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- A Place Where Students, Staff and Faculty Can Grow
- To equip members of the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe and other residents of the Lake Traverse Region of South Dakota with modern survival skills, Sisseton Wahpeton Community College SWCC, a tribally chartered institution, was established. In 1999, SWCC recognized the need to build a workforce of IT professionals to fulfill...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Staff, Cisco Networking Academy Program, Productivity
- Case studies
- Student Tested, Quality-Assured for Two New Cisco Networking Academy Fundamentals Courses
- The Cisco Networking Academy Program has trained men and women around the world to design, build and maintain networks that power the global information economy. In 2002, the Cisco Networking Academy Curriculum Development Team adopted a new strategy for testing curriculum. In the past, developers tested new curriculum with focus...
- Tags: Focus Group, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Networking Academy Program
- Case studies
- Academy Program Gives Stijn's Job Application the Edge
- The Cisco Networking Academy Program has helped a graduate fresh out of college to embark on a high-powered IT career. Stijn Vanveerdeghem, now a qualified Cisco Certified Networking Associate CCNA, fought off competition from about 15 other candidates to land a position as Belgium's first-ever representative of Linksys, the Cisco...
- Tags: Job, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Networking Academy Program, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies
- Cisco Networking Academy Program Opens Doors for Bulgarians With Special Needs
- The Cisco Networking Academy Program is helping to create opportunities for young Bulgarians with special needs. 26-year-old Gospodin Kostadinov, who has diabetes, continued his Academy studies after IT Essentials, completing the Cisco Certified Networking Associate CCNA training, among other qualifications. Now he teaches IT Essentials himself. Although the flexibility of...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Networking Academy Program
- Case studies
- Networking Skills for the Roma Community
- The Cisco Networking Academy Program has become part of an important initiative to help Bulgaria's Roma population take its rightful place in the community. The Roma Leadership Institute is an informal gathering of Roma activists - mostly representatives of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) involved in furthering the interests of the Roma...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Networking Academy Program, Roma Leadership Institute
- Case studies
- Collaborating for Success
- The Cisco Networking Academy Program collaborates with a number of governmental and non-governmental bodies in different regions of the world. One of the CCNA graduates to have emerged from the E-Parite project at ENSET is Saida Ait Mamma. Not only has Saida successfully completed her CCNA studies, but as a...
- Tags: CCNA, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Networking Academy Program
- Case studies
- Turkish School Student Accelerates Academic Career Thanks to Cisco Networking Academy Program
- Turkish school student Aybars Tuncdogan was just 17 when, somewhat to his own surprise, he passed his Cisco Certified Networking Associate CCNA test on the first attempt. He had enrolled at the Cisco Networking Academy Program within Yildiz Technical University during the school holidays, so as not to disrupt his...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Networking Academy Program
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- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook Connect
- At this week's F8 08 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explains how changes in the social-networking company's platform will benefit developers, as well as users.
- Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Benefits, Human Resources
- Videos 2008-07-25
- Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up
- Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale. Ahead of its earnings report statement Thursday Juniper made the Johnson news official. The company has...
- Tags: Revenue, Juniper Networks Inc., Kevin Johnson, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Apple's coming notebook transition
- Apple is readying a major product transition. We know because they told us so. In the quarterly financial crime call chief financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer referred several times to a "...future product transition which I can't discuss today". That was interesting for two reasons. First, the...
- Tags: Notebook, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Blu-ray, Product Transition, Portable Growth, Desktops, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook gets serious about app qualityBetter Late Than Never!!I agreed with with you that these moves are coming late. Third-party applications have become all the rage on the social networking scene and this is something they should have sorted long since. But anyway, it's better late that never and i...
- Tags: Social networking, app quality, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Facebook gets serious about app quality
- Facebook at its F8 developer powwow had a bevy of announcements that garnered interest, but among the most notable were its efforts to improve the quality of applications on the social networking site. First, the brief recap of Facebook's news (statement, Steve O'Hear's takeaways, Webware and Techmeme...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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