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Google Doubles Down On Productivity With ‘Google For Work’ Rebrand
This morning at its San Francisco offices, Google announced a rebrand of its enterprise products, renaming the set of tools and productivity services ‘Google for Work.’ The new nomenclature will stretch across the company’s various business tools, with each service picking up a ‘for Work’ appendage — Google now vends Drive for Work, Search for Work, and… Read More
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Switch Is TripAdvisor For Finding A Tech Bootcamp
Thanks to the predicted tech talent shortage and uncertainty in other industries, the idea of switching careers to jump to the tech industry is an enticing prospect for many in these less-than-stellar economic times. GetSet Uses Natural Language Processing To Reduce College Drop-out Rates
GetSet, a new stealthy US edtech startup that’s aiming to reduce the high college drop-out rate is uncloaking today and revealing its first rollout at Arizona State University, with its 10,000+ freshmen. With 1M Sold In The Last Quarter, Google’s Chromebooks Are A Hit With Schools
During its earnings call this week, Google announced that it — and its partners — sold a million Chromebooks to schools in the last quarter. Overall PC sales worldwide were about 76 million in the last quarter, according to Gartner’s latest numbers, so a million Chromebook sales just to the education market is a pretty good number. Read More
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Google Offers A Free Crash Course In Android Development
Google has teamed up with Udacity to make available a free course in Android development available to all – complete with videos, quizzes, course materials and forums. The course is called “Developing Android Apps: Android Fundamentals,” and it provides everything you need to learn how to make an Android app step-by-step; provided, that is, you already have a basic… Read More
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Apple Brings Better Discussion, iPad Course Creation To iTunes U
Apple has updated iTunes U with a bunch of new features, cranking the version number up to 2 and introducing improved discussion features and the ability to create and update courses directly from the iPad app, which previously has been mostly a user-facing client for consuming content. Read More
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Apple iTunes U Update Lets Teachers Create Class Content On The iPad
Apple is continuing to build out its educational tools with a view to expanding the utility of iPads in the classroom. Today it’s announced updates to its iTunes U educational app that aim to make it easier for educators to create and manage course content directly on an iPad. Read More
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