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Apple attempts to change education, one “i” at a time

On Thursday, Jan. 19, techies, fan boys and the like gathered at the Guggenheim Museum in New York for an education event hosted by Apple. There, Phillip Schiller, Apple’s vice president of worldwide marketing, unveiled some great new innovations for the education community. A new version of their e-reader app, updates to their university Web portal and an e-book creation tool.

Let’s start with that last one… iBooks Author. It is a new desktop app available only on Mac OSX Lion. It allows anyone to create an e-book. Anyone. For free. Users can then publish their book to the iBookstore or iTunes U (more on those in a minute). But the really great thing here isn’t that anyone can create and publish a book. The exciting part about this is that Apple is pioneering a relatively new format. It isn’t just a book. It’s more than words on a page. Apple gives users access to a wealth of multi-touch widgets. Interactivity. Additionally, users can add videos, keynote presentations and interactive 3-D objects.
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Data Team Manager Bruce Williams reflects on a busy 2011 for his team and in the industry

Our 2011 recap chatter series continues as Bruce Williams, Data team manager, reviews an eventful year as his team added members and expanded services.

We didn’t sit still in 2011, nor did we sell off our belongings and wait for the apocalypse. Some believe that 2012 will be marking the end of days; we in the development world would simply settle for the end of some inferior browsers as well as the wide adoption of new technologies and services by our clients.

Going through our 2011 yearbook, we found it to be one of the busiest in planning and architecting new, custom solutions with our clients. This past year, we reiterated that we can execute just about any digital project imaginable, and we also found that a good deal of our time was dedicated to mapping and developing new processes and applications for our clients. Not only did these requests come from new clients and potentials, but also from our very valued existing client base.
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