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Everyone watching the web tech industry knew it had to happen eventually.  Facebook is finally going to become ‘location-aware.’
Following hot on the heels of Twitter’s push for location information, Facebook will soon give you the option of attaching your physical location (in the real world) to anything you say, share, [...]

Keeping students engaged in STUSU elections is always a challenge.
So this year, to facilitate discussion, why don’t you contact the candidates themselves?
Here’s a hand-dandy list of contact info.  If we’ve forgotten anything just let us know in the comment section, and we’ll add it as soon as possible.
For President:

Melissa Bastarache – Facebook – Twitter [...]

Alex Solak – The Aquinian

Well Facebook celebrated it’s 6th birthday today with their favourite activity: Redesigning your homepage.
The new homepage will put a higher emphasis on the search bar, and allows you do more right from the homepage.
Now you’ll be able to read previews of messages, and send messages without opening the facebook mail page.
A [...]

Alex Solak – The Aquinian
Some students living in residence this year are less than pleased with their internet service this year.
Frustrations over slow connection speeds and internet service cutting out came to a head this month. Citing major problems, over 140 students living in residence have joined a Facebook group urging the university [...]

This is fresh from the tech guys at STU:
An unauthorized email purporting to be from the St. Thomas Help Desk is
making the rounds. This email asks you to reply with your date of birth
username and password. It is very important you *do not* respond to
this email. This is an obvious attempt at identity theft.
The email [...]

Karissa Donkin – The Aquinian
Dalton Camp lecture addresses changing media landscape
There’s three reasons Wikimedia’s Sue Gardner believes now is the golden age of journalism.
“There’s more information available to us, it is less censored and it is ridiculously cheap and easy to get,” said Gardner, who gave the seventh annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism last [...]

Lego

Two-Party System

Nachos

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Alex Solak – The Aquinian
Larger, more secure network launching right now
Thanks to a $500,000 grant from the federal Knowledge Infrastructure Program, STU’s Information Technology Services department has upgraded the wireless internet system for the entire campus.
The new wireless internet is just one of the planned projects. ITS is also working on an emergency back-up [...]

This week the city of Moncton is hosting their first ‘Intelligent Communities Summit’.
The 3 day conference brings leaders of Canada’s technology industry to Atlantic Canada to discuss  how current and upcoming technology are shaping our communities.  Guests include representatives from HP, Motorola, Cisco, and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Associtation.  Members of civil and provincial government [...]

Amy MacKenzie – The Aquinian
Some students at St. Thomas this year are dealing with several online course management tools as the school transitions from WebCT, its primary e-learning tool, to Moodle.
St. Thomas spends a significant amount of money on WebCT each year, making Moodle the more economical choice.
As an open source media, Moodle won’t cost [...]