Month: January 2012

Apple announced on Thurs­day their lat­est play to dom­i­nate the edu­ca­tion mar­ket. From its incep­tion, Apple has been focused on edu­ca­tion as a mar­ket. They have con­sis­tent­ly pro­vid­ed spe­cial dis­counts to edu­ca­tors and stu­dents, and they have devel­oped a series of edu­­ca­­tion-friend­­ly appli­ca­tions and prod­ucts. With­in iTunes, Apple has long had iTunes U, a col­lec­tion… Con­tin­ue read­ing iBooks Author and iTunes U

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Inter­net from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. I usu­al­ly do not take polit­i­cal stands here on GenealogyMedia.com, but two pro­posed laws could have a chill­ing effect on the open­ness that has allowed the Inter­net to flour­ish. The Stop Online Pira­cy Act (SOPA, PDF) in the US House and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Oppose SOPA / PIPA