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SCU Opens New Learning Commons, Technology Center, and Library

3/26/2008

On Monday, Santa Clara University will officially open a new 194,000-square-foot building, the Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library.

Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award Established

3/26/2008

The Sakai Foundation has announced the establishment of the Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award to recognize transformative education applications of Sakai.

Yahoo! Backs OpenSocial; New Foundation Formed

3/26/2008

Yahoo! announced Tuesday that it's joined forces with Google and MySpace to back OpenSocial, which aims to define a common API to allow social applications across multiple sites. Google, Yahoo!, and MySpace are also creating a non-profit foundation to "foster the continued open development of OpenSocial."

Eclipse Platform e4 Just Getting Off the Ground

3/25/2008

The Eclipse Foundation offered attendees at last week's EclipseCon 2008 conference an early look at plans for the next generation of its Eclipse distribution and platform: Eclipse 4.0, better known as "e4."

Adobe Ships Director 11

3/25/2008

Adobe has released Director 11, the first major update to the company's multimedia authoring tool in about four years. The new version expands 3D features with a new physics engine and new DirectX support and also introduces parity between JavaScript and Lingo for scripting. The new version supports Mac OS X (Intel only) and Windows.

University of New Mexico Pilots Unified Communications System

3/25/2008

In 2006, the University of New Mexico began implementing its IP communications network, which will eventually support 22,000 voice terminals (IP, TDM and analog), connecting administration, faculty and students, as well as the UNM Hospital campus and Health Science Center.

Dynamics CRM 4.0 Launch Highlights 'Ease-of-Use'

3/25/2008

Microsoft officially launched its latest customer relationship management (CRM) product, Dynamics CRM 4.0, last week. At a well attended event Thursday morning in Huntington Beach, CA, Microsoft focused not on the new features or technical details of the release, but instead characterized the problems of sales teams and the use of CRM systems, which generally have been too complex for the end user.

Penn State Orders Nanotech Etch System

3/25/2008

Pennsylvania State University has put in an order for a plasma etch tool from Tegal Corp., a designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits, microelectromechanical (MEMS), and nanotechnology devices.

Appistry Launches Open Distribution Initiative

3/24/2008

Appistry, a pioneering provider of grid-inspired application servers known as "fabrics," is reaching out to developers with a free version of its flagship product, a new open licensing model and a newly launched developer portal.

Web Gateway Offers All-in-One Web Security

3/24/2008

Astaro Corp. has announced a security appliance line that integrates URL filtering, malware detection, application control, and bandwidth optimization. The Astaro Web Gateway is deployed as a hardware or virtualized appliance and managed through a single browser-based graphical interface.

Free Software Identifies Applications Requiring Administrator Rights

3/24/2008

Enterprises can now more easily determine which applications their employees run that require administrative rights, a condition that makes the environment more susceptible to malicious users and viruses and prevents compliance with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA. BeyondTrust’s free Application Rights Auditor automatically identifies and reports Windows applications that need elevated user rights.

Siemens To Provide Backbone for PosTrack Hosted VoIP

3/24/2008

PosTrack Technologies has signed Siemens Communications to provide the backbone for PosTrack's hosted VoIP solutions for K-12 and higher education. PosTrack will use Siemens' OpenScape Voice and HiPath MobileConnect technologies to deliver unified communications and mobile capabilities for schools.

Arkansas Using Data Quality Tools in Information Quality Graduate Program

3/24/2008

The University of Arkansas Little Rock (UALR) has decided to use a DataFlux application in its information quality master's degree program. Students will be working with dfPower Studio, a suite of tools for data quality and data integration activities, including data discovery, business rule creation and execution, workflow management and other functions necessary for improving and consolidating data.

BEA Systems Releases WebLogic Portal 10.2

3/21/2008

BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise infrastructure technology, announced the availability of WebLogic Portal 10.2 earlier this month. The solution is a Java-based portal for service-oriented infrastructure. It supports the creation of Web pages with dynamic content, as well as composite applications and Web 2.0 apps.

Citrix, HP Team Up on Embedded Hypervisor

3/21/2008

Citrix has become the latest entry into the increasingly-crowded field of embedded hypervisors. The Fort Lauderdale, FL-based company Thursday announced a deal to embed a small, lightweight version of its standard hypervisor, XenServer, into ProLiant brand servers from HP. Called Citrix XenServer HP Select Edition, the hypervisor will come pre-installed, giving customers the opportunity to try virtualization out of the box.

Microsoft Takes First Steps Toward Eclipse Support

3/21/2008

Microsoft has added another nickel to its open source credibility bank this week with the announcement of its first collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation. The world's largest proprietary software maker and the non-profit host of the open source Eclipse project will work together to allow the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) to use Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), according to Sam Ramji, director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab.

JBuilder Integrates Swing Designer

3/21/2008

CodeGear has teamed up with Instantiations, a provider of software products, services and technologies for Eclipse, Java and Smalltalk. The companies plan to add Instantiations' Swing Designer visual layout tools to CodeGear's JBuilder integrated development environment (IDE). Swing Designer will be part of the JBuilder 2008 release, due in April from CodeGear, the development-tools arm of Borland Software Corp. JBuilder will be the first commercial Java IDE to integrate this technology, company representatives said.

IBM Funds University Efforts To Expand Jazz Platform

3/20/2008

IBM announced that it is awarding six research grants to universities to help the schools prepare students for the increasingly global nature of software development. The new research grants will help students research projects built on the IBM Jazz technology platform. The amounts weren't specified.

Mesh Devices Get Smaller To Increase Wireless Reach

3/20/2008

An associate professor and a team of researchers at the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering at Kyushu University in Japan have developed a prototype of a "micromini" wireless mesh station, under the MIMO-Mesh project. The technology, which is small enough to fit on a person's palm, acts as an access point to increase the reach of wireless networks without the need for additional infrastructure.

Rochester Institute of Technology Kicks Off Corporate R&D Program

3/20/2008

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has launched an unusual collaborative research effort with the corporate world. The Rochester, NY school has entered into an agreement with telecommunications company PAETEC for the first project under RIT's new "Corporate R&D" program, in which faculty and graduate students will conduct research for companies, with the companies themselves retaining intellectual property rights to the research developed.

Eclipse Announces New Runtime Initiative Around Equinox

3/20/2008

The Eclipse Foundation this week unveiled a new initiative for developing and promoting a community around Equinox, the lightweight OSGi-based runtime. The initiative combines a new top-level Eclipse project that pulls together different threads within the Eclipse community around runtimes with a newly launched community portal.

Nexaweb Offers 4.0 RIA and AJAX Dev Tool

3/20/2008

Boston-based Nexaweb Technologies released the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for the enterprise. Nexaweb Studio 4.0 provides a drag-and-drop development environment for the creation of dynamic Web applications. It can be used to create composite applications, mashups, and rich Internet applications (RIAs).

IBM Addresses Web 2.0 Security Concerns With 'SMash'

3/19/2008

IBM announced new technology to secure "mashups," Web applications that pull information from multiple sources, such as Web sites, enterprise databases, or e-mails, to create one unified view. Mashups allow users to gain insight on complex situations but, as with all Web-based initiatives, security has been a concern.

Student Faces Expulsion over Facebook Study Group

3/19/2008

A chemical engineering student in Toronto faces expulsion from his school for running an online study group through Facebook. Chris Avenir, a first-year student at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, said he joined the social networking group in fall 2007 to get help with the homework in one of his chemistry classes. Eventually, he became the administrator for the network, which grew to include 146 students.

IBM Expands Information Server, Sets Delivery Dates for Collaborative Software

3/19/2008

IBM this month will release two new software updates focused on collaboration--Lotus Quickr 8.1 and Workplace Collaborative Learning 2.7. The company has also expanded its Information Server software platform with the introduction of IBM Information Server FastTrack, a new module for information integration projects.