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An Electronic Newsletter for IT Professionals in K-12

12/2/2010

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5 K-12 Technology Trends for 2011
As technology continues to infiltrate every corner of the K-12 educational space, administrators, teachers, and students are undoubtedly curious about what's coming around the bend in 2011. Will the cloud continue to reign? Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? Education technology experts discuss their top technology trends for the coming year.
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IT News

Gartner Cuts PC Shipment Forecast Figures
IT technology research and advisory company Gartner reported Monday that worldwide PC sales will miss the 17.9 percent growth Gartner had initially projected for the year in September. The firm also indicated that tablets could replace 10 percent of worldwide PC sales by 2014.
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2011 Security Trends: Bad Times with Refined Phishing and Mobile Apps
Cyber security will be no easier in the new year than it is now, as malware proprietors get more sophisticated in their phishing attempts, malware-as-a-service becomes the norm, and smart phones and tablets draw increased attention from cyber criminals.
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Exinda Updates Application Acceleration Appliance Operating System
Exinda has updated ExOS, the operating system that runs on its application acceleration appliances. Exinda's technology helps IT administrators monitor and prioritize network traffic and control network access in order to improve application performance.
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Red Hat Acquires Makara To Build Cloud Platform Services
Red Hat this week said it has acquired Makara, a provider of software that will help the open source software provider accelerate the build-out its cloud services.
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Massachusetts District Boosts Portal Performance with Load Balancers
Seeking to optimize accessibility and minimize congestion on its new student information system, Springfield Public Schools (SPS) of Springfield, MA has implemented a system of application delivery controllers (ADC) and server load balancers, to distribute Web traffic evenly across its servers.
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Microsoft Investigating Windows Proof-of-Concept Flaw
Microsoft noted last week that its security team is looking into an elevation-of-privilege exploit affecting Windows-based systems.
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Firewall Suite Untangle Adds Bandwidth Control
Untangle has updated its firewall application. Version 8.0 of flagship product, Untangle, includes a module specifically for controlling bandwidth usage.
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Google Releases Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office in Limited Beta
Google last week announced Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a service that will let individuals synchronize and share their documents with Google Docs.
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IT Trends from T.H.E. Journal is a weekly electronic complement to T.H.E. Journal, the only monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of K-12 education. T.H.E. Journal serves as a complete resource for administrative and academic IT leaders and provides in-depth, aggressive coverage of specific technologies, their uses and implementations on campus. Featured topics include advanced networking, administrative systems, portals, security, electronic publishing, communication solutions, presentation technologies, course management systems, technology infrastructure, and strategic IT planning -- all the important issues and trends for campus IT decision-makers.

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