age. Part of the draw for students still flocking to journalism schools is a new generation of courses retooled for new media.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
21 September 2009
Part of the US Government’s Cloud Computing Initiative promotes the use of free Web 2.0 social media applications hosted by third party provides.
If the Government can do it, so can we!
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
21 September 2009
Apps.gov is the US Government’s source for cloud computing applications designed to help government agencies harness the power of current technology.
Cloud computing plays a key role in the President Obama’s initiative to modernize Information Technology (IT) by identifying enterprise -wide common services and solutions and adopting a new cloud-computing business model. The Federal CIO Council under the guidance of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO), Vivek Kundra, established the Cloud Computing Initiative to fulfill the President’s objectives for cloud computing.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
21 September 2009
Nervous about privacy laws, institutions are nevertheless thinking about outsourcing faculty and administrative e-mail accounts to Google and Microsoft.
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education]
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