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Xirrus Inks WiFi Deal with Tennessee District

9/30/2008

Xirrus has signed a deal with Tennessee's Lauderdale County Department of Education that will place Xirrus WiFi Arrays throughout the district. Read More

More Universities Sign with Hothand Wireless to Deliver Mobile Marketing

9/29/2008

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. Read More

TreeHouse Interactive Partners with Oracle, Enhances Partner Relationship Management

9/29/2008

TreeHouse Interactive has announced that its Reseller View PRM solution will be integrated with Oracle's CRM On Demand. The new addition is designed to allow companies with partner networks to create partner portals that can be managed by internal sales teams on the back end, through Oracle CRM On Demand. Read More

Honeywell Inks 30-Year, $140 Million Deal with Alberta Schools

9/25/2008

Honeywell has announced a 30-year contract with the province of Alberta, Canada, worth $140 million. Under the agreement, the company will provide total Asset Management for 18 new K-9 schools, including performance monitoring and maintenance for the buildings until 2040. Read More

CyberPatrol Adds New Reseller Partners, Walling Data and Software Security Solutions

9/24/2008

Parental control and Web filtering services provider CyberPatrol has added Walling Data and Software Security Solutions to their Certified Reseller program. The additions increase CyberPatrol's presence in the education, government, consumer, and small business markets. Read More

McAfee Set To Acquire Secure Computing, a Top Contender in Detecting Malware and Spyware

9/24/2008

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. Read More

Telecom, Services, Wireless To Drive Education IT Spending to $56.2 Billion by 2012

9/22/2008

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. Read More

VMware Launches vClient, Aims To Create Desktops That Follow Users Anywhere

9/22/2008

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. Read More

ISG Acquires Educational Services and Products, Expands Offerings To Districts

9/19/2008

Innovative Solutions Group Cos. (ISG) has completed the acquisition of Educational Services and Products (ESP), finalizing a deal that began as ESP filed for reorganization in May of 2008. Read More

Microsoft and Novell Roll Out Virtualized Linux Solution

9/17/2008

Microsoft and Novell, as part of their general interoperability partnership, have verified running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest operating system on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The companies announced yesterday that their channel partners will support the combined technologies. Read More