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WIU Mobile version 1.1, Western Illinois University's Mobile app, is now available for Apple and Android devices. The update, which launched Oct. 14, includes a link to the Zimbra mobile edition, as well as an interactive campus directory.
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WIU Mobile Update

October 18, 2011

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MACOMB, IL -- WIU Mobile version 1.1, Western Illinois University's Mobile app, is now available for Apple and Android devices. The update, which launched Oct. 14, includes a link to the Zimbra mobile edition, as well as an interactive campus directory.

Zimbra mobile puts WIU e-mail, calendars and contacts at the users' fingertips with the click of a button (authentication is required). The campus directory allows users to search for contact information for students, faculty and staff on campus, and each contact can be clicked to email or call the person directly from WIU Mobile.

WIU Mobile was launched in April 2011. The updated app includes Zimbra, the campus directory, an interactive WIU Macomb campus map, the latest University news and events, campus dining center menus and nutritional information on meals being served, computer lab workstation availability (in real time) and University contact information for numerous departments and services.

The app can be downloaded at no charge from the Apple iTunes App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiu-mobile/id429906881?mt=8&ls=1) and the Android Market (https://market.android.com/details?id=edu.wiu.mobileapp). Western's Center for the Application of Information Technologies (CAIT) designed and developed WIU Mobile in collaboration with Western's GIS Center, University Technology and Web Support Services.

The minimum requirements to download the WIU Mobile app include Apple iOS v4.2 or Android v2.1 and Internet access via wireless connectivity or a cellular data plan.

More information about WIU Mobile can be found at wiu.edu/wiumobile.

Posted By: University Communications (U-Communications@wiu.edu)
Office of University Communications & Marketing