4/21/2008
Northwestern University has selected the Workforce Central suite from Kronos to manage employee hours and costs. Like many universities, the school has a complex workforce that includes a large number of student employees working at its campuses in Chicago and Evanston, IL. The software will also track absenteeism for the university's 10,000-plus employees, including absences that qualify under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
4/21/2008
Custom House, a foreign exchange and international payments company, has launched a new international service to help universities and colleges accept payment from international students.
4/21/2008
Michigan State University (MSU) has implemented with a new internal capital project management application. Skire Unifier provides collaboration mechanisms and control and visibility into individual capital projects and across a school's project and facilities portfolio. MSU eventually intends to extend the implementation to its IT and facilities management organizations in subsequent phases of the deployment.
4/21/2008
How secure is your virtual environment? Recent US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletins list several vulnerabilities for versions of software from VMware that allow attackers to cause denial of service attacks, generate buffer overflows, expose password logging and gain unauthorized privileges that can be used to hijack processes. The exposures have been addressed in patches by the company, but concern has been growing that virtual machines may get less security-related attention from IT staff than physical boxes.
4/18/2008
Microsoft this week announced through two blogs that it plans to release the next service pack to SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 3 (SP3). The release is timed for the third quarter of this year, or after Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing.
4/18/2008
Software developer Zoho this week released Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition, an expanded version of the company's Web-based constituent relationship management solution and part of its Business Applications set.
4/18/2008
Microsoft Thursday described its new platform to help developers more easily create mobile applications that make use of radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology. The company unveiled BizTalk RFID Mobile, a solution designed to work with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 and other Microsoft products.
4/17/2008
The University of Miami reported Thursday that computer back-up tapes containing personal information from some 2.1 million patients were stolen from a third-party storage facility in March. The university said it's confident that the information on those tapes is inaccessible to the thieves but is notifying patients anyway.
4/17/2008
Brigham Young University - Idaho (BYU - Idaho) has selected Jenzabar's Total Campus Management enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The suite the school will use includes Jenzabar CX, Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution (JICS) and the Jenzabar Non-Traditional System (Jenzabar NTS).
4/17/2008
American college and university students will have a chance next week to show off their technology skills as the U.S. finals for Microsoft's 2008 Imagine Cup head for Los Angeles. More than 16,000 students from 125 campuses in the United States registered for this year's event, in which they compete in categories ranging from software development to interface design. Winners will have a chance to go on to Paris this summer for the global finals, facing the best from 100 countries.
4/17/2008
As of Tuesday, Vista Service Pack 1 is now generally available in all 36 supported languages. Microsoft had initially rolled out Vista SP1 in just five languages.
4/17/2008
Omnilert, which sells the e2Campus emergency notification system, said it has sold its services to several Louisiana colleges and universities in recent months. The company also recently posted a discount pricing structure to the Louisiana state contract system, which allows schools in the contract system to purchase the service without going through a bid process.
4/16/2008
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $65 million to the University of Tennessee (UT) to build and operate one of the world's most powerful supercomputers and lead a nationwide partnership to put it to use.
4/16/2008
At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas this week, FirmTek debuted a new combo hub designed to bring eSATA connectivity to laptops. The SeriTek/SpyderHUB includes USB and FireWire host connection options, along with hardware RAID and boot capabilities for Mac OS X systems.
4/15/2008
Yale University is piloting a new program that brings integration between its open-source learning management system, Sakai, and its digital asset and digital rights management system, C-Labs from Cdigix. Yale has used the Web-based DAM/DRM tool since 2004 to deliver online digital media to students in about 400 courses.
4/15/2008
At the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) this week, Christie launched a new 3LCD projector boasting a brightness of 6,000 ANSI lumens and a contrast ratio of 2,000:1. The new widescreen (17:10) model, the LW600, is targeted toward auditoriums and large conference rooms.
4/15/2008
The University of Missouri (MU) has teamed with IBM to arm its students with the latest information technology (IT) security and compliance training. This training will help MU students acquire the expertise required to help reduce the risk of financial losses caused through non-compliance.
4/15/2008
In a shot across Microsoft's bow, Google and Salesforce.com have integrated some of their hosted solutions. Customers using Salesforce.com's customer relationship management (CRM) solution now have access to the Google Apps office productivity suite within the Salesforce.com platform. The new combined solution is called "Salesforce.com for Google Apps." It's available free to Salesforce.com customers.
4/14/2008
In the world if IT security, it's a well known secret that end users in Windows processing environments put themselves at risk whenever they check their MySpace and Facebook pages, or shop for plane tickets, computers and other goods and services--all while at the workplace.
4/14/2008
Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2008, his company's namesake information security conference, April 8 in San Francisco with a warning.
4/14/2008
Blackboard reported that several colleges and universities in the United States have selected software from its Commerce Suite to address campus commerce and security management. The company said that most of the schools have implemented the Transaction System, which administers online, real-time campus commerce, meal plans, vending, and facility access control through a campus one-card.
4/14/2008
The Pennsylvania State University recently said its DHCP server, in operation for four years, has maintained 100 percent network service uptime. Most desktops, laptops, VoIP phones, and mobile systems rely on dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) servers to provide IP addresses that enable those devices to connect to the network.
4/14/2008
Sony last week debuted a new line of front LCD projectors, including the company's first compact widescreen model. The VPL-E series includes four new models, three of which are shipping this month, with the forth slated for a May launch.
4/14/2008
A beta release of Windows Live OneCare 2.5, Microsoft's automated security suite for home users and small businesses, is available for testing from the Microsoft Connect Web site. Microsoft stated through its blog that there is little apparent difference between the beta and standard versions.
4/11/2008
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said it is using Oracle business intelligence applications to help users define, analyze and interpret data stored in its Oracle data warehouse. Rensselaer has created dashboards that deliver data to 650 users for planning, forecasting and decision-making.