News & Issues
- There's a "disconnect" between school administrators and parents. While more than half of America's school principal's said they think they're "doing a good job" preparing students for the 21st century, only a third of parents of middle school and high school students agreed, according to research released by Project Tomorrow and Blackboard.More
- Apple's Karen Cator has been named director of education technology at the United States Department of Education. The announcement was made formally Nov. 3 at the 2009 Leadership Summit and Ed Forum, hosted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) in Washington, DC.More
- The Bedford Area School District in Pennsylvania has adopted Teo's E911 emergency management software to provide real-time information and communication for 911 events.More
- SecureaGlobe has launched Virtual Security Director (VSD), a suite of services for schools and districts to provide surveillance, as well as compliance and ethics management. More
- Six months after acquiring malware detection company Avinti, security vendor M86 Security has gone shopping again, this time acquiring Finjan, which sells Web gateway appliances and software. More
- Microsoft this week said it will let developers who use Eclipse-based IDEs integrate their Java and PHP applications with the latest versions of Windows, Silverlight, and the forthcoming Azure cloud platform.More
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