<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>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:04:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>0</ttl><item><title>American Sentinel U Adopts Web-based Retention Program</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68384/</link><description><![CDATA[To combat distance students dropping out before completion of their classes, American Sentinel University has implemented EducationDynamics' Adult, Online and Continuing Education Retention Program. This Web-based communications tool is designed to keep students connected to their instructors, peers, and institutional support services.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>iStor Software Update Brings High Availability to iSCSI Storage</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68454/</link><description><![CDATA[iStor Networks has recently released an update to its iSCSI software. The new 2.5 release adds high availability capabilities for iStor's iS512 family of iSCSI storage systems and is available as a free upgrade.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Symantec To Expand Cloud Presence with Purchase of MessageLabs</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68380/</link><description><![CDATA[Symantec Corp. has agreed to acquire MessageLabs, a provider of online messaging and Web security services, for about $695 million. MessageLabs sells managed services for anti-spam, anti-virus, image control, content filtering, instant messaging security, boundary and policy encryption, and e-mail arching and backup. The acquisition is scheduled to be completed before the end of the year.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Unisys Unveils New Mainframe-Class Servers</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68448/</link><description><![CDATA[Unisys has recently announced the addition of several new systems to its ClearPath line of mainframe-class servers. Among the new offerings are the high-end ClearPath Dorado 700 Series, as well as the mid-range ClearPath Dorado 4000 and ClearPath Libra 4000 Series.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yuba Community College District Renews with AT&amp;T for Wireless</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68382/</link><description><![CDATA[Yuba Community College District (YCCD) has contracted with AT&T to provide wireless Internet access to the 11,000 students attending the district's two Northern California colleges, Yuba College in Marysville and Woodland Community College.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Surveys Raise Doubts on Virtualization Security</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68316/</link><description><![CDATA[Migration to virtualization won't be the quick transition that some technology evangelists have predicted, according to recent surveys by two IT security companies. Nor is virtualization as secure as many might want it to be.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What Was Your First Pet's Name? Lessons Learned About E-Mail Security</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68357/</link><description><![CDATA[The intrusion last month into Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail highlighted the frailty of some types of data security measures. What are the lessons for the rest of us?]]></description><author>Doug Gale</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report Casts Doubt on Anti-terrorism Tools</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68379/</link><description><![CDATA[A new report from the National Academy of Sciences, part of which was co-authored by an Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington professor, casts doubt on the effectiveness, lawfulness, and appropriateness of using data-based tools such as data-mining and biometrics to fight terrorism.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>University in South Africa Set To Install Quantum Cryptography on Municipal Network</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68376/</link><description><![CDATA[Physicists at South Africa's University of KwaZulu-Natal are set to install a quantum communication security solution over the eThekwini Municipality fibre-optic network infrastructure in Durban.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cedarville U Sets Up SonicWall Firewalls</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68377/</link><description><![CDATA[Cedarville University in southwestern Ohio has implemented SonicWALL firewalls to provide high-speed gateway firewall protection for its 3,000 students.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Data Breach Strikes U North Dakota Alumni Association</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68378/</link><description><![CDATA[The alumni association for the University of North Dakota has gone public with a data breach that occurred when a laptop belonging to a software vendor was stolen from a vehicle. The computer contained the names of 84,000 university alumni, donors, and others, according to coverage by the Grand Forks Herald.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tips for Selecting a Campus CRM tool</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68282/</link><description><![CDATA[As competition for students increases, colleges and universities are looking more and more to customer (or constituent) relationship management software for help in remaining competitive.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Intercast Networks Goes into Beta with Kazam Video Service at Internet2 Universities</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68315/</link><description><![CDATA[Intercast Networks has redesigned Kazam, its student Internet TV and video service based on the company's VideoXpress platform. Following a spring semester alpha trial at Columbia and Purdue University, the company redesigned Kazam's interface based on student feedback and added additional content that caters to a student audience.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Michigan State Managing MRI Images from Africa with Acuo Tech DICOM Services Grid</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68313/</link><description><![CDATA[Doctors at Michigan State University have begun using the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Services Grid from Acuo Technologies to transport and manage magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) results from a hospital in Malawi, Africa in order to monitor the impact of malaria on children.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IIT Delhi Delivers Services with Ingres Open Source</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68314/</link><description><![CDATA[Administrators at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) have gone public with their installation of open source database management software from Ingres. IIT Delhi, one of seven leading institutes of technology in India, adopted Ingres Database to support administration functions such as grading, finance, human resources, procurement, and hospital administration.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Arizona, Tucson Unified Receive Grant for Environmental Ed Center</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68318/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Arizona College of Education and Tucson Unified School District in Arizona have received a grant from the Qwest Foundation to help fund the Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, which aims to provide out-of-school science, social studies, reading, and writing education for preK-12 students. ]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Focus on Institutional Culture Drives Faculty Technology Adoption at Genesee CC</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68148/</link><description><![CDATA[Too often, institutions spend precious resources implementing a learning management system and associated collaboration, teaching and learning tools, only to find that a relatively small percentage of faculty use the tools to any significant degree. At Genesee Community College (GCC), we have achieved high faculty usage of online learning tools by focusing on institutional culture.]]></description><author>Robert G. Knipe</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>5 Universities Launch Engineering Research Centers with $92.5 Million in NSF Funding</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68317/</link><description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation this week announced that it's funding the establishment of new NSF Engineering Research Centers at five universities in the United States. NSF said it will provide the centers--the third generation of such interdisciplinary research centers--with $92.5 million in funding over the next five years.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It's Time to Realize Procurement's Potential</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68305/</link><description><![CDATA[Electronic procurement can impact much more than simple transactions and individual business functions. John Mayes examines how institutions can gain competitive edge with an effective procurement strategy.]]></description><author>John Mayes</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Louisiana Researchers Connect with 600 Megabit Ethernet Deployment</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68275/</link><description><![CDATA[TW Telecom is helping connect 12 research universities in Louisiana through a 600 megabit Ethernet connection, recently deployed as a part of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI).]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Institutional Path for Change in This Age: Andragogy, not Pedagogy</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68283/</link><description><![CDATA[Our ontology about teaching and learning is no longer workable. It is time for a change from pedagogy to andragogy and evidence-based learning.
]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Voorhees College Enhances VoIP with Sphericall Tools</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68311/</link><description><![CDATA[Voorhees College in Denmark, SC has deployed NEC Unified Solutions' Sphericall to provide users with software-based voice and desktop communications tools as part of its voice over IP system. Sphericall provides a means for faculty and staff to interact between departments and connect with students using IP voice or desktop communication tools across the college, which has five locations in South Carolina.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Merrimack College Receives Infusion of RFID Equipment for New Lab</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68312/</link><description><![CDATA[Merrimack College has received a donation of $60,000 in radio frequency ID equipment from Tagsys to establish an RFID and automatic identification technology laboratory as part of its Mendel Center for Science, Engineering, and Technology. The college includes coursework on RFID as a core requirement for its electrical engineering undergraduate degree.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Alliance To Research Gaming in Math and Science Education</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68310/</link><description><![CDATA[Video games have always had and probably will always have their detractors. But there's a growing movement in academia and industry recognizing the value of this medium as an educational tool both inside and outside the classroom. This week, eight colleges and universities added their inertia to this movement, joining with Microsoft to launch a new alliance to study the benefits of gaming for math and science instruction and STEM equity.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>AVerMedia Rolls Out 1080p Visual Presenter</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68278/</link><description><![CDATA[AVerMedia Technologies has launched a new model in its Digital Presenter line of high-resolution document cameras for classroom presentations. The latest model, the AVerVision SPB370 Platform Visual Presenter, offers a 5 megapixel document/object camera and 1080p HD output coupled with networking capabilities.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>College Students Find WiFi Essential to Education, Survey Reports</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68281/</link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of college students in the United States say WiFi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers, and nearly three in five say they wouldn't go to a college that doesn't have free WiFi, according to a survey by the WiFi Alliance and Wakefield Research. What's more, 79 percent said that without WiFi access, college would be a lot harder.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Coming to Terms with Cloud Computing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68173/</link><description><![CDATA[Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash?" Recent statements by Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison and software-licensing contrarian Richard Stallman zeroed into the phrase. ]]></description><author>Herb Torrens</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Outlines Next-Generation Databases</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68279/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is planning to enhance the BI capabilities in the next version of its flagship SQL Server database, the company revealed Monday. The company kicked off its second annual Business Intelligence Conference in Seattle by outlining plans for a new set of managed self-service analysis and reporting capabilities that will be integrated into the next version of SQL Server. ]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Red Hat Expands HPC Solution Availability</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68220/</link><description><![CDATA[Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product Thursday. An announcement issued by the Raleigh, NC-based company claims that the Red Hat HPC Solution product is the "first" integrated Linux-based HPC platform.]]></description><author>Herb Torrens</author><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IBM Aims To Boost Mainframe Competency with Scholarship Program</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68221/</link><description><![CDATA[As we reported recently, IBM is accelerating its efforts to bolster mainframe education in an effort to increase the number of professionals entering the workforce with mainframe skills. Now the company is putting additional money where its mouth is with a new scholarship program supported by itself and its partner ecosystem, along with higher education institutions.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft's 'Dublin' App Server Tied to .NET 4.0</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68172/</link><description><![CDATA[New Windows Server and .NET Framework 4.0 technologies aimed at developers who are building composite applications will be released at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, Oct. 26-30. The server technologies are the first to support Microsoft's upcoming "Oslo" modeling platform, according to Microsoft. ]]></description><author>Kathleen Richards</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>WoW: Microsoft, Cisco Continue to Cozy Up</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68175/</link><description><![CDATA[The ongoing relationship between Cisco Systems and Microsoft has become even closer, according to recent news that the Windows Server on WAAS (WoW)-- an appliance that merges Cisco's Wide Area Applications Services with Microsoft Windows Server 2008--is available to order.]]></description><author>Jim Barthold</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Yahoo Fixing Zimbra Bug, Integrating with Exchange</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68177/</link><description><![CDATA[Web-search advertising giant Yahoo plans to resolve a password security vulnerability identified in late September in its Zimbra open source e-mail and collaboration software. On Wednesday, a Yahoo spokesperson stated by e-mail that the problem will be addressed in a few weeks' time.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Digital Arts Alliance Adds Fordham U</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68223/</link><description><![CDATA[The Digital Arts Alliance, a consortium led by the Pearson Foundation that promotes digital arts in K-12 education, is expanding its membership with the addition of Fordham University. This follows on the heels of three other organizations joining the group back in July--the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation, the Foundation for Investor Education, and Employers For Education Excellence (E3). ]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Payment Card Security Toughens with DSS 1.2 Release</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68176/</link><description><![CDATA[Opinions are mixed on what the new Payment Card Industry (PCI) DSS 1.2 standard will mean for security pros going forward. However, the mandate is clear: protect data.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>6 Universities Join NASA Astrobiology Institute</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68178/</link><description><![CDATA[Research teams from six universities have been selected by NASA to become members of its Astrobiology Institute with the aim of exploring the "origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe." Teams were each awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, according to NASA.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Amazon To Host Microsoft Solutions in the Cloud</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68174/</link><description><![CDATA[Amazon announced Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon expects to offer companies the ability to run their applications on EC2 using Microsoft Windows Server or Microsoft SQL Server sometime in the fall, according to an announcement issued by the company.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CRM Pushing into New Areas of Higher Ed</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68117/</link><description><![CDATA[Implementing a customer relationship management (CRM) solution can require "difficult or even painful behavioral challenges" for administrators in higher education, according to Nicole Engelbert, a lead analyst with research and analysis firm Datamonitor. "It means re-orienting yourself to your students. That can be tough, so you need to be ready for that."]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Integrated Collaborative Environment Leverages Web 2.0</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68082/</link><description><![CDATA[Here's a bit of trivia for your next high-tech happy hour: A "nog" (in addition to being a Christmas favorite) is a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it. For the founders of Piscataway, N.J.-based startup Bluenog this obscure bit of carpentry nomenclature was the perfect metaphor for an integrated software suite that includes a content management system (CMS), rich portal features and business intelligence (BI) capabilities. ]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>You Say You Want a Runtime Revolution?</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68081/</link><description><![CDATA[The founders of Scottish dev tool maker Runtime Revolution (RR) might be accused of engaging in a bit of high-tech hyperbole with the claim that their latest product offering is "the world's easiest programming tool." But the Edinburgh-based company is pulling out all the stops to throw a spotlight on the usability of its just-released Revolution 3.0.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Washington Aims To Streamline Data Access with Amalga</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68115/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Washington has announced plans to use Microsoft Amalga, the company's unified intelligence system, to give researchers simplified access to data scattered throughout current university information systems.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Visual Studio To Include jQuery Library</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68109/</link><description><![CDATA[In a tip of its hand toward open source software development, Microsoft announced  Sunday that it will incorporate the jQuery JavaScript library into Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET. ]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Browser Makers Seek Clickjacking Fix</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68108/</link><description><![CDATA[What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mitsubishi Debuts HD Education Projector</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68119/</link><description><![CDATA[Mitsubishi this week introduced a new high-end 1080p projector for the education market. The new 3LCD model, at just a hair under $10,000, is targeted toward larger school venues, such as auditoriums and lecture halls.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Available</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68112/</link><description><![CDATA[Developers can get prepared for the next version of Microsoft's rich Internet application platform by grabbing Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0 developer runtime edition, which became publicly available in late September.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>National University System To Deploy Talisma CRM</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68111/</link><description><![CDATA[The National University System is replacing the current constituent relationship management (CRM) module of its ERP system with Talisma CRM. The change is intended to provide National with greater flexibility and extensibility, allowing the system to be custom configured to fit the organization's unique needs.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68089/</link><description><![CDATA[Blogging can be an effective tool for learning, but its benefits shouldn't be taken for granted. It takes careful planning and skillful management to make it work in an educational setting. Here are five of the most common mistakes for instructors to avoid when incorporating blogs into instruction.]]></description><author>Ruth Reynard</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stanford Testing iPhone Application Suite</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68044/</link><description><![CDATA[A suite of five software applications developed by students at Stanford University to run on Apple's iPhone is now being tested on campus. Two are for students, to manage course registration and bills. The other three will allow users to access Stanford's searchable campus map, get team scores and schedules, and check listings in the university's online directory, StanfordWho.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Generative Nature of the Digital Economy and Its Challenge to Educators</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68103/</link><description><![CDATA[With digital technologies and Web 2.0 surrounding us, information -- and knowledge generation -- is abundant as never before. This creates some big changes for higher education: With no scarcity of information or collaboration opportunities, "seat time" in a classroom is no longer just about delivering content. Trent Batson asks, "How does a teacher reclaim the value of students coming to class in this time?"]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What's It Like to Work for an Online Campus?</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68094/</link><description><![CDATA[If you've thought about moving to the online adjunct of your institution, or one of the big-name virtuals, here's what you'll need to consider.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where the Risks Are</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68095/</link><description><![CDATA[Knowing what to spend on data protection and where to focus the effort isn't easy. Security assessments help eliminate the guesswork by identifying where your most critical risks lurk.]]></description><author>Lenny Zeltser</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>China's Southeast University Upgrades Wireless LANs Across 6 Campuses</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68045/</link><description><![CDATA[Southeast University in Nanjing, China has deployed Aruba Networks WiFi networks across its six campuses. The university, with 26,000 students and 5,600 faculty members, wanted to upgrade wireless service for its many libraries and teaching facilities, but its legacy network was unable to cope with the traffic presented by the fast-growing number of users.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>College Crime Gets Google Maps Mashup at UCrime.com</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68039/</link><description><![CDATA[UCrime.com, which provides crime mapping and alert services for colleges and universities, announced that it has doubled to 200 the number of schools it covers.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Technology Forever</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68100/</link><description><![CDATA[Who says classroom learning has to culminate with a formal degree? Tech-enabled lifelong learning programs are utilizing videoconferencing, vodcasting, and more to reach out to the 50-plus nontraditional student.]]></description><author>Matt  Villano</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>They Say They Want A Revolution</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68099/</link><description><![CDATA[As sustainability efforts ramp up on campuses, educators share eco-friendly dorm practices-- the ideal way to educate students about environmental issues.]]></description><author>Rama Ramaswami</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Aruba To Increase Wireless Performance with ARM 2.0</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68113/</link><description><![CDATA[Aruba Networks has released new software designed to increase the speed and reliability of its 802.11 wireless networks.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>It's Bandwagon Time</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68098/</link><description><![CDATA[Colleges and universities worldwide are turning to the hosted SaaS model and saying goodbye to issues like patch management and server optimization.]]></description><author>Joseph C. Panettieri</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NSF Awards $7 Million Grant for K-12 'College Ready in Math and Physics Partnership' Initiative</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68118/</link><description><![CDATA[Researchers at the University of Arkansas have received a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support an initiative aimed at improving preparation for K-12 teachers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The initiative, dubbed the "College Ready in Math and Physics Partnership," will pair faculty in the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith College of Education with teachers from 33 school districts in Arkansas and Oklahoma.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Waiting It Out</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68088/</link><description><![CDATA[Have you given up trying to bring faculty into the world of emerging technology for teaching and learning?]]></description><author>Katherine Grayson</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Just-in-Time Support</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68097/</link><description><![CDATA[8 best practices for providing the help online faculty need-- when they need it.]]></description><author>Judith V. Boettcher</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Online University Aims To Boost Rural Math and Science Teachers</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68116/</link><description><![CDATA[In an effort to increase the number of graduates pursuing science and math teaching careers in rural areas, Western Governors University, an online university, is awarding 150 new scholarships through its new WGU Scholarships for Rural Mathematics and Science Educators program. A portion of a recent $3 million grant from the United States Department of Labor is funding the scholarships.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>More Universities Sign with Hothand Wireless To Deliver Mobile Marketing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68034/</link><description><![CDATA[Hothand Wireless, which delivers "recreation" information to mobile devices, said it has added 10 university partners to its service, among them Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and Stanford.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Seton Hall Monitors Recruitment Dollars with Coremetrics</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68038/</link><description><![CDATA[Seton Hall University is using Coremetrics to better track its investment in recruitment efforts. The Web-based service, which is primarily used by retailers, captures behavioral data to provide the university with insights on how to allocate marketing dollars across campaigns and channels.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cisco's UC Platform Signals IBM, Microsoft Tussle</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68032/</link><description><![CDATA[Cisco, a company synonymous with telecommunications networks, is flexing its muscles in yet another arena--unified communications. Last Wednesday, the company set the stage for head butts with incumbents IBM and Microsoft by unveiling a UC portfolio for the enterprise.]]></description><author>Jim Barthold</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>North Seattle CC Adds Plato Online Algebra Course to Math Formula</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68043/</link><description><![CDATA[North Seattle Community College (NSCC) will be adopting Plato Learning's newest online software for post-secondary--Academic Systems Algebra--to support the college's developmental mathematics courses. The math series covers the principles of algebra in a self-paced online format. Since spring 2008, NSCC has utilized Academic Systems Algebra to instruct 200 students enrolled in basic, elementary, and intermediate algebra courses.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68040/</link><description><![CDATA[Huntington Junior College (HJC) in West Virginia has gone public with its year-long early-adopter use of Campus Management's CampusLearning, a suite of services that provides for real-time, two-way integration between proprietary portals and student information systems and the Moodle open source course management systems.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Details Surface</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68080/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout. All of these products are still in the very early stages.]]></description><author>Kathleen Richards</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Universities Tackle Mainframes in IT Courses</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68046/</link><description><![CDATA[Five universities--four in the United States and one in China--have teamed up with IBM's Silicon Valley Lab to deliver courses in information technology focused on mainframes. The aim of the collaboration is to help boost the number of qualified IT professionals entering the workforce, with particular emphasis on skills like database administration, SOA, and virtualization.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Windows 7 Bits To Be Released at PDC'08</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68028/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft hopes to draw crowds to its upcoming Professional Developers Conference by making Windows 7 bits available to the public attending the event. The venue will be the staging ground for the first public release of the new operating system.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DePaul Weaves SS&amp;C Tech Finance Material into Hybrid Graduate Course</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68037/</link><description><![CDATA[Chicago's DePaul University is trying out SS&C Technologies Zoologic Learning Solutions as its Web-based course content provider for graduate-level finance courses. Students will use 10 Zoologic Web-based courses as online study material in the "Financial Statement and Security Analysis" course. Zoologic course topics include accounting, credit risk, and equity.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Serena Acquisition Takes Aim at Microsoft Project</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68031/</link><description><![CDATA[Serena Software acquired Projity  Wednesday and is promoting that company's software as an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.]]></description><author>Jim Barthold</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Verizon Wireless Upgrades Game at U Michigan </title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/68042/</link><description><![CDATA[University of Michigan football fans get to play with enhanced wireless communications through an arrangement with Verizon Wireless, which has activated a cell on light truck (COLT) that doubles capacity in and around Michigan Stadium on game days.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Super Powers of Layer 7 Traffic Analysis at Wayne State</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67994/</link><description><![CDATA[The six-person information security office at Wayne State University faces the same challenge common to most institutions of higher education: limited resources and unlimited problems--especially when it comes to identifying problematic network traffic.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>United States Tops List of Sources for Botnet Attacks</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67905/</link><description><![CDATA[The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study by security service provider SecureWorks Inc.]]></description><author>William Jackson</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Crown College Adopts Angel To Support Online Learning</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67943/</link><description><![CDATA[Crown College, a Christian college in St. Bonifacius, MN with about 1,200 students, has decided to replace its existing online course management service with the Angel Learning Management Suite (LMS).]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malicious Code Hidden in Rich Content Files Tough To Detect, According to Finjan Report</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67946/</link><description><![CDATA[Finjan, a company that sells security products, said it has uncovered examples of obfuscated code embedded in rich-content files, and not just in HTML-based Web pages on legitimate Web sites. According to the vendor, code obfuscation remains the preferred technique for cybercriminals for their attacks.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>UW-Stout Taps Echo360 Lecture Capture To Connect with Distance Students</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67940/</link><description><![CDATA[Distance education students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout are enjoying the personal touch in their online technical communications program thanks to deployment of lecture capture from Echo360. EchoSystem captures in-class voice, video, and visual aids from such devices as smartboards and tablet PCs, then publishes the combined media to a school's learning management system, iTunes U portal, or Web portal.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Purdue Team Driving SiCortex Low-power Supercomputer in 2008 Cluster Challenge</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67945/</link><description><![CDATA[A team of student engineers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN will be using technology from SiCortex, a Massachusetts company that makes lower-power supercomputers, for its cluster computing entry in an upcoming competition. The Boilermaker Cluster Challenge team will be entering its design at SC08, a supercomputer conference put on in November by IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lecture Capture: No Longer Optional?</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67990/</link><description><![CDATA[Lecture capture has been gaining momentum in recent years, but that momentum is being outpaced by student demand. According to new research released this week by the University of Wisconsin-Madison involving about 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students, an overwhelming 82 percent of students said they would prefer courses that offer online lectures over traditional classes that do not include an online lecture component. The researchers also pointed out the implications for these findings extend well beyond the classroom.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Duke Deploys Portal from To Manage Board Business</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67939/</link><description><![CDATA[Duke University has selected BoardVantage for the electronic distribution of written materials to the University's Board of Trustees.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Villanova Broadcasts Emergencies and Ads with Rise Vision Digital Signage</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67949/</link><description><![CDATA[Villanova University in Pennsylvania has expanded its on campus use of the Rise Vision Display Network to create a networked, campus-wide information system. Villanova uses the digital signage content management system on 15 LCD screens, with plans to add another 30 screens, for displaying information about emergency notifications, campus events, and schedules, Villanova also sells advertising to local merchants that accept the school's Wildcard debit card.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Experian QAS and RuffaloCODY Integrate Address Verification with Auto-phoning Software for Higher Ed Users</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67944/</link><description><![CDATA[Two companies, Experian QAS and RuffaloCODY, have released an integrated edition of their software intended for colleges, universities, public broadcasting organizations, Greek organizations, and other nonprofits. QAS for RuffaloCODY combines QAS Pro Web for address validation on Web sites and intranets with RuffaloCODY's new CampusCall 3.3 phonathon automation software.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting Creative on Campus: Adobe CS4 Launch</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67909/</link><description><![CDATA[This week Adobe Systems Inc. made public the software suite it calls its biggest release ever--the fourth version of its Creative Suite. Campus Technology talked with Adobe Vice President for Worldwide Education Peter Isaacson about the Adobe CS4 launch and some implications for higher education.]]></description><author>Mary Grush</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Using Classroom Clickers To Engage Every Student</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67903/</link><description><![CDATA["With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, speaking about classroom response systems.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Arizona To Optimize Wireless Networks on Campus</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67941/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Arizona in Tucson said it has begun using wireless LAN tools from AirMagnet, including Survey and Planner, to help optimize and plan wireless networks throughout the campus. The campus includes approximately 115 core buildings and more than 35,000 students. Of those 115 buildings, 70 are currently wireless enabled, encompassing more than 7.5 million square feet. It has 5,000 wireless access points.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>King Abdullah U and IBM Join To Build Middle East's Most Powerful Supercomputer</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67942/</link><description><![CDATA[King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and IBM have announced a joint project to build and conduct research on one of the most complex, high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the world. The new system, named Shaheen, will serve the university's scientific researchers across multiple disciplines, advance new innovations in computational sciences, and contribute to the further development of a knowledge-based society in Saudi Arabia.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dynamic Biometric Pushes for Distance Learning Student Authentication by Pen</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67938/</link><description><![CDATA[Dynamic Biometric Systems has introduced a series of student authentication products based on its Bio-Pen hardware and related software systems. The company said its Bio-Pen addresses the verification requirement laid out in the Higher Education Opportunity Act that mandates educational institutions develop a student authentication method to ensure that students who receive credits for distance courses actually do the class work and take the exams.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>McAfee Set To Acquire Secure Computing, a Top Contender in Detecting Malware and Spyware</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67947/</link><description><![CDATA[During the same week security vendor McAfee said it intended to acquire Secure Computing in a deal valued at $465 million, Secure surfaced as a top contender in the results of testing done by AV Test Labs. In a comparison of 34 suite products, AV said Secure Web Anti-Malware (formerly WebWasher) detected 99.7 percent of malware present and 99.2 percent of adware and spyware, placing it third in both categories behind G DATA Software's AVK 2009 and Avira's Premium Security Suite 2008 for malware and AVK 2009 and F-Secure 2009 for adware and spyware.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>First Look: Adobe Creative Suite 4</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67826/</link><description><![CDATA[Adobe debuted Creative Suite 4 Tuesday, with all-new versions of its major development, design, publishing, and video/motion graphics applications, along with new and modified pricing and licensing schemes for both K-12 and post-secondary education. We have a inside look at the new features in each of the core applications, along with preliminary findings based on a pre-release of the Creative Suite 4 Master Collection.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Turnitin Integrates Plagiarism Tool into New Online Writing Service</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67857/</link><description><![CDATA[iParadigms, creator of the Turnitin plagiarism detection service, has released a set of tools designed to help students improve their writing skills through enhanced teacher-student communication and peer collaboration. The Web-based WriteCycle suite of services combines the company's Turnitin service with its new GradeMark Digital Grading service and a peer review collaboration and feedback tool.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Card Use Can Stem ID Theft, Microsoft Says</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67825/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released a white paper on identity theft with the aim of starting a "vendor-neutral" discussion on the use of "information cards" as an Internet security solution.]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>LaCie To Ship 6 TB Desktop RAID</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67832/</link><description><![CDATA[LaCie has introduced a new four-bay RAID that supports capacities up to 6 TB. Designed for desktop storage, the new 4big Quadra array will be available in 2 TB, 4 TB, and 6 TB configurations with support for RAID 0 and RAID 5 configurations.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fayetteville State U Deploys Federal Signal Campus Safety and Security System</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67779/</link><description><![CDATA[The 6,000-student Fayetteville State University in North Carolina has deployed a Federal Signal campus safety and security system to alert students, faculty and staff in the event of unsafe weather or dangerous campus conditions.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>IBM Releases Virtual Storage Optimizer</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67831/</link><description><![CDATA[IBM has unveiled a new storage solution designed to help organizations take advantage of cloud computing technology in order to significantly reduce their virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage needs.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Furman U Chooses ADT's Select Link Emergency Notification System</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67778/</link><description><![CDATA[Furman University in Greenville, SC has gone public with its installation of ADT Security Services' Select Link, an emergency communications system that can simultaneously send text or voice messages to cell phones, desktop and laptop computers, PDAs, and digital pagers.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft's HPC 2008 Now Live</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67850/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. announced this morning that the High Performance Clustering (HPC) Server 2008 has been released--both to manufacturing and the general public.]]></description><author>Becky Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Universities Adopt CoWare Processor Designer as Teaching and Research Tool</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67777/</link><description><![CDATA[Two universities have recently gone public with their use of CoWare Processor Designer for teaching application-specific processor architecture. Both École Polytechnique de Montréal in Canada and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have adopted the tool, which enables developers to program chips for specific uses.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft To Expand Security Lifecycle Expertise</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67824/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is crossing the aisles to see the security process through from start to finish--not just internally, but for outside software developers too. The company plans to export its Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) process to a greater extent by releasing tools and support to IT pros later this fall, Redmond said this week. ]]></description><author>Jabulani Leffall</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>VMware Launches vClient, Aims To Create Desktops That Follow Users Anywhere</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67828/</link><description><![CDATA[In an announcement at VMworld last week, VMware unveiled plans to deliver a portfolio of solutions intended to turn virtualized desktops into "universal clients." The initiative, dubbed vClient, begins with a series of products called VMware View.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>HP's Big EDS Plans Include Big Cuts</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67827/</link><description><![CDATA[HP has completed the acquisition of EDS, an outsourcing innovator; now it's restructuring, with plans to cut jobs, the companies announced last week. In order to effectively play in the enterprise IT space, HP aims to cut about 7.5 percent of its workforce. A combined 24,600 employees, half in the United States, will feel the affects.]]></description><author>Jim Barthold</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Smart Meeting Pro Expands Language Support</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67830/</link><description><![CDATA[Smart Technologies has recently added seven new languages to its Smart Meeting Pro collaboration software, intended to address the needs of a growing global customer base.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vanderbilt U Keeps Computers in Order with Persystent</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67776/</link><description><![CDATA[After a brief pilot, Vanderbilt University in Nashville will be implementing Persystent Technologies' Persystent to maintain PC configuration compliance. The software automatically repairs and restores an infected or corrupted PC's operating system and software applications, on or off the network, while also enforcing configuration policies. ]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lecture Capture Drives Academic Gains at Saint Mary's U</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67775/</link><description><![CDATA[A new study by Saint Mary's University of Minnesota concluded that students who used the on-campus lecture capture archives, recorded by Tegrity, tended to have a higher cumulative GPA than those who didn't.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Education IT Spending, Fueled by Telecom, To Top $56 Billion by 2012</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67784/</link><description><![CDATA[In the United States, IT spending in education will reach $47.7 billion by the end of this year and is expected to top $56 billion by 2012, according to a new report from Compass Intelligence, an IT consultancy and market research firm. This growth in education--both K-12 and higher ed--is being fueled in particular by expenditures in telecommunications, collaborative technologies, and outsourced IT services.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>HP Debuts Hardware, Software To Support VMware Environments</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67772/</link><description><![CDATA[At this year's VMworld, HP announced a series of new offerings designed to help organizations simplify the implementation and management of VMware-based virtual environments.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>2 Higher Ed Consortia Sign with Xerox for Printing and Document Management</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67690/</link><description><![CDATA[The Midwestern Higher Education Compact has signed a three-year contract with four possible year renewals with Xerox Corp. for printing equipment and document management services. MHEC will also extend this agreement to its sister organization, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Zend and Adobe Partner on RIAs at PHP User Conference</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67688/</link><description><![CDATA[This week, for the fourth year in a row, the once-obscure-now-ubiquitous dynamic scripting language, PHP, took center stage at the annual Zend/PHP conference in Santa Clara, CA. The big news at this year's show (also known as ZendCon) comes from Adobe Systems, which announced plans to collaborate with Zend Technologies, the show's sponsor and the creator and commercial maintainer of PHP.For the fourth year in a row, the once-obscure-now-ubiquitous dynamic scripting language, PHP, took center stage at the annual Zend/PHP conference in Santa Clara, Calif. The big news at this year's show (also known as ZendCon) comes from Adobe Systems, which announced plans to collaborate with Zend Technologies, the show's sponsor and the creator and commercial maintainer of PHP.]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vista Desktop Licensing Plan Has Its Virtues, Gartner Says</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67689/</link><description><![CDATA[Windows licensing took an evolutionary turn in early September when Microsoft announced two new licensing options under its Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) program. The program allows IT administrators to move the OS to other PCs (or Macs) using virtual machine (VM) technology.]]></description><author>Herb Torrens</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cray Unveils CX1 Supercomputer for Office Use</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67687/</link><description><![CDATA[Cray Inc., in conjunction with Intel and Microsoft, this week unveiled a relatively low-cost supercomputer that works in office environments. The Cray CX1 high-performance computing (HPC) machine features the use of Intel processors for the first time and comes with Windows HPC Server 2008 preinstalled. It also works with Red Hat Linux Version 5.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lumbering Global Economy Affects IT Industry</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67548/</link><description><![CDATA[The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released recently by Forrester Research. The analyst firm's somewhat gloomy outlook says 43 percent of companies contacted have reduced their overall IT budgets this year, while 24 percent are curtailing discretionary spending.]]></description><author>Herb Torrens</author><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is College Necessary in a Knowledge-Drenched World?</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67620/</link><description><![CDATA[Maybe you've heard people ask: "Who needs large lecture halls to learn? Who needs a sound studio or post-production facilities when you can have them on your laptop? If high-end lab equipment or scientific simulation software is also available via the Web, why do you need to visit a campus to run an experiment?" Is "Why attend college at all?" now a serious question?]]></description><author>Trent Batson</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Victory for Becta? Microsoft Makes Concessions</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67637/</link><description><![CDATA[The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) appears to be heading toward a reconciliation with Microsoft. The agency, with its outspoken stance on interoperability in education, said it's been making "substantial progress" in its discussions with the company that it once chastised, progress that includes concessions on education licensing programs for schools and colleges.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Echo360 Unveils Web-based Editor for Digital Lectures</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67591/</link><description><![CDATA[Echo360 has announced enhancements to its lecture capture platform, EchoSystem. Foremost is a Web-based editor that gives instructors the option to tailor their recorded lectures.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Blended Learning Effective?</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67634/</link><description><![CDATA[Blended learning sounds like a nice idea--mixing a traditional classroom environment with online components--but is it actually effective? It seems almost intuitively obvious that it is. And with the explosion of blended course delivery in recent years, despite the dearth of research, clearly education institutions take that point for granted. ]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kadoo Launches Site for Managing, Storing, and Selectively Sharing Digital Content</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67546/</link><description><![CDATA[Kadoo has launched a site where users can manage, store, and selectively share their digital content from one place. The service was created by executives from Blackboard, which produces products and services for the education market.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Michigan, DTE Team Up To Launch $100,000 Clean Energy Prize</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67590/</link><description><![CDATA[A new competition is challenging teams from Michigan colleges and universities to develop the best business plans for bringing new clean energy technologies to market. Organized by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan, the Clean Energy Prize challenge will award $100,000 in prize money during spring 2009 in an effort to help draw emerging technologies out of university labs in Michigan and into the commercial space.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Universities To Research the Education of Engineering Students</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67540/</link><description><![CDATA[A team of researchers from four universities has just received three grants totaling $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation to study how engineers are educated. Faculty from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts, California Polytechnic State University, and the University of San Diego in California will be collaborating on issues related to recruiting, retaining, and educating engineers.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NSF Grants Aim To Increase K-12 Science and Math Teachers</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67587/</link><description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation this week awarded nine grants aimed at expanding the number of undergraduates pursuing teaching careers in science and math. This week's grants, administered through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, range from $500,000 to $750,000. Thirty such grants have been awarded this year so far. Sixteen were awarded in 2007.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>VMware Fusion 2 Expands Hardware Support, Improves Networking</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67632/</link><description><![CDATA[VMware has released VMware Fusion 2.0, a major update to the desktop virtualization solution for Mac OS X that has been in public beta since back in July. The new version, a free upgrade for users of VMware Fusion 1.x, focuses on expanded support for Mac hardware configurations, including additional graphics capabilities, as well as networking, security, storage, and application sharing improvements.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>VMware Launches GoVirtual.org in Response to 'Massive Growth' in Academic Membership</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67592/</link><description><![CDATA[After announcing a four-fold increase in its VMware Academic Program over the last 12 months, virtualization giant Vmware unveiled a new Web site dedicated to virtualization researchers and academics. GoVirtual.org is an online resource intended to help support the growing interest in virtualization among the global academic community.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lourdes College Selects Intelliworks To Track Graduate School Contacts</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67588/</link><description><![CDATA[Lourdes College Graduate School has gone public with plans to manage its prospective student contacts, events, and electronic communications though the Intelliworks constituent relationship management (CRM) platform.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Niigata U and Oki Collaborate in Developing Biodegradable Toner</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67589/</link><description><![CDATA[Niigata University in Niigata, Japan and Oki Printing Solutions announced an agreement to jointly develop and manufacture environmentally conscious toner that uses biodegradable complex fine particles, originated from biomass resources. A toner prototype will be ready by 2009 and Oki Printing Solutions plans to market the product by 2010 globally.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leopard Update Tackles Security, Active Directory Issues</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67586/</link><description><![CDATA[Apple has released an update to Mac OS X Leopard. The new version, 10.5.5, addresses issues with security, stability, and application performance and is available now for all versions of Leopard through 10.5.4.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Intel Rolls Out 65W, 6-core Xeon 7400 Processors</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67584/</link><description><![CDATA[Intel this week began rolling out its new line of Xeon processors targeted toward server markets. The new Xeon 7400 series features four- and six-core configurations designed to be used in systems with at least four processors and is targeted largely toward data centers and, in particular, virtualization applications.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Penn State Collaborating with Alcatel-Lucent on Video Social Networking</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67424/</link><description><![CDATA[The Pennsylvania State University and Alcatel-Lucent have announced an agreement to jointly develop a mobile video social networking application. The collaborative research team will be funded by the vendor.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>VMworld Preview: VMware's Vision of Virtualization as the OS</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67585/</link><description><![CDATA[The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products. VMware is set to unveil plans to expand its flagship virtualization platform into something resembling an operating system, a new cloud computing initiative and the company's path toward a "universal client vision."]]></description><author>John K. Waters</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Boosts Modeling Strategy and Rejoins OMG</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67547/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, as part of its overall initiative to support modeling capabilities, especially in its .NET Framework, last week joined the Object Management Group (OMG), a nonprofit organization that fosters integration standards for the enterprise.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Northern Michigan U Issues 6,000 Laptops to Students</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67425/</link><description><![CDATA[Northern Michigan University has deployed 6,000 Lenovo ThinkPad R61 notebooks to its full-time students to provide access to 724 Web-based classes this fall. This is the 10th year that NMU has issued ThinkPads to its student body.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>eCollege Partners with Cdigix for Rich Media Integration</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67493/</link><description><![CDATA[eCollege has announced a partnership with Cdigix that will give students at institutions using the company's course management system integrated access to rich media assets, including audio and video, among other things.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>EduTone Integrates Virtual Appliance Platform</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67536/</link><description><![CDATA[VIP Tone has announced a partnership with rPath that uses the company's rBuilder and rPath Appliance Platform to distribute and maintain VIP Tone's EduTone Gateway virtual appliance.]]></description><author>Chris Riedel</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Google's Chrome Browser Contains Microsoft Code</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67551/</link><description><![CDATA[The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.]]></description><author>Kurt Mackie</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Virginia and San Jacinto College Streamline BI Work with Information Builders WebFocus</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67541/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Virginia School of Medicine and San Jacinto College have gone public with their adoption in the last year of Information Builders' business intelligence tool, WebFocus.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cheapskate 2: The Sequel</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67426/</link><description><![CDATA[One month after our previous "Cheapskate's Guide" to essential security tools, "free" is still alive and well. Security experts have weighed in with additional open source and free software packages they find particularly useful, which we now share with you.]]></description><author>Doug Gale</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Genetec Releases New Version of IP Access Control</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67434/</link><description><![CDATA[Genetec has released version 2.0 of its IP access control security application, Synergis. The program provides a unified security console through two modules. SecurityDesk allows the user to control and monitor the security system by consolidating video, audio, and access control data into one interface. ConfigTool is an interface for managing users, cardholders, access credentials, schedules, and hardware devices. It also provides reporting capabilities.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mead Moves Into Interactive Whiteboards</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67487/</link><description><![CDATA[School supply company Mead is taking the plunge into education technology with the launch of a new interactive whiteboard. Dubbed, appropriately enough, the Mead Interactive Whiteboard, the new model incorporates a 77-inch interactive projection screen, multimedia pen, mounting hardware, and software suite targeted toward education.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PIER Updates Collaboration System for Emergency Response</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67428/</link><description><![CDATA[PIER Systems has launched version 6.0 of the PIER--Public Information Emergency Response--system. The intent of the PIER program is to allow public affairs staff to draft, edit, and send out a message to multiple audiences directly, without having to go through conventional mass communication channels. PIER also allows users to send out notifications such as SMS text messages, manage public inquiries and respond to media effectively.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iona College Deploys InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67427/</link><description><![CDATA[Iona College in New Rochelle, NY has selected InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper to protect the college wireless network. The InfoExpress appliance controls access to the network by auditing all devices before granting access. The solution can be deployed in monitor mode, giving organizations the option to remediate endpoints "on the fly" without having to restrict access to users.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Valcom and Keltron Integrate Technologies for a Life Safety Communications System</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67429/</link><description><![CDATA[Valcom, which sells telephone integrated paging systems, and Keltron, which sells life safety event management systems, have formed a partnership to offer Total Life Safety Communications System, an integrated, wireless system that provides extended life safety communications for organizations with multiple buildings.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SGI Powers Bioinformatics Research at U South Carolina</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67342/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of South Carolina has upgraded its server and storage technologies to support research in bioinformatics and processing of medical images. The university adopted server and storage solutions for SGI, including the company's SGI Altix 4700 system and InfiniteStorage 4000.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Microsoft Releases More Virtualization Details</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67338/</link><description><![CDATA[Microsoft, following its earlier announcement about new virtualization products and imminent releases, has filled in some details that give more shape to its vision.]]></description><author>Keith Ward</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U North Carolina at Charlotte Signs Southeast TechInventures To Commercialize IP</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67339/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of North Carolina, Charlotte has signed a licensing agreement with Southeast TechInventures Inc. (STI) to streamline negotiations and accelerate the acquisition of intellectual property--a key step in the technology commercialization process. STI works in partnership with university-based inventors to commercialize new technologies.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Texas at Austin Adopts Annual Copyright License from Copyright Clearance Center</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67340/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Texas at Austin has signed an agreement with Copyright Clearance Center to adopt CCC's Annual Copyright License for academic institutions. This license gives librarians, faculty, copy shop staff, and others with pre-approved permission to use content in coursepacks, e-reserves, course management systems, and research collaboration.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Galveston College Revamps Constituent Services</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67341/</link><description><![CDATA[Galveston College has selected Datatel Colleague and Datatel ActiveCampus Portal solutions to replace legacy systems in use by the school. The College also licensed Colleague Student Retention Alert, a comprehensive offering of software and professional services that identifies and serves students who are academically at-risk.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>34 Washington Colleges Move into Online Course Delivery</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67328/</link><description><![CDATA[The Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges is rolling out a new system to deliver online classes, presentations, and meetings. The organization recently signed on with Elluminate to use that company's Elluminate Learning Suite across its 34 member colleges.]]></description><author>David Nagel</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Driving Google Apps for Education</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67337/</link><description><![CDATA[A humble little old bus left Google's Mountain View, CA campus Monday for a 5,000-mile trek across the US to visit 10 college campuses, beginning with southern California's USC. Of course, the 30-year-old bus was converted to biodiesel, updated with solar panels and other green features, stocked with tons of technology and wireless Internet, and given an adorable "Google" paint job. It departed on schedule, chock full of Google Apps for Education demos and tech experts (riding  along or flying to meet the bus) with new ideas to discuss with students and faculty.]]></description><author>Mary Grush</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Small Georgia College Rolls Out 802.11n Network</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67302/</link><description><![CDATA[Cost is an issue with any wireless network project, and, for the smallest schools, it can be an overriding factor. But 700-student Emmanuel College, located deep in Georgia, brought the cost of a new 802.11n network under control by initially focusing on strategic areas such as its residence halls. It's also saving money by eliminating the high cost of continual IT staff repairs to the previous wireless system.]]></description><author>Linda L Briggs</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Long Beach Students Get Chinese Language Tutoring Direct from Beijing</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67295/</link><description><![CDATA[A class at California State University, Long Beach has signed up to receive online tutoring in Chinese from eChineseLearning. The company, based in Beijing, provides Chinese language lessons for academic, business, and personal use through Skype. The program was piloted earlier this year by eight students in CSU's Asian and Asian American Studies Department who were studying the fundamentals of Chinese. Each student received an hour of tutoring each week.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Minnesota State U Tech Students To Use Alpha Software To Build Databases</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67300/</link><description><![CDATA[The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology of Minnesota State University, Mankato has selected Alpha Software's Alpha Five Platinum as the standard programming tool for its engineering curriculum. Engineering students are now using Alpha Five to develop databases that support hardware design, system integration, project management, budget management, verification plans and reports, and engineering tools.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Vanderbilt U and Med Center Expand Wireless Network with Sprint and Nextel</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67299/</link><description><![CDATA[Vanderbilt University and Medical Center (VUMC) will be upgrading its wireless connectivity on campus with the help of Sprint, a long-time provider of wireless services to the school. Sprint will expand the existing system, including additional network coverage on both the Nationwide Sprint Network and the Nextel National Network covering eight buildings.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>U Virginia Putting GageMap Software through Cycles in Engineering Program</title><link>http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/67297/</link><description><![CDATA[The University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science Rotating Machinery and Controls (ROMAC) Industrial Program will be using EDAS GageMap software to conduct vibration analysis and simulate vibratory effects on industry-focused research projects.]]></description><author>Dian Schaffhauser</author><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>