Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-reader is in such hot demand that the company is already announcing production delays.
A recent Forrester Group analysis stated “This holiday season, e-readers will be one category that’s a breakout success. Lower prices, more content, better distribution, and lots of media hype are contributing to faster-than-expected adoption of e-reader devices in 2009.”
[Source: Macworld]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
We’re excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube’s HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web to showcase your content. For viewers with big monitors and a fast computer, try switching to 1080p to get the most out of the fullscreen experience.
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Posted by Teb Locke
I use Boot Camp on my Mac, and quite often I create files in Windows and want those files on the OS X side as well. It's a pain to take out a USB flash drive and copy the files there, reboot, and copy them again. If the files are large, emailing the files to yourself may not work either.
One solution is Dropbox. As Dropbox works on OS X, Windows, and Linux, all you have to do is install Dropbox on your Boot Camp Windows installation, then drop or save any files in theree; they will automatically transfer into OS X the next time you boot back into the Mac OS.
via One Easy way to transfer files from Boot Camp to OS X – Mac OS X Hints.
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The Web is increasingly filled with television shows, but finding them can be hard. Clicker, a well-financed startup, believes it can help. On Thursday, the company is rolling out its service, Clicker.com, which it calls a “TV Guide for the Web.”
“If you created TV Guide in 2009 instead of 1953, you’d create something like this,” said Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s chief executive, who previously served as the chief executive of Ask.com, the No. 4 search engine.
via Clicker Aims to Be the Path to TV Online – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
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Blackboard has added the Research in Motion BlackBerry to its list of supported devices for the new Blackboard Mobile platform.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Plenty of colleges have a presence in Second Life. Pennsylvania State University is taking that a step further. Academic advisers at the university’s online campus are now required to be available for meetings with students in the virtual world every week.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Noticed a few other Colleges and Universities using this service…
Introducing DocXchanger™
DocXchanger allows users to easily discover and securely access their network storage from any location and provides powerful, interactive document sharing capabilities with this network storage. With DocXchanger, organizations can eliminate the costly practice of sending email attachments by sharing network-stored content through “sharing links.” DocXchanger through its identity-based architecture provides users the means of discovering defined network storage areas without the need for network drive mappings and login scripts. Network-stored documents can then be accessed securely for reading or writing. Finally, both files and folders can be shared with recipients both inside and outside of an organization, with access rights governed by policies defined by the administrator.
via DocXchanger.
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The iPhone’s first worm — a playful, wallpaper-changing prank that only affects jailbroken phones — could be a sign of more dangerous things to come.
A hacker who identifies himself as “ikex” created the worm, which changes the user’s wallpaper to a picture of 1980s pop star Rick Astley, who sang the 1987 hit “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The software includes the message: “ikee is never gonna give you up.”
via AppleInsider | First-known iPhone worm ‘Rickrolls’ jailbroken Apple handsets.
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In Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, Wired magazine editor-in-chief and author Chris Anderson makes the compelling case that in many instances businesses can profit more from giving things away than they can by charging for them. Far more than a promotional gimmick, Free is a business strategy that may well be essential to a company’s survival.
Free for free.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
The technologies featured in the 2009 Horizon Report are placed along three adoption horizons that represent what the Advisory Board considers likely timeframes for their entrance into mainstream use for teaching, learning, research, or creative applications. The first adoption horizon assumes the likelihood of entry into the mainstream of institutions within the next year; the second, within two to three years; and the third, within four to five years.
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