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Utah Expands Online Writing Program

8/21/2008

Utah districts are expanding their use of MY Access!, an online writing program from Vantage Learning. According to Vantage, more than 400,000 essays were submitted to MY Access! by Utah students within one school year. Read More

Custom Math Curricula Net Carnegie Learning $5 Million in Georgia

8/18/2008

Carnegie Learning recently announced it has reached sales in excess of $5 million for it's newly released Georgia Mathematics 1 and 2 curricula. The customized solutions, designed specifically to meet new high school math requirements being implemented this fall, has been adopted by more than 130 middle and high schools across the state. Read More

Intel Releases Interface for USB 3.0

8/15/2008

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. Read More

Poway USD Implements iPrism Web Filter To Increase Productivity, Cut Costs

8/15/2008

Poway Unified School District (USD) has deployed St. Bernard Software's iPrism 100h Web filter. The new implementation is intended to cut costs, save time, and provide a useful set of reporting and tracking features. Read More

Tegrity Named Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

8/15/2008

Tegrity said that it has achieved Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, with competencies in ISV/Software Solutions. The new status recognizes Tegrity's high level of expertise with Microsoft's solutions and opens the company up to a variety of Microsoft resources. Read More

Teltronics, GE Security Partner for School IP Communications and Security

8/15/2008

Teltronics announced recently that it's been selected by GE Security to provide a new IP-based, secure multimedia platform that will serve as the next generation of the company's StarCall system. Dubbed StarCall iPLUS, the new SIP-compliant, IP-based platform is designed to provide a host of new features designed to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Read More

NComputing Device Addresses Budget and Tech Support Crunch at 3 Colleges

8/14/2008

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. Read More

Dallas County Schools Hires MDI To Implement First Phase of Safety and Security Program

8/13/2008

Dallas County Schools has awarded MDI a contract to begin implementing the first phase of a school safety and security program within school facilities. That includes centralizing safety and security operations into the county school district's headquarters building. It will include the installation of security technology such as infrared detectors, biometric fingerprint readers, integrated time and attendance, and networked IP and wireless video surveillance. Read More

Ultimus Releases New Version of Adaptive BPM

8/13/2008

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. Read More

Fargo District Deploys Computer Management and Monitoring Technologies

8/12/2008

Fargo Public School District will be implementing NetSupport School (NSS), a classroom management program that allows the teacher or media instructor to control website access and record computer activities. The district has 14 public elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools, as well as an alternative high school. Enrollment is around 11,000, and district employs about 1,000 people. Read More