NEWS ALERT ...
Alliance: Rethink
tech's role in schools
A new report from a
group of educators, researchers, and children's health professionals challenges the common
perception that today's students must use computers in the classroom to be successful in the 21st
century. The group's report further argues
that....
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WEEK'S TOP NEWS
...
Study
reveals
trends in ed-tech spending
Wireless laptop
carts and online courses will
be among the hottest high-tech sellers
in
schools this year, according to a
nationwide report released Sept. 28
by
market research firm Quality Education
Data Inc. (QED). Overall, K-12
schools
will spend....
Software
could
end cross-platform woes
A privately held
company with offices in Los
Gatos, Calif., and Manchester, England,
claims to
have developed software that
will allow programs built for a specific
computer
chipset or operating system,
such as Macintosh or Windows, to run
on any other
platform....
School
backs
down in wireless flap
Administrators at the
University of Texas at
Dallas are drafting a new plan to combat
widespread
interference across the school's
wireless network after complaints that
their
original proposal--which prohibited
students and others from setting
up
certain....
Schools
track
students via radio
A trend just now getting under way in
North
America is considerably further along
in Japan. And because of that,
cutting
classes just got harder for some Japanese
students. Japanese schools
might be
safer now, education officials there
say -- thanks to computer chips
that help track students'
whereabouts....
eSN SPECIAL FEATURE
...
PARTNERS UPDATE ...
Dell,
AOL
to provide 5,000 students
with computers,
internet
access
From Dell Public, Sept. 27--Dell and
America Online
are teaming up to enhance and expand the Dell
TechKnow
computer-skills program for middle-school students
and to provide
5,000 program graduates
with a computer and one year of no-cost Internet
access....
ProQuest
adds
four more years to full-text coverage of The New York Times
From ProQuest Information and Learning, Sept. 27--ProQuest
Information and
Learning announced the expansion
of its full-text coverage of The New York Times,
which will provide
four additional years of Times content to users of the
Web-based
ProQuest online information system. ProQuest Information
and Learning, a
unit of ProQuest Company,
creates and publishes databases for libraries
and
educational institutions worldwide....
Vexira
Antivirus
For Linux stops
2
.1 million viruses For
Georgia
ISP
From Central Command, Sept. 27--Central Command,
a
leading provider of Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD antivirus
solutions announced that
Newnan Utilities in Georgia,
USA has stopped over 2.1 million viruses
from infecting
over 17,000 customers using Vexira
Antivirus for Linux.
$1
billion
in worldwide customer deals fuels HP public
sector Momentum
From HP, Sept. 28--HP announced a significant number
of new public-sector
customer wins totaling more
than $1 billion in new revenue as the company
continues
to build market momentum in the public
sector, health and education
market....
Web-based
Star_Finance business
management software introduced
From Century Consultants, Oct.
1--Century Consultants
introduced Star_Finance to augment its popular
Star_Student
software. Both products are completely web based
and function with
most standard
browsers....
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