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Years before most institutions of higher education would start paying attention to the "open content" concept, the University of South Florida's mechanical engineering department was already in the throes of setting up its own "come one, come all" approach to online information sharing. More
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Blackboard is buying out ed tech developers Elluminate and Wimba, whose technologies are in use by more than 2,600 schools, colleges, and universities in the United States and around the world. MoreIT support at Brown University is spending the summer migrating its campus community to Google Apps for Education. The university projected that the move could save a million dollars a year. MoreCisco Systems is the latest vendor to enter the tablet device market and, like other players, the company is looking at its entry as an alternative to traditional Windows-based PCs. MoreThe Technical College System of Georgia is implementing an academic planning application from SunGard Higher Education at its 26 two-year technical colleges. MoreResearchers last week described some issues that possibly affect the security of Windows systems and their components. MoreMicrosoft last week acknowledged that the VC-1 video codec has limited performance on multicore systems running Windows 7. More
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