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Lumbering Global Economy Affects IT Industry

9/16/2008

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. Read More

Reliance Rolls Out SchoolMessenger to Mobile County Public Schools

9/16/2008

Reliance Communications has contracted with the Mobile County Public School System to implement a district-wide parent notification system that will help reach the families of more than 63,000 students at 98 schools throughout the county. The district plans to use the system, SchoolMessenger, to increase annual yearly progress (AYP) funding, streamline emergency contact, and enhance general home-school communication. Read More

Tyler To Deploy $4.9 Million ERP Solution to San Antonio District

9/16/2008

Tyler Technologies has signed a deal with Northside Independent School District in Texas worth roughly $4.9 million. The agreement gives Northside ISD licensing, service, maintenance, and ongoing support for Tyler's MUNIS Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. Read More

MDI Wins Contract To Provide Texas District Close Circuit TV, Security Products

9/15/2008

MDI announced last week that it has been selected by Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District (Cy-Fair ISD) to provide a variety of security products and services to the 70-campus district. Read More

VIP Tone Partnerships Streamline Virtual Appliance Distribution

9/15/2008

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. Read More

Walling Data Deploys AVG ANti-Virus for Arkansas District

9/15/2008

Arkadelphia Public Schools in Arkansas has switched to AVG Anti-Virus--with the help of value-added technology distributor, Walling Data Systems--to secure the district's network of more than 700 workstations. Read More

eCollege Partners with Cdigix for Rich Media Integration

9/12/2008

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. Read More

Mead Moves Into Interactive Whiteboards

9/12/2008

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. Read More

Alabama School District Graduates to Application Whitelisting

9/11/2008

Trussville City School District in Alabama has selected Bit9 Parity to secure its computers, replacing application control technology from Lumension Security. The new school district, with five schools and 4,150 students, created a state-of-the art, technology-focused curriculum that uses blogs, podcasts, and other Web 2.0 approaches as part of the learning process. A majority of teachers and students in the sixth grade have been issued laptop computers, which introduced security challenges. Read More

Dailymotion Partners with One Laptop per Child To Bring Video to XO Laptop

9/11/2008

Dailymotion has announced a partnership with the non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) that's intended to bring media-rich, educational content to underprivileged children worldwide. Read More