Google has been making quite the push to make its Chromebooks available to schools as they recently announced discounts for schools to pick up their own Chromebooks for $99 each until December 21. Today, Google is announcing 2,000 schools are using Chromebooks for Education around the world.
Google didn’t announce if its discount program had anything to do with the rise in Chromebooks being used in schools, but when you consider there were only 1,000 schools listed as using Chromebooks, then the math certainly adds up.
Along with today’s announcement, Google highlighted some of the schools that recently joined the Chromebooks for Education program that include Transylvania County Schools with 900 devices, St. Thomas Aquinas High School with 2,200 devices and Rocketship Education with 1,100 devices. If you’re currently attending any of those schools, you just received your shout-out for the day simply by helping your students learn with a Chromebook. You never see Apple give shout-outs for schools that buy their computers for their classrooms, do you?
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Most companies who want a decent shot at Internet advertising would surely have considered Google AdWords at one point or another, and but a Japanese man decided to think out of the box, and come up with an ad on Google AdWords to look for a girlfriend. I am quite sure that many other single guys out there might actually kick themselves in the rear end for not giving this a go in the first place, especially after said Japanese man managed to bring his date (out of 5 positive responses) out for a meal.
It looks like Kim Dotcom is never too far removed from the news, as his recently launched file sharing website that is known as Mega ended up resembling its previous “relative”, so to speak, which was known as Megaupload and has already closed down. It seems that anonymous users have already launched a search engine which will index the numerous files uploaded to Mega, and theoretically, this would make it a whole lot easier to look for copyright-protected material.
Kim Dotcom has brashly put forward a $13,500 bounty that will be the reward for the first person who successfully breaks into his Mega system’s security. I guess that amount of cash will mean something to most people, but for someone of his stature and cash reserves, it surely does not reflect the kind of confidence (IMHO) in Mega’s security system, no? I wonder which enterprising hacker will walk away with the €10,000 bounty (which is roughly $13,500 after conversion), and from which country he/she is from.
Facebook, a modern day technological success story, has fallen back onto old school marketing techniques when it comes to announcing the availability of Gift Cards which can be purchased online for a friend or relative living elsewhere. Basically, Facebook users will soon be able to gift their mates items from Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target, thanks to the introduction of the reusable gift card from Facebook.
Apple has released a bunch of firmware updates in order to fix a rare issue which plagued systems which rely on excessively used batteries, where it involved the affected device to be unable to boot up. This bunch of EFI firmware updates should bring an end to systems affected that will sometimes see the unexpected shut down or having the machine simply freeze.
How has your Google Drive experience been so far? I have found it to be extremely useful when it comes to creating, storing and sharing data, and there is a whole slew of apps out there which will assist you in being more productive and on-the-go as well, ranging from making amendments to spreadsheets and to signing documents electronically. Having said that, Google has already refreshed their Google Forms platform, which did come in handy in the past to help you create questionnaires in a snap, while automatically collecting responses in a spreadsheet.
