News
- Stanford Testing iPhone Application Suite
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10/1/2008
A suite of five software applications developed by students at Stanford University to run on Apple's iPhone is now being tested on campus. Two are for students, to manage course registration and bills. The other three will allow users to access Stanford's searchable campus map, get team scores and schedules, and check listings in the university's online directory, StanfordWho.
- China's Southeast University Upgrades Wireless LANs Across 6 Campuses
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10/1/2008
Southeast University in Nanjing, China has deployed Aruba Networks WiFi networks across its six campuses. The university, with 26,000 students and 5,600 faculty members, wanted to upgrade wireless service for its many libraries and teaching facilities, but its legacy network was unable to cope with the traffic presented by the fast-growing number of users.
- College Crime Gets Google Maps Mashup at UCrime.com
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10/1/2008
UCrime.com, which provides crime mapping and alert services for colleges and universities, announced that it has doubled to 200 the number of schools it covers.
- Aruba To Increase Wireless Performance with ARM 2.0
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10/1/2008
Aruba Networks has released new software designed to increase the speed and reliability of its 802.11 wireless networks.
- NSF Awards $7 Million Grant for K-12 'College Ready in Math and Physics Partnership' Initiative
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10/1/2008
Researchers at the University of Arkansas have received a five-year, $7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support an initiative aimed at improving preparation for K-12 teachers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The initiative, dubbed the "College Ready in Math and Physics Partnership," will pair faculty in the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith College of Education with teachers from 33 school districts in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
- Online University Aims To Boost Rural Math and Science Teachers
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10/1/2008
In an effort to increase the number of graduates pursuing science and math teaching careers in rural areas, Western Governors University, an online university, is awarding 150 new scholarships through its new WGU Scholarships for Rural Mathematics and Science Educators program. A portion of a recent $3 million grant from the United States Department of Labor is funding the scholarships.
- More Universities Sign with Hothand Wireless To Deliver Mobile Marketing
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10/1/2008
Hothand Wireless, which delivers "recreation" information to mobile devices, said it has added 10 university partners to its service, among them Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and Stanford.
- Seton Hall Monitors Recruitment Dollars with Coremetrics
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9/30/2008
Seton Hall University is using Coremetrics to better track its investment in recruitment efforts. The Web-based service, which is primarily used by retailers, captures behavioral data to provide the university with insights on how to allocate marketing dollars across campaigns and channels.
- Cisco's UC Platform Signals IBM, Microsoft Tussle
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9/30/2008
Cisco, a company synonymous with telecommunications networks, is flexing its muscles in yet another arena--unified communications. Last Wednesday, the company set the stage for head butts with incumbents IBM and Microsoft by unveiling a UC portfolio for the enterprise.
- North Seattle CC Adds Plato Online Algebra Course to Math Formula
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9/30/2008
North Seattle Community College (NSCC) will be adopting Plato Learning's newest online software for post-secondary--Academic Systems Algebra--to support the college's developmental mathematics courses. The math series covers the principles of algebra in a self-paced online format. Since spring 2008, NSCC has utilized Academic Systems Algebra to instruct 200 students enrolled in basic, elementary, and intermediate algebra courses.
- Second Life Mashup Helps Boost Distance Ed Retention at Huntington JC
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9/30/2008
Huntington Junior College (HJC) in West Virginia has gone public with its year-long early-adopter use of Campus Management's CampusLearning, a suite of services that provides for real-time, two-way integration between proprietary portals and student information systems and the Moodle open source course management systems.
- Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Details Surface
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9/29/2008
Microsoft is revealing more about its plans for the next generation of Visual Studio Team System (code-named Rosario), part of the now officially named Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 rollout. All of these products are still in the very early stages.
- Universities Tackle Mainframes in IT Courses
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9/29/2008
Five universities--four in the United States and one in China--have teamed up with IBM's Silicon Valley Lab to deliver courses in information technology focused on mainframes. The aim of the collaboration is to help boost the number of qualified IT professionals entering the workforce, with particular emphasis on skills like database administration, SOA, and virtualization.
- Windows 7 Bits To Be Released at PDC'08
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9/29/2008
Microsoft hopes to draw crowds to its upcoming Professional Developers Conference by making Windows 7 bits available to the public attending the event. The venue will be the staging ground for the first public release of the new operating system.
- DePaul Weaves SS&C Tech Finance Material into Hybrid Graduate Course
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9/29/2008
Chicago's DePaul University is trying out SS&C Technologies Zoologic Learning Solutions as its Web-based course content provider for graduate-level finance courses. Students will use 10 Zoologic Web-based courses as online study material in the "Financial Statement and Security Analysis" course. Zoologic course topics include accounting, credit risk, and equity.
- Serena Acquisition Takes Aim at Microsoft Project
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9/29/2008
Serena Software acquired Projity Wednesday and is promoting that company's software as an open source alternative to Microsoft Project.
- Verizon Wireless Upgrades Game at U Michigan
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9/29/2008
University of Michigan football fans get to play with enhanced wireless communications through an arrangement with Verizon Wireless, which has activated a cell on light truck (COLT) that doubles capacity in and around Michigan Stadium on game days.
- United States Tops List of Sources for Botnet Attacks
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9/26/2008
The United States was the top source of distributed attack traffic, originating nearly three times as many attacks as second-place China, according to a recent study by security service provider SecureWorks Inc.
- Crown College Adopts Angel To Support Online Learning
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9/26/2008
Crown College, a Christian college in St. Bonifacius, MN with about 1,200 students, has decided to replace its existing online course management service with the Angel Learning Management Suite (LMS).
- Malicious Code Hidden in Rich Content Files Tough To Detect, According to Finjan Report
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9/26/2008
Finjan, a company that sells security products, said it has uncovered examples of obfuscated code embedded in rich-content files, and not just in HTML-based Web pages on legitimate Web sites. According to the vendor, code obfuscation remains the preferred technique for cybercriminals for their attacks.
- UW-Stout Taps Echo360 Lecture Capture To Connect with Distance Students
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9/25/2008
Distance education students at the University of Wisconsin-Stout are enjoying the personal touch in their online technical communications program thanks to deployment of lecture capture from Echo360. EchoSystem captures in-class voice, video, and visual aids from such devices as smartboards and tablet PCs, then publishes the combined media to a school's learning management system, iTunes U portal, or Web portal.
- Purdue Team Driving SiCortex Low-power Supercomputer in 2008 Cluster Challenge
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9/25/2008
A team of student engineers at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN will be using technology from SiCortex, a Massachusetts company that makes lower-power supercomputers, for its cluster computing entry in an upcoming competition. The Boilermaker Cluster Challenge team will be entering its design at SC08, a supercomputer conference put on in November by IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Lecture Capture: No Longer Optional?
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9/25/2008
Lecture capture has been gaining momentum in recent years, but that momentum is being outpaced by student demand. According to new research released this week by the University of Wisconsin-Madison involving about 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students, an overwhelming 82 percent of students said they would prefer courses that offer online lectures over traditional classes that do not include an online lecture component. The researchers also pointed out the implications for these findings extend well beyond the classroom.
- Duke Deploys Portal from To Manage Board Business
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9/25/2008
Duke University has selected BoardVantage for the electronic distribution of written materials to the University's Board of Trustees.
- Villanova Broadcasts Emergencies and Ads with Rise Vision Digital Signage
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9/25/2008
Villanova University in Pennsylvania has expanded its on campus use of the Rise Vision Display Network to create a networked, campus-wide information system. Villanova uses the digital signage content management system on 15 LCD screens, with plans to add another 30 screens, for displaying information about emergency notifications, campus events, and schedules, Villanova also sells advertising to local merchants that accept the school's Wildcard debit card.
