Mobile Computing

CDW-G Lands $2.5 Million Government Contract for Second Year Running

10/1/2008

CDW Government (CDW-G) has been awarded a government contract worth $2.5 million, for the second consecutive year. Under the agreement, the company will provide Fujitsu tablet computers to the Air Force Academy's incoming freshmen cadets, as well as faculty members. Read More

Verizon Wireless Upgrades Game at U Michigan

10/1/2008

University of Michigan football fans get to play with enhanced wireless communications through an arrangement with Verizon Wireless, which has activated a cell on light truck (COLT) that doubles capacity in and around Michigan Stadium on game days. 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

Texas District Virtualizes Servers on VMware, Dell

8/26/2008

Tyler Independent School District in Texas said it has recently moved its servers to a virtualized infrastructure, consolidating 114 older servers onto seven new ones. The district is running VMware ESX Server software on Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers. Read More

Citrix Online Leverages Audio Tools For GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar, Targets SMBs

7/11/2008

Citrix announced Wednesday that has added free VoIP and audio conferencing to the newest versions of its GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar. In addition, the integrated features are fully supported on both Mac and PC. Read More

Emantras Partners With Odyssey Press, Brings On-Demand Printing To REED Platform

6/16/2008

Digital education and learning-enhancement company Emantras announced its partnership with digital printer Odyssey Press. The partnership with Odyssey will add on-demand printing for end users of Emantras' REED (Rapid e-Book and e-Journal) platform. 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

Xirrus Rolls Out WiFi for 1:1 Program at Pueblo SD

5/22/2008

Pueblo School District No. 70 in Colorado has deployed a WiFi network across three of its schools to support the district's 1:1 computing initiative and to support various mobile devices used in the district. The deployment was handled by WiFi developer Xirrus. Read More

OLPCs To Sport XP Pro in Emerging Markets

5/16/2008

Microsoft and One Laptop per Child announced an agreement Thursday to put Windows XP Professional on OLPC XO laptops in emerging markets, providing an alternative to Linux, which will, of course, continue to be offered for the low-cost machines aimed toward students in economically disadvantaged regions. Read More