Case Study
An Ohio research project is investigating just how students would prefer to get the text for their courses--whether in hard copy form, in versions suitable for mobile devices, or in some other digital format. More
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Microsoft Wednesday announced that SQL Server 2008 R2 has achieved release-to-manufacturing status and will be released in May worldwide. MoreVulnerabilities in browser-based applications represent the fastest-rising information security flaws anywhere, according to a new report, wich also showed that the United States is once again No. 1 with the most malicious activity on the Internet. MoreBusiness software maker SAS, whose initial product was conceived in a university, is seeking to expand its footprint in the education market. MoreNearly a fifth of universities and colleges don't bother testing their emergency notification systems, and for half of that group, the reason is because they haven't had a chance to put a plan together to do it. MoreEducationDynamics, a company with applications, Web sites, and services to help colleges and universities with student marketing and retention efforts, has just acquired one of its college search competitors, Education Connection. MoreA professor in the Stanford University Center for Internet and Society has led an effort to design a Web site to review Web and mobile applications for privacy, security, and openness. WhatApp?, led by Ryan Calo, has enlisted the help of a team of lawyers, computer scientists, and privacy and security experts from Stanford and other institutions to provide reviews of online resources. MoreSunGard Higher Education is applying some of the advantages of an open source community approach for application development to its own line of products and also recently said it had developed a platform to ensure consistent navigation for its many products. More
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