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Social Collaboration For Smarties
June 13, 2013
Social business leaders: Help me help you. Connect with me at E2 or online.
Teachers Get Digital Hotline To Police
June 12, 2013
CopSync911 app lets teachers and other workers bypass dispatchers and access first responders more quickly in emergency situations.
Why Campus Networks Need Software Defined Networking
June 11, 2013
SDN originated from university research, spread through Internet2, and should eventually make life easier for small college network managers.
10 Social Business Leaders For 2013
June 03, 2013
State Street, Unisys, GE Capital, KPMG and Leaseplan lead list of companies recognized as E2 Social Business Leaders.
State Street: Social Business Leader Of 2013
May 31, 2013
Learn lessons from the global financial company, which will be honored at the E2 Conference for social collaboration on a large scale.
Coursera MOOC Embraced By 10 State University Systems
May 30, 2013
State programs will tailor Coursera resources to their own needs, blending its content with their own.
Texting Tool Helps Kids Fight Bullying
May 29, 2013
Confidential two-way texting service will be offered to all U.S. K-12 schools, will cost only the price of a phone line.
CourseSmart Recognized For E-Textbook Analytics
May 28, 2013
Learning consortium names CourseSmart Analytics most innovative product for tracking students' use of e-textbooks to ensure they're getting the most out of online materials.
Microsoft Cloud Gets Internet2 Expressway To Universities
May 23, 2013
Microsoft's cloud data centers get direct peering with Internet2, the high-speed network for education and research. This gives schools faster access to data.
iPad Exam App Takes Testing Offline
May 21, 2013
ExamSoft app not only makes the Web off limits, it creates new possibilities, such as med school tests in the morgue.
Jive Scales Producteev App, Now Free
May 21, 2013
Social task management tool Jive acquired last year becomes free as a standalone app. Integration with the Jive platform to follow.
Texas School District Picks Dell Windows 8 Tablets
May 17, 2013
Schools CTO who picked iPad in his last job says things have changed.
Ed Tech, Privatization And Plunder
May 17, 2013
All the reasons to be suspicious of the political-industrial conspiracy against public education and public universities.
Voice Dream Reader: Affordable TTS For Disabled Users
May 15, 2013
During a life-changing year in the Arctic, former enterprise software CTO created a life-changing mobile app for disabled users.
Salesforce Improves Mobile Access To Chatter Files
May 15, 2013
Salesforce.com's new Chatter mobile app makes browsing and searching files easier on phones and tablets.
Desire2Learn Predicts Students' Best Classes
May 13, 2013
Latest edition of learning management system makes educational recommendations "like Netflix," while giving early warning on struggling students.
When Education Gets Too Virtual
May 13, 2013
Students can use technology to undermine the integrity of education.
Hacking Higher Education
May 13, 2013
The cybersecurity challenge on college campuses lies as much with the students as with malicious outsiders.
Interop Cloud Experts Debate SDN's Future
May 09, 2013
SDN aims to make networks easy to configure in software rather than hardware. The goal is to provide data centers with flexibility on the level associated with cloud computing.
Interop: Open Compute Project To Tackle Network Switching
May 08, 2013
Open Compute Project initiated by Facebook sets its sights on network switching as the next target for open innovation.
Interop: Higher Ed CIOs Focus On Bandwidth, Mobility
May 08, 2013
At Interop Las Vegas 2013, University of New Hampshire CIO Joanna Young and Seton Hill University's Phil Komarny discuss blossoming wireless bandwidth demands.
Interop: Expert Advice On IT ROI, Chargeback
May 08, 2013
Proliferation of commodity IT services makes it ever more important to rigorously account for the costs and value of internal IT.
Podio Adds IM; Video Chat Coming Soon
May 02, 2013
Citrix's task-focused social business tool adds real-time collaboration to online workspaces.
MOOCs: What University CIOs Really Think
May 02, 2013
Why Wesleyan embraced Coursera, Amherst rejected edX, and Rollins is going its own way.
Higher Ed CIOs Can't Ignore MOOCs Or Politics
April 30, 2013
Now more than ever, a higher education CIO's job hinges on both surviving the academic politics of the institution and mastering bleeding-edge technologies.