As district IT teams prepare their Chromebooks to go home with students during school closures due to coronavirus, Google has developed some text resources to help them make the changes needed to those devices.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 03/18/20
All categories of computing devices, including tablets, desktops, workstations, laptops and smartphones, will be impacted in 2020 by the Coronavirus and its hit on the supply chain and global economies.
Kajeet, which produces a device delivering wireless Internet access to students who lack broadband connectivity, has expanded its selling options.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/20/20
Later this year a free tool will appear to help school IT organizations get internet speed and pricing information on K-12 broadband connectivity across the United States using publicly available data from the federal Schools and Libraries Program (E-rate).
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/11/20
In the United States and worldwide, traditional PCs saw positive growth in the fourth quarter of 2019 and for the full year, ending "seven consecutive years of market contraction."
An Oklahoma school system was the victim of a malware attack. According to local reporting, between 75 and 100 computers at Bixby Public Schools were brought down, primarily in the middle school and an athletic complex.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/12/19
Half of all malware that tried to infect computers during the third quarter of 2019 was already known. The other half was "zero-day" malware, which bypassed (and therefore went undetected by) traditional signature-based security software.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/11/19
Personal computing device (PCD) shipments are looking stronger than expected for 2019, and smartphone deliveries are expected to bump up in 2020, according to two separate analyses.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/10/19
What interoperability means for learning environments.
- By Keith R. Krueger, Paula Maylahn
- 12/03/19
A new report from SETDA examines how policy makers and school leaders can work to bridge the digital divide and establish ways to provide schools with the necessary resources to get high-speed internet connections.