I’ve been able to spend a bit of time on the new Onlive app for the iPad, which enables access to the full versions of Windows Office. It works and performs extremely well. I was able to open MS Office docs and work with them like I was on a laptop or desktop. This...
Apple’s iOS 5 was released a few weeks ago and if haven’t updated your iPhone or iPad yet, it’s a good time to do so. The update is performed through iTunes and takes from 30 minutes to about an hour. The most significant of the 200 new features, from my perspective, are the Notification...
Business Educators Struggle to Put Students to Work
About the Horizon Report The Horizon Report 2010 was released this past January 15. If you are unfamiliar with this annual Report; it is the result of the New Media Consortium Horizon Project – a qualitative research project started in 2002 and is a collaborative effort between the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the...
More with less (or at least the same). How does a department, organization, institution provide support for the growing variety of available software, hardware, and networked solutions with the no additional staffing? It’s no secret, hiring “enough” support staff isn’t possible. Aside from being fiscally impossible, it’s probably impractical – there are just too...
Seminar about Mac OS X Server v10.6 Snow Leopard and all its new features Who: Apple, Inc When: October 27, 1:00 PM – 06:00 PM Where: Westin Waltham Boston 70 Third Avenue Waltham, Massachusetts 02451 Seminar Agenda Hardware and Software Overview A top-level introduction to Apple’s server hardware and software solutions, this overview will...
What is an e-book? An e-Book is an electronic book, read with your computer, laptop, or on devices called e-book readers. Where We Started The concept of electronic books is not new, but dedicated devices on which they are read are relatively new. I remember when Adobe released Acrobat back in the late 80′s...
Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard is now available for all Macintosh users with the Intel-based Macintosh. Support for Snow Leopard is not yet available by Information Services. An announcement will be made when support will be available. Availability Once support has been announced, as part of the campus license, Northeastern staff and faculty will...
Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group Co-Sponsored by Stanford University and Sun Microsystems When: October 7-9 Where: San Francisco Click here for information. Click here to register
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