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Wisconsin School District Awards Contract for Security Systems

6/10/2008

Vuance, a provider of radio frequency verification solutions, has been awarded a $1.4 million contract by Racine Unified School District in Wisconsin to install its MASC security solution into 31 school buildings and two administrative buildings. Read More

Apple Previews iPhone 3G and 'Snow Leopard' at WWDC

6/9/2008

At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) being held this week in San Francisco, Apple released preliminary details of "Snow Leopard," the forthcoming successor to Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and the next major revision to the Mac operating system. The company also debuted iPhone 3G, which is slated to ship July 11. Read More

DynTek Moves Suffolk County District to Virtualized Infrastructure

6/9/2008

Center Moriches School District in New York has revamped its infrastructure and adopted a new technology delivery model, opting to virtualize its servers and deploy a Citrix Application Delivery solution. The overhaul was handled by technology services provider DynTek. Read More

Abaca Brings Spam Filtering to 12 PA Districts

6/9/2008

Twelve school districts in Northeast Pennsylvania will be using the Abaca Technology Email Protection Gateway appliance after testing by BLaST Intermediate Unit (IU) 17. BLaST is an education service agency that delivers services to 19 school districts and 36,000 students. Read More

Texas District Deploys Barix Extreamer for Audio over IP

6/9/2008

Franklin Independent School District (ISD) in Franklin, TX has begun using Barix AG Exstreamer 100 Audio over IP decoding devices for school-wide voice, music, and bell-tone distribution in two schools. The solution provides administrators and teachers with a control system that interfaces with audio and video devices in the schools. Read More

Microsoft Acknowledges Embedded Partners with 2008 Awards

6/6/2008

Wednesday at its Tech-Ed developer conference Microsoft Corp. handed out its 2008 Window Embedded Partner awards. Read More

Turning Releases SDK for Classroom Response System

6/6/2008

Ed tech provider Turning Technologies this week rolled out a new software development kit for its ResponseCard classroom response systems (AKA "classroom clickers"). Read More

HotChalk Partnerships Expand Digital Resources For Teachers, Students

6/5/2008

HotChalk, an online education resource for teachers, parents, and students, announced partnerships with McGraw-Hill, National Geographic, and PBS. The partnerships will provide HotChalk with curriculum content and video resources from the companies, augmenting the collaborative learning environment currently used by more than 395,000 teachers worldwide. Read More

IBM Enhances InfoSphere Software, Helps Organizations Manage Data

6/5/2008

IBM announced Tuesday new versions of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server and IBM Balanced Warehouse, designed to help customers manage data with greater ease. The June 3 announcement also included news on expanded IBM Business Partner support, solutions, and resources intended to enhance the services partners provide to clients. Read More

Missouri Approves Electronic Transcripts for A+ Schools

6/5/2008

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education this week approved the use of the Connect! platform from ConnectEDU to deliver electronic transcripts to colleges from its A+ designated schools. There are more than 250 A+ designated schools in Missouri. Read More