Thursday, 20 November 2008
Free European online library launches, crashes
Macworld staff
Europeana, a new multilingual pan-European resource offering over 2 million digitised books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films has crashed due to high demand.
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Amazon UK offer One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Give 1 Get 1 program
Dan Moren Macworld.com
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association launched its Give 1 Get 1 program allowing customers to buy a laptop and donate one to a child in the developing world at the same time via Amazon US and UK websites.
Monday, 17 November 2008
Apple launches Internal University
Dan Turner Computerworld
Apple has hired Joel Podolny to helm an internal "Apple University" program. Podolny was most recently the head of the Yale School of Management.
Friday, 14 November 2008
Apple iTunes App stores goes festive for Christmas
Macworld staff
With only 40 days to Christmas, Apple has a range of festive treats in store for iTunes App Store customers.
Friday, 14 November 2008
Google and MySpace celebrate OpenSocial's first year, FaceBook still refusing to party
Juan Carlos Perez
OpenSocial supporters celebrated on Thursday what they consider major progress in this project to establish a common set of standard APIs and tools for developing social networking applications.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Google Earth adds 3D layer for Ancient Rome
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira The Industry Standard
Google has announced a new layer for its Google Earth application: Ancient Rome 3D. The layer allows users to move through a virtual rendering of Ancient Rome as it looked in 320 AD.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
Microsoft denies paying contractor to abandon Linux
Remmy Nweke
Microsoft denied paying a Nigerian contractor to replace the Linux operating system on school computers with Microsoft software.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2008
Jim Dalrymple, Macworld US
The update fixes a very specific problem that was caused by the last update and addresses a calendar issue in versions of Entourage.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Education in 2015: Cyberlearning for digital natives
John Cox, Network World
Today's students are "digital natives," already using digital tools on their own to understand their world and to learn, often in non traditional ways, outside of formal education structures.
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Atari accuses "innocent" people of file-sharing
Jonny Evans
The entertainment industry maintains its file-sharing witch-hunt, with UK consumer group warning that potentially hundreds of people accused of theft are in fact innocent. Atari has dropped a case against a UK couple that claims never to have played a video game.
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors
Juan Carlos Perez
Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, said during a press conference that the settlement could be considered "the biggest book deal in US publishing industry."
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
FileMaker 9 updates ship
Macworld staff
Free updates have been made available for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Free events teach Adobe CS4 Photoshop skills
Macworld staff
Attendees will learn more about the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom at one of these free seminars.
Monday, 27 October 2008
OpenOffice 3.0 exceeds five million downloads
Macworld staff
As recession bites there's no need to invest in office software tools - free OpenOffice productivity suite sees five million downloads since release
Monday, 27 October 2008
Apple joins fight against law to ban same-sex marriage
Jonny Evans
"Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights - including the right to marry - should not be affected by their sexual orientation."
Friday, 17 October 2008
Oxford Uni takes the iTunes U prize
Jonny Evans
The University is topping the global iTunesU download chart thanks to the popularity of Joseph Stiglitz's podcast about the credit crunch.
Friday, 17 October 2008
Apple users rage over missing FireWire
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apple silent as customers rail at loss of FireWire in the new MacBooks, iMovie editors wander what to do next.
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
OU sees great success with iTunes U
Jonny Evans
The OU has seen 17TB of educational content downloaded by people visiting iTunes U to pick up some learning
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Encyclopaedia Britannica 2009 ships for Mac, PC
Jonny Evans
Thousands of articles and a huge host of additional content feature in the Mac-friendly Encyclopaedia Britannica 2009, available now for £39.99
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
iPhones go to front of the class at Texas university
John Cox, Network World
"As I thought this through, I realized these handhelds were wireless-only devices, and much better positioned than laptops for doing all kinds of things like quick lookups," says Arthur Brant, ACU's director of networking services. "That meant these devices would be used a lot more than laptops."
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