Monthly Archives: February 2006

Apple’s Stake in Higher Education

This is part 3 of a series of posts documenting a vist to Apple headquarters in February, 2005. For the full series, see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. and part 6.
If you want to understand how a company is going to treat you as a customer, you have to understand [...]

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Apple Trip, Day 2–the Warm-up

This is part 2 of a series of posts documenting a visit to Apple headquarters in February, 2005. For the full series, see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. and part 6.
Holy cow.
My brain is melting.
We just had an eleven-hour marathon day of executive briefings on the Apple campus. And amazingly, [...]

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Apple Visit, Day 1

This is part 1 of a series of posts documenting a vist to Apple headquarters in February, 2005. For the full series, see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5. and part 6.

We arrived in Cupertino today. I flew JetBlue non-stop from JFK to San Jose for an amazingly low price. I [...]

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Blackboard wins clearance to buy WebCT

Looks like the Blackboard/WebCT merger has been approved:
FEB. 6 10:36 A.M. ET Blackboard Inc., an education software developer, said Monday it received clearance from the Department of Justice to buy WebCT Inc., a rival provider of Internet learning software, and expects to close the deal in March or April.

Up until now, I believe the two [...]

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Calling All SUNY Edubloggers

I have often referred to the smARThistory home page by SUNY colleagues Steven Zucker and Beth Harris. I have now added to my blogroll a second SUNY edublog, Learning Curve, written by the dark and mysterious MIDizen X.
I would like to start a SUNY-specific edublogroll, but I need your help. If you are an edublogger [...]

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