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Justin Medved

Financial Markets - Open Yale Courses - 7 views

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    "Financial institutions are a pillar of civilized society, supporting people in their productive ventures and managing the economic risks they take on. The workings of these institutions are important to comprehend if we are to predict their actions today and their evolution in the coming information age. The course strives to offer understanding of the theory of finance and its relation to the history, strengths and imperfections of such institutions as banking, insurance, securities, futures, and other derivatives markets, and the future of these institutions over "
Mark Wagner

Idea : Docs for Teachers - Google Docs Help Center - 0 views

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    Ideas for using Google Docs with/by students.
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    This appeared on the Google Docs blog back on Dec 22. I'm sharing it here for the future.
Justin Medved

Panda Cloud Antivirus, The first free cloud antivirus against viruses, spyware, rootkit... - 7 views

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    the future is here!
Dennis OConnor

Shock threat to shut Skype - 0 views

  • eBay says it may have to shut down Skype due to a licensing dispute with the founders of the internet telephony service.
  • eBay has since been licensing the technology from the founders’ new company, Joltid, but the pair recently decided to revoke the licensing agreement.
  • In a quarterly report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, eBay said in no uncertain terms that if it lost the right to use the software it would most likely have to shut Skype down.
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  • But, even though Skype has not been a major financial success, it has succeeded in becoming the dominant internet telephony service globally.
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    I use Skype and enjoy the free functionality. It's far from perfect, but has a place in my e-learning toolkit. (I've also used Jah-Jah to call my daughter in Thailand and was very pleased with this alternate take on internet telephony.) Like all things tech, Skype could go. As this article shows, the big hitting billionaires who run the show are in dispute. If i have to switch, so be it! Will Google Voice move into this space? Who knows? Wait and see as the future unrolls on a daily basis
Sharon Elin

Google in Education - 39 views

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    "With regard to education, our goal is to leverage Google's strengths and infrastructure to increase access to high-quality open educational content and technology and build communities of support that encourage grassroots proliferation of innovation in education. We now face a new and deep Digital Divide, where students know how to consume technology while others are creating the technologies that will shape our future. It is time to bridge this divide by supporting access to curriculum and educational technology for all students..."
Kevin Jarrett

American Association of School Administrators - Publications - The School Administrator... - 0 views

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      If the Superintendents don't get it, we're d-o-n-e!
Sharon Elin

The Internet Goes to College: How Students are Living in the Future with Today's Techno... - 0 views

  • The students reported largely positive academic experiences with the Internet. Seventy-nine percent of college students reported that Internet use has had a positive impact on their college academic experience. Nearly half reported that email enables them to express ideas to a professor that they would not have expressed in class.
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    Pew Internet Research
Jeff Johnson

Mobile - 0 views

  • Text message your search query to 466453 ('GOOGLE' on most devices) and we'll text message back results. Personalized SMS saves you time by saving your location. We'll automatically save your most frequently used location for future queries. You can also text 'set location' followed by a city & state or zip to save a new location. Try it out on our demo!
Dean Mantz

Google Flu Trends: A Glimpse into the Future of Google Health - ReadWriteWeb - 1 views

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    Google Flue Trends and introduction to Google Health.
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