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- Quality products are to blame for Linux/Mac popularity
- There have been a few posts on ZDNet in the last couple days relating to Vista rollouts and available alternatives. In particular, Marc Wagner wrote "Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?". As he noted, In the end, the conscientious IT department will view the transition from...
- Tags: Open Source, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- You brought them along, kicking and screaming ... now what?
- If you've been supporting faculty in a university IT setting for any time at all, you've found it necessary to drag some of them, kicking and screaming, into the information age while others have been on the leading edge (some would say 'bleeding edge') from the start, always challenging you and...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, Information Systems
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Dell announces support plans for Linux machines
- While the exact details concerning timing and availability of Dell's Ubuntu-based hardware offerings are still emerging, an entry yesterday on their Direct2Dell blog outlined plans for support of the new OS. In particular, Dell will be launching a new wiki for users on their linux.dell.com website"that gives technical details of...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
- OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...
- Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- AMD's loss is your gain
- AMDs recent pricelist for processors shows some great deals to be had on their midrange and upper end processors. This has already translated into cheaper laptops and desktops carrying AMD processors. Dell laptops configured with AMDs Turion X2 can run as much as $300 less than comparably equipped...
- Tags: Hardware, Funding, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- DE schools excited about switch to laptops
- Students entering school at Easton High School in Delaware will be doing most of their work on new laptops, a change that has both teachers and students adjusting to the new technology, reports the News Journal "Its an adventure," Principal Kelly Griffith said during last weeks tour. "Were all...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- 'Hardware as a service' to block spam
- Filtering spam is a seemingly never-ending headache for school IT admins. Now Sendio offers a solution that may prove to be more effective - the ICE Box, which stands for Intercept, Confirm, or Eliminate, reports Campus Technology. ICE is a "hardware as a service" system, a pun on the...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Sendio, spam, e-mail, hardware
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- There's no room for bias in academia
- Whenever I sit down to review the comments posted about an article written by one of my fellow bloggers, I am struck by the level of bias that abounds among our readers. To be sure, there are zealots on almost every subject under the sun but sometimes our readers...
- Tags: Classroom Tech, Education Technology, Funding, Hardware, Higher Ed, K-12, Policy
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Do we want Mac in the enterprise when we have Linux?
- Larry Dignan recently posted a piece on Mac in the enterprise (The eternal question: Can Apple go enterprise?). I think a better question is actually why we would want Apple to bother with the enterprise when we have Linux? This assumes, of course, that youre in the market...
- Tags: Apple, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Taking computers from (growing) babies
- As school equipment gets more expensive, its value attracts not just students but thieves as well. In Fort Worth, burglars have stolen or damaged thousands of dollars in computers and other equipment - and administrators are instituting new security measures to curtail the thefts, reports the Star Telegram. Although...
- Tags: Education Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- SC plans to build Wi-Fi across state, give out laptops to 8th graders
- A new proposal introduced in the South Carolina legislature would give every eighth-grader a laptop computer - and the state would develop a statewide wireless network, reports the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. "This will give South Carolina a unique competitive advantage in terms of economic development and will liberate students who...
- Tags: Education Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- As technologies merge, school bans on iPods enter the gray zone
- The ubiquitous iPod might be making a comeback after being banned last year on public school campuses in Broward County, FL, reports the Miami Herald. On the agenda of the Broward School Board this week is whether middle-school students should be allowed to bring iPods, cellphones and laptops...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Hardware, Digital Media, school board, Apple iPod, board, IPODS
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- One laptop per child - even in US suburbs
- As the One Laptop Per Child program OLPC moves into the developed world, software companies are jockeying for position in what could be the largest distribution of laptops to students ever, reports Linux Insider. The OLPC program has long-term plans to sell a slightly higher-priced version of the cool...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12, Hardware, OLPC
- Blog posts 2007-02-07
- Alaska commits to a laptop for every middle schooler
- Students at Wendler Middle School in Alaska are busily typing away on their new laptops - and teachers and administrators are hoping that access to the technology will help them learn more and have fun while they are cruising the Internet, reports the Anchorage Daily News. The verdict...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Theyre
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- No more donations for me.
- My last monster load of dead hardware was being taken away for recycling over the holiday break, making way for the new hardware that will be arriving in a month or so. Were keeping plenty of monitors and the better PCs are being distributed around the school as either...
- Tags: computer, donation, K-12, Donations, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- And the battle rages goes on
- I just finished reading Chris Dawsons article "Will your students be using Linux in 2007?" and, as usual, I agree with him 100% -- until he says "Businesses who have successfully made the switch to Linux often have a culture that caters to said enthusiasts and/or have dumped enough effort...
- Tags: Linux, Apple, Hardware, K-12, Higher Ed, Funding, Open Source, Education Technology, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- Adopting Vista won't be THAT simple
- I just read with interest Universities consider Vista and I just had to laugh when I read that one IT person expected to start deployment of Vista as early as mid-2007. In truth, introducing Vista into a diverse academic environment where Windows XP Pro is firmly entrenched is no...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Vista, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- So about those thin clients...
- Im writing this post from my new and now somewhat infamous laptop. More importantly, Im connected to my LAN wirelessly under Linux. Whoo Hoo! After lots of fussing with ndiswrapper and SUSE this weekend, I pretty well hosed the networking portion of my SUSE install. I have...
- Tags: Terminal services, Microsoft Windows, Thin clients, Operating systems, Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, Linux, Linux Terminal Server Project
- Blog posts 2006-11-06
Additional Resources
- Falling behind in science? No kidding!
- ScienceHow many people really know that you don?t throw up with the flu...Actually, according to Merck, nausea and vomiting are flu symptoms, particularly in children. http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch198/ch198d.html How many people realize that H1N1 vaccines are prepared in the same way as we always prepare flu vaccine?Actually this vaccine was...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, vaccine, evolutionary theory, theory
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- More e-readers - more misconceptions
- my thoughts . . ."Like any good Massachusetts liberal, I?m a big fan of NPR."Well, do keep in mind some of us are conservative.Please?As much as I like ZDNet for tech news, it can be a tad disheartening when there's the occasional trip down political lane, and ZDNet does tend...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, E-books, open mind, NPR, Car Talk, education, e-reader, tax, misconception, British Broadcasting Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
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