ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
November 2010 technology in education news summary
Mobile internet is already dominant, survey says Is a Twitter News Service What Consumers Need? During boring classes, texting is the new doodling Flexible screens on the way for E-readers Monash University student union crowdsources logo via contest Smartphone Market Forces Yield Publishing Opportunities Celebrate Doctor Who Day with Free Time Travel eBooks 10 Transformations in Social Media Monitoring — And What It Means for Businesses 10 Rules for Successful Social Media Monitoring & What They Mean to You Open-source social network Diaspora goes live WA Treasury launches shared servers, storage sourcing strategy News Corp Shells Out $360 Million For EdTech Company Wireless Generation Google testing Office collaboration plug-in Reimagining the University Press: A Checklist for Scholarly Publishers How to Self-Publish Your Facebook Page Rupert Murdoch creates 'iNewspaper' - with the help of Steve Jobs Are smartphones making us stupid? Google Exploring Groupon Buyout News Corp.'s MySpace Deepens Ties to Facebook With `Mash Up' Account Links Working Group Takes on Challenges of WiFi Growth on Campus Laptops All Around! Now What? Financial Times Staffers’ Holiday Bonus: $480 Rebate Toward Tablet Purchase Android Tablets Poised to Capture 15.2% of Market in 2011 3 more reasons not to use Facebook Messages As Textbooks Go Digital, Campus Bookstores May Go Bookless iPad influx: Curtin Uni flooded with “hundreds” 500 million people will be using mobile health apps by 2015 Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones Facebook’s Zuckerberg: ‘E-Mail is Too Slow’—New iPhone App Launching Facebook Social Inbox: Always-On Messaging With People You Care About More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them Facebook unveils new messaging system Social networking to overtake email in future says Gartner Making money with mobile apps Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday Gmail vs Outlook/Exchange: Round Two Melbourne Uni students ‘strongly’ prefer Gmail UTS signs up for Live@Edu email Microsoft wins UTS as Gmail falters What Not To Do When Designing Your App Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries Amazon Updates Self-pub Platform CreateSpace Gmail power tips, tools: Get the most from Google's e-mail LinkedIn Meets Twitter with Social Networking Site Hashable Pop Goes the iPad Bubble? Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
Mobile internet is already dominant, survey says TechWorld.com.au November 30 2010 Opera's State of the Mobile Web survey shows that the rest of the world is ahead of the US in mobile Internet use. The people behind the Opera mobile Web browser have released the results of their State of the Mobile Web survey, which questioned 300,000 users in July and August this year. It makes.... Full article: http://goo.gl/DKX9R Is a Twitter News Service What Consumers Need? WebProNews.com November 25 2010 Twitter as An Open AP-like News Service Many are getting a substantial amount of their news today from Twitter, but Twitter appears to have higher aspirations for becoming an important news service.... Full article: http://goo.gl/4Qb4U During boring classes, texting is the new doodling The Wall Street Journal November 26 2010 When his professors drone, Dan Kautz whips out his phone. Kautz, a senior at Wilkes University, might send a text message to someone across the room — "I can't wait to get out of here" — or make plans with his roommates. He's become so adept at texting.... Full article: http://goo.gl/WX7QO Flexible screens on the way for E-readers TechWorld.com.au November 24 2010 Flexible screens as thin as a piece of paper may be available for e-readers by early next year thanks to a project from Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and licensee AU Optronics, one of the world's largest LCD screen.... Full article: http://goo.gl/IHgo8 Monash University student union crowdsources logo via contest PRWire.com November 2010 Monash University's Gippsland Student Union is running a logo contest on DesignCrowd.com and inviting its students to participate. ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
The Monash University Gippsland Student Union (MUGSU) has launched a Monash Student Union Logo Contest to get a new logo design to represent its student union.... Full article: http://goo.gl/fG1v2 Smartphone Market Forces Yield Publishing Opportunities MinOnline.com November 23 2010 The proliferation of mobile technology is clearer now than ever before. There are over 5 billion mobile devices globally—more devices than computers, TVs, cars and iPods combined. The average user is as familiar with using a mobile device as they are.... Full article: http://goo.gl/BK42h Celebrate Doctor Who Day with Free Time Travel eBooks MediaBistro.com November 23 2010 Today is Doctor Who Day, an annual celebration of the time traveling BBC hero. The first episode of the science fiction show aired on November 23, 1963.... Full article: http://goo.gl/vRt5L 10 Transformations in Social Media Monitoring — And What It Means for Businesses SocialTimes.com November 22 2010 Listening 2.0: Leveraging Social Intelligence to Drive Business Results, a white paper from Converseon describes the evolution of social media monitoring and how companies can find business value and drive success by infusing social intelligence into.... Full article: http://goo.gl/b5e2X 10 Rules for Successful Social Media Monitoring & What They Mean to You SocialTimes.com November 23 2010 In a previous post, we looked at some of the ways basic social media monitoring is giving way to more sophisticated analytics. Taken from Listening 2.0: Leveraging Social Intelligence to Drive Business Results, a white paper from Converseon, these shifts — which it calls Listening 2.0 — may result in social intelligence.... Full article: http://goo.gl/QR5bQ Open-source social network Diaspora goes live ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
TechWorld.com.au November 24 2010 Despite early security woes, Diaspora is testing the waters in a limited alpha invite-only release Diaspora, a widely anticipated social network site built on open-source code, has cracked open its doors for business today, at least for a handful of invited participants.... Full article: http://goo.gl/1eOJO WA Treasury launches shared servers, storage sourcing strategy TechWorld.com.au November 24 2010 Follows moves toward establishing own private Cloud The Western Australia Department of Treasury and Finance (DTF) has moved to set up a whole-ofgovernment sourcing arrangement for government agencies to procure x86 based servers and data storage.... Full article: http://goo.gl/eTx29 News Corp Shells Out $360 Million For EdTech Company Wireless Generation PaidContent.org November 22 2010 Rupert Murdoch is getting serious about the education business. First, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) hires New York City Education Chancellor Joel Klein. Now, it’s acquiring 90 percent of Wireless Generation for roughly $360 million in cash. The Brooklyn-based company provides education technology.... Full article: http://goo.gl/aLxUX Google testing Office collaboration plug-in TechWorld.com.au November 23 2010 Google has started to test with a limited number of Microsoft Office users a plug-in that lets them share and collaboratively edit their documents by storing them on Google's cloud infrastructure. Google got the technology for the plug-in through its acquisition of DocVerse in March.... Full article: http://goo.gl/d36aX Reimagining the University Press: A Checklist for Scholarly Publishers The Journal of Electronic Publishing November 2010 A university press director argues that presses can successfully reimagine their role as publishers by innovating notably in two realms: First, in content, by developing and publishing new kinds of scholarly books to complement the traditional research monograph.... ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
Full article: http://goo.gl/nf800 How to Self-Publish Your Facebook Page MediaBistro.com November 19 2010 Did you ever wish you could read your Facebook page like a real book? For $24 a year, Ninuku Archivist will collect your Facebook posts into PDF files–a printable record of all the time you spend on the social network.... Full article: http://goo.gl/X3y9r Rupert Murdoch creates 'iNewspaper' - with the help of Steve Jobs The Guardian, UK November 21 2010 News Corp reportedly set to launch iPad news publication exclusively via download Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital "newspaper" called the Daily at the end of this month, according.... Full article: http://goo.gl/7c2Vy Are smartphones making us stupid? The Sydney Morning Herald November 21 2010 WE COULD blithely drive into a lake if instructed by a GPS device. We leap from one website link to another, scanning instead of reading. We can barely add a few numbers without a calculator. Are our mobile phones and all those other so-called smart devices really making us dumb....? Full article: http://goo.gl/TyDYv Google Exploring Groupon Buyout MediaBistro.com November 19 2010 Google is in negotiations with group shopping startup Groupon over a possible buyout, according to a report Friday. The asking price is well above the $2-3 billion rumored to have been offered by Yahoo.... Full article: http://goo.gl/QctRm News Corp.'s MySpace Deepens Ties to Facebook With `Mash Up' Account Links Bloomberg ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
November 19 2010 News Corp.’s MySpace is adding more features from Facebook Inc., owner of the world’s biggest social network, in an effort to draw users and boost ad sales.... Full article: http://goo.gl/U4CVM Working Group Takes on Challenges of WiFi Growth on Campus CampusTechnology.com November 18 2010 A new working group dominated by IT representatives from higher education is tackling the problems and solutions of running WiFi networks that need to support a dramatic proliferation of wireless devices on campus and in business. A major goal of the Multimedia-Grade Working Group is.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ydeZB Laptops All Around! Now What? CampusTechnology.com November 17 2010 So you've decided to give tablets and laptops to all your students and faculty. Now how do you support that? Pennsylvania's Seton Hill University backs up its newly expanded mobile computing program, now consisting of both Apple MacBook Pros and iPads for students and faculty, with a robust.... Full article: http://goo.gl/zKIF4 Financial Times Staffers’ Holiday Bonus: $480 Rebate Toward Tablet Purchase MediaBistro.com November 18 2010 Financial Times is serious about tablets, as paidContent reports that anyone on the publisher’s staff of 1,800 who purchases an iPad or other tablet device will receive a rebate of £300 ($480), which could mean a bill of £540,000 ($864,000) if everyone.... Full article: http://goo.gl/0boHg Android Tablets Poised to Capture 15.2% of Market in 2011 MinOnline.com November 18 2010 The launch of the Samsung Galaxy tablet this month marks one of the first serious Apple iPad competitors in the nascent tablet market, but IMS research says that it is only the beginning. Most of the first wave of iPad alternatives will use the open source Google Android operating system.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Vm48w 3 more reasons not to use Facebook Messages ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
TechWorld.com.au November 17 2010 It may be true that Microsoft Office is the dominant productivity suite in the marketplace today, but the fact that Facebook is effectively excluding all others is a serious blow to openness and consumer choice.... Full article: http://goo.gl/Egeos As Textbooks Go Digital, Campus Bookstores May Go Bookless The Chronicle of Higher Education November 14 2010 Eli Reichman for The ChronicleThe face of the director of the U. of Kansas bookstore, Estella McCollum, is reflected in the console for a print-on-demand service she helped to set up. Called Jayhawk Ink, it could clear shelf space for other products.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ajrCA iPad influx: Curtin Uni flooded with “hundreds” Delimiter.com.au November 17 2010 Like Macquarie University in Sydney, Western Australia’s Curtin University has also been swamped with iPads, with chief information officer Peter Nikoletatos yesterday stating between 300 and 400 of the tablets had made their way into university staff hands since Apple launched the iPad in Australia.... Full article: http://goo.gl/zydrF 500 million people will be using mobile health apps by 2015 TechWorld.com.au November 17 2010 Research report says long-expected move to mobile health care apps set to begin. Smartphone apps are set to become the killer health care product as a research report projects that some 500 million people will be using them within five years.... Full article: http://goo.gl/XZKTi Big telcos aim to replace credit cards with smartphones TechWorld.com.au November 17 2010 Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have joined forces to build a mobile commercial payment network that will let customers use smartphones as credit cards.... Full article: http://goo.gl/ZJKfX
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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
Facebook’s Zuckerberg: ‘E-Mail is Too Slow’—New iPhone App Launching PaidContent.org November 15 2010 Facebook has just wrapped up the press conference announcing its new e-mail product—billed as a “Gmail killer.” Mark Zuckerberg hit the stage right on time and began with some personal research he’s done about the use and disuse of e-mail. About 350 million people are actively using messaging.... Full article: http://goo.gl/qc68P Facebook Social Inbox: Always-On Messaging With People You Care About AllFacebook.com November 15 2010 If there’s anything to take away from today’s announcement from Facebook, it’s that the company has not released a direct competitor to Gmail or any other messaging provider. Instead, Facebook’s Social Inbox is a messaging platform for interacting with.... Full article: http://goo.gl/FcJ1J More Professors Give Out Hand-Held Devices to Monitor Students and Engage Them The New York Times November 15 2010 If any of the 70 undergraduates in Prof. Bill White’s “Organizational Behavior” course here at Northwestern University are late for class, or not paying attention, he will know without having to scan the lecture hall.... Full article: http://goo.gl/4DTCS Facebook unveils new messaging system TechWorld.com.au November 16 2010 Killing recent rumours that it's launching an e-mail killer, Facebook today unveiled a new messaging system that will envelope e-mail, instant messages, Facebook messages and SMS.... Full article: http://goo.gl/okgHr Social networking to overtake email in future says Gartner TechWorld.com.au November 13 2010 20 per cent of business communication will be via social networks by 2014. Move over Outlook, make way for Twitter and Yammer. The hegemony of email as a business medium is set o be superseded by social networking in the future according to new research from Gartner.... Full article: http://goo.gl/m4yZm ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
Making money with mobile apps TechWorld.com.au November 13 2010 Mobile apps are a new and dynamic source of revenue, one with a lot of room to grow To many companies and independent developers -- not just software publishers -- mobile apps represent something even more powerful and important than a brand-new platform to deploy apps on. It's a new and dynamic source of revenue, one with a lot of room to grow.... Full article: http://goo.gl/bzjI5 Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday TechCrunch.com November 11 2010 Back in February we wrote about Facebook’s secret Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that.... Full article: http://goo.gl/3b5T0 Gmail vs Outlook/Exchange: Round Two Delimiter.com.au November 12 2010 Yesterday I dipped my proverbial toe in the water of public opinion about the respective merits of different email platforms, and boy — did I get burnt. That calm-looking summer pool was.... Full article: http://goo.gl/GopxC Melbourne Uni students ‘strongly’ prefer Gmail Delimiter.com.au November 11 2010 The University of Melbourne has picked Gmail for its new student email platform, after polls of students indicated a “strong” preference for the Google offering over the alternative Live@EDU platform, despite the popularity of the Microsoft offering amongst university IT administrators.... Full article: http://goo.gl/b04NA UTS signs up for Live@Edu email ZDNet.com.au November 10 2010 The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is the latest Australian university to sign up to Microsoft's cloud-based email service Live@Edu, announcing to students today that they will move to the system.... Full article: http://goo.gl/8v0uR ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
Microsoft wins UTS as Gmail falters Delimiter.com.au November 11 2010 The University of Technology Sydney has picked Microsoft’s Live@EDU as its new hosted student email platform, in a move which further locks Google’s Gmail offering out of Australia’s education sector.... Full article: http://goo.gl/FMZbr What Not To Do When Designing Your App TechWorld.com.au November 10 2010 The other night, I was using the Netflix app on my iPhone 4 and had a shocking revelation: this is one of the worst designed, "professional" apps I've ever seen. Yes, I can stream video over 3G. I can search for movies and manage my queue. In most areas of functionality, Netflix for iPhone… Full article: http://goo.gl/hmRQx Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries PaidContent.org November 08 2010 Consider it an inauguration of sorts, a celebration of the e-book industry becoming a member of the major media club just as digital music and online video have before them. When you influence a billion dollars, people have to take you seriously. In the book business, it means that traditional publishers… Full article: http://goo.gl/8OsEC Amazon Updates Self-pub Platform CreateSpace MediaBistro.com November 04 2010 Amazon has updated its self-publishing platform CreateSpace and will be rolling out new features over time. This includes the expansion of its publishing and design… Full article: http://goo.gl/u3Ewp Gmail power tips, tools: Get the most from Google's e-mail TechWorld.com.au November 05 2010 A long time ago, most people who used webmail were cybercafe-frequenting, patchouli-scented trustafarians backpacking through Europe. Just about everybody else used a real e-mail client that ran on the desktop… Full article: http://goo.gl/vym0u ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 || Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 || admin.acuma@acuma.org.au http://www.acuma.org.au || http://twitter.com/acumainc || http://www.scribd.com/acumainc
ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand November 2010 technology in education news summary
LinkedIn Meets Twitter with Social Networking Site Hashable MediaBistro.com November 03 2010 If LinkedIn is the professional equivalent of Facebook, then Hashable is a little more like LinkedIn for Twitter users. Hashable is a social networking site funded by Union Square Ventures and acquired… Full article: http://goo.gl/lXbdx Pop Goes the iPad Bubble? MediaWeek.com November 01 2010 Publishers' apps have disappointed, despite high hopes. The iPad dreams of magazine publishers could be the latest death by irrational exuberance. Despite the optimism that greeted the new device, there is a danger that publishers are squandering.... Full article: http://goo.gl/hrEB Technology in education: online resources from ACUMA Incorporated
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