The Open University (OU) is claiming it’s the first university to hit the figure of 20 million downloaded tracks on iTunes U.

iTunes U is the educational section of Apple’s online store, and it’s an area that the OU is dominating in, according to its own figures.

These show that since the OU began putting material up on iTunes U in June 2008, the organisation has distributed 20 million learning-based tracks. The last few months has seen the average amount of downloads increase to 250,000 per week.

Martin Bean, Vice-Chancellor of The Open University, said: “I am delighted that the popularity of The Open University on iTunes U continues to go from strength to strength.”

“Our success lies in providing original, custom-built content for iTunes U, linked to current and popular OU courses. Students are able to incorporate tracks into their studies, while informal learners anywhere in the world can tap into these excellent materials for free.”

Apparently, more than 4.5 million downloads in the past year – that’s 28% of the total number – are accounted for by STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects.

However, the most downloaded track has been beginner’s French. There’s no mention of the subject we studied at university: Beer.

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Open University claims 20 million iTunes download record

NeuLion and
the University of Nebraska announce the debut of a grand slam new video service dedicated
to Nebraska Huskers baseball. Beginning today this online service will air all home
baseball games free to fans through the rest of this season.

The online destination showcases a sleek look and feel and delivers the most complete
and comprehensive video coverage of Nebraska baseball. Huskers.com is
the single destination for Nebraska baseball fans to watch live games with all the
best content and features in one central location.

In October 2008, JumpTV and NeuLion merged to form one end-to-end multi-platform enterprise.
NeuLion has proven experience in the professional sports marketplace with notable
partners such as the National Hockey League, National Football League, United Soccer
League and many others. The University of Nebraska is the first JumpTV Collegiate
Partner to use NeuLion technology. Nebraska, in conjunction with NeuLion, will offer
exclusive free live video streams of all home baseball games through HuskerVision,
the athletic department’s television production group.

The online service gives fans an incredible interactive experience with features such
as polling, integrated ticker, live stats with animated field view and player profile
data. Fans will have easy access to past television game video, archive highlights
of all games, ongoing live game radio or video in one single view.

The video portal will carry all home baseball games throughout 2009, both live and
on demand, including those that are a part of the local television broadcast schedule.

NeuLion also supports advertising and sponsorship placement in the Nebraska baseball
video portal. The video portal’s launch coincides with tonight’s game against Creighton
University.

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University of Nebraska Athletics Teams Up With NeuLion

Korea’s second largest ISP, Hanaro, is to begin making use of Corrigent Systems’ CM-100 product line.
The company is looking to boost its already strong Korean broadband commitment by increasing its offerings.
It has already launched a100Mbps service and now wants to add the services to go with it.
This is where Corrigent comes in to [...]

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Hanaro Selects Corrigent For IPTV

ITN is not only one of the big two news companies, it is also a major player in the world of Internet delivered news globally.
Now they have enlisted the services of California based Harmonic Inc, or to be more precise the company’s Rhozet media transcoding technology and their Carbon Coder for transcoding and packaging [...]

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ITN Selects Carbon Coder Transcoding Technology

Interesting articles about tec and law
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080819/1139092031.shtml

Green marketing
http://blog.futurelab.net/2006/08/ecomagination_etc_green_market.html

Who cares about the echo chamber? Who cares if they like your product or not? What every startup should be thinking about above all else is their market. How are you going to make money? Where is that money going to come from? And do everything in your power to make your product, your marketing communications, your brand, everything about your company, about one thing: Appealing to and serving the market that is going to make you profitable.
http://mashable.com/2008/08/26/insights-into-the-marketability-of-tech-companies/

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some good posts