<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Campus Technology</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/</link><description><![CDATA[Campus Technology Feed]]></description><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:08:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>0</ttl><item><title>Security Exploits to Google Chrome Browser Emerge</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67231/</link><description><![CDATA[Google's Chrome Web browser--complete with quirky marketing comic book--made a splash when announced Tuesday, but what a difference a day makes. On Wednesday, proof-of-concept bugs affecting the Internet app were disclosed. Chrome is still early in its first public beta.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 Hypervisor Adds 64-bit Support, Bolsters Performance</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67262/</link><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems this week rolled out version 2.0 of its xVM VirtualBox. The product is a cross-platform, open source hypervisor that supports hosts ranging from Mac OS X and Windows to Solaris and 18 varieties of Linux.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rarity for China Schools: Nanjing University Deploys Campus-wide Wireless LAN</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67235/</link><description><![CDATA[Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China has deployed a campus-wide wireless LAN (WLAN) from Motorola. The WLAN will enable multimedia Internet-based teaching, automatic academic office management, Internet access, long-distance teaching, and other services. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications is one of the few universities in China to provide complete wireless LAN coverage to every building in addition to the campus' outdoor spaces.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pac-10 Teams Score Competitive Insight with BlueArc Storage</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67234/</link><description><![CDATA[The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), a group of sports teams from 10 colleges and universities, has expanded the use of its BlueArc Titan storage solution housed at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to store dozens of terabytes of game footage. In the 2008-2009 season, all of the Pac-10 football, women's volleyball, and men's and women's basketball teams will access opponents' video for competitive analysis from Titan storage.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fixed-Mobile Convergence: Dartmouth Beefs Up Cell Coverage, Cuts Costs</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67104/</link><description><![CDATA[Problems with cell phone coverage aren't uncommon on college campuses. There are two main reasons: The beefy structure of historic buildings can block cellular reception within walls, and, on more remote campuses outside cities, signal coverage can be light.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thompson Rivers U Deploys Unified Digital Campus for ERP</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67119/</link><description><![CDATA[Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in British Columbia has selected SunGard Higher Education's Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC) to integrate its ERP systems.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DV Kitchen Web Video Publishing System Released</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67118/</link><description><![CDATA[DVcreators.net has released DV Kitchen, a new video encoding and publishing application for Mac OS X designed specifically for creating materials to be posted on the Web. ]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NEC Debuts 4 Education Projectors</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67120/</link><description><![CDATA[NEC this week debuted four new projectors targeted toward education applications, along with a new MultiSync LCD display. The new NP-series projectors are entry-level models started at $899 but are designed to provide high light output, support for closed captioning, and built-in networking capabilities.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Security Researchers Uncover Spring Framework Vulnerability</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67082/</link><description><![CDATA[Software frameworks are enjoying enormous popularity these days among a range of developers. It's popularity well earned; frameworks provide powerful tools for building more flexible and less error-prone applications. They generally enhance developer productivity with out-of-the-box functionality. And they can free developers to focus on features instead of common coding tasks.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>3PAR Server Arrays Integrate Fat-to-Thin Processing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67117/</link><description><![CDATA[Utility storage provider 3PAR has announced the release of the 3PAR InServ T400 and T800 Storage Servers. The new hardware is built on the company's third-generation InSpire architecture, featuring the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC with integrated fat-to-thin processing.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CUNY, Red Hat, Intel To Launch Open Source Test Center</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67121/</link><description><![CDATA[City University of New York (CUNY) is partnering up with Intel and Red Hat to launch a new software institute dedicated to open source software. The center, New York City Open Source Solutions Lab, based out of the CUNY Graduate Center, will serve as a test bed for government IT professionals in New York who are working with open source solutions.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adobe Makes ColdFusion 8 Free for Students, Educators</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67079/</link><description><![CDATA[Adobe has made its ColdFusion 8 Web development platform free for educators and students. The offer is available for all public and private accredited K-12 schools and colleges and universities.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gathering Your Digital Pencils for Back-to-School</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67045/</link><description><![CDATA[Trent Batson considers a list of back-to-school resources for Web 2.0.]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tips for Getting Started with Educational Wikis</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67032/</link><description><![CDATA[Campus Technology speaks with wiki expert Stewart Mader, who discusses choosing between commercial and open source wiki products, getting started with a wiki, and why Wikipedia is the single biggest stumbling block to wikis in higher education.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Alabama Adopts Angel</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66923/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Alabama in Huntsville said it has adopted the Angel Learning Management Suite (LMS). The Angel LMS makes course content and a variety of collaboration tools available online for 24/7 access.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IE Share Continues Decline, but How Far Will It Go?</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67066/</link><description><![CDATA[It's no secret that enterprise use of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is on the decline. The question is, How far is it falling?]]></description><author>Jeffrey Schwartz</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kaplan U Launches Career Assessment for Online Freshmen</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66950/</link><description><![CDATA[Kaplan University launched MyPath, a program that uses career planning and student success diagnostics to help students craft a course of study that maximizes their career potential. The assessment tools will be used for all freshmen doing studies in the online program, the school said in a statement, to address study skills and career focus before they begin their academic program.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ECMAScript Fight Results in 'Harmony'</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67081/</link><description><![CDATA[The fate of ECMAScript 4 (ES4) appears to be sealed and, according to Brendan Eich, chief technical officer of Mozilla and the creator of JavaScript, so is the rift between the two factions of Ecma's Technical Committee 39, divided for a year over the future of this standard. Last month the committee officially agreed to ditch plans for the proposed ES 4.0 specification to focus on a more limited, new spec based on the current standard ECMAScript 3.1 (ES3.1).]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>5 Best Practices</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67076/</link><description><![CDATA[5 best practices for building your portal in a Web 2.0 world. (Here’s your chance to get it right for 2009 and beyond!)]]></description><author>Matt  Villano</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Adobe To Unveil Creative Suite 4 This Month</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67068/</link><description><![CDATA[Adobe Tuesday cracked the lid of its most closely guarded secret: Creative Suite 4 will be unveiled later this month.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Change Management Meets Web 2.0</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67077/</link><description><![CDATA[How will wikis, blogs, social networking, and folksonomies impact your upcoming IT projects?]]></description><author>Doug Gale</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CT at the Show</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67072/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cut to the Core</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67069/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author>Katherine Grayson</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DAM-ing the Digital Flood</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67073/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author>David Raths</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Get The Word Out</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67075/</link><description><![CDATA[The market’s teeming with products to help you alert your campus community on any number of fronts. Now you just have to pick the right ones and get everyone signed up.]]></description><author>Wendy Chretien</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google Plunges Into Browser Market</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67057/</link><description><![CDATA[Just days after Microsoft released the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, Google unexpectedly made what could be its largest assault on Redmond to date--the release of its own Web browser.]]></description><author>Jeffrey Schwartz</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thwarting the Copycats</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67074/</link><description><![CDATA[New tools are helping colleges and universities counter burgeoning paper mill sites, pervasive internet content, and persistent student ingenuity.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Memphis Plugs into XO Metro Fiber Network for Gigabit Internet</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66938/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Memphis will be tapping into XO Communications' 500-route mile metro fiber network across the Memphis area for high-capacity Internet services. The XO data network provides data transfer rates up to a gigabit per second.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>TurningPoint Launches Web-based Response Service for Smartphones and Laptops</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66945/</link><description><![CDATA[TurningPoint, which sells classroom response systems, has launched a Web-based service that works on AT&T-powered wireless smartphones, including the iPhone, BlackBerry, and laptops.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Xen Hypervisor Gets an Update</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66953/</link><description><![CDATA[The open source hypervisor Xen has a new version, 3.3, that includes a number of upgrades and enhancements that make it more enterprise-worthy and start to move it beyond the datacenter.]]></description><author>Keith Ward</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malware Dramatically Increasing; Almost All Users Have Clicked on Malicious Links</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66940/</link><description><![CDATA[Web security services firm ScanSafe reported that the total number of Web-based malware blocks has increased by 87 percent in July 2008 compared to the previous month. Specifically, the first two weeks in July have shown an extraordinarily high volume of malware blocks. ScanSafe sells online security services, which scan Web requests from its customers and blocks malicious content.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Arizona State To Webcast Sustainability Summit with Help from Modavox</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66930/</link><description><![CDATA[Arizona State University has signed an agreement with Modavox to Webcast the Sustainability Summit the school is hosting in Washington, DC September 17, 2008. Modavox will facilitate the delivery of streaming audio and video.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Georgetown U To Broadcast Video via FORA.tv</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66931/</link><description><![CDATA[Georgetown University has partnered with FORA.tv to launch a video channel that will share university content. Georgetown will use FORA.tv's content delivery platform to reach a global audience with its issue-oriented video. The channel will feature programming with individual university faculty who are experts in their field as well as world leaders speaking on Georgetown's campus.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BitLocker Password Exploit Is 'Very Unlikely,' Sisk Says</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66956/</link><description><![CDATA[Redmond responded Tuesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>University of Miami Brings Zipcar on Campus</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66929/</link><description><![CDATA[When students come back for classes at the University of Miami (UM) this month, a new transportation option will be available to them. Zipcar is a car-sharing program that allows members to reserve cars online or via phone or mobile device for an hourly rate of $8, which includes gas and insurance.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>California Community Colleges Partner with Waterfall Mobile on Statewide Emergency Notification Coverage</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66928/</link><description><![CDATA[The Foundation for California Community Colleges (FCCC) has awarded a statewide emergency alert notification contract to Waterfall Mobile. The contract establishes Waterfall's AlertU as an approved technology through the official non-profit foundation for the California Community College (CCC) system office. Through this partnership, individual colleges may directly implement emergency communication services, eliminating lengthy technology evaluation and RFP processes.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>King's College and ASU Add e2Campus for Improved Emergency Notifications</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66925/</link><description><![CDATA[King's College and Arizona State University have switched to Omnilert's e2Campus for emergency notification. Omnilert also has introduced a new program called the ENS Conversion Service that allows schools to bulk upload data from their previous emergency notification system into e2Campus at no charge.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Saint Joseph Builds Out Wireless Network in Multi-year Upgrade</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66927/</link><description><![CDATA[Saint Joseph's University has begun deploying a Meru Networks wireless local area network across its Philadelphia campus as part of a multi-year effort to bring wireless coverage to every building on campus.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vista Ramp Up Is Happening Now, Study Says</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66919/</link><description><![CDATA[Organizations may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a Forrester Research report by Benjamin Gray et al., published last week.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Talisma Launches New Version of CRM with Built-in Application Management</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66921/</link><description><![CDATA[Talisma Corp. announced version 8.0 of its constituent relationship management (CRM) application for higher education. The new release includes application management, a revamped user interface, two-way text messaging, personalized Web portals, and an ADA-compliant Web client, among other enhancements.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bringing Composers into Classrooms Through Skype</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66727/</link><description><![CDATA[Two Pennsylvania teaching colleagues with an interest in music and technology are bringing remote experts into classrooms at almost no cost, using Skype's free videoconferencing technology.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbia U Going Live on iTunes U</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66664/</link><description><![CDATA[Columbia University has been beta testing its content through iTunes U, the Apple desktop media player for education-related podcasting. The New York-based university expects to go live with its release at the start of the fall semester.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Let the Games Begin! Google vs. Microsoft</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66403/</link><description><![CDATA[Pursuing a strategy as a consumer of services and choice, Drexel University has partnered with both Google and Microsoft to provide students with massive e-mail mailboxes, gigabytes of file storage with collaboration tools, Web-based calendars, personal blogs, and more.]]></description><author>John A. Bielec</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ferrum College Enrolls Juniper Networks To Extend 10 Gigabit Ethernet</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66668/</link><description><![CDATA[Ferrum College in southwestern Virginia has chosen to replace its campus-wide legacy Cisco network infrastructure with Juniper Network switching, network access control (NAC), and firewall/virtual private network (VPN) solutions. The college chose the new equipment after deciding to extend 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) throughput across the network in support of advanced voice over IP (VoIP) by fall 2009.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tiffin U's New Online College to Use Pearson's eCollege for Course Management</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66665/</link><description><![CDATA[Beginning this fall, students in Tiffin University's newest online program, Ivy Bridge College, will use eCollege, a course management system from Pearson, for all of their online courses. The 2,350-student Tiffin U is located in Tiffin, OH and offers both on-campus and online classes. Since 2005, those online courses have been managed through Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>California Community Colleges Adopt SunGard Banner Software</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66666/</link><description><![CDATA[California's Rio Hondo College and Sierra College have selected software from the Banner Unified Digital Campus and other solutions from SunGard Higher Education to help address their growing enrollments and to help improve student retention and services.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Luidia Releases eBeam Interact 2.1 for Interactive Whiteboards</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66669/</link><description><![CDATA[Luidia has released a new version its eBeam software for use with classroom-based interactive projection environments. eBeam Interact 2.1 offers both new and upgraded features, including enhanced screen recording and a comprehensive online image gallery, as well as the company's Scrapbook Image Writer feature.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>McGill U Library Scanning Rare Books with Kirtas</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66659/</link><description><![CDATA[McGill University Library in Montreal will be using a Kirtas Technologies APT BookScan 2400RA to digitize its collections. The company says that the 2400RA is capable of acquiring page images at the rate of 2,400 pages per hour. The library will be working with Ristech, a Canadian reseller, to implement the digitization solution.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ball State U Web Sites Now Managed with Sitecore</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66663/</link><description><![CDATA[Ball State University in Muncie, IN has gone public regarding its deployment of a Web site content management system from Sitecore. Ball State chose Sitecore's software to revamp its 220-plus sites, integrating common new media applications and garnering a next-generation user experience that has won several awards from education and new media marketing organizations. Now, Ball State maintains uniformity across all university Web sites and said it has enhanced its recruiting efforts through the site's new look and interface.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bio-Key Launches Emergency Alert Platforms for Schools</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66653/</link><description><![CDATA[Bio-Key International has announced the release of two new emergency alert and management solutions for the education market. MobileSRO is designed specifically for the K-12 environment, while MobileCampus caters to higher education and other campus-based organizations.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Green Efforts Improving on Campuses</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66671/</link><description><![CDATA[More campuses in the United States have shifted their focus to environmental and sustainability programs, but funding and staffing issues have prevented them from implementing green initiatives on the scale campus administrators would like, according to a new report released recently by the National Wildlife Federation.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Polytechnic Institute of NYU Deploys Array Networks Equipment for Access Control</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66667/</link><description><![CDATA[Polytechnic Institute of New York University has selected an Array Networks SPX3000, a universal access controller that combines virtual private network (VPN) and network access control (NAC) functionality. The device will provide identity-based customized portals for 5,000 users to access their individual information.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Check Point Launches Security Line for Virtual Applications</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66662/</link><description><![CDATA[Check Point Software Technologies announced VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE), which delivers security for virtual applications.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Columbia and U Hawaii Moving Forward with Sakai</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66658/</link><description><![CDATA[Two universities are moving forward in their work with Sakai. The University of Hawaii System has adopted Sakai as its official learning and collaboration service, effective this fall, and Columbia University has recently upgraded to a new version of the open source learning management system as part of a pilot program in several schools and departments. At the beginning of August, the New York institution upgraded its Sakai pilot from version 2.4 to 2.5.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Oracle Releases Student Administration Integration Pack</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66656/</link><description><![CDATA[Oracle has announced the availability of its PeopleSoft Enterprise Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP). The announcement marks the release of the first product in the company's Academic Enterprise Solutions suite.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Red Hat Hacked, Company Issues Security Advisory</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66649/</link><description><![CDATA[In a sign that hackers have no problem taking advantage of open source solutions, Linux-based product distributor Red Hat issued a "critical" security advisory Friday, saying that its servers had been compromised.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sun Open Sources Mobile Toolkit LWUIT</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66635/</link><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems has fulfilled a promise made this summer to release the source code for the Java ME-based light-weight UI toolkit (LWUIT) for mobile UI development to the java.net community.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UrlScan 3.0 Aims To Block SQL Injection Attacks</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66646/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks. The free application, called UrlScan 3.0 (Release-to-Web version), is an add-on tool to IIS that provides real-time verification of HTTP server requests, potentially blocking malicious code. ]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Corralling Identity Management</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66282/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston recently reconstituted its IT organization to include a new team focused solely on identity management. In the course of its work the team may end up becoming a model for how identity management can help deliver business value beyond standard IT duties, such as adding new users to the network.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vulnerability Management Needed for Security, Study Says</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66575/</link><description><![CDATA[Organizations can avoid attacks and minimize security cost overruns by practicing IT vulnerability management, according to a July study published by the Aberdeen Group. The study presents solutions for IT pros, helping them prioritize their patch management strategies for operating systems, applications, and network security frameworks.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Details SharePoint-SQL 2008 Integration</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66624/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing  Aug. 6. Tuesday, the company's SharePoint hosting and development blog pointed out that IT admins don't have to wait for the documentation to do so.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Higher Ed Growing into BI, Data Warehousing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66538/</link><description><![CDATA[As a long-time expert in data warehousing and business intelligence (BI), David Wells has seen the technologies gradually come into their own in higher education. Now a consultant--Wells was formerly director of education for The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), a sister institution of Campus Technology--he continues to advise colleges and universities on data warehousing and BI issues.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LectureShare Updates Free Course Management System</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66598/</link><description><![CDATA[LectureShare has released an update to its free online course management system at lectureshare.com. New features include enhanced compatibility with common file types, a new student comments feature, and new gradebook functionality.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft-Novell Linux Deal To Grow by $100 Million</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66623/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft plans to pour an additional chunk of money into its business and open source technology collaboration with Novell, according to an announcement issued by the companies Wednesday. The deal calls for Microsoft to buy $100 million more in support certificates for Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server. Microsoft's expects to have the new investment in place by Nov. 1.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Coverity Offers Java Code Readiness Service</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66569/</link><description><![CDATA[San Francisco-based Coverity recently announced the release of Coverity Software Readiness Manager (SRM) for Java, a tool to help assess code readiness. This tool is mainly geared toward managers, providing dashboard-type reporting for determining software availability and maintainability before release.]]></description><author>Will Kraft</author><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Unveils 'Ultimate' Support Service</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66570/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Monday rolled out the highest level of its enterprise support programs to date, adding a new offering called "Microsoft Services Premier Ultimate." The offering builds upon the company's existing Premier services program. ]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Digital Arrays for Evidence-Based Learning</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66513/</link><description><![CDATA[Our culture is redefining itself and we are redefining how we see learning. It is time for educators to get out of the box of seat time, finally, and consider evidence-based learning.]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>'That Which Weaves Together': The NSF Cyberlearning Report</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66514/</link><description><![CDATA[Trent Batson takes a look at the National Science Foundation's Report of the NSF Task Force on Cyberlearning, "Fostering Learning in the Networked World: The Cyberlearning Opportunity and Challenge."]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66505/</link><description><![CDATA[Over the last six years, Stewart Mader has staked his career on the power of wikis. Mader first worked on wiki adoption initiatives in the IT department at Brown University, becoming fascinated by their power and potential. In this first half of a two-part interview, Mader talks about powerful ways to use wikis in education, content ownership issues, and how wikis tend to be used--and why.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sakai 2.5.2 Gets Performance Boost; New Modules Released</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66474/</link><description><![CDATA[The Sakai Foundation has released the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment 2.5.2, the first maintenance update to the open-source learning management system since the 2.5 release in March. The new version includes performance enhancements, as well as a number of bug fixes and other enhancements.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Changes Virtualization Licensing Rules</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66566/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.]]></description><author>Keith Ward</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vorex Upgrades Web-based Data Collection Tool for Schools</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66473/</link><description><![CDATA[Vorex has released an update to its Vorex Online Survey, a Web-based data collection tool designed to allow schools to collect information and gather feedback from education stakeholders.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Georgia Virtual Tech Moves to Angel LMS for Web-based Instruction</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66407/</link><description><![CDATA[Georgia Virtual Technical College has selected the Angel Learning Management Suite (LMS) as the platform for its portal to deliver Web-based instruction to Georgia's 33 technical colleges and one Board of Regents college.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Video Spotlight: Campus Technology 2008 Keynote Address</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66143/</link><description><![CDATA[Adrian Sannier, technology officer for Arizona State University, discusses strategies for putting in place ground-breaking plans that will serve the next generation of students. These are actionable visions that include strategic technology choices--advancements that may be unfamiliar or even unpopular at first, but which carry enormous potential.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report Finds Dip in Microsoft's Browser Share</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66410/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft lost browser market share over the last year, and the company's Windows Vista operating system has had "slow" market adoption among individuals and enterprises, according to a report issued by management consulting firm Janco Associates Inc.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AT&amp;T 'Big Mobile' Grant Extended</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66472/</link><description><![CDATA[AT&T has extended the deadline for its first-ever Big Mobile On Campus Challenge, a competition that calls on college and university faculty and students to develop apps for mobile devices. The top prize includes $10,000 and a trip to the October Educause 2008 conference for the winning individual or team.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Illinois Implements New StorMagic SAN in 15 Minutes</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66408/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has chosen the StorMagic SM Series, an iSCSI-based storage area network (SAN) designed for small and medium organizations. The new implementation allows the 40,000-user university to manage and protect its data while preparing for future growth.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colorado State Launches New Online School</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66406/</link><description><![CDATA[Colorado State University has selected Campus Management Corp. to provide the infrastructure for its new online campus, known as CSU-Global Campus. The technology the Ft. Collins campus will use includes CampusVue, a student information system, and CampusPortal, an integrated, configurable Web site software.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>OOXML Reaffirmed, ISO/IEC Reject Appeals</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66471/</link><description><![CDATA[The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies Friday rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa, and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Butler U Deploys Virtual Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66405/</link><description><![CDATA[Butler University said it has deployed the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway-Virtual Edition as a hybrid solution with the Messaging Security Gateway appliance to address anti-spam and anti-virus protection. The school has actually used the Messaging Security Gateway hardware appliance since 2004 to defend against inbound messaging threats such as spam, viruses, and denial-of-service attacks.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NSBA '20 To Watch' Nomination Deadline Nears</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66470/</link><description><![CDATA[Nominations for the National School Boards Association's "20 To Watch" program are coming to a close within the next two weeks. The program aims to recognize innovators in the field of education technology in both higher education and K-12.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>VMware's Updates Cause Problems, CEO Apologizes</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66409/</link><description><![CDATA[Aug. 12 was a blow-out day for some users of VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 virtualization products, especially if they had applied the latest product updates called "Update 2."]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Intel Releases Interface for USB 3.0</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66401/</link><description><![CDATA[Intel Corp. this week shared technical plans for an important element needed to develop the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) specification. The company has made its Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 available to hardware manufacturers and software providers.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Linux Application Checker Brings Distro Help</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66305/</link><description><![CDATA[Linux application development has always been a tricky business. Although Linux is a solid platform, it is often hard for independent software vendors to develop and maintain packages for all distributions. In response, the Linux Foundation this month released an open beta of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker). The utility, now at Beta 3, helps work through differences between Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, and more.]]></description><author>Will Kraft</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wayne State Deploys Q1 Labs QRadar to Manage and Secure Network</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66304/</link><description><![CDATA[Wayne State University (WSU) has chosen Q1 Labs' QRadar to analyze, visualize, and assess their networks, all while adhering to specific compliance regulations. WSU is a research university with 33,000 graduate and undergraduate students.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SunGard HE Releases New Unified Digital Campus</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66367/</link><description><![CDATA[SunGard Higher Education announced Monday the newest release of Banner Unified Digital Campus (UDC), which includes the Banner 8 administrative suite. ]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Higher Education Fertile Ground for 802.11n WiFi, ABI Reports</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66301/</link><description><![CDATA[ABI Research has forecast that WiFi will be available in 99 percent of North American universities in 2013. Much of that penetration will be in the form of 802.11n equipment: Higher education is clearly the No. 1 market for early adopters of 802.11n.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U New Hampshire Consolidates Backup and Recovery Environments</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66298/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of New Hampshire will deploy a new backup solution integrating a Sepaton virtual tape library (VTL) and DeltaStor software for data deduplication. The migration is part of a consolidation effort combining two separate backup and recovery environments into one disk-based storage infrastructure.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>System Center Update Promises Energy Savings</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66306/</link><description><![CDATA[As the summer heats up, and icebergs melt, maybe it's time for system admins using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to consider adding a little eco-friendliness to their networks. ]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stephens College Automates Campus Administration with PowerCampus UDC</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66300/</link><description><![CDATA[Stephens College, located in Columbia, MO, has chosen to replace its legacy administrative software with the PowerCampus Unified Digital Campus (UDC) from SunGard Higher Education. Built on Microsoft technologies and integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP, PowerCampus UDC automates processes such as admissions, academic records, advancement, billing and cash receipts, financial aid, finance, and human resources, and provides portal and self-service tools.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Colorado and Quest Get $1 Million Grant for New Digitally Controlled Endoscopes</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66303/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Colorado at Boulder and Quest Product Development have been awarded a $1 million Small Business Technology Transfer grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the development of a next-generation endoscope. MicroFlex technology, derived from aerospace engineering, uses shape metal alloys and micro-actuators that allow active control over the shape of the scope for minimally invasive surgery.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chapman University To Deploy Campus-wide WiFi</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66241/</link><description><![CDATA[Chapman University in California has announced plans to deploy Xirrus WiFi Arrays across its campus. The implementation started in Chapman's film school and then will move to student housing, which consists of five three-story buildings. Following that, wireless will be added to classroom, student and administration buildings campus-wide.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ERP: More Than System Functionality</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66350/</link><description><![CDATA[An ERP implementation is a massive undertaking. At Missouri State University, a culture of strategic planning is ensuring success -- two campus leaders explain how.]]></description><author>Kent Thomas, Jeff Morrissey</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Open Source Brings Down Cost of Wireless Rollout</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66307/</link><description><![CDATA[As any IT administrator knows, wireless deployments can be costly. On the other hand, with students demanding on-the-go access, pervasive WiFi networks are a must on campus.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Polytechnic Institute of NYU Deploys Array Networks' SSL VPN</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66351/</link><description><![CDATA[Polytechnic Institute of NYU, an affiliate of New York University, has deployed Array Networks' SSL VPN solution to provide secure Layer 3 remote access to network applications for its approximately 5,000 faculty, students, and employees.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Skoobit Launches Online College Textbook Rental Service</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66302/</link><description><![CDATA[Skoobit has developed a textbook rental system to allow college students to rent text books for months, semesters, or the year. College students will be able to rent any textbook for as long as needed with the simple commitment of returning it once they're done using it.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>KU Medical Center Installs Real-time Beacon System</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66299/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Kansas Medical Center has installed a new system from Alertus Technologies that notifies students, faculty, staff and visitors on campus in the case of an emergency. The primary communication tools in the new system are wall-mounted "beacons," which function as a way for the KU Medical Center Police Department to communicate with the campus in real time. The units are located in every classroom and on every floor in university buildings. If activated, the beacons display flashing red lights and sound sirens, and directions are given on the units' text boards.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Virginia Tech Tries 'Compliance Sheriff' To Improve Web Site Accessibility</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66242/</link><description><![CDATA[Virginia Tech has selected HiSoftware's Compliance Sheriff to address management of its Web site accessibility. Compliance Sheriff is a browser-based service that crawls a Web site and compares pages against a user-defined set of criteria. The tool will compare the school's site against world-wide accessibility guidelines such as the federally-defined Section 508, which addresses how technology should be designed to enable its use by people with physical impairments, and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0/2.0, from the World Wide Web Consortium, which address Web content and mobile Web applications.
]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ultimus Releases New Version of Adaptive BPM</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66246/</link><description><![CDATA[Ultimus has announced the release of Adaptive BPM Suite 8.1, the latest version of its business process management software. Topping the list of new features is a migration tool, allowing current users to upgrade business processes to the new version.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Toronto Team Wins 2008 Innovate Canada Competition</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66232/</link><description><![CDATA[A team of students from the University of Toronto took first place in the IEEE "Innovate Canada Program" contest by creating an object-recognition system. The university competition challenges students to use embedded processors, a variety of custom field programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware modules, and combined hardware and software co-design methods to create embedded systems. ]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Utah Education Network Selects To Deliver High-speed Internet Access and Metro Services via XO</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66234/</link><description><![CDATA[The Utah Education Network has signed a three-year agreement with XO Communications to provide high-speed dedicated Internet access and metro private line services to the not-for-profit consortium of higher and public education, libraries, state government and business with headquarters on the campus of the University of Utah.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Collexis' Lawriter Debuts Social Network for Law Students</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66240/</link><description><![CDATA[Collexis' Lawriter division has launched a social network for law students. The site, CasemakerX.com, was demonstrated in beta format at the American Association of Law Librarians Conference in Portland in July. A full launch is expected in early fall 2008 to coincide with the incoming class of new law students. Along with the social networking site, CasemakerX will provide free access to the Casemaker Suite of Applications for the American law student community.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Video Spotlight: Google, Microsoft Go Head to Head in Edu Space</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66331/</link><description><![CDATA[IDG News Service is shedding some light on the current efforts of Microsoft and Google to gain acceptance in the education market. Both offer free services for institutions like mail and storage, along with free collaboration tools for students and faculty. Watch this video to see what representatives from the two companies had to say at the recent Campus Technology 2008 conference in Boston.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Promethean, Simtrol Use Activeboard To Manage Classroom Devices</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66245/</link><description><![CDATA[Promethean and Simtrol have announced an exclusive partnership that will integrate device management software from Simtrol with Promethean's Activeclassroom technology. The partnership will give classroom teachers the ability to control a variety of separate devices from a single interface on Promethean's Activeboard, doing away with the need for multiple remote controls.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>vmSight Launches Connector ID For Thin Client VDI Deployments</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66249/</link><description><![CDATA[vmSight has announced the availability of its Connector ID platform for thin clients used in virtual desktop environments. The solution is intended to help IT administrators manage virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments, as well as provide detailed virtual desktop user tracking.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NComputing Device Addresses Budget and Tech Support Crunch at 3 Colleges</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66233/</link><description><![CDATA[A number of colleges have gone public with their deployments of the NComputing multiuser system, among them Fresno Pacific University in Central California, Florida Atlantic University  in southeast Florida; and Palm Beach Community College in Florida. The NComputing access device allows a single PC to serve multiple users, each with his or her own monitor, keyboard, and mouse.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eclipse 'Lynchpin' for Maven</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66152/</link><description><![CDATA[Eclipse developers will soon have an easier time integrating with Maven, the popular Java open source build framework.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft, BearingPoint Team Up To Provide Risk-Based Compliance Solution</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66243/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has teamed up with BearingPoint to create the BearingPoint Enterprise Governance, Risk, and Compliance (EGRC) solution. The platform is built on Microsoft technology and capitalizes on the companies' long-standing relationship.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Terracotta Integrates Sun's VisualVM</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66151/</link><description><![CDATA[Java enterprise infrastructure software maker Terracotta recently announced it will soon be integrating Sun Microsystems' new Java VisualVM technology with the Terracotta management console.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Cheapskate's Guide to Free Security Software</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66154/</link><description><![CDATA[Free is an attractive price. Read which packages were deemed "most useful" by a handful of experts.]]></description><author>Doug Gale</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IBM Touts Linux Strategy with New Virt, SuSE, Supercomputer Intiatives</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66150/</link><description><![CDATA[IBM made several announcements Tuesday at the annual LinuxWorld conference, introducing a new series of products, services and initiatives that the company says will "further expand IBM's commitment to Linux and open source by enabling the next generation of Linux."]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Collaboration Key to Security, Microsoft Says</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66147/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft ratcheted up its PR and client communications efforts to demonstrate that it's serious about security. On Monday, in time for this week's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) launched a new ecosystem strategy team blog outlining its more collaborative approach to software security issues.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Open Source: A 'Growing Challenge' to Microsoft</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66148/</link><description><![CDATA[Open source software topped the list of business "risk factors" outlined in Microsoft's annual 10-K report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, published last week. The emphasis seems a little surprising. For instance, global open source Linux use currently trails at 0.82 percent, while Microsoft Windows dominates the operating system market at 91 percent, according to stats from Net Applications' Market Share.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drexel Sees 802.11n as Logical Leap</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66129/</link><description><![CDATA[For colleges and universities considering a wireless network upgrade anytime soon, whether or not to go with the new, not-yet-final 802.11n standard is a tough call.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Internet Freedom: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo Near Agreement</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66145/</link><description><![CDATA[Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are "close to agreement" on a code of conduct for Internet technology companies that are doing business in countries restricting citizen dissent and speech rights, according to an announcement issued Monday by United States Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pepperdine U Upgrades WiFi with Xirrus Arrays</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66127/</link><description><![CDATA[Pepperdine University has deployed 161 Xirrus XS8 WiFi Arrays (1,288 radios) at its 830-acre Malibu, CA campus. The XS8 WiFi Array integrates eight radios and high-gain directional antennas in one device, along with an onboard gigabit switch, WiFi controller, firewall, and dedicated WiFi threat sensor, which, the vendor said, dramatically reduces the number of devices, cables, and switch ports required to achieve a comparable range of WiFi service.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IBM To Team with Linux Vendors on 'Microsoft-Free' PCs</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66146/</link><description><![CDATA[IBM and name-brand Linux operating system distributors Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical/Ubuntu have disclosed their intentions to join forces with their hardware partners to create what they are calling "Microsoft-free personal computing choices." ]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IBM Unveils New Software Designed To Streamline eDiscovery</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66153/</link><description><![CDATA[IBM has announced the release of new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software specifically designed to meet the needs of clients dealing with complex legal discovery requirements. The eDiscovery solutions expand on IBM's ECM platform and are intended to give organizations greater control of digitally stored documents in an effort to reduce costs and streamline the discovery process involved in litigation.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 to Manufacturing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66185/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released  SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing (RTM) and, as an evaluation edition, to subscribers of its Microsoft Development Network and TechNet services, the company announced Wednesday.]]></description><author>Joab Jackson</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Security Woes Up, as PHP and OSS Make the List</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66149/</link><description><![CDATA[Software vulnerabilities are up this year, especially Web browser-based ones, according to a new report from IBM Internet Security Systems. The X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics Report, released in late July, defined the problem broadly. A vulnerability is anything that results "in a weakening or breakdown of the confidentiality, integrity, or accessibility of the computing system."]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Textbook Publishing in a Flat World</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66066/</link><description><![CDATA[According to the National Association of College Stores in a 2007 survey, the average cost of a new college textbook was $53. The founders of Flat World Knowledge, which launches with its first run of college textbooks this fall, consider that too high--so high, in fact, that they'll be offering textbooks for free, at least in versions that can be read online.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CourseCast 2.0 Adds Podcasting, Streaming Media Features to Free Lecture Capture System</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66128/</link><description><![CDATA[Panopto has released CourseCast 2.0, an update to the company's classroom capture system that's available free to academic users. CourseCast 2.0 had previously been available as part of Panopto's beta program for educators since June.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It IS about Technology: Integrating Higher Ed into Knowledge Culture</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66114/</link><description><![CDATA[For more than twenty years, we educational technologists have talked about "integrating information technology into higher education." The implication was that education would stay the same and information technology would benignly slip in and cause no ruckus at all. This rhetoric no longer applies, if it ever did, and does a disservice to us as we work through the intricacies of this age.]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Roanoke College Gets Personal with CRM</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66124/</link><description><![CDATA[Roanoke College has selected Talisma's Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) solution to personalize constituent communications in an effort to increase enrollment and forge stronger relations with current students.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Web Bazaar: The Problem of Abundance</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66108/</link><description><![CDATA[Walking in the old part of Istanbul, the narrow street awash in shops, each with its appealing bins of gorgeous goods, I kept expecting to find a super market of some sort. But no supermarket ever appeared, just more miles of tiny shops. Welcome to Web 2.0.]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NEC Debuts Mobile DLP Projectors</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66084/</link><description><![CDATA[NEC this week introduced two new single-chip DLP projectors that it will ship in the fall. The NP41 and NP61 are both mobile models, weighing in at 3.5 pounds, but offering brightness ratings of up to 3,000 ANSI lumens.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hobart and William Smith Colleges Wrap First Phase of CRM Implementation</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66126/</link><description><![CDATA[Consulting firm BearingPoint said it has completed the first phase of an implementation of the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM for Higher Education for the Admissions Office at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sun To Open Source Java System Web Server and Web Proxy Technologies</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66059/</link><description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems recently said it will soon open source the core components of Sun Java System Web Proxy and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The Web and Proxy source code will be released later this year.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Illinois Urbana-Champaign To Establish Experimental Computing Cluster</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66063/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is collaborating with the National Science Foundation, HP, Intel, and Yahoo! to establish an experimental computing cluster. The resulting "HP, Intel, Yahoo! Cloud Computing Test Bed" will be managed by UIUC and made available to academic users from other institutions for research in data-intensive computing.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Higher Ed Least Likely Sector To Adopt Energy Management Policies</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66092/</link><description><![CDATA[Information technology leaders in colleges and universities are more concerned about environmental issues than their counterparts in every other sector--corporate, state/local, federal, and higher education. But they are also least likely to have formal policies in place for addressing energy efficiency, according to a new survey released Monday by CDW Government (CDW-G).]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Katana Brings Education Content to Sakai Open Source LMS</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66064/</link><description><![CDATA[Sakai, a popular open source learning management system, is adding content from McGraw-Hill Higher Education to its repertoire of educational tools. Through a technology called Katana, developed by McGraw-Hill Learning Solutions and The ETUDES Consortium, Sakai users will be able to tap directly into McGraw-Hill's electronic learning resources, including online courses, digital media, and curricula.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>University of Utah Named CUDA Center of Excellence</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66062/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Utah last week was named a CUDA Center of Excellence for adopting parallel computing strategies and applying them to research and integrating them into the curriculum. ]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Model-Driven Development Cuts the Coding</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66058/</link><description><![CDATA[Want to build custom Web applications without writing a single line of code? That's the promise of Model-Driven Development (MDD), and the objective of Intelliun's MDD-based Virtual Enterprise (VE) toolset.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>MIT Researchers Take Solar Power Where the Sun Doesn't Shine</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66060/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers at MIT announced last week that they've cracked the solar power nut by finding a method to squirrel away energy for use when the sun isn't shining. Unlike existing techniques, this new one is efficient, inexpensive, and clean, researchers said, relying on resources that are abundant and lend themselves to easy manufacture.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Universities in Indiana, North Dakota, New York Deploy Oracle Software</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66018/</link><description><![CDATA[Four institutions of higher education--Anderson University, the North Dakota University System, Indiana University, and City University of New York--have gone public with their deployments of software from Oracle. They're among 13 colleges and universities that have recently implemented or selected applications from the vendor.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Apple Reacts to Spoof Threats, Issues DNS Hotfix</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/66061/</link><description><![CDATA[Apple took action Friday to address the infamous Domain Name System (DNS) problem. And none too soon.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Business Intelligence</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65877/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Collaboration Tools</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65883/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Digital Media Training &amp; Support</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65880/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Emergency Preparedness</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65872/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Enhanced Learning/ Assessment</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65876/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: High-Performance Computing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65884/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Interactive, Remote Learning</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65878/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Mobile Learning</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65871/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Network Security</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65873/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Social Networking for Admissions</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65874/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Student Advising Technology</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65879/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Tablet PCs</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65875/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Virtual World Learning</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65881/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2008 Campus Technology Innovators: Web Conferencing / Blended Learning</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/65882/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>