Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: MobilityThe university-focussed Co-op bookshop chain has teamed up with PayPal to enable students to buy textbooks from their smartphones by scanning QR codes in its store windows, and have the books delivered, instead of queuing in store.
The bookshop chain has installed a "QR Wall" in the windows of its retail stores at 10 universities around Australia.
Over 22 million students currently use Microsoft’s Office 365 for Education online services, but today, the company is also announcing a new version of Office 365 for students whose schools don’t use Microsoft’s online productivity suite.
All University of Montana students to take tutorial addressing sexual violence Calling it a crucial component of making a violence-cost-free campus, the University of Montana this week unveiled a 1st-of-its-type tutorial aimed at addressing sexual violence and individual behavior. All students attending the university will be … Read much more on The Missoulian
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Cornered!Alcatel-Lucent is bringing to Australia an initiative designed to help its telco customers participate fully in the value chain of network-delivered services and applications but one of these - NBN Co - is limited to providing basic carriage services.
Australia’s largest university, Monash in Melbourne, is set to expand the presence of Google technology on campus, now providing staff across the university with Google Apps Education edition, following the successful transition of students to the web-based service last November.
Retail giant Target is adding a new technology to its mobile initiatives—QR Codes. Target will debut QR codes in stores for the season’s 20 most popular toys. You can use the Target mobile app to scan toy QR codes, and shoppers will be able to buy toys and ship them free anywhere in the U.S.
Google has announced itsCode-in contestwill begin this November, introducing pre-university students to the world of open source development.
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Problem: Creating and maintaining hundreds of student accounts
The school where I work runs Active Directory on Server 2008. Every year, our students have to sign up for accounts with a third-party SaaS school management system. That has created a lot of work in the past, as codes have to be generated for students, and students often lose the codes or can't figure out how to enter them.
On eBay’s earnings call this past week, CEO John Donahoe revealed that the company’s Square competitor, PayPal Here, had landed its first U.S. retail deal. PayPal Here is now being sold at 1,800 AT&T stores across the US.
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