Campus Technology: The Master Security Plan Digital Surveillance

An e-Newsletter for IT Professionals in Higher Ed

2/12/2009

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The Master Security Plan: Digital Surveillance
North Carolina's Elon University. located on a historic campus away from urban centers, wanted to maintain the secure atmosphere that its 5,400 students valued. In fact, a feeling of safety is part of the university's appeal, according to Christopher Waters, director of IT and assistant CIO.More

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Exchange Labs To Become Outlook Live; New Mail Features in Store for Live@edu
Microsoft's Exchange Labs is changing its name to Outlook Live and adding new e-mail features. Exchange Labs/Outlook Live is a component of Live@edu and functions as an R&D environment for Microsoft's new e-mail developments. The service is free for academic users.More
Saint Louis U Ramps Up to Gigabit Ethernet
Saint Louis University in Missouri has boosted its network capacity in its medical center with deployment of gigabit Ethernet Internet access services delivered by XO Communications over fiber.More
South Carolina To Improve College Transfer with CollegeTransfer.net
The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education has awarded a multi-year contract to AcademyOne to improve college transfer and articulation in South Carolina. More
IT Planning Toolkit Now Supports Windows 7
Microsoft has followed up on the release of its Windows 7 Beta by rolling out another build of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit. This build (2315), published last Monday, now supports the use of the MAP toolkit on PCs running the Windows 7 Beta, according to Microsoft's announcement.More
Free Lecture Capture System Adds Desktop Broadcasting, Analytics
Panopto reported that it's gearing up to release CourseCast 2.1 this month, an update to the company's classroom capture system that's available free to academic users. Panopto will also release its new Blade Pack, a collection of addons for CourseCast that provide enhanced multimedia capabilities and analytics.More
Letter to Obama: Consider Open Source
The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) posted an open letter to President Barack Obama Tuesday on the topic of open source software. The letter urged him to mandate that the United States government consider open source software for federal IT initiatives.More
Microsoft Bolsters SharePoint's Enterprise Search
Microsoft rolled out two new enterprise search products Tuesday at its FASTforward'09 event in Las Vegas. The company unveiled FAST Search for SharePoint and FAST Search for Internet Business.More
Thunderbird Distance Learning Takes Orbit with Satellite Link
Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, AZ has completed deployment of a commercial satellite communications system that will provide distance learning for its students.More

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