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Apple's iOS may be the dominant operating system in the tablet market; but among smart phones, Android is the reigning powerhouse. And its lead is growing. In the second quarter, shipments of Android-based smart phones worldwide more than doubled from an already dominant position to capture more than two-thirds of the overall smart phone market. MoreRed Lion Area School District in Pennsylvania has just finished deployment of a fiber-based broadband network using services from Conterra Broadband Services and a discount through the federal E-Rate program. More
California high school math teacher Crystal Kirch shows teachers how to successfully flip their classrooms in a free webcast on August 14. MoreAn Arizona school district will undertake a solar power project anticipated to produce up to 75 percent of the district’s energy needs. MoreThe Denton Independent School District has selected a platform to help its high school students prepare for college or career and boost both student and family engagement. MoreThe Toronto District School Board, the fourth largest district in North America and the largest one in Canada, has gone public with details about its implementation of a massive virtual storage infrastructure that uses technology from EMC and Microsoft. MoreAchieve3000, a provider of differentiated instruction solutions, and the Center for College and Career Readiness, a not-for-profit research and training organization dedicated to increasing college and career-readiness skills, have partnered to create the new professional development program for teachers called the Common Core Black Belt Classroom Certification for Teachers in Cross Curricular Literacy. MoreIn response to demand from customers, Splashtop has announced that its remote desktop software, Splashtop 2, is now available for Android tablets running Android 3.1 or newer. MoreThe Archdiocese of New York Catholic School System is continuing with its regionalization program after selecting a single vendor for tuition management. MoreThe Nebraska Educational Service Unit Coordinating Council will implement a new procurement tool for its K-12 Cooperative Purchasing Program in an effort to improve management and generate savings across 17 educational service units within the state. MoreCHG Alternative Education, operator of Camelot Schools, has adopted a new financial system in an effort to streamline administrative data entry and reduce the time of financial close processes from 21 days to seven days. MoreA variety of online courses, searchable resource libraries, and print titles will be available to teachers from National Geographic Learning, an educational materials provider and part of Cengage Learning, through a distribution agreement entered into with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. MoreKnovation has expanded its partnership with SAS to make SAS Curriculum Pathways available through Knovation's digital curriculum content solution, icurio. MoreNComputing, a provider of end-to-end desktop virtualization products, has announced that it has completed formal validation of the online test delivery system, TestNav, and according to the company, it is the first virtual desktop provider to do so. MoreStorage management company Paragon Software Group has released a free backup and recovery tool for current releases of Windows Server 2012. More
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