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- Usability vs solid IT
- I'm just writing a quick post this morning since I'm in a motel room with 4 kids off the Jersey Turnpike getting ready to finish my drive home to Massachusetts. However, I'm writing on a lovely unsecured wireless connection that the motel provides. Last week I read George...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- What if I get hit by a bus?
- After reading Marc Wagner's post "Don't be fooled, Linux is not free," I was struck by a few items. First and foremost, Marc is right. Linux is not a panacea. It doesn't take away the cost of doing business and it certainly requires a degree of expertise,...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Don't be fooled, Linux is not free
- I just finished reading Chris Dawson's most recent piece Linux definitely has a place in education and I couldn't agree more, until he said ..."If the choice is arbitrary, then would you rather pay hundreds of dollars or many thousands or millions at the enterprise level or would you rather...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- Is Linux right for your school?
- My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE and he has made some excellent points. The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Is your university IT department leading or following?
- While K-12 decision makers are often not the ones who have to implement those decisions, many in K-12 settings still have the advantage of one or two experienced IT people who somehow figure out how to do more with less. The importance of thinking like a CIO not a consumer should be clear...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Schools fights IT outsourcing fears
- How much does outsourcing jobs overseas affect enrollment in IT courses in colleges? Computer degrees have seen a sharp decline since the dot-com bust and thats putting pressure on colleges to recruit students, reports the Tampa Tribune. Some teachers such as Kaushal Chari, the head of an information technology...
- Tags: Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Giving educators the tools that they want (and need)
- Education IT, whether in K-12 or in a college or university setting, all too often finds itself trying to provide cost-effective solutions without having any idea what our educators need to do their jobs most effectively. Among our readers, the debate rages on between Windows and Macintosh and some...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Three IT programs chosen for $1.3m NSF grant
- The Concord Consortium in Massachusetts has chosen middle and high schools across the country to participate in a model national science and technology project which will give schools an opportunity to advance beyond the standard science curriculum, reports info Zine. One district receiving the funds is Olathe...
- Tags: Education Technology, Olathe District Schools
- Blog posts 2007-01-09
- A new year (and semester) is upon us
- Well, if you work in University IT, your students are back in town and classes are about to start. More likely than not, faculty are starting to panic because the application they requested on 22 December is still not deployed to hundreds of workstations which their students will be...
- Tags: semester, University IT, information technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-06
- Maine high school IT students refurb PCs
- A high school in Maine has come up with a solution to those pesky outdated school computers—fix em up and give them away to other students. The idea has far-reaching benefits for everyone involved, reports the Portland Press Herald. Students in the Information Technology program at the Sanford Regional...
- Tags: Vo-Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Vacation time in education IT
- In an educational IT setting, where tens of thousands of students may be dependent upon access to thousands of identically configured workstations anytime, day or night, the challenge to keep those workstations current and up to date can be daunting. Unlike Summer break, when student populations are down dramatically...
- Tags: Education Technology, Policy, Higher Ed
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Gates: As US IT grads slow, Russia fills the gap
- The fact that the U.S. isnt producing Internet graduates from its universities to fuel the growing need for skilled workers in the high-tech market was on the mind of Bill Gates as he met with Russian leaders in Moscow yesterday, reports Reuters. After the breakup of the Soviet Union,...
- Tags: Notebooks, Bill Gates, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-13
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- Xerox turns down the heat, saves power with green printing innovation
- Have you noticed how much more the tech companies have started to talk about technology software AND hardware to help cut back on paper consumption over the past two months? Well, here's a slight twist from Xerox, which is focusing on improved power efficiency in the printing process with its...
- Tags: Innovation, Xerox Corp., Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Migrating From Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 4)
- This paper looks at how Exchange 2007 and Lotus Domino 7 can coexist with the future aim of migration from Domino to Exchange. The paper gives sample scenario in which, Fabrikam is running Lotus Domino 7 and Contoso is running Exchange 2007. It prepares the Contoso Exchange environment so it...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, IBM Lotus Domino, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-11-22
- Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
- The vendor-funded recycling organization MRM more formally known as Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company has inked a deal with Goodwill Industries in Texas that will extend the territory it can cover in the state. MRM was started as a joint venture by Panasonic Corp. of America, Sharp...
- Tags: Texas, Electronics, MRM DOES, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Will email and text messages get shorter with the BlackBerry Storm?
- I am admittedly a very big fan of physical keyboards on my mobile phones and have what fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts James and Kevin call "magic thumbs". I am able to pick up devices like the Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, T-Mobile G1 or BlackBerry Bold and quickly type emails...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, E-mail, BlackBerry Device, Storm, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- A live, more interactive Rev3
- Television and the Internet are on a collision course that will revolutionize entertainment, but Revision3 is always one step ahead of the game. Today, they launched a new live video player that allows the user to be the director. That's right, you...
- Tags: Episode, Media Players, Internet, Corporate Communications, Instant Messaging, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Online Communications, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
- If you're not interested in understanding the in's and out's of the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool rating systems, the Green Electronics Council has started training IT solutions and services providers about how to better-interpret the information for their clients. EPEAT uses 51 different criteria (such...
- Tags: Information Technology, Reseller, EPEAT, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Facebook scores SEC exemption
- Facebook has been granted an exemption by the Securities and Exchange Commission that allows the company to not comply with the same law that pushed Google into becoming a public company. The exemption, reported by Business Week today, was granted on October 14 and allows the company to continue to...
- Tags: Facebook, Exemption, SEC, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- iPhone vs. Android development: Day 5
- Today is the last day of a 5-day course on iPhone programming class led by Joe Conway from Big Nerd Ranch. During the course I've been taking notes on how development for the iPhone compares to development for Android. By the way, BNR also offers Android courses if you're interested....
- Tags: Program, Apple iPhone, Web Service, Android, iPhone API, Settings App, Android Preference, Cloud Computing, Web Services, XML, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
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