Education and technology news summary: October 2010 by ACUMA Incorporated

ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Technology and education news • October 2010 summary

Technology & education in the news in October 2010

UK Internet Accounts For 7.2% Of Economy How Twitter helped my year 8s become political animals Macquarie University to 'wait and see' on the iPad Macquarie Uni adopts hundreds of iPads Students Remain Reluctant to Try E-Textbooks, Survey Finds BlackBerry Tablet Makes an Appearance at the Adobe Max Conference Barnes & Noble Unveils Color Nook Media Tablet Growth To Be Driven by iPad Starbucks Stores in New York Now Accepting Mobile Payments iPad vs. Newsstand Sales for Six Magazines Coming soon: Lending for Kindle 250 jobs to come on line at Innovation Campus IT centre A Cloud Class Faces Graduation Mobile Banking in U.S. Grows 129% in Last Two Years iPad Owners Like Their Print Brands New website seeks input on higher ed’s future Starbucks Embraces the Web with Starbucks Digital Network Launch In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks Yahoo Global Display Ad Revenue Leaps 17% How Starbucks is trying to change the media Steve Jobs talks trash about Google's Android, knocks tiny tablets The Importance of Facebook Has Been Vastly Overstated Mobile to Become a $1 Billion Business in the U.S. Next Year Mobile Devices and Student Recruitment Borders To Launch Self-Publishing Platform We thought the internet was killing print. But it isn't. Faraway kids in remote control AAP Reports Publisher Book Sales for August Year to Date Google, Publishers Discuss How to Profit From Selling Content on Internet How much is that tweet worth? IBM opening R&D lab at the University of Melbourne eReader Owners Read More Newspapers Google Chrome OS might be released in a month In Higher Education, a Focus on Technology O’Reilly Media Hits 800 eBooks in iBookstore Facebook Vs Twitter: Which Performs Better? IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers iPads will save newspapers says Unilever CMO Weed 7 Major Ways We're Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want Hardcopies Dream to capture US tertiary market McGraw-Hill Education Launches Custom Publishing for Teachers Kindle, iPad must rethink design in order to stay relevant Parramatta to be Australia's first digital city 15 Reasons Google TV Will Make a Huge Impact on the Web PayPal iPhone app to scan cheques Students learning English via ipod Universities Go Back to School With Live@edu Why speed up the Web? It's all about mobile (and 3 other continents) Here comes Google TV Barnes & Noble Launches PubIt! Amazon Releases Plugin For InDesign National Broadband Network rolls out at UNE Officials get behind high speed broadband

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UK Internet Accounts For 7.2% Of Economy WebProNews.com October 28 2010 The U.K. Internet economy contributed $159 billion (£100 billion) in 2009, representing 7.2 percent of U.K. GDP- more than construction, transport, or utilities, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report indicates this share is likely to grow about 10 percent annually, reaching 10 percent of GDP by…. Full article: http://goo.gl/4cEI How Twitter helped my year 8s become political animals The Sydney Morning Herald October 29 2010 A novel method of teaching civics yields an educational bonanza. Earlier this year, as the federal election approached, I was met with a quandary. As a civics teacher at a school in Melbourne's western suburbs, I was assigned the task of teaching a class of year 8s about the Australian system of government. Try as I might, I could not face the thought of…. Full article: http://goo.gl/ZDk7 Macquarie University to 'wait and see' on the iPad CIO.com.au October 28 2010 The flood of tablet PCs expected in 2011, plus business model and ecosystem challenges with Apple's iPad making Macquarie University cautious The plethora of tablet PCs expected to flood the Australian market next year will see Macquarie University take a ‘wait and see’ approach on whether to…. Full article: http://goo.gl/YMss Macquarie Uni adopts hundreds of iPads Delimiter.com.au October 27 2010 Macquarie University this week revealed it had already embraced “hundreds” of iPads for staff and students — just a scant few months after the hyped Apple tablet launched in Australia in late May this year. Some of the tablets have been brought on campus by students and staff for personal use, but the university has also developed a standardised corporate procurement…. Full article: http://goo.gl/9Dsa

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Students Remain Reluctant to Try E-Textbooks, Survey Finds CampusTechnology.com October 26 2010 The vast majority of students say they prefer print textbooks over electronic ones, and attitudes have not shifted markedly in the past year, according to the results of a survey by the National Association of College Stores. The survey, set to be released tomorrow, found that 76 percent of students would pick a printed book over an e-textbook if the choice was…. Full article: http://goo.gl/jLko BlackBerry Tablet Makes an Appearance at the Adobe Max Conference MediaBistro.com October 26 2010 Silicon Alley Insider captured video of the BlackBerry Tablet being demostrated at the Adobe Max conference. Video: The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet In Action So, it looks like the BlackBerry Tablet is more than a concept video. Its performance looks slightly sluggish. However, that isn’t surprising for something that essentially is…. Full article: http://goo.gl/E8wI Barnes & Noble Unveils Color Nook MediaBistro.com October 26 2010 4:06 Barnes & Noble has unveiled a color Nook! 4:08 It includes video. 4:10 It includes newspapers, books and kids books. 4:11 It is called Nook Color. 4:12 7-inch color touch display with social reading integration with Facebook…. Full article: http://goo.gl/SkRV Media Tablet Growth To Be Driven by iPad CampusTechnology.com October 26 2010 Sales of tablet devices, driven by Apple's iPad, will climb to more than 19 million units worldwide this year, most in the United States, according to IT research and market analysis firm Gartner. That figure will grow to more than 200 million units in 2014. Beyond tablets, Gartner has also updated…. Full article: http://goo.gl/BYWA

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Starbucks Stores in New York Now Accepting Mobile Payments Mashable.com October 24 2010 Starbucks has seen sufficient success with its Starbucks Card Mobile payment pilot program in select San Francisco, Seattle and Target stores that its ready to extend the program to nearly 300 companyoperated stores in New York City and Long Island. Starbucks Card Mobile for iPhone and BlackBerry lets users pay for their coffee by holding…. Full article: http://goo.gl/A2rW iPad vs. Newsstand Sales for Six Magazines MediaBistro.com October 22 2010 AdAge.com examined the iPad app sales for six magazines — Popular Science, Wired, Men’s Health, People, GQ, and Vanity Fair — taking into consideration the titles’ newsstand sales and the fact that, according to Forrester Research, 5.25 million iPads have sold in the United States. The results: Popular Science averaged sales of 14,034 across the iPad editions of its April, May, June, and July issues, along with 115,101 newsstand sales, so its iPad sales were…. Full article: http://goo.gl/eY2O Coming soon: Lending for Kindle Amazon.com October 22 2010 We wanted to let you know about two new features coming soon. First, we are making Kindle newspapers and magazines readable on our free Kindle apps, so you can always read Kindle periodicals even if you don't have your Kindle with you or don't yet own a Kindle. In the coming weeks, many newspapers and magazines will be available on our Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and then we'll be adding this functionality to Kindle for Android and our other apps down the road. Our vision is…. Full article: http://goo.gl/dL9I 250 jobs to come on line at Innovation Campus IT centre The Illawarra Mercury October 23 2010 Indian information technology MphasiS will recruit a majority of Illawarra employees to fill the 250 jobs at its new Wollongong centre, the company's regional director said yesterday. Yesterday's Mercury revealed that MphasiS, owned by Hewlett Packard, will set up a new base on the university's Innovation Campus at Fairy Meadow. …. Full article: http://goo.gl/bBKS ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au

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A Cloud Class Faces Graduation CampusTechnology.com October 14 2010 Arizona State has entered its fourth academic year of having students use Google Apps for Education to do e-mail, documents, presentation, and collaboration work. Those who have been part of the journey said they believe the change has had an impact greater just the technology in use. Arizona State University is celebrating the fourth year of its use of Google Apps for Education. It was four years ago this week that ASU and Google announced at Educause that the ASU student…. Full article: http://goo.gl/8Vik Mobile Banking in U.S. Grows 129% in Last Two Years The Nielsen Company October 19 2010 According to the Nielsen Company, mobile web banking in the U.S. has grown to more than 13 million mobile subscribers – up 129 percent in just two years – and is now poised to level the playing field for the banked, unbanked, young, old, rich, poor, downtown, uptown or out-of-town. According to a June 2010 survey, people who use their mobile phone for web-based banking tend to be younger, male and more ethnically diverse…. Full article: http://goo.gl/5KVa iPad Owners Like Their Print Brands minOnline.com October 22 2010 There is more evidence that tablet devices map well against magazine audiences and their content consumption habits. Nielsen released further details from its recent survey of iPad owners and found that 41% have already purchased a paid app on the device from a magazine publisher. In all, 63% of all iPad owners have downloaded fee-based apps. Games (62%) and books (54%) are the most popular categories. But magazines are getting some of the iPad love…. Full article: http://goo.gl/u7yd New website seeks input on higher ed’s future The Salt Lake Tribune October 19 2010 Higher education leaders are working on a plan to graduate more students from college — and they want your input. Utah System of Higher Education officials unveiled a new website this week, www.higheredutah2020.org, designed to act as an “online public hearing” on proposals to help meet Utah’s future…. Full article: http://goo.gl/bzfO ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au

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Starbucks Embraces the Web with Starbucks Digital Network Launch MediaBistro.com October 20 2010 Starbucks today launched the Starbucks Digital Network, an online hub for the customers of the coffee shop. After buying their drink and pastry, visitors with laptops, iPad’s or smartphones can plug in and log on to the network, which was created in partnership with…. Full article: http://goo.gl/T7xm In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks The New York Times October 19 2010 They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the paths of Hamilton College, a poster-perfect liberal arts school in this upstate village, students are still hauling around bulky, old-fashioned textbooks…. Full article: http://goo.gl/ESIz Yahoo Global Display Ad Revenue Leaps 17% MediaWeek.com October 19 2010 In another sign that the display ad market is becoming increasingly healthy, Yahoo said its global display ad revenue jumped 17 percent during Q3 of this year. According to the company’s just-released earnings report, display ad revenue on Yahoo’s own-andoperated properties has increased by 18 percent so far in 2010. That’s another strong sign for the online display ad market, which declined in 2009. Last week, Google announced…. Full article: http://goo.gl/ynAT How Starbucks is trying to change the media CNet.com October 19 2010 Caffeine behemoth Starbucks on Tuesday finally unveiled its revamped Web hub, a landing page that's only accessible from its in-store Wi-Fi networks in the U.S. Teaming with the likes of Yahoo (the main technology partner), The Wall Street Journal, GOOD, The New York Times, iTunes, LinkedIn, and Foursquare, Starbucks has packed the new site full of news both local and mainstream…. Full article: http://goo.gl/ldtQ

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Steve Jobs talks trash about Google's Android, knocks tiny tablets TechWorld.com.au October 20 2010 Apple's playing hardball, says analyst of Jobs' remarks during earnings call Apple CEO Steve Jobs yesterday took shots at Google and dismissed iPad wannabes as "dead on arrival" during his company's earnings call with Wall Street analysts. In a rare appearance on the quarterly call , Jobs took the floor to boast of the iPhone's success, defend iOS' top-to-bottom integration and rebut claims that Google's Android was…. Full article: http://goo.gl/Jxr8 The Importance of Facebook Has Been Vastly Overstated Chicago Now October 18 2010 Due to the big splash made by the movie "The Social Network," Facebook is again on people's minds, and as usual everyone is falling over themselves to talk about how revolutionary it is. Creator Mark Zuckerberg has now officially entered the realm of billionaire myth, which is always dangerous. Americans worship the idea of self-made men and women. Witness the CEO fellatio-machine also known as CNBC or the all-American pastime of just nominating and…. Full article: http://goo.gl/OGl5 Mobile to Become a $1 Billion Business in the U.S. Next Year Advertising Age October 18 2010 Apple's IAd Aided Growth in 2010, but Google and AdMob Will Accelerate It, Says EMarketer Mobile is red hot this year, but it still won't be a billion-dollar ad business in the U.S. until 2011, according to new eMarketer estimates…. Full article: http://goo.gl/RAhm Mobile Devices and Student Recruitment Academic Impressions September 30 2010 Recently, the market research firm International Data Corp. significantly upgraded its forecast for how swiftly converged mobile devices, or "smartphones," are being adopted by the public. As more of the college-aged begin owning and accessing the Web on smartphones, it will be important that colleges and universities take smartphones into account in their Web design and recruiting…. Full article: http://goo.gl/vuEg

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Borders To Launch Self-Publishing Platform MediaBistro.com October 15 2010 Borders is taking on B&N and Amazon with a new self-publishing platform called “Borders Get Published.” BookBrewer is powering the technology and the platform will be co-branded with its name. Using the service, authors can publish and sell eBooks through the Borders eBook store, as well as other partner eBook retailers. The service will be available at borders.bookbrewer.com beginning…. Full article: http://goo.gl/Mmeu We thought the internet was killing print. But it isn't. The Guardian, UK October 17 2010 There is no clear correlation between a rise in internet traffic and a fall in newspaper circulation. Some papers are growing in both formats, others are succeeding in neither, according to new research The woe, as usual, is more or less unconfined. September's daily newspaper circulation figures, as audited by ABC, are down 5.31% in a year: Sunday totals are 6.7% off the pace. And, of course, we all know what's to blame. It's the infernal internet, the digital revolution, the iPad, laptop and…. Full article: http://goo.gl/ITm3 Faraway kids in remote control The Australian October 19 2010 Students of Yirrkala school in East Arnhem Land with the laptops they received through the OLPC Australia program. Source: The Australian FOR the children of Yirrkala school, life in their remote community means less access than city kids to education technology…. Full article: http://goo.gl/Fxwn AAP Reports Publisher Book Sales for August Year to Date October 14 2010 E-Book Sales Comprise 9.0% of Trade Book Sales Publishers’ book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of August increased 3.4 percent on the prior year to $1.6 billion and were up…. Full article: http://goo.gl/yDsb

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Google, Publishers Discuss How to Profit From Selling Content on Internet Bloomberg October 14 2010 Google Inc. is talking to publishers about how to make money from content, said Philipp Schindler, managing director for Northern and Central Europe. “We see ourselves as a technology partner and we are working with many publishers to determine if it’s possible to develop a payment platform,” Schindler said during a panel discussion at the Media Days event in Munich…. Full article: http://goo.gl/4ZTu How much is that tweet worth? MediaBistro.com October 14 2010 How much is that tweet worth? Well, to ticket-selling startup Eventbrite, it’s worth about 43 cents. Pretty valuable, according to the results of a study released online Thursday. And a shared item on Facebook is even more valuable, bringing in more than two dollars. The San Francisco-based Eventbrite has been letting users find, create, and sell out events…. Full article: http://goo.gl/th2O IBM opening R&D lab at the University of Melbourne FreeAccess.com.au October 14 2010 Australia is rapidly becoming the global epicenter for emerging technologies that are likely to shape our lives for decades to come. And companies such as IBM are heading our way. The past week has seen a couple of huge announcements which clearly indicate Australia is at the forefront of seeking out technological solutions to the world’s biggest problems. And today has seen a third such announcement. All of which display the Labor government’s desire to…. Full article: http://goo.gl/3Ypa eReader Owners Read More Newspapers MediaBistro.com October 13 2010 Adults that live in “EReader Households,” defined as households in which one or more adults own or plan to buy an eReader, are 11% more likely to read newspapers in print or online according to a new report from Scarborough Research. The research found that 78% of adults that live in eReader households read a newspaper in print or online during the past week. In addition, 41% of adults in “EReader Households” visited a newspaper website during…. Full article: http://goo.gl/wYbj ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au

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Google Chrome OS might be released in a month TechWorld.com.au October 13 2010 The OS is on version 0.9.78.1 and this number will likely count up to 1.0 for launch, putting it on track for the holidays. Google's Chrome OS is still on track for a holiday launch, and could be released in one month. TechCrunch's MG Siegler has been snooping around the bug comments on Google's Code site and discovered that developers recently hit the Release Candidate…. Full article: http://goo.gl/UAN7 In Higher Education, a Focus on Technology The New York Times October 10 2010 The education gap facing the nation’s work force is evident in the numbers. Most new jobs will require more than a high school education, yet fewer than half of Americans under 30 have a postsecondary degree of any kind. Recent state budget cuts, education experts agree, promise to make closing that gap even…. Full article: http://goo.gl/4GuA O’Reilly Media Hits 800 eBooks in iBookstore MediaBistro.com October 12 2010 O’Reilly Media is reporting that they have 800 eBooks available through in the iBookstore, with a couple hundred more to come in the next few. Andrew Savikas is the VP of Digital Initiatives at O’Reilly Media, has more on his blog: “Ebooks are already a big part of our publishing business, and we know many are read on iOS devices. Having those ebooks available for sale in the iBookstore makes it even easier to find, buy, and read hundreds of O’Reilly and Microsoft Press titles on iOS devices. As always, there’s no DRM on…." Full article: http://goo.gl/bwrq Facebook Vs Twitter: Which Performs Better? AllFacebook.com October 12 2010 Which has more value to content producers – a tweet or a Facebook share? New data from SocialTwist throws up some interesting answers. The company’s Social Media Sharing Trends 2010 Report is based on the social media sharing analysis of millions of referral messages sent using the Tell-a-Friend widget from August 2009 to July 2010. It suggests that Facebook is the dominant social networking site for sharing links but Twitter…. Full article: http://goo.gl/oH5x ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au

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IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers Internet Advertising Bureau October 2010 The IAB’s Internet Advertising Revenue Report, a survey conducted independently by PricewaterhouseCoopers, is released in full twice a year, to coincide with the collection of half-year and full-year data. At the end of the first and third quarters, the IAB releases via press release estimated, top-line…. Full article: http://goo.gl/G2aM iPads will save newspapers says Unilever CMO Weed Marketing Magazine October 12 2010 Apple's iPad, and devices like it, will prove to be the saviour of the newspaper industry, according to Unilever's chief marketing and communications officer, Keith Weed. Speaking to Media Week at the Media Guardian Changing Advertising Summit today, the man responsible for more than $7bn of global media spend waxed lyrical about the significance of the tablet device on the business of news…. Full article: http://goo.gl/FlBB 7 Major Ways We're Digitizing Our World, And 3 Reasons We Still Want Hardcopies TreeHugger.com October 11 2010 The digitization of our world has been a forward march for years now; still, it might be surprising to step back and look at how physical copies of our stuff have changed into something else entirely. And even more surprising might be to go beyond the debate of the level of pleasantness of reading a paperback book versus an e-book on a Kindle and look at how digitizing everything might save space and shrink the environmental footprint of everything we produce, but also put the longevity of our information…. Full article: http://goo.gl/qmzk Dream to capture US tertiary market The New Zealand Herald October 13 2010 Service seeks edge over rivals by matching universities with suppliers at lower costs Scott Blackwood wants to own the United States - its US higher education procurement management market, that is. Blackwood is intent on capturing a sizeable chunk of the 5000 higher education institutes in the US with Unimarket, his software-as-a-service solution. Blackwood says Unimarket has the edge over its rivals on a number of fronts…. Full article: http://goo.gl/cXxQ ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au

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McGraw-Hill Education Launches Custom Publishing for Teachers MinOnline.com October 11 2010 McGraw-Hill Education will let higher education instructors build their own textbooks in a new McGrawHill Create product that leverages e-book technology and online resources. Teachers will be able to assemble content of their choosing for courses from the publisher’s vast online repository of material to create either e-books or printed texts. This streamlines an academic custom publishing model…. Full article: http://goo.gl/oIqY Kindle, iPad must rethink design in order to stay relevant TechWorld.com.au October 11 2010 iPad's design 'horrifying' as e-book reader The iPad and Kindle need to be reconsidered in order for e-reader devices to maintain popularity and relevance, a local web designer has warned. Speaking at the OZ-IA conference in Sydney, Matt Balara said that while both devices have been largely successful, e-reader developers need to broaden…. Full article: http://goo.gl/5lnu Parramatta to be Australia's first digital city The Daily Telegraph October 11 2010 PARRAMATTA will become Australia's first digital city, with free wireless internet and apps detailing developments and telling you where to park. The Parra Connect strategy aims to "boost city revenues, with a return on investment" creating corporate partnerships to place wireless hotspots throughout the suburb of…. Full article: http://goo.gl/HBiK 15 Reasons Google TV Will Make a Huge Impact on the Web WebProNews.com October 06 2010 Connected TV isn't a new concept anymore, but it's about to get way more interesting, courtesy of Google TV. WebProNews was there for the unveiling of the product at Google I/O back in May, and having seen it in person, I can tell you it's pretty cool. Google TV may have a much bigger impact on the web than a lot of people realize at this point. Here are a few reasons why…. Full article: http://goo.gl/snrk

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PayPal iPhone app to scan cheques UK Press Association October 09 2010 PayPal has added a feature to its free iPhone application that lets users in the United States deposit cheques into their PayPal accounts by taking a picture of them. The online payment service owned by eBay launched the feature…. Full article: http://goo.gl/Gq2Y Students learning English via ipod The Chronicle, Australia October 08 2010 A PILOT program is allowing students at Ipswich Girls Grammar School to use the latest technology to improve their English skills. Sixteen students from non-English speaking backgrounds have been provided with their own Apple iPod Touch unit – a device about the size of a mobile phone – which they use to access specially designed…. Full article: http://goo.gl/u3Ql Universities Go Back to School With Live@edu Yahoo! Finance October 04 2010 Reputed universities are turning to Microsoft Live@edu for cloud applications to save money and deliver more productivity services to campus. Around the world, more and more higher education institutions and schools are clamoring for more effective ways to save money and provide an outstanding experience to students. Today, Microsoft Corp. announced higher education institutions using Microsoft's cloud services and Live@edu. New universities joining the Live@edu ranks include California State University schools including…. Full article: http://goo.gl/f2Ah Why speed up the Web? It's all about mobile (and 3 other continents) ZDNet.com October 04 2010 My Google co-blogger, Garett Rogers, asked Monday “Why are we worried about fractionally speeding up the web when we live in a broadband world that’s just getting faster and faster anyway?” As Garett pointed out, more speed is never a bad thing, but there are two really good answers to his original question. The first is mobile. Google plans (and seems to be succeeding) to position itself as a dominant force in mobile, whether from an OS, advertising, web, or communications…. Full article: http://zd.net/blsYiA ACUMA Inc.: the Association representing tertiary campus service organisations in Australia & New Zealand Locked Bag 1333, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia ABN: 56 168 491 622 Tel: +61 3 6324 3935 / Fax: +61 3 6324 3670 / admin.acuma@acuma.org.au / www.acuma.org.au

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Here comes Google TV Official Google blog October 04 2010 It’s been almost five months since we introduced Google TV to the world at Google I/O, and today we’re happy to give you an update on our progress. For those who haven’t yet heard of it, Google TV is a new way to think about TV: it’s a platform that combines your current TV programming and the open web into a single, seamless…. Full article: http://goo.gl/38Ah Barnes & Noble Launches PubIt! MediaBistro.com October 04 2010 On the heels of Amazon’s Adobe InDesign plugin, Barnes & Noble has finally launched its digital publishing platform called PubIt!. The new software, which B&N announced back in May, will let authors and publishers publish their work as eBooks directly to BN.com. Amazon’s self-publishing platform CreateSpace has been popular among authors and among…. Full article: http://goo.gl/shBN Amazon Releases Plugin For InDesign MediaBistro.com October 01 2010 Making Kindle books just got easier. Today Amazon announced the Beta Version of Kindle plugin for Adobe’s InDesign, a common software for designing books. The new plugin tool will let publishers convert Adobe InDesign files directly into Kindle books. Designers and publishers can take existing print-ready files and create Kindle books using…. Full article: http://bit.ly/aSmCNi National Broadband Network rolls out at UNE Glen Innes Examiner September 30 2010 University of New England Vice Chancellor, Professor Jim Barber joined the Federal Member for the New England, Tony Windsor on campus on Monday and undertook tours of the works currently underway around the University as part of the initial phase of the National Broadband Network roll out. The Vice Chancellor and Mr Windsor were on site with UNE’s Infrastructure Manager, Brian Munro and the Construction Manager for the NBN project Armidale, Mr Peter Meyers, to receive…. Full article: http://bit.ly/coIubm

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Officials get behind high speed broadband The Armidale Express October 01 2010 WITH ONLY eight days remaining for Armidale residents in the first release site to connect their homes to the National Broadband Network (NBN), University of New England (UNE) Vice-Chancellor Jim Barber has joined the call for the community to embrace the project. Just days after regional communications advocate Alun Davies told The Express how vital the NBN was to the development of ‘not only Armidale, but Australia’, details of a meeting between…. Full article: http://bit.ly/d4D5zR