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Education Institution Achieves Productivity Gains Through User-Driven Information Management System and Confirms ICT Leadership Position

Located on two campuses in Auckland's Pakuranga and Remuera, St Kent's is an independent, Presbyterian school. Offering a premium education to more than 1,650 girls and boys from years 7-13, St Kent's is overseen by 130 teachers. St Kent's College had outgrown its existing IT infrastructure due to rapid growth...

Tags: Information Management, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Information And Communication Technology, Education Institution, St Kent, Content Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Case studies 2008-06-20

Education Institution Achieves 30 Percent Time Saving With Integrated Messaging

Taylor's University College (Taylor's College) in Malaysia has 800 staff and provides pre-university, diploma, and degree courses to students at five campuses. The previous Lotus Notes messaging application used by the college could not meet its growing multi-location collaboration and communication needs. The college wanted messaging software that is easy...

Tags: Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Education Institution, Taylor, Instant Messaging, Groupware, E-mail Servers, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2007-10-05

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)

Accepting credit and debit cards is a fact of life at campuses nationwide. Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard and protect all transaction and consumer data. Unfortunately, education institutions because of their open networks and occasionally inadequate security procedures are particularly vulnerable to hacking and other compromises...

Tags: Payment, Education Institution, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance

White papers 2007-02-05

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Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Microsoft Patents Sudo - So Sudo me!

i do think that it time for some rule and regulation .and some major MS legal bashing . anti-trust Adrian this is shameless self promotionYou would not even have this if a reader had not given it to you. Means nothing but what youre getting out of it, HITS....

Tags: Idiocy, patent, Microsoft Corp., Adrian

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

New Live@Edu offerings keep pressure on Google Apps for Education

Both companies get and "F" from me.Sorry but from what I see niether company is doing nearly enough to work with education and provide the benefits of technology they could and should be.QuestionNo_ax_to_grind : can you elaborate a bit more? Are you with an educational institution? What are the areas...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Apps, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

The Windows 7 judge and jury: Your mom

Win 7 and the below average userI have quite a change up ahead with my co workers. We are a small financial institution and run XP currently. I am sure some of my co workers have vista at home however they have no idea what they are doing if a...

Tags: Gender and diversity, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, women, Microsoft Windows Vista, Win7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-10-08

What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?

Population growth is NOT a problemSpend a few days reading at http://globaleconomydoesmatter.blogspot.com/ and you will be convinced that DECLINING populations are the problem that we should be concerned about.RE: What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?Not often that I agree with you, but you...

Tags: capitalism, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

A Performance Study of Reactive Multicast Routing Protocols in Virtual Class Room Using Mobile Ad Hoc Network

A great deal of excitement has recently propelled Mobile Learning to the forefront of educational technology. The exponential growth of mobile technology in the recent years, increase in the availability of high-bandwidth network, advances in wireless technologies and popularity of handheld devices, have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education....

Tags: Performance, Mobile, Routing Protocol, Science Publications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-09-29

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

University of Utah Writes New Thesis on Risk Management

The University of Utah is ranked as one of the top public research universities in the nation. It's also the oldest and largest institution of higher education in the state. The challenge was the need to keep its systems secure, and within HIPAA compliance. University deployed QualysGuard providing control of...

Tags: Qualys Inc., Risk Management, University Of Utah, Asset Management, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Security, Financial Services, Operational Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Regulations, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2009-09-01

American Colleges and Universities 1.1 (Mobile)

American Colleges and Universities app contain database of more than 8000 USA colleges and universities. You can find detailed information about institution in the U.S. that has been accredited for post-secondary education, including universities, medical schools, community colleges, beauty schools, and test prep centers. Detailed information includes such fields as:...

Tags: College, Mobile, University, MacPhun, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet

Software downloads 2009-08-27

Facebook pages for schools

Separation is KeyI don't think Facebook is an appropriate medium for schools to communicate with students/parents/faculty. One of the issues that comes up in our household frequently is the separation of personal and professional life on Facebook, i.e., I am not "friends" with any of my professional acquaintances on...

Tags: SECURITY, Facebook, Facebook Pages, social media

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Windows 7 upgrade pricing is too expensive

Windows 7 upgrade pricing is too expensiveAdrian, you just shot down your entire argument[i]If free really dominated people's thinking, Linux would commad a massive market share by now.[/i]If Windows was really too expensive (and Windows 7 is around the same price as Vista and XP were) and OS X was...

Tags: Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, amazon, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 upgrade pricing, Windows 7 Upgrade, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, massive market share, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Geo-engineering can save this planet

Geo-engineering can save this planetToo funnyI love it, socialism and government control of your daily life.Nothing like United Socialist States of Amerika....Population control is a better targetIf that kind of money was spent educating people about overpopulation - and how the earth can only support a finite number of humans...

Tags: Contraception, Wood, Geo-engineering

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Overcoming the laptop wall

Overcoming the laptop wallSeems fairly simpleIn my opinion, either:Construct the firewall and proxy services of the university properly so that the wireless network that students can connect to is tightly limited on what websites they can access, or potentially only the intranet. Only allow full inet access to hard wired...

Tags: Firewalls, Notebooks, Web technology, laptop wall, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Humber College Speeds Application Deployment With Virtualization

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Humber College is a polytechnic secondary-education institution with three main campuses. It has an active enrollment of 74,000 students. Humber College serves more than 19,000 full-time and 55,000 part-time students in Ontario, Canada. With 60 computer labs and more than 80 operating system images, the...

Tags: Canada, Microsoft Corp., Ontario, Humber College, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Productivity, Utility Computing, Application Performance Management, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Hardware, Storage, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

YouTube increasingly less of an option in schools

YouTube increasingly less of an option in schoolsYes, no blunt force baby bath water.Too often our schools officials don't have any imaginative powers to find solutions, and just ban a whole genre of creative options for teachers and students.Thanks for the tip on using Fliggo. I have been amazed...

Tags: Corporate communications, YouTube Inc., video

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Blacklists vs. whitelists

Blacklists vs. whitelistsCommercial Site VettingMy concern with a vendor offering to optimize content is where else are they looking to monetize the relationship, perhaps through back doors?Data mine and sell to marketing? Take money from commercial sites or trade associations such as the dairy councils to improve the findability of...

Tags: K-12

Discussion threads 2009-04-30

Students report late lecturers via text messaging

Students at Manchester Metropolitan University in the north of England now have an opportunity to report lecturers who are more than ten minutes late in class. It seems to be a constant issue which student unions are trying to address with late lecturers not being able to teach the entire...

Tags: Union, Student, Text Messaging, Time Management, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Podcasts, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-15