News
- Student Retention: Are Schools Taking Advantage of Technology?
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5/13/2008
College and university administrators consider personal attention to be the most critical factor in retaining at risk students. But what role should technology play in the effort?
- U Wisconsin Research Center Migrates to iSCSI SAN
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5/13/2008
The University of Wisconsin Center for Health Systems Research & Analysis has chosen the StorMagic SM Series, an iSCSI-based Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware and software solution to replace a legacy storage system.
- Data-Focused VS2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 Betas Released
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5/13/2008
Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 beta bits for public download this week. In addition to the usual performance enhancements, bug fixes and stability improvements, the SP1 betas offer widely anticipated data access technologies.
- Kentucky School System Extends CMS Collaboration Functionality
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5/12/2008
The Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) said it will deploy the Wimba Collaboration Suite across 16 colleges to connect students and educators through online video, voice, text, application sharing, polling and whiteboarding.
- American Samoa CC Upgrades Administration Management
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5/12/2008
American Samoa Community College has gone public with its intention to buy software and services from Datatel to build an administrative system and enhance services to its community of users. The school will be using Datatel Colleague and ActiveCampus Portal to replace a legacy system.
- Microsoft Appeals $1.3 Billion European Commission Penalty
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5/12/2008
Microsoft Friday appealed a $1.3 billion (899 million euro) penalty for noncompliance with an earlier European Commission (EC) antitrust ruling against the company. The EC had slapped the penalty on Microsoft in February of this year for failing to meet the terms of a March 2004 EC antitrust ruling. The $1.3 billion penalty comes on top of the ECs' existing $1.5 billion in fines against the company.
- HP Labs Seeks Help with Research from Academia
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5/9/2008
HP has launched a new research program that invites colleges, universities and research institutions to participate in joint research with HP Labs, the company's central research facility, through an open and competitive process.
- Aplia Launches Web-based Interactive Homework System
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5/9/2008
Cengage Learning's Aplia division has launched a new Web-based homework system called Grade It Now. The system combines aspects of practice problems with graded problems to encourage students to improve results as they work.
- CTP2 of Windows PowerShell V2 Released
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5/9/2008
Microsoft released Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) for Windows PowerShell Version 2, according to an announcement issued last Friday.
- Exec Describes Microsoft's 'Social Networking' Vision
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5/8/2008
A Microsoft executive involved with the company's Windows Live efforts outlined some of the company's ideas about cloud-based computing and social networking technologies Tuesday. The talk was presented by Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live Business Group, at the 2008 Merrill Lynch Technology Conference May 6.
- Graduate School, USDA Standardizes on Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for E-learning
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5/8/2008
The Graduate School, USDA has standardized on Acrobat Connect Pro, a Web conferencing and e-learning platform from Adobe Systems. The school is a self-sustaining government entity created 87 years ago by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide adult continuing education.
- Texas A&M System Signs Distribution Deal for Virtual Clinical Learning Lab
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5/8/2008
Texas A&M University has signed a license agreement with BreakAway Ltd., a developer of game-based technology, for the worldwide rights to Pulse!! The Virtual Clinical Learning Lab. Pulse is a federally funded project in development at the Corpus Christi campus that allows medical professionals to practice decision-making protocol and experiential skills on PCs in a virtual hospital setting. The agreement grants BreakAway the rights to develop, market and distribute Pulse.
- Tegrity Records 325,000 Hours of Lectures
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5/8/2008
Ed tech developer Tegrity reported this week that usage of its Campus 2.0 classroom capture system hit record levels last year, including, among other things, capturing 325,000 hours of faculty lectures on Tegrity servers in a 12-month period.
- JavaOne Keynote: Neil Young Likes Java
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5/7/2008
Rock legend Neil Young joined Sun Microsystems' Executive Vice President of Software Rich Green on stage during the opening keynote of the 13th annual JavaOne conference, underway this week in San Francisco.
- Purdue Builds New Campus Supercomputer in Less Than a Day
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5/7/2008
Staff members at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN had hoped to build the school's largest campus supercomputer in just a day Monday, May 5. But it didn't take that long. The team of 200 university employees, who started unpacking equipment boxes at 7 a.m., was done by lunch. According to a campus article, by 1 p.m. 500 of the 812 nodes that make up the high-performance computing cluster (HPCC) from Dell were already running 1,400 research jobs from across campus.
- Unicon Launches uPortal 3 Services
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5/7/2008
Technology integrator Unicon has announced that it's now providing commercial support for uPortal 3.0, an open source campus portal solution designed by members of the education community.
- Texas, Arizona and North Dakota Campuses Sign on for Higher One Refund Management Services
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5/7/2008
Higher One, a financial services company serving higher education, said 15 colleges and universities have signed agreements in the first quarter of 2008 to use its OneDisburse Refund Management system to handle disbursement of refunds to students.
- IBM Expands Team Collaboration, Social Networking Software
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5/6/2008
IBM has introduced a new tool for migrating content from Microsoft SharePoint and other data repositories into Lotus Quickr. The new Lotus Quickr Content Integrator, which recently began shipping, is designed to bring content from existing repositories into Quickr's "team places" for collaboration and sharing.
- Update: Windows XP SP3 Available
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5/6/2008
Users of Windows XP can now gain access to Service Pack 3 through Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center, according to an announcement issued by Microsoft Tuesday. Distribution of the service pack through Automatic Updates will be available "in the next few months," the announcement added.
- Georgia Tech To Implement CalDAV in Sakai
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5/6/2008
Georgia Tech announced recently that it's contracted with open source service provider Unicon to integrate CalDAV within its Sakai implementation. CalDAV is a calendaring protocol that allows for event and meeting sharing across various platforms via WebDAV.
- Maple 12 Enhances Math Engine, Builds on Engineering Tools
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5/6/2008
Math software developer Maplesoft has released Maple 12, a long-anticipated update to the company's flagship math application for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Solaris. The new version features an enhanced mathematics engine, new tools for engineers, and features that are designed to make the program easier to use in instructional settings.
- Strangeloop Device Addresses Web App Performance Pains
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5/6/2008
Strangeloop Networks has introduced a product the company is billing as the first appliance designed specifically to accelerate enterprise applications in service-oriented architectures. The new WS1000 Web Services Accelerator is aimed at the growing number of organizations employing Web services to integrate disparate applications and databases, to extend their mainframe applications and to deal with performance challenges associated with dynamic Web apps.
- Next-gen WiFi Expected To Be in 99% of North American Campuses by 2013
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5/5/2008
Although the wireless standard 802.11n is found in less than 3 percent of North American universities currently, it will be available in 99 percent by 2013, according to a new study by ABI Research. According to the research firm, the increases are driven by a variety of needs and demands in both K-12 and higher education.
- OpenSolaris and NetBeans Featured at CommunityOne
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5/5/2008
Sun Microsystems plans to make several product and partner announcements today at its CommunityOne Developer event. CommunityOne is a "pre-event" that precedes the annual JavaOne conference, which is happening this week in San Francisco. CommunityOne focuses on a variety of open source communities, both Sun and non-Sun.
- Microsoft Scraps Yahoo! Acquisition Plans
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5/5/2008
Citing a hefty price tag and other concerns, Microsoft this weekend officially scrapped its plans to acquire Yahoo! In a letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dismissed the possibilities of both a friendly buyout and a hostile takeover, stating he believed that in a hostile takeover situation Yahoo! would take steps to make itself an unattractive acquisition target.
