Anith Gopal

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could use your BlackBerry to access Office 365? Well, now you can ! Yesterday RIM officially announced that BlackBerry Business Cloud Services was available for Office 365 customers.

Did you miss our Hyper-V webcast? With Microsoft now being considered a virtualisation leader (Gartner  2011), many organisations are starting to consider switching to Hyper-V and saving money. Carmel College have done just that, and discuss in this webcast, the rationale behind their migration from Vmware and give an overview of their migration project.  The session starts with an overview of Microsoft Hyper-V Private Cloud Solution

Originally posted on the UK Student Blog . We’re going to turn over the blog for another guest blog post – this time we asked people to give us their AppHub success stories, and George rose to the challenge.

The Conversation , and other media, are carrying the story today of the cuts at the University of Sydney. Basically, what’s been announced is that they are to cut staff costs by $53m (7.5%) by reducing academic and general staff.

After a wonderful long weekend for Labor Day I spent the rest of last week in San Antonio Texas for a series of meetings. This didn’t leave me a lot of time for blogging or for looking up new things to share. But I did stumble across a few things I hope some of you will find interesting

When I think about CRM in education, my first reaction tends towards managing the student relationship – a version of a super Student Management System. But the more case studies I come across, the more I realise that there is a very broad spread of uses for a CRM system in education (like Kiel’s and Curtin’s examples) The University of Teesside are using their Microsoft Dynamics CRM system for managing their employer engagements – to expand their relationship local businesses, and to increase their revenues from business sources

Business Intelligence (BI) in education is going to become an interesting topic over the next couple of years in Australia. Although there has always been a discussion about the use of data, and various projects that have looked at ways to analyse and use student learning data more effectively, I predict that learning analysis is going to move up the priority list for every education leadership team across Australia

The video below is an advert from the US, advertising the student PC offer Halo Spartan promotes the US Student offer – buy a PC, get an Xbox free It’s a shame we don’t get adverts like this – or offers like this – in Australia… I know this is slightly off topic – but then it is Friday afternoon, and it is about students…

Does exactly what it says on the tin – a Windows Azure toolkit for Windows Phone 7 .

The Australian Government draft ICT Strategic Vision has just been published for consultation and feedback. They’ve published on the AGIMO blog , which is where they’ve invited public comments. I’m going to have a detailed read today, but a quick scan over the weekend highlighted what a well written, easily understandable document it is – and it directly addressed some of the issues that I’ve spotted with ICT in the public sector since arriving at the end of January.

Windows MultiPoint Server , a Microsoft product designed to provide a shared computing resource for educational institutions, is being used in classrooms around the world and is particularly helpful to developing nations where technology is harder to access. Windows MultiPoint Server only requires one server to power multiple Windows 7 desktop experiences versus powering several desktop PCs

For the most part I want to focus on the future and not the past. But I did want to take one look back at traffic to this blog over the course of 2010