April 28, 2012
by donkasprzak
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I simply burst out laughing reading the Detroit News‘ article regarding Madonna’s sharply falling record sales. Her latest release MDNA debuted at #1 last week after selling 359,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. Yet as the article indicated: Madonna set … Continue reading
September 12, 2010
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This is not a book about Dan Brown’s character, Robert Langdon and his fight against the Illuminati in Angels & Demons. This is The Numerati, a slight spin on very advanced mathematics and high performance computing, the future of shopping, … Continue reading
July 9, 2010
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Google may launch more than one “fiber city” in America. This cyberinfrastructure project could will be a tipping point for a few lucky cities. var so = new SWFObject(‘http://www.telecomtv.com/embed/player.swf’,'mpl’,’600′,’325′,’5′); so.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); so.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); so.addParam(‘wmode’,'transparent’); so.addParam(‘flashvars’,'file=Week_5_Google&volume=100&autostart=false&streamer=rtmpt://telecomtv.fcod.llnwd.net/a1411/o16&type=video&image=http://video.telecomtv.com/web2/ugc/thumb/Week_5_Google_large.jpg’); so.write(‘embedplayer’); Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet … Continue reading
July 3, 2010
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Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock. We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst. The new economy proves funding 24/7 … Continue reading
June 24, 2010
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Last year Google announced it would provide industrial strength email anti-spam & anti virus (Postini) to K12 schools for FREE. Act Now – Deploy later. Google’s offer ends July 2010 As budgets have been cut across the country for education, … Continue reading
May 24, 2010
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Google has released their internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on Google’s own App Engine, CloudCourse is a new entry into a crowded LMS arena. CloudCourse provides calendaring, waitlist management and approval features. To no … Continue reading
May 3, 2010
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On top of introducing a new YouTube channel for Google’s Wave solution, Google is taking the “keep it simple stupid” approach to talking about Wave. Their first go-round was a two hour video….and in today’s short attention span economy – … Continue reading
April 28, 2010
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Imagine that! In the “what took so long” category Google has finally released a series of good video training session all about their real-time communication and collaboration tool Google Wave. I posted last month (read it here) Google is missing … Continue reading
April 23, 2010
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Google is making it easy to switch from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps for email. Google is providing a migration tool for business and K12 Districts to move from Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007 to Google’s Apps suite. This follows … Continue reading
April 13, 2010
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Google’s impressive tool just received a nice upgrade. For most users the new updates further justify migrating away from Office. When you consider Google gives this away for free (especially to schools)….well a good thing just got even better. From … Continue reading