Technology news impacting on education: December 2010 summary

ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand December 2010 technology in education news summary

Technology in education: December 2010 news summary

Court To AFP: Pics Aren’t Free Just Because They’re On Twitter Marketing with Online Video Report: Groupon Worth More Than Twitter; Facebook More Than eBay, Yahoo The Things Google Did in 2010 (The First Quarter) Remembering What Facebook Has Done Since the Beginning of 2010 From university project to global expansion HP Will Reportedly Introduce PalmPad Tablet Facebook Soars To $59.4 Billion Valuation 5 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2011 Curtin University Social Media Adult entry application information: University of South Australia Tablet Sales Projected to Hit 81 Million by 2012 Top 5 Online Payment Services for Small Businesses and Freelancers Google Buys Mobile Payments Startup U.S. Military Wants Smartphones for Every Soldier Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative Guide to Twitter Advertising: Promoted Accounts 101 Internet Now as Popular as TV, Survey Shows Cal State's Strong Push for Accessible Technology Gets Results Telstra considering shift to Windows Live Marketers Test Ads In E-Books iPad Pilots at U Houston and CDI College Take Off China and India to dominate education e-books India: $35 laptop a revolution in university learning?

E-Reader Sales Set To Double This Year Google hopeful that Android will run Nokia smartphones Mobile strategy becomes a must for retailers Kindle For The Web Lets Web Sites Sell Kindle Books iPad Pilots at U Houston and CDI College Take Off Internet, cost spur textbook revolt MPAA Sends Letter to Thousands of Colleges About Copyright Rules Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday In historic shift, smartphones, tablets to overtake PCs Sources: Google-branded Chrome OS netbook to launch on December 7th Online Matchmaking Service Hopes to Link Scholars in U.S. and China Google Unveils Cantonese Voice Search 9 Out Of 10 Students Text During Class, Study Shows Like it or not, the iPad is a Kindle-killer What the influx of 'digital natives' will mean for IT Process credit cards anywhere: Five smartphone tools Google Postpones Strike Against Facebook Google Editions To Launch In U.S. This Year Google Plots Move From Search to Sales NEC & Melbourne Uni score $4m grant to research future wireless standards iPad gains on Kindle for e-reader lead in U.S. Splashtop's new instant-on OS based on Chromium browser Curtin University goes for growth in online learning

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Court To AFP: Pics Aren’t Free Just Because They’re On Twitter PaidContent.org December 30 2010 Agence France-Presse stunned the Twitter-sphere last month when the wire service defended itself against a copyright claim brought by Daniel Morel, a photographer who captured iconic images of the Haiti earthquake, by saying that the photos were essentially free for the taking because…

Full article: http://goo.gl/rlVoQ Marketing with Online Video Academic Impressions February 25 2010 The last week has seen some unorthodox and controversial uses of online video, including Yale's admissions musical. With more colleges considering the uses of online video in communicating with applicants and other constituents, we turned to Jason Simon, director of marketing and…

Full article: http://goo.gl/JmO87 Report: Groupon Worth More Than Twitter; Facebook More Than eBay, Yahoo MediaBistro.com December 27 2010 The value of Facebook topped first-generation Internet companies eBay and Yahoo over the past six months, while the upstart Groupon overtook Twitter according to NYPPEX, a company that estimates the value of privately held companies.

Full article: http://goo.gl/TseJ6 The Things Google Did in 2010 (The First Quarter) WebProNews.com December 25 2010 The Year in Google I started off aiming to write an article about all of the things Google has done over the course of the year, and quickly realized that this would be one massive article, even if I only briefly mentioned everything. So I have decided to split the article up into quarters, so you don't have to take everything in all at once. Check back for each subsequent article.

Full article: http://goo.gl/zo6D5 Remembering What Facebook Has Done Since the Beginning of 2010 WebProNews.com December 23 2010 Why 2010 Has Been the Year of Facebook

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2010 has been a huge year for Facebook - arguably the company's biggest yet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, a Hollywood movie about the founding of the company was released in theaters, and attracted a great deal of critical buzz….

Full article: http://goo.gl/LKRZD From university project to global expansion The Sydney Morning Herald December 23 2010 When Dean Salakas had to find a project for his university assignment in the subject of operations management, he decided to use his family business as a case study in online marketing. At the time, The Party People – retailers of party suppliers – had a website with a basic online store but had made no sales through the internet. The company was 16 years old.

Full article: http://goo.gl/MFVX4 HP Will Reportedly Introduce PalmPad Tablet MediaBistro.com December 21 2010 Today FoxNews.com unveiled spec sheets for a PalmPad tablet coming from HP. While there is no official confirmation, “a trusted source” revealed that the device will debut at 2011 CES. According to the article, the device will have different versions aimed at different consumers…

Full article: http://goo.gl/AwAU6 Facebook Soars To $59.4 Billion Valuation AllFacebook.com December 17 2010 SharesPost sent out an email saying that Facebook common stock closed at $25 a share in the private marketplace’s most recent auction. That’s almost 20 percent higher than the last known transaction, which occurred on SecondMarket.

Full article: http://goo.gl/3GlLR 5 Higher Ed Tech Trends To Watch in 2011 CampusTechnology.com December 19 2010 Three higher ed tech experts discuss technology trends for the year ahead, citing increased mobile and wireless access and cloud computing among them. But are campuses also in for a little bit of a return to the "basics" in the coming year?

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Curtin University Social Media December 2010 http://goo.gl/CaRRa Adult entry application information: University of South Australia YouTube.com December 19 2010 http://goo.gl/aV1jl Tablet Sales Projected to Hit 81 Million by 2012 MinOnline.com December 17 2010 The market for tablet devices will more than quadruple in the next two years, says eMarketer in its latest projections for worldwide sales. The market research firm says that 15.7 million tablets were sold globally in 2010, but by 2012 the market will expand to 81.3 million…

Full article: http://goo.gl/0wP1c Top 5 Online Payment Services for Small Businesses and Freelancers MediaBistro.com December 16 2010 The anonymity and ease of carrying $5 in cash to tip the barista or buy a pack of gum doesn’t translate well on the internet. But as more people get comfortable with online payments, new micropayment services are popping up to try and accommodate everything from an office pool for a coworker’s gift to an invoice from a freelancer. Here are five of those services, ranked in order of simplicity.

Full article: http://goo.gl/vN2U6 Google Buys Mobile Payments Startup MediaBistro.com December 15 2010 Google has given its payments system a boost with the acquisition of a startup that will let vendors take payments at the wave of a hand. The search giant has purchased a Zetawire, a little known Torontobased startup that processes mobile credit card payments collected through a technology called near field communications (NFC), according to a report.

Full article: http://goo.gl/XM8ze U.S. Military Wants Smartphones for Every Soldier MediaBistro.com December 15 2010 If you’ve been following military technology adoption in general and gadget adoption in particular, you’ve probably noted mobile related news like tactical apps from Raytheon and DARPA taking a close

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look at Android app development. The latest interesting mobile gadget in the military news is this item reported by USA Today.

Full article: http://goo.gl/rlr1x Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative Harvard University December 13 2010 The Berkman Center for Internet and Society today announced that it will host a research and planning initiative for a “Digital Public Library of America.” With funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Berkman will convene a large and diverse group of stakeholders in a planning program to define the scope, architecture, costs and administration for a proposed Digital Public Library of America.

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Guide to Twitter Advertising: Promoted Accounts 101 MediaBistro.com December 14 2010 Promoted Accounts is the third and, thus far, final Promoted Product that Twitter has rolled out to begin its advertising experiment. It joins Promoted Trends and Promoted Tweets as part of Twitter’s advertising suite, designed to showcase advertiser’s tweets, trends and accounts to a wide Twitter audience.

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Internet Now as Popular as TV, Survey Shows The Wall Street Journal December 13 2010 The average U.S. consumer now spends as much time online as watching television, according to research being released today by Forrester.

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Cal State's Strong Push for Accessible Technology Gets Results The Chronicle of Higher Education December 12 2010 When Apple launched iTunes U in 2006, dozens of prominent colleges joined the service and posted free course lectures, campus tours, and other materials. Stanford, Duke, and MIT praised the software's ability to distribute high-quality education to the public.

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Telstra considering shift to Windows Live TechWorld.com.au December 14 2010 Microsoft's Windows Live platform could be used to support Telstra's BigPond customers Australia's biggest telco Telstra is considering dumping the email, blogging, photos and online storage platforms used by customers of its BigPond internet service provider division and migrating customers to Microsoft's Windows Live platform.

Full article: http://goo.gl/MaF20 Marketers Test Ads In E-Books Associated Press via the Wall Street Journal December 13 2010 The marketing world is drawing up plans to invade one of the last bastions of media that is largely advertising-free: books.

Full article: http://goo.gl/Xa6fR iPad Pilots at U Houston and CDI College Take Off CampusTechnology.com December 08 2010 iPad pilots are permeating higher education. Two of the latest announcements involve institutions in Texas and Canada, both of which are running tests projects that put the Apple tablet devices into the hands of their students.

Full article: http://goo.gl/09EDp China and India to dominate education e-books University World News December 12 2010 China and India are positioned to take a lead in digital publishing including e-books for use in higher education, digitalising existing content or developing digital avatars of print textbooks with enhanced features which, for example, can show up scientific diagrams in greater detail.

Full article: http://goo.gl/pqjG5 India: $35 laptop a revolution in university learning?

University World News December 12 2010 First-generation university student Shanti Chura had never used a computer until she went to college. The tribal girl who came top of the first ever intake for the commerce degree at Indira Gandhi National Tribal University in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, is among the millions of students India's education ministry wants to reach with its '$35 laptop'.

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Full article: http://goo.gl/TM5h4 E-Reader Sales Set To Double This Year WebProNews.com December 09 2010 E-reader sales up 79% E-reader sales are on track to total 6.6 million units in 2010, up 79.8 percent from 2009 sales of 3.6 million units, according to a new report from Gartner.

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Google hopeful that Android will run Nokia smartphones TechWorld.com.au December 09 2010 Nokia could build Android-based phones for U.S., where the worldwide mobile phone leader remains weak, analysts say Full article: http://goo.gl/nEBro

Mobile strategy becomes a must for retailers TechWorld.com.au December 09 2010 Mobile commerce is taking off in a big way, as shoppers use smartphones to compare prices, make purchases and find deals Having a mobile strategy is becoming essential for retailers, as more and more shoppers use Webfriendly smartphones in stores and malls to compare prices, seek deals, read reviews and make purchases.

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Kindle For The Web Lets Web Sites Sell Kindle Books MediaBistro.com December 07 2010 Amazon’s Kindle for the Web, which lets readers read books using a Web browser, is now live. The news comes a day after Google announced its entry into digital bookselling with the Google eBookstore, which includes the ability to read books through a Web browser.

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iPad Pilots at U Houston and CDI College Take Off CampusTechnology.com December 08 2010 iPad pilots are permeating higher education. Two of the latest announcements involve institutions in Texas and Canada, both of which are running tests projects that put the Apple tablet devices into the hands of their students.

Full article: http://goo.gl/zYvvy Internet, cost spur textbook revolt The Sacramento Bee December 06 2010 When Elizabeth Walz ran for student government last year, she built her campaign around an issue she knew would resonate with her peers at UC Davis: the cost of textbooks.

Full article: http://goo.gl/JzpYA MPAA Sends Letter to Thousands of Colleges About Copyright Rules The Chronicle of Higher Education December 06 2010 The Motion Picture Association of American began sending letters to thousands of colleges and university presidents today, alerting them that the industry group will start notifying colleges whenever it detects illegal trading of Hollywood films and hit TV shows on their campuses.

Full article: http://goo.gl/Iw7vu Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday TechWorld.com.au December 07 2010 Demo is one day after Google announces eBooks; Battle shapes up between two Internet giants Amazon plans to demonstrate a new version of Kindle for the Web on Tuesday, one day after Google launched its Google eBooks and eBookstore strategy.

Full article: http://goo.gl/RDWOZ In historic shift, smartphones, tablets to overtake PCs TechWorld.com.au December 07 2010 Perils ahead for vendors who can't adapt to market shift, IDC says Shipments of smartphones, tablets and other app-enabled devices will overtake PCs shipments in the next 18 months, an event that may signify the end of the PC-centric era, market research firm IDC said.

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ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand December 2010 technology in education news summary

Sources: Google-branded Chrome OS netbook to launch on December 7th EnGadget.com December 03 2010 The headline pretty much reveals the brunt of it, but indeed, it looks like next week Google is going to start talking about how its Chrome operating system is coming along. Multiple sources have told us that Google will be holding some sort of event on‌ Full article: http://goo.gl/6PNVk Online Matchmaking Service Hopes to Link Scholars in U.S. and China Chronicle of Higher Education December 01 2010 For researchers in the United States or Europe, finding a collaborator in China can be difficult— language differences and time zones get in the way, and Facebook and other social-networking services used by Western researchers are blocked in China.

Full article: http://goo.gl/wrjA7 Google Unveils Cantonese Voice Search WebProNews.com December 02 2010 Thanks to a new product launch, as many as 65 or 70 million people should now find conducting Google searches from their mobile phones a much less difficult process. This week, Cantonese Voice Search debuted in Hong Kong.

Full article: http://goo.gl/VRJS5 9 Out Of 10 Students Text During Class, Study Shows The Huffington Post December 03 2010 According to a recent Wilkes University study, 91 percent of students text during class.

Two Wilkes psychology professors, Deborah Tindell and Robert Bohlander, circulated a survey that questioned respondents on their text messaging habits and attitudes toward texting in class among 269 students.

Full article: http://goo.gl/5mOIZ Like it or not, the iPad is a Kindle-killer TechWorld.com.au December 03 2010 The iPad and Kindle are two very different devices, but ultimately the iPad wins through its sheer versatility.

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What the influx of 'digital natives' will mean for IT TechWorld.com.au December 03 2010 Flexibility, open doors and multitasking are among the most important priorities for the Millennial Generation In about 15 years, the Millennial Generation -- the "digital natives" who began entering the workforce in 2000 -- will be, more or less, in charge of their workplaces, with those who have leadership potential having moved up the corporate rungs by then.

Full article: http://goo.gl/cmhNR Process credit cards anywhere: Five smartphone tools TechWorld.com.au December 03 2010 Mobile-payment hardware lets your business accept credit cards through smartphones.

Whether you work as an in-home massage therapist, operate a taco truck, or run some other small business, you're missing sales if you can't process credit cards. However, a number of mobile payment tools now let you accept credit cards on an iPhone, an Android handset, a Windows Phone, or a dumber handset. You just need to sign up, attach credit card reader hardware, and navigate the fees.

Full article: http://goo.gl/lZH5h Google Postpones Strike Against Facebook AllFacebook.com November 30 2010 Google’s plan to compete with Facebook has hit a speed bump: the so-called Google Me social network won’t launch until March or April of 2011.

Full article: http://goo.gl/XaBnU Google Editions To Launch In U.S. This Year MediaBistro.com December 01 2010 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google “is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited ebook retailing venture Google Editions.”

Full article: http://goo.gl/B34fj Google Plots Move From Search to Sales The Wall Street Journal December 01 2010

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In a bold move that would mark Google Inc.'s biggest acquisition and a major push into local advertising, the Internet giant is in talks to buy local deals site Groupon Inc., said people familiar with the matter.

Full article: http://goo.gl/chykk NEC & Melbourne Uni score $4m grant to research future wireless standards ITWire.com December 01 2010 NEC and The University of Melbourne have been awarded a $4 million grant from the Australian Research Council for collaborative research on future broadband wireless technologies.

Full article: http://goo.gl/quo8B iPad gains on Kindle for e-reader lead in U.S. TechWorld.com.au December 01 2010 Apple tablet owners more likely to love their gizmo, says U.S. consumer survey Apple's iPad is challenging Amazon's Kindle for the lead in the U.S. e-reader market, a retail research firm said today.

Full article: http://goo.gl/QpURP Splashtop's new instant-on OS based on Chromium browser TechWorld.com.au December 01 2010 Splashtop builds a Chrome OS-like operating system that can work with Windows Splashtop on Tuesday released a new version of its instant-on OS that is based on the Chromium browser and could shorten PC boot times to just a few seconds.

Full article: http://goo.gl/Kba3L Curtin University goes for growth in online learning The Australian December 01 2010 OPEN Universities Australia, the fast growing online provider, plans to tap into federal teaching subsidies.

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