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  1. Seven schools applied for mini-grants at the Student Technology Leadership Program showcase on Friday. All requests were fully awarded!
  2. OIT hosted the Student Technology Leadership Program’s Regional Fall Showcase last week. More than 400 students from the region attended!
  3. Black Friday 2009 is right around the corner! Be sure to check out great deals on technology items at http://bfads.net/.
  4. Microsoffice and Linkedin integration is in the works. For all those that use linkedin and Office, should be a nice feature
  5. Check out this study about texting and driving - washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802101.html?hpid=sec-health
  6. Wonder what the new Window 7 has to offer? Read about it at http://technet.microsoft.co....
  7. Heard about Microsoft Patch Tuesday? Visit https://www.microsoft.com/t... for more information.
  8. Google and Bing pick up search market share - Yahoo loses ground
  9. new study shows that Mac laptops are less reliable than sony and asus
  10. Google pays $30M for Gizmo5 - the world is changing quickly with regards to mobile, Voice over IP, ....
  11. NKU has Informatics students now writting apps for Android - new DROID from Motorola is getting some traction
  12. http://www.bumptechnologies... - see this startup which has gotten a bunch of funding for mobile apps
  13. Sprint cuts another 2500 jobs
  14. if you would like details on Windows 7 experience, email cio@nku.edu
  15. Personally, Vista had me considering a complete move to a Macbook, but with Windows 7 will continue using both for now.
  16. For corporate america, I believe that Windows 7 will in fact be a release that is embraced and will keep Microsoft from losing market share.
  17. From personal testing, Microsoft takes major step forward with Windows 7. overall performance, startup and shutdown is considerably better.
  18. Students: Visit the myNKU info desk during lunch hours in the Student Union for a chance to win an iPod Touch. http://tinyurl.com/y9htx9j
  19. http://bit.ly/3U5DiB - nice review of iphone vs droid
  20. new version of andriod os contains free GPS - what does this mean to Garmin, Tom Tom, etc?