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New Apple campus two years behind schedule: Apple announced plans for a new campus in Cupertino, CA two years ago to support its growing workforce and even considered abandoning their current digs at One Infinite Loop in the process. They've since decided to stay in Cupertino, using both locations. According to a story in...; Tags: Cupertino, Apple Inc., Campus, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jason D. O\'Grady; Blog posts 2008-04-04
Making the Grade: Mission Critical Radios Give University Police the Dependable Communications Needed for a Safer Campus: ASU has four campuses. There are currently 65,000 students and there are plans to expand to 90 or 95,000 students in the next 10 to 15 years. ASU had a VHF conventional system originally designed for one campus. It had components that were 20-25 years old. The department started looking...; Tags: Radio, Campus, Motorola Inc., ASU, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Case studies 2008-03-01
Apple's most valuable vendors; New campus on tap; Jobs raise possible: Apple filed its annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday and outlined a few notable items: A list of most valuable vendors, a second corporate campus on tap, component costs and a potential raise for Steve Jobs. Among the highlights: The company outlined its most valuable...; Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Mr., Campus, Company, Research & Development, Benefits, Manufacturing, Business Operations, Human Resources, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-16
Photos: Big gadgets on campus: At the head of the class when students get back on campus this fall will be laptops, smart phones and portable printers. by CNET News.com; Tags: Photograph, Campus, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2007-09-04
New green video: students greening their own campus: We now have our own series of Green Tech videos here at ZDnet. Hosted by reporter Sumi Das, this first one follows here backto alma mater. There at U.C. Berkeley, she learns how students are taking the lead in getting their campus to be more green. ...; Tags: Video, Campus, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-08-29

The Green Enterprise: UC Berkeley: In our first installment of the Green Enterprise, ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes a tour of green technologies around the UC Berkeley campus, including solar arrays powering the student union, an eco-friendly cafeteria and a prototype of electrochromic energy-efficient windows. She also talks with Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley...; Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Campus, Construction, The Green Enterprise, Green; Videos 2007-08-28
College Expands Educational Horizons Wirelessly: Founded in 1836, Emory and Henry is the oldest college in southwest Virginia. The company's challenge was to attract new students to the campus through technological leadership; use technology to help facilitate "Active learning" on campus, including outdoor classes; easily manage the wireless network; and mitigate network security risks. A...; Tags: College, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Campus, Cisco Unified Wireless Network, Networking, Network Security, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Security; Case studies 2007-08-01
University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript: Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....; Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Network, Student, Computer Science, Institution, Technology, Computer, Campus, Berkeley, Productivity, Networking, Wireless, Andrew Mager; Blog posts 2007-06-19
BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus (widget): BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus is a small nice widget for any bitsian or enthusiast to use. BITS, Pilani - Goa Campus sits pretty on your desktop giving you access to common BITS Goa services and resources. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Enthusiast, Campus, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2007-06-18
Engineering a Campus Network: IIT Kanpur: IIT Kanpur's 1000-acre campus has a robust network of 5000 nodes on a fiber optic backbone and extends LAN connectivity to every hostel room. The institute had to provide its students the necessary technology skills to upgrade or share their knowledge. There was a need for a robust campus network...; Tags: Network, Fiber-optics, Cisco Systems Inc., Campus, IIT Kanpur, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, LANs, Optical Networking, Networking, Routers & Switches, Telecommunications; Case studies
Merrill Lynch's Investment in VMware Technology Is a Win for Jacksonville Campus: Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading financial management and advisory companies. Network Services and Technology Support NSTS managed 40 development servers, many of which were below the campus standard, more than three years old and no longer supported by the vendor. In addition, the servers were underutilized and...; Tags: Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Investment, VMware Inc., Campus, Financial Management, Servers, Financial Planning, Finance, Hardware; Case studies
The Ohio State University Newark and Central Ohio Technical College Share a Campus-Wide Network and the Advantages of Extreme Networks' High Performance Infrastructure: The Ohio State University Newark OSUN and Central Ohio Technical College COTC share a three hundred acre campus in Newark, Ohio, as well as a network that supports 400 faculty and staff and over 5,000 students. In 2001, the campus replaced its network with a new Extreme Networks infrastructure designed...; Tags: Ohio State University, High-performance, Extreme Networks, Campus, Networking, Wireless; Case studies
Skills Assessment and Customized Training for Help Desk Staff Save Time and Money: Getronics HelpYouDesk, located in Berlin, Germany, is the customer service and support center for Getronics Deutschland, a provider of information and communication technology. Because the service center wanted to have 30 employees earn the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician MCDST certification, it turned to the campus, an IT training firm....; Tags: Getronics, Customized Training, Microsoft Corp., Campus, Help Desk, Productivity, Call Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Management; Case studies
Global IT Technologies Case Study: Canterbury Language Academy: Canterbury Language Academy has a truly prime location. The campus is located in the heart of Sydney at a stone's throw distance from the Central railway station. The website has been designed on prudent design principles for Search Engines and is very original conceptually. Global IT Technologies knew they were...; Tags: Search Engine, Web Site, Campus, Canterbury Language Academy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Search, Internet; Case studies
Washington State University Uses FrontPage 2000 to Build and Manage Site: In order to attract prospective students to its campus, Washington State University WSU Spokane relies heavily upon its Web site. Few years ago, the campus's Internet presence consisted of piecemeal and disjointed information, most of it designed by student contractors using a wide variety of development tools. As more and...; Tags: Microsoft FrontPage, Washington State University, Microsoft FrontPage 2000, Campus, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Productivity, Internet; Case studies
Whitecliffe Getting Creative With Microsoft CRM: Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design is a private tertiary arts institution offering a specialized arts and design education from foundation and undergraduate to postgraduate levels. The main campus is based in Grafton in a grand 74 year-old-building. Currently, staff at Whitecliffe College are using multiple spreadsheets to manage information...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, Campus, CRM, Whitecliffe College, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Corporate Campus Embraces the Pervasive Wireless Workplace: Both a creator and adopter of mobile technology, Intel Corporation has been offering wireless LAN connectivity to its own employees since 2002. Initially some 1500 users took advantage of a company WLAN, but within three years the number jumped to 55,000 users in 200 Intel locations all over the world....; Tags: Network, WLAN, Campus, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; Case studies

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10 essential gadgets for studentS: I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...; Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions: Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...; Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy; Discussion threads 2008-07-18
Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions: You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...; Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-18