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Apple held onto the No. 1 slot among all tablet manufacturers worldwide, but its share continued to slip in the second quarter of 2013 as Samsung, ASUS, Lenovo, and Acer all saw triple-digit gains. MoreThe United States Department of Justice has settled with Louisiana Tech University and the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System to remedy alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. MoreIT leaders are in danger of becoming mired in irrelevancy, according to Lev Gonick, former vice president for information technology services and chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio. In order to avoid that fate, he told attendees at the annual Campus Technology conference in Boston Tuesday, IT leaders need to embrace "creative destruction." MoreAcademia has taken considerable heat over some high-profile data breaches in the last decade. However, a new visualization tool puts those breaches into perspective. Against the background noise of data breaches in government and the private sector, breaches in academic institutions are for the most part invisible. MoreThe Adaptive Learning Research Grant Program has launched its second phase, offering up to $40,000 for institutions to examine adaptive learning principles that result in measurable learning outcomes in large-scale online and blended learning courses. MoreMicrosoft isn't talking publicly yet about what the company's reorganization means for its education customers. Is no news good news? More
Vincennes University has deployed a paper-based 3D printer cut costs while providing fabrication students with unlimited access to 3D modeling technology. MoreShould colleges and universities be insisting on the use of encryption for the transmission of sensitive information among its student applicants? That's what one security firm is recommending after doing an informal audit of 162 American institutions, including schools that are part of the Big 10, the Big 8, the Ivy League, community colleges, and technical institutes. MoreTo woo young people to the field of cyber security, local, regional, and global competitions give students a chance to test their knowledge and skills in front of the experts. MorePresidents and chancellors from 165 United States universities have issued an open letter to President Obama and Congress, urging them to close the "innovation deficit." MoreThe National Science Foundation has awarded $24 million in grants for science and engineering researchers to look at infrastructure improvements in Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, South and North Dakota, Vermont, Delaware, and Rhode Island. MoreIn a world where knowledge is available with a few clicks of the mouse, colleges and universities must find new ways to give students the skills to succeed. MoreThe Commonwealth of Kentucky will adopt an electronic transcript sharing system designed to reduce costs and make it easier for high school students to complete the college admissions process online. MoreTo improve the interoperability of its members' software and hardware environments and meet government certification requirements, the Unified Communications Interoperability Forum, a non-profit alliance dedicated to helping companies achieve unified communications, has enlisted the University of New Hampshire's InterOperability Laboratory to develop a suite of session initiation protocol test tools. MoreThe Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business has deployed a new constituent relationship management platform to help with recruiting efforts. MoreA small private college in Kansas City, MO has upgraded its enterprise resource planning system. MoreThe worldwide smart phone market hit a new high in the second quarter of 2013 as manufacturers shipped one new unit for every 30 human beings in the world over the course of three months. MoreStanford University is working with law enforcement and security consultants to investigate a data breach in its IT infrastructure that appears to have divulged user names and possibly other information. MoreThe University of Delaware is attempting to make contact with 72,000 people whose information was vacuumed up during a recent server hacking. MoreThe University of Tennessee has completed a new procurement deal intended to streamline the institution's online procurement processes. MoreUtah State University has replaced its obsolete communication system with a low-cost, Web-based unified communication system designed to automate campus-wide operations. MoreThe College of Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI has received a $500,000 grant to aid in upgrades to its facilities. MoreStarting this summer, Carnegie Mellon University is shifting to a new emergency notification service. MoreEmory University's law school has ramped up its use of dashboard reporting to share data-based indicators among its decision-makers. MoreIn an ongoing effort to cut purchasing costs and streamline their procure-to-pay process, Hawai'i Pacific University plans to implement a cloud-based e-procurement and management system. MoreNational University, a private, non-profit university in California, has implemented a financial aid management solution that works with the school's non-traditional enrollment model. MoreSony and Panasonic have signed a basic agreement to jointly develop a next-generation optical disc for professional use. The companies' goal is to develop an optical disc with a recording capacity of at least 300 GB by the end of 2015. More
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