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Georgia District Struggling with Web Proxies and Network Invisibility Implements iTrust

9/11/2008

Dougherty County Schools in Albany, GA has selected DeepNines iTrust to secure its students and control its network. The 17,000-student district found that despite its investment in a content filter, students were using Web proxies and other circumvention techniques to access inappropriate material online during school hours. The district also needed a solution that could provide granular network control. Read More

Oracle Unveils National VAR Program, Gives Partners Single Point of Contact

9/11/2008

Oracle announced its new National VAR Program this week, available to North American Value Added Reseller partners with national reach. Read More

Valcom and Keltron Integrate Technologies for a Life Safety Communications System

9/11/2008

Valcom, which sells telephone integrated paging systems, and Keltron, which sells life safety event management systems, have formed a partnership to offer Total Life Safety Communications System, an integrated, wireless system that provides extended life safety communications for organizations with multiple buildings. Read More

Red Hat Makes Strategic Virtualization Buy

9/8/2008

Open source server distributor Red Hat Inc., which is carving out a virtualization path unique in the industry, added another arrow to its quiver Thursday with the acquisition of Qumranet Inc. Read More

Roper Acquires Horizon Software, Expands K-12 Business with Food-Service Software

9/5/2008

Roper Industries Inc. has announced the purchase of Horizon Software International, adding a series of food service-centered software offerings to its growing portfolio. Read More

New Mexico District Deploys High-Speed Network

9/4/2008

Gallup-McKinley County Schools in New Mexico has signed a five-year, $7.4 million contract with Qwest Communications to roll out high-speed services throughout several locations within the rural district. Read More

Somatic Digital Offers Free Evaluation Version Of eTouchBook Suite

9/3/2008

Somatic Digital has announced an evaluation version of their eTouchBook Suite, giving publishers, OEMs, and others an opportunity to test the platform's capabilities before making the decision to buy. Read More

Electronic Learning Products Forms Alliance with KeyStep

9/2/2008

Electronic Learning Products (ELP) has announced a strategic partnership with KeyStep LLC, intended to help ELP grow nationally, as well as expand its current relationships with education publishers. Read More

McGill U Library Scanning Rare Books with Kirtas

8/28/2008

McGill University Library in Montreal will be using a Kirtas Technologies APT BookScan 2400RA to digitize its collections. The company says that the 2400RA is capable of acquiring page images at the rate of 2,400 pages per hour. The library will be working with Ristech, a Canadian reseller, to implement the digitization solution. Read More

Scottsdale Unified Works with GE Security on District Security Assessment

8/28/2008

Scottsdale Unified School District in Arizona has completed the first phase of a district-wide strategic security master planning process designed to boost safety and support student achievement. The district recently received results of the security assessment from GE Security, including recommendations on ways security might be further improved throughout the district's schools. Read More