http://www.acuma.org.au/inc/rss.gif http://acuma.org.au/index.htm http://www.acuma.org.au/resource_library/in_the_press/index.htm Technology news relevant to education and the student experience en-us Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:00:01 +1000 http://goo.gl/Ol5Wg The Chronicle of Higher Education: "I used it to sign up for classes. I used it to check e-mails," says Laura Patterson, a junior at Nevada State College, about her iPhone. "I used it all the time, for everything." When Laura Patterson, a junior at Nevada State College, had to wait two months for wired Internet access in her new apartment, she relied on her iPhone instead... http://goo.gl/C0jci ZDNet: The location has been announced for next year's Linux.conf.au conference. Linux.conf.au 2012 is set to be held at Ballarat University in Victoria, an institution that launched its bid to host the conference in July last year... http://goo.gl/MKR3O MediaBistro.com: Amazon.com, Inc. announced its fourth quarter results today, counting a 36 percent rise in net sales and an eight percent increase in net income compared to the same period last year. Net sales totaled $12.95 billion for the quarter... http://goo.gl/eA3Ml MediaBistro.com: Brainy nonprofit TED is turning its passion for “ideas worth spreading” into slim volumes that it hopes readers will consider worth downloading. The technology, entertainment, and design mavens today launched TED Books, an imprint of short nonfiction works that will be available as Kindle Singles in Amazon’s Kindle Store. “TED Books are to Books as TED Talks are to lectures,” wrote TED curator... http://goo.gl/OqiZP AllFacebook.com: Facebook may have left the task of creating a native application for the iPad to third-party developers, but it appears that the company plans to create something to run on all tablets, including the Apple device... http://goo.gl/l9Epi CampusTechnology.com: A Q and A with University of Missouri System VP for Finance and Administration Nikki Krawitz. The relative success of eProcurement at any institution often depends on how the procurement department works not only with the technology, but also with the end users in academic departments, in research programs, or elsewhere in the university... http://goo.gl/gp05z CampusTechnology.com: By 2015, 25 million post-secondary students in the United States will be taking classes online. And as that happens, the number of students who take classes exclusively on physical campuses will plummet, from 14.4 million in 2010 to just 4.1 million five years later, according to a new forecast... http://goo.gl/OXbWJ TechWorld.com.au: Expert applauds Mozilla, Google for following Microsoft in adding browser privacy tools A day after Mozilla said it was exploring a "Do Not Track" feature for Firefox, Google today announced a Chrome add-on that lets users opt out of tracking cookies that monitor their movement and behavior... http://goo.gl/8TozV MediaBistro.com: Facebook confirmed Monday that it will be making it’s own virtual currency the mandatory payment method for virtual goods sold on its network. That means any company developing apps for use on Facebook will only be able to use Facebook Credits to conduct in-app purchases... http://goo.gl/jqEhM TechWorld.com.au: The new feature requires a Windows PC running Chrome OS attached to the printer. Google on Monday started rolling out a new feature in the U.S. that lets people send documents to be printed on remote printers from their Android devices and iPhones... http://goo.gl/XAWsn Academic Impressions: 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... http://goo.gl/m6Mra CNet Australia: Apple's iTunes University content delivery service has been around for a number of years now. While most of the universities on offer through iTunes U are overseas - if you've ever fancied checking out what Philosophy from Oxford University is actually like, you can - at the time of writing, eight Australian universities offer course materials, podcasts and general university information through iTunes... http://goo.gl/i4MoO TechWorld.com.au: Priorities are mobile payments, cheap phones for the poor and faster networks, Eric Schmidt says in Harvard Business Review. All of Google's strategic initiatives this year are about mobile, the company's CEO, Eric Schmidt, wrote in a guest article for the Harvard Business Review... http://goo.gl/NUBw4 MinOnline.com: Magazine publishers should stop looking over one another's shoulders when developing apps and start spying farther afield. Some of the smartest ideas in presenting content and leveraging the portability of mobile are happening far outside the digital magazine racks. So for this edition... http://goo.gl/n14Ls MediaBistro.com: Starbucks has been experimenting with paying for products in their stores in a number of cities and stores embedded in Starbucks. The experimental phase is now in production phase according to the first tweet seen to the left. The nearly 6800 company operated... http://goo.gl/UnyXj TheWrap.com: Magazines have figured out how to use platforms like Facebook -- and to a lesser extent Twitter -- to build brand awareness, but they're still a long way from making money from social media. That was the message from publishing executives and their resident social media gurus at the MPA's inaugural Social Media conference, held in New York... http://goo.gl/Nq31L The Sydney Morning Herald: The detailed records of thousands of University of Sydney students past and present are being stored online where they can be easily downloaded and read via an internet connection. It is understood the university was told about this security threat in February 2007, but did not move to secure the information... http://goo.gl/ErFXE The Sydney Morning Herald: A hacker who claims not to be qualified has breached Sydney University's computer security in an apparent bid to embarrass administrators. But, as yet, the university has not called in the police... http://goo.gl/z0Pjb TechWorld.com.au: By breaking into the phone's radio firmware, hackers can take control of the iPhone or Android devices. More than three years after the iPhone was first hacked, computer security experts think they've found a whole new way to break into mobile phones -- one that could become a big headache for Apple, or for smartphone makers using Google's Android... http://goo.gl/itRXd TechWorld.com.au: An update for the Google Translate app for Android lets you translate spoken conversations between two people. I have to wonder sometimes if there’s a limit to where Google will go. I can’t deny that I’m often cheering them on as they gobble up companies, scan every book ever published and apparently turn a smartphone into a universal translator... http://goo.gl/U0vJC MediaBistro.com: Time Inc., Condé Nast, Hearst Corporation, and Meredith Corporation are adding the finishing touches to their tablet app store. Morgan Guenther, the Chief Executive of Next Issue Media (NIM), the new venture owned by the publishing companies, says that it should launch within... http://goo.gl/8Itfu Advertising Age: Macy's, Verizon, Pepsi, Land Rover and Virgin Sponsor News Corp./Apple Project. In the coming weeks, News Corp. is set to unveil one of its more audacious content bets in recent years: The Daily, a newspaper designed for the iPad and the generation of tablet devices it inspired. Conceived by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who negotiated directly with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, the publication breaks new ground in a couple of ways. First, it's one of the biggest... http://goo.gl/kq4FU The Korea Herald: South Korea and a group of 10 Southeast Asian nations will hold a high-level workshop to discuss ways to set up a joint cyber college in July of next year, the Education Ministry said Sunday. The sides have pushed for the establishment of the school since the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations made a proposal during a special summit held on the South Korean... http://goo.gl/OMMkz Techworld.com.au: Application to house public and private education provider data The federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR), is designing a new core information system for a new higher education agency – the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) – which is scheduled to begin operating... http://goo.gl/tZqH5 WebProNews.com: Facebook Desktop Built By Adobe Computer Scientist. A computer scientist named Charles Bihis, who works for Adobe, has created a desktop client for Facebook, fittingly named Facebook Desktop. The app is a side project for Bihis, and is not directly affiliated with either Adobe or Facebook, but Facebook users may find... http://goo.gl/UGinB WebProNews.com: Twitter Looks at Science of Hashtag, How to Get More Followers. The concept of quality over size when it comes to an audience is nothing new, and frankly when it comes to social media, the sermon is getting a little tired. We've heard it plenty of times. However, Twitter has been sharing some interesting information on its media blog lately that... http://goo.gl/KYMRI MediaBistro.com: Google gave its newly launched ebook business a big boost with the purchase of eBook Technologies Inc., the startup-gobbling giant’s first acquisition of 2011. The Internet giant officially entered the ebook market with the launch of Google eBooks in... http://goo.gl/Gb3Yb Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News: A local university will serve as a centre for training and research in information communications technology (ICT) to further develop the field in the Southeast Asian region... http://goo.gl/fVwD6 MediaBistro.com: The conspiracy theorists who believe Facebook will eventually control all media saw their fears move one step closer to reality, as Vacaville, Calif.-based newspaper The Reporter announced that under its new system, all online comments must be posted via Facebook. From the Bay Area News... http://goo.gl/Utvbn MediaBistro.com: After walking away from a Google buyout offer last year, group buying service Groupon announced that it has raised $950 million dollars in new venture funding. The Chicago-based Groupon, dubbed by Forbes “the fastest growing company ever,” serves up... http://goo.gl/yIQ71 ZDNet.com.au: Most students are frightened that they won't get a job out of university, but that fear is moot for some graduates, who are cherry-picked straight out of campus by companies like Google and IBM... http://goo.gl/smgC0 MediaBistro.com: The Times Higher Education (THE), a weekly magazine that covers the higher-education sector in the United Kingdom, is looking to educate the iTunes App Store with its new app for the iPad, iPhone... http://goo.gl/J2S1N The Age: WORKERS wanting to change careers or upgrade their qualifications will be the targets for a joint venture between Swinburne University and internet company Seek that will offer degrees online... http://goo.gl/oizem Swinburne Media Centre: SEEK Limited and Swinburne University of Technology today announced the formation of a new entity to deliver world-class online learning to Swinburne students... http://goo.gl/ANJOk InsideHigherEd.com: In late fall of 2009, Briana Leaman, a student at the University of South Carolina, uttered what is probably a rare sentence in the history of the French language: Je vais aller à Clemson aujourd'hui avec le fanfare pour le match! Allez les Gamecocks! In English (“I'm going to Clemson today with the band for the game! Go Gamecocks!”), the sentence... http://goo.gl/UaH6J Advertising Age: Digital President Kirk McDonald Exits at the Same Time. In one more step for the integration of print and digital media, Time Inc. has combined the operations that had handled its largest advertisers in each medium... http://goo.gl/IhiZQ Yahoo News: Rupert Murdoch will unveil News Corp.'s much-anticipated iPad newspaper onstage this month with Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, The Cutline has learned... http://goo.gl/Q0wjd MediaBistro.com: Libraries have always made literary treasures available to the public, but mobile devices are now broadening their reach. Today the British Library has opened its popular Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery to the world with a mobile application... http://goo.gl/y3WpW MediaBistro.com: Japanese manufacturer NEC introduced a new dual screen tablet computer at CES this week. The Android-based tablet folds open like a book and has two 7-inch LCD touchscreens... http://goo.gl/4UmMT Pew Research Centre: More Young People Cite Internet than TV. The internet is slowly closing in on television as Americans’ main source of national and international news. Currently, 41% say they get most of their news about national and international news from the internet... http://goo.gl/G5eHz MediaBistro.com: Speaking of paywalls, another newspaper announced that it will charge for its content, albeit one with readership that pales compared with that of The Dallas Morning News... http://goo.gl/p6M48 Bernama, Malaysian Nat'l News: Yes, the fastest mobile Internet service with voice, aims to bring its campus-wide 4G network, Yes 4G, to all public universities and selected private institutions of higher learning in Malaysia this year. The network has been successfully activated at University Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang... http://goo.gl/PkJq5 Academic Impressions: Thus spake Zuckerberg: “We don’t think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail.” The Facebook founder said so in November, when his company unveiled its new messaging platform: a system, sans subject lines, designed based on the assumption that in the future most electronic communication will come in brief, informal bursts. In December, Zuckerberg’s prognosis was essentially certified by the New York Times, which ran an article suggesting that... http://goo.gl/unUYW TheWrap.com: The news that Facebook raised $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from a Russian firm raised a ruckus in the financial blogosphere on Monday that signaled a broad worry: are we in the midst of a new technology... http://goo.gl/IXowG MediaBistro.com: If you’ve been using Twitter for a long time, you’ve likely noticed that certain hashtags crop up every few days or weeks, and then die down again. More likely than not, what you’re witnessing here is a hashtag chat – a scheduled chat amongst Twitter users that...