News
- ISO, IEC Purportedly Advise Rejecting OOXML Appeals
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7/15/2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, which was technically approved in April as an international standard (ISO/IEC 29500), may be on its way toward surviving an appeals process -- the last challenge to its legitimacy as a standard.
- Mercer U Renovates Administrative Systems
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7/15/2008
Mercer University will be deploying Campus Management's suite, One Campus Ecosystem. Mercer's implementation of the new system is expected to take 18 months or less and will include all of the vendor's software systems, including the student information system, Web portals, finance and human resources, application programming interfaces, and business intelligence software.
- U Illinois Adopts ALEKS for Math Placement
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7/15/2008
McGraw-Hill Higher Education announced Monday that it has entered into a contract with the University of Illinois to provide the Web-based ALEKS system in an effort to help increase accurate student class placements.
- Intel Unveils Centrino 2 for Laptops
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7/15/2008
Intel is publicizing its new Centrino 2 processors, which are currently being integrated into laptop computers by about 250 equipment manufacturers. A number of Intel processor products based on Centrino 2 will be publicly unveiled "within 90 days," according an announcement issued Tuesday by Intel.
- New U Arizona Prefetching Scheme Saves Computing Time, Energy
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7/14/2008
Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays. Waiting up to eight seconds for a hard drive to power back up to fetch some document is not the best use of any office worker's time. So two University of Arizona researchers have sussed out a way to save energy and keep data coming quickly, through a concept they call context-aware prefetching.
- Peirce College Implements Palo Alto Networks Firewall
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7/14/2008
Peirce College in Philadelphia has upgraded its firewall infrastructure to the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series firewall to gain visibility and control of Internet applications and threats on its campus networks.
- eInstruction Launches Workspace-ExamView Edition
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7/14/2008
Ed tech developer eInstruction has released Workspace-ExamView Edition, a new version of the Workspace digital classroom suite that couples ExamView's assessment tools with interactive classroom technologies, such as clickers and whiteboards.
- U of Technology Sydney and Agilent Establish Metallomics Facility
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7/14/2008
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has partnered with Agilent Technologies, which produces analytical instrumentation, to establish a research facility to study trace metals and other elements in tissue, and their effects on health.
- Spring Gets Expanded Java Annotation Support
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7/11/2008
When writing a complex Java program filled with many interlocking objects, any automation of routine tasks can be a big help. So Java developers using the Java Spring framework should welcome recent additional support for annotations, which could take care of many mundane construction and configuration duties. Spring is an open source collection of components for developing Java Enterprise Edition-based applications.
- Research Center for PlayStation 3 Processor Gains Continued Support at Georgia Tech
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7/11/2008
The Georgia Tech College of Computing said that sponsors for one of its research centers have renewed their support. Sony, Toshiba, and IBM initially funded the STI Center of Competence with $320,000 in 2006 to do research into further uses for a new type of microprocessor that initially appeared in Sony's PlayStation 3 game console.
- Microsoft Remedies Windows Server Update Glitch
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7/11/2008
Microsoft Thursday confirmed public reports of a distribution glitch preventing patch uploading in certain implementations of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) programs and it also provided a solution to the problem.
- Carnegie Mellon Partners with Lulu.com for New Publishing Imprint
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7/10/2008
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is partnering with self-publishing firm Lulu.com to launch a new academic publishing imprint called ETC Press. All publications will be released under a Creative Commons license and will also have associated Web sites for collaborative authorship and discussion.
- Going Green or Hoarding Green?
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7/10/2008
Organizations have the desire to reduce their impact on the environment but lack the will to pay a premium for cleaner operations, according to a cross-sector survey released recently by IT hosting solutions provider Rackspace.
- Microsoft Says SQL Server 2008 To Ship This Quarter
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7/10/2008
After some speculation that the final release of SQL Server 2008 may slip yet another quarter, Microsoft said its next-generation database is on pace to ship in the third quarter.
- UK's Exeter U Signs Multi-million Pound Contract for Major Network Upgrade
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7/10/2008
The University of Exeter has chosen UK-based IT services firm Data Integration to undertake a major network upgrade. The new 10,000-port network will incorporate wireless and mobile access, security, Juniper Networks' EX Series switches, integrated Nortel and Microsoft unified communications, and a campus-wide wireless network based on Aruba's 802.11n access points.
- Raritan Valley CC To Deploy Hybrid Surveillance Cameras
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7/9/2008
Raritan Valley Community College in New Jersey will be deploying a campus-wide video security system from Visual Management Systems. As part of the $100,000 agreement, VMS will be installing a network of 50 IP cameras.
- University of Leeds Deploys Verint IP Video Solution
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7/9/2008
As part of a campus-wide security enhancement, the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England has deployed the Verint System Nextiva Enterprise IP video solution.
- Pingleton Named CLO at University HealthSystem Consortium
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7/9/2008
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), a group of 102 academic medical centers, has named Susan K. Pingleton its chief learning officer, a newly created position for overseeing education initiatives and programs.
- Microsoft Mends Breach in Open Source Sandcastle
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7/8/2008
Microsoft has released all of the source code used in its Sandcastle project, which is now published at the CodePlex open source developer's Web site, according to a blog. Sandcastle helps developers of managed class libraries create uniform documentation on their projects, using MSDN style.
- Lumens Debuts SXGA Document Camera
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7/8/2008
Lumens Integration this week debuted a new document camera and presentation system called the DC260 SXGA Digital Visual Presenter. The new gooseneck-style system is the first in Lumens' document camera lineup to support HD output via HDMI.
- U Liverpool Deploys iSCSI in Virtualized SAN
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7/8/2008
The University of Liverpool Department of Computer Science is moving away from direct-attached RAIDs to a virtualized SAN environment using StorMagic's SM Series iSCSI Storage Area Network.
- Indiana U, Wayne State Teams Capture Wins in Imagine Cup 2008
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7/8/2008
Winners of the 2008 Imagine Cup technology competition were announced Tuesday in Paris. Student teams from American universities took top honors in two categories and earned achievement awards in other areas. Microsoft, which hosted the event, said it was the most successful run for American teams in the Cup's six-year history.
- IE Is Least-Patched Browser, Report Says
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7/8/2008
According to a report released last Tuesday, more than 40 percent of Internet surfers don't use browsers with up-to-date security patches--and Internet Explorer users are the biggest culprits.
- Ballmer Wants Board Change at Yahoo
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7/7/2008
Microsoft's executives have been talking with investor and corporate raider Carl Icahn about renewed plans for Microsoft to acquire part or all of Yahoo, provided that Yahoo's board is replaced. The details were described in an open letter issued Monday by Icahn, which is addressed to Yahoo's shareholders.
- Stanford, IFL Introducing $50 Handheld to Mexico Students
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7/7/2008
Stanford University School of Education and Innovations for Learning, a Chicago-based nonprofit, have entered into a social entrepreneurship collaboration to bring the $50 Teachermate Handheld Computer to extremely underserved children in Latin America.
