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October 30, 2009NYU to Digitize Library
New York University (NYU) has announced plans to digitize a portion of its library. This change would make the library more accessible to students at NYU's satellite campus in the Persian Gulf country of Abu Dhabi. The process is being funded by the government of Abu Dhabi, which is also providing financial backing for the campus itself.
College-Supplied iPhones Provide Academic Edge
Abilene Christian University in Texas provided nearly 1,000 members of its classes of 2012 and 2013 with iPhones and iPod Touches. The University reports that the student response to the new technology has been overwhelmingly positive. The students describe using the phones for academic purposes at least once a day, and while it's still too early to determine whether the iPhones iPods have had a postive effect on the quality of education and academic success, the progress so far seems promising.
Windows 7 Could Be the Next Step for Colleges
After the debacle of Windows Vista, Microsoft released Windows 7, which Windows hopes will be a safer, more accessible and more popular operating system. Initial reports from the IT departments of several colleges indicate that Microsoft might have gotten it right this time around. One of Windows 7's key features is that it is compatible with older models of computers, which Vista is not. This makes it more accesable to colleges, because they are more likely to upgrade to a new operating system than to a whole new computer.