Good Luck to the Winter Class of 2007 MIS with their blogs

The high quality of blogs written by the 2007 class is testament to the capability and development of blogs over a short time period. All of us at 00AET would like to wish all the bloggers the best for their presentation tomorrow night

Viacom to sue YouTube for $1bn

The basis of it's suit is that Viacom claims that You Tube have published over 160,000 of it's clips from various programmes and is accusing the company of a "brazen disregard" for copyright law".

Online Teaching At School

Learning via the Internet is not a new idea, however, when it is combined with a classroom environment, it adds a new twist to online 'education'.

The British media group, Pearson, are pioneering the idea with current tests at St Austin school in Texas. Students follow a lesson using the Internet, and if a particular point requires further explanation they simply pause and ask for the teachers help. This ensures that the subject matter is absorbed at the individuals pace, and helps to concentrate the mind.

So far, the tests are proving positive and the system is expected to be rolled out into different subjects and then of course to differing levels of education. This benefits the teachers too as monitoring, individual interaction and the endless capabilities with the web as a teaching vehicle are all potential improvements to the system, only time will tell!!!

The Commonwealth Cup is in our grasp!

"Ned Kelly, Robert Menzies, David Campese, Kylie Minogue, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Ian Thorpe, Yvonne Goolagong, Mel Gibson, Rolf Harris... your boys took a hell of a beating"

Macc Rugby beat Congleton in thriller

Congrats to MRUFC who beat Congleton RUFC. 6-3 at Rugby on Sunday, obviously following in the footsteps of England's destruction of Scotland.

Remove DRM says S Jobs

So Mr Jobs wants the music industry to remove all traces of DIgital Rights Management.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6338603.stm

England humiliate Australia at Cricket!!!!!!! Avvvvvvvit!!!!

Today England beat Australia at cricket by 92 runs. I guess that upset Punter's palns for a ten nil thrashing. Now if Aus beat NZ, and England beat NZ. England could beat Aus in the final and become commonwealth bank champions. Now come on the rugby boys in the six nations.

It makes your heart bleed, NOT!!!!!!!

MS Launches VIsta - Choose MAC OS

Check it out. Many a true word spoken in jest.......

YouTube to share ad revenues with users

The founders of the video-sharing website YouTube have announced they will be sharing advertising revenues with the people who submit films on their websites. The scheme should be introduced ‘within months’.

This will open up a very exiting new medium for advertisers and therefore media agencies. The new opportunity will no doubt have the agency creative departments fighting to work on the new campaigns!

It will be very interesting how they formulate a rate card and if they address agency commissions!

Myspace recruits due to success

Myspace have increased the number of employees to 400, double the number employed six months ago, and is still growing at a similar pace!

It now attracts 320,000 new profiles a day. Interestingly 25% of these new profiles are from outside the USA compared with last year's figures of 200,000 new profiles per day of which 8% were not from the US.

The implementation of localised formats starts with Canada, Mexico, and then onto the Far East will increase the non-USA user percentages!

Literally WATCH THIS SPACE!

Iphone component makers - listed here

Apple i-Phone ODMs
Apple has taken the world by storm with the introduction of its i-Phone.
Now, the question is -- who's making it for Apple? Foxconn will be the
main assembler, Unimicron and Tripod will likely supply the PCBs,
Lite-On and Primax the camera modules, Largan Precision the camera
lenses, Catcher and Foxconn the cases, Entery the Connectors, Sunrex the
push buttons, etc.According to rumors, Cambridge Silicon Radio is
supplying iPhone's bluetooth, Samsung is supplying its video processor,
Marvell is providing the 802.11, Broadcom the touch screen controller,
and Infineon the baseband. Other rumors point to Cheng Uei and Entery
for connectors/cable and Bluetooth modules, and Altus for the camera
module.

Stevo family survives tree falling down in gardens of house

The tree missed the house by a matter of feet........ 100 years old and gone with a blust of wind