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  • Facebook IPO affected by Nasdaq technical issues
    Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. faces scrutiny after shares of Facebook Inc. were plagued by delays and mishandled orders on its very first day of trading. Apparently computers used to drive the auctions were overwhelmed by order cancellations and updates in the opening moments of the hugely anticipated initial public offering.

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  • Microsoft victorious in Motorola patent dispute, wins US import ban
    Microsoft has prevailed over Motorola in one of their ongoing patent disputes after the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled (PDF) that the phone maker has violated one of the Redmond-based software giant's patents, and ordered an immediate import ban on the infringing Android phones.

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  • Yahoo to sell back half the shares it owns in Alibaba, netting $7.1bn
    After years of negotiations, US internet company Yahoo announced it has reached a deal to sell part of its stake in China's biggest internet company, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. The deal will see Alibaba buy back half of the 40% stake Yahoo holds in the group for $7.1 billion.

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  • Weekend tech reading: Facebook from inception to IPO
    The Facebook story: from inception to IPO Just over eight years after Mark Zuckerberg launched thefacebook in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook has officially gone public today. And, what better time to dig back into the company's history, as documented by everyone from The Harvard Crimson and The New Yorker to...

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  • WOF: Windows 8 ditches Aero Glass -- will you miss it?
    In a lengthy blog post, Microsoft has explained some of the logic behind Windows 8's interface. Much of the article discusses Metro, but a sizable chunk focuses on the desktop environment, including some significant changes that haven't been revealed in the Consumer Preview yet. Most notably, Microsoft says it's scrapping...

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    Microsoft Scam

    Solve IT and Microsoft Ireland would like to warn you of a scam that is currently active in the Irish marketplace. Irish consumers are receiving telephone calls from persons claiming to be from Microsoft, or working on behalf of Microsoft, to tell them they have a virus on their computer.

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    January '12

    The much loved Doug Bradley has decided to retire from Solve IT after many years of happy service and move all the way over to Donegal.
    We wish Doug the very best and hope that he comes back to visit us often.
    Joanne is stepping into Doug’s highly-polished shoes and is doing a great job helping customers to solve their IT problems.

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    March '12

    How Expensive Can Your Cappuccino Get? Well, if you accidentally tip it over your new Ipad or laptop, it could be the most expensive cup of coffee you’ve ever had.

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    We have recently begun to install Moodle for some of our Education customers.
    VLEs Virtual Learning Environment are part of the future in education and now is the time to get started.
    Talk to us if you would like a demo of how it works and what it can do for your school.
    We have added a Youtube Presentation below to give an introduction to moodle and what it's about.

    Some details:
    Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.

    Moodle?

    The focus of the Moodle project is always on giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning, but there are many ways to use Moodle:

    • Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
    • Many institutions use it as their platform to conduct fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
    • Many of our users love to use the activity modules (such as forums, databases and wikis) to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students (such as standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.

    Demonstration site

    Our demonstration site is a full Moodle site with some sample courses that you can try as a teacher, student or even an administrator. Don't worry about making a mess, the whole site is reset to a clean state every hour.

    Moodle.org: Moodle Statistics

    Moodle is free to download and registration is voluntary, so we don't have full information about everyone that uses it. However, using what we do know, we automatically generate some interesting graphs and numbers on our Statistics page.