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Netop Acquires GenevaLogic, Expands Reach in Classroom Management

6/12/2008

Danish software company Netop has announced the acquisition of Swiss software company GenevaLogic. The purchase expands Netpop's portfolio classroom management software. Read More

Pearson's Behnke Appointed to IMS Board

6/11/2008

Education publisher Pearson announced that its chief learning officer, Jim Behnke, has been appointed to the board of directors for IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS GLC). With 14 members, the IMS GLC Board includes many of today's leaders in education and technology. Read More

Six Years Later, SIIA Releases The 2nd Edition Of Experts' Guide To The K-12 Market

6/11/2008

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) last week released the second edition of their popular Experts' Guide to the K-12 Market. Targeting an audience that includes senior executives, project managers, sales professionals, public relations practitioners, and policy makers, among others, the guide is intended as a resource to help businesses compete in the education industry. Read More

Securify Brings Real-Time Discovery and Control to IPv6

6/10/2008

Network security solutions provider Securify Inc. announced support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) across its product line. As of June 2008, the company is the only provider to offer real-time discovery and control of network activity using the new protocol. Read More

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