IT Trends :: Thursday, January 18, 2007

  • 01/18/07

Deals, Contracts, Awards

Apple Selects Western Michigan University as an iTunes University

Western Michigan IT staff moved quickly to be one of the first recipients of this new Apple initiative. Apple will provide the school with a free platform and server space to begin a program of podcasting....

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$2 MM Lab at Wright State "Leases" Virtual Reality to Businesses

At the Joshi center at Wright State University companies pay $1,000 a day to use the lab and its high-powered computers for virtuality reality training and research. Similar centers exist at other universities.…

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