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In brief: Google university boost, Xerox print advance and graduate jobs
Plus social networking favourites revealed

By Staff

Published: Tuesday 12 June 2007

Trinity College Dublin has switched to using Google's email service, with the students able to carry on using the same email addresses after graduating. Google is also offering students online tools to use in their coursework, according to the BBC, which said other universities are considering a similar move.

Xerox has developed a technology that can print fluorescent words and letters without fluorescent ink. Prints from a four-colour printer selectively expose the fluorescent properties found within white paper, making it possible to embed security marks that are only visible when exposed to ultraviolet light the company said.

Technology services company telent and Atkins have had their Midlands Technology Maintaining Agency Contract (Tech MAC) deal with the Highways Agency extended until July 2009. The extension, worth £5m, will see the companies maintain and manage motorway and trunk road communications, as well as signalling, in the entire Midlands region.

Young adults between the ages of 15 and 25 spent 24 per cent more time online than the average UK internet user in April 2007, according to research from comScore.

The five most popular sites for the 15 to 24 age group mirrored those for the general population - except for fifth position, snatched by Fox Interactive Media - which owns MySpace. Social networking websites Facebook.com and Bebo.com were the two top rated sites for young people, the research found.

Sticking with young people, another piece of research from graduate selection and training company Alumni Ventures has found almost half of graduates are not willing to relocate for a new job.

It also found the average salary graduates expect to earn is £17,000, and 77 per cent are willing to travel for up to an hour each way to get to work.