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— UC Mobile —

  UC Mobility
  by Fred Siff, VP and CIO 
  UC Mobile will enable a higher level of connectivity, which is increasingly a quality of life issue. It will profoundly change how we all communicate. 

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  Cincinnati Bell is Proud to Partner with UC
  by Steve Meek, Cincinnati Bell Sales Director, Government and Education 
  Cincinnati Bell is proud to partner with the University of Cincinnati in developing an innovative program to meet the needs of the university community for highly reliable wireless communications and relevant applications for the university way of life. 

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  Coming this Fall: UC Mobile Enters Residence Halls
  by Diana Noelcke 
  UC Housing is removing the traditional residence hall room phone and land line, and going wireless. 

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  Securing Your Cell Phone
  by Mary Jane Clark
with thanks to Diana Noelcke, Kevin McLaughlin, and Quinn Shamblin
 
  Cell phones, smartphones, and PDAs have become so commonplace, we tend to forget that security risks accompany our wireless companions. 

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  Uptown Wireless: a Major Hotspot
  by Mark Faulkner 
  As part of its UC Mobile project, the University of Cincinnati, in partnership with Cincinnati Bell, is creating one of the largest hotspots in Ohio.  

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  Winter Pilot Program Guides Project Expansion
  by Diana Noelcke 
  At the conclusion of the pilot program, some testers chose not to have desk phones returned to their desks. 

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— Instructional Computing —

  UC Upgrades to Blackboard 7.2
  by Paul Foster and Linda Shaw 
  During summer quarter, the University of Cincinnati will upgrade to Blackboard version 7.2. We will run both versions through summer, and make a complete transition to the new version for fall quarter.  

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  UCit's IRC Hits the Road to Support Faculty
  by Debra Brandenburg and Mary Jane Clark 
  UCit staff "road shows" give faculty previews of Blackboard, podcasting, ARS, and more. 

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  UCit@Langsam - a Joint Project
of University Libraries and UCit
  by Mike Lieberman, Dean of Instructional and Research Computing
and Vicki Montavon, Dean of University Libraries
 
  UCit and University Libraries are joining forces to create a centrally located, readily accessible, 24/7 computing and study facility. 

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— Software —

  CMS Users Group Shares Information and Ideas
  by Donna Law 
  Toward increasing the effective and efficient use of the Serena Collage Content Management System (CMS), UCit and Web Communications have formed a Users Group. 

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  SAS Offers Education Analytic Suite
  by Ellen Davis 
  SAS is discontinuing its current bundle, the Academic Computing Offering (ACO), and replacing it with the Education Analytic Suite (EAS).
 
The EAS bundle includes all of the products currently licensed under the ACO, plus. 

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  Some Things to Consider Before
Upgrading to Office 2007
  by Tony Quallen 
  Articles on Microsoft's Office 2007 tend to herald the new features and redesigned interface that maximize productivity. But your upgrade may have other, less welcome, consequences. 

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  Vista OS Update
  by Amin R. Shafie 
  UCit recommends that users refrain from upgrading existing university PCs to the Vista OS. Support is not yet in place. 

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— Network News —

  UC Network Refreshed
  by Barb Renner 
  We thank the university community for contributing to the success of the university’s Network Refresh project, which we have now completed. 

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— Late Breaking News —

  Mainframe Upgrade Enhances Performance
  by Bill Lewis 
  We expect this upgrade to satisfy the university's need for mainframe computing power for the next five years.  

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