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11/5/2013

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IDC on Tablet Market Share in Education: Dominance Can Be Fleeting
When Tim Cook announced that 94 percent of all tablets in education were iPads, plenty of jaws dropped. But there's more to the story.
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CoSN Survey: Schools Need More Broadband; E-Rate Needs More Funding
Almost every single district in the country expects to need additional Internet bandwidth and connectivity over the next 36 months as the Common Core and high-stakes assessments come online and more schools introduce BYOD and digital curriculum, according to a new report from the Consortium for School Networking
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Summer of Coding Gives Moodle Boost and Young Programmers Practice
Google's latest "Summer of Code" has ended, and Moodle users are among the big beneficiaries.
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States Vie for $280 Million in Early Learning Grants
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are competing for $280 million in federal in federal funding through the latest round of the Race to the Top–Early Learning Challenge.
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U Penn School of Ed Launches Education Tech Incubator
This fall the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education has launched a start-up incubator specifically to help education business ideas get off the ground.
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Illinois District Seeks Education Edge with Data Warehouse
A two-campus district in Gurnee, IL has invested $180,000 in a data warehouse system.
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Seagate Unveils Kinetic Open Storage Platform
Seagate Technology has unveiled its new Kinetic Open Storage platform, a 2.3 petabyte storage system of hard drives connected over Ethernet.
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Akitio Releases Bus-Powered 512 GB Thunderbolt SSD
Akitio has released a bus-powered, external 512 GB solid state Thunderbolt storage system and a dual-interface storage system that supports both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt.
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Aspex Releases Human Resources System Tailored to School Districts
Following a year of pilot programs in 60 school districts throughout the United States human resources technology developer Aspex Solutions has released AppliTrack HR Files, a paperless, cloud-based personnel file system tailored specifically for school districts.
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Hobsons, National Student Clearinghouse Partner on Electronic Transcript Processing
The National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization for higher education enrollment and degree verifications, and Hobsons, a provider of recruitment, communication, and student success solutions, have launched a strategic alliance.
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Pearson Integrates Code-ED Notification System with PowerSchool
A mass notification company is teaming up with education technology vendor Pearson to build functionality that will be accessible in PowerSchool, Pearson's student information system.
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