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The UW is the first educational institution to provide campus information on BlackBerry handheld devices. The UW’s new m.UW BlackBerry app - like the iPhone app already available - offers course catalogs, campus directories, maps, news, photos, and sports scores in a format optimized for that device.

UW computer scientists are using Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to transform a cell phone into a flexible data-collection tool, reports Uweek. Their free Open Data Kit is used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure.

Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, will talk on Thursday, November 5, at 4:15 p.m. in 120 Kane Hall about how software and information technology can help solve the most pressing global challenges. Hear how computer science technologies are changing scientific exploration and discovery.

UW students: How and where do you use technology to do your work? How will you use it in the future? Answer a brief, confidential survey by UW Learning & Scholarly Technologies to help shape the future of technology spaces at the UW. Take the survey and enter to win a $25 University Bookstore certificate.

LST has been busy in 2009 making online course management simpler and richer. What's next? On October 21, instructors can make their CommonView class workspace available to the general public; no UW NetID needed. Try out the new features, which include a new account page for organizing and managing tools.

Interested in usability and green IT? For World Usability Day on November 13, submit 100-300 words on "How can the user experience community support the future of sustainability?" by November 6. Human Factors International will award Kindles to two top winners.

With more databases to choose from than varieties of breakfast cereal, how do you decide which to use? The UW Libraries' newly improved Subject and Class Guides can help. From Aeronautics to Zoology, you'll find the best librarian-recommended research databases for every UW subject taught.

Choose from over 30 free workshops offered by Learning & Scholarly Technologies for UW students, faculty, and staff. Topics include using software from Microsoft and Adobe, publishing a Web site, working with digital audio and video, and more. Check out the schedule.