Category: Apps

Apple’s Next Big Move: Textbooks

The push for digital textbooks is only going to get bigger now that Apple has announced their next big idea is to disrupt the textbook industry. In New York last week they announced an unprecedented partnership with three major textbook publishers: Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt. According to McGraw-Hill’s CEO, Steve Jobs wanted to revolutionize the …

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Adobe Scraps Flash Mobile

Earlier this week Adobe announced that it will stop any further production of it’s Flash Player for the mobile market. And it would appear that Steve Jobs was right when he said that ‘HTML 5 was on the ascendancy and Flash was declining.’ Why It Happened: Basically, the release of HTML 5 is the reason for Flash …

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Touchscreens… More to Come

If you’re not a fan of touchscreens, I have some bad news for you… They aren’t going to go away anytime soon. In fact, they’re going to become more and more ubiquitous as they become more advanced. Two of the next big ideas in touchscreen technology are aimed at making them even more interactive-friendly. Smarter …

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Faculty Spotlight – Rick Lumadue

Dr. Richard “Rick” Lumadue, Educational Leadership Voicethread Frustrated by the lack of personal connection in the use of the current discussion board format in my online courses, I resolved to find an innovative way to enhance this experience for my students.  Fortunately, there was a simple and effective tool available for me to apply to …

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Windows 8 Previews

Microsoft is starting to unveil more and more about Windows 8, which is still a year or more away from being released. If you’re curious about what the next version of Windows is going to look like though, take a few minutes to read the articles at the sites below. A visual description of changes …

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