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IT Trends :: Thursday, October 19, 2006

  • 10/18/06

Deals, Contracts, Awards

All Allen University Students Given Cell Phones to Promote Safety

The program, in collaboration with Sprint, provides a cell phone to every Allen University student, along with functionality for checking assignments, text-messaging faculty, and more. By January the university hopes to have its central computer system programmed with a security feature that gives students the option of alerting the university of their whereabouts. Is shelling out $10K+ each month worth it? Allen U’s VP of operations, Tony Spearman, thinks the answer is “yes.”…

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Building the Largest Computing Monoculture in History

Nope, not Windows. It’s the network of 100 million laptops that “One Laptop Per Child” will produce in its first year. So, of course, the program has been all over the world recruiting hackers to help it provide decent security for all of those $100 machines. The key goal is to prevent irreversible damage to the machines…

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    Google Moves AI Agents into the Mainstream

    At its recent I/O developer conference, Google presented artificial intelligence agents not as a distant research project, but as a product strategy spanning Search, personal assistants, productivity software, developer tools, and smart glasses.

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    Montclair State U Partners with Dreamscape Learn on New VR Facility

    New Jersey's Montclair State University has announced the completion of a new virtual reality learning facility developed in partnership with Dreamscape Learn. The 2,450-square-foot lab space is inside the College of Communication and Media building and will serve students pursuing careers in digital media, virtual reality, and content creation.

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    Rubrik Brings Agentic AI to Flagship Cyber Resilience Platform

    Rubrik recently introduced Rubrik AI, positioning the company's cyber resilience platform around agentic operations across data, identity, and AI infrastructure.

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    Microsoft Positions Windows as an Operating Environment for AI Agents

    The recent Microsoft Build 2026 developer conference highlighted a significant shift in the company's Windows strategy. Rather than presenting artificial intelligence as a collection of standalone features, Microsoft is increasingly positioning Windows as a platform for AI agents.