Canadian Cancer Society’s transition to Office 365 use helps bottom line

Canadian Cancer Society has been able to keep its bottom line in check after leaving behind its costly outdated technology for Microsoft’s Office 365 platform. According to the non-profit, the transition is set to save them over $250,000 in the next five years or so. The migration was spearheaded by the Cancer Society’s divisions in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and Prince Edward Island.

What prompted the shift most likely is a relatively young set of staff and volunteers. The Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario alone has 412 staff and around 55,000 to 65,000 volunteers, many of them are under the age of 30. Using Office 365 lets them access their information from almost any mobile device, making collaboration easier.

‘Wormarium’ wiggles way into iTunes features chart

The new action-puzzler game Wormarium from Toronto-based Trompo Games, Inc. has been garnering some attention shortly after its release. According to Trompo Games’ co-owner Max Cranley, the game has just been live for about 24 hours and it has already been featured in the Best New Games category for 91 countries.

Wormarium is an 80-level game that challenges you while under pressure. You play colorful worms that need to fill subterranean labyrinths with your “worminess” while you’re being chased around by deadly moles. The game was designed with advanced artificial intelligence so the moles try and predict your next move.

Download: Apple App Store ($3.49)

New iTunes U arrives in time for back-to-school season

Apple launched a significant update to iTunes U which offers tools for teachers to build, organize and publish dynamic educational experiences for their classrooms — all in one place right from their iPad. For students, it allows those who use iPads in the classroom  to submit homework assignments directly from their tablets, complete with time stamps to make sure work is turned in on time. 

There are over 15M iPads in education institutions worldwide, iPad is a proven learning platform and successful with teachers and students around the world. Aside from access to the widest selection of high quality Multi-Touch textbooks, iPad's now have access to over 100,000 educational apps and rich digital content. 

The new iTunes U features include:

 - discussions features that open up new ways for teachers to connect and students to contribute; 
- homework hand-in including PDF annotation for document mark up and timestamp delivery of term papers, book reports and problem sets; 
- support for importing teaching materials and student work directly to iTunes U from popular educational apps including Keynote, Pages, and iMovie as well as third-party apps Explain Everything, Stop Motion Studio, Book Creator and more;
- integrated grade book so teachers know exactly when a student’s work is complete and ready for review — or when it’s time to send a reminder push notification.

TumblrTV will take away productivity

Just in case you didn’t think Tumblr was enough of a time-suck. Tumblr’s giving you one more reason to stay on its site. The blogging platform now has a Tumblr TV section. This just displays an endless stream of GIFs that loop a few times before it moves on to the next GIF. You can play GIFs based on hashtags or specific blogs. Or you can just let it loop whatever is popular on the platform at the moment. Of course, you can reblog or like any of the GIFs that turn up there. It’ll even show you which account shared the post.

Source: The Verge