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Former eBay CEO vies to become Arnold Schwarzenegger's successor
News Another GOP rival is expected to be Tom Campbell, a former US congressman and dean of the business school at University of California at Berkeley. Whitman, who has never served an elected public office,... [22 Sep 2009]
IBM Case Study: Miami-Dade County Public Schools
White Paper Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is the fourth-largest school district in the U.S. With an annual budget of $6.1 billion, the school system has approximately... [01 Sep 2009]
Northern Michigan University Gives High Grades to IBM Cognos Solution
White Paper It needed to aggregate data from different sources and obtain real-time, consolidated views of HR, finance, and academic information to provide more insight into budget, student and school operations. [01 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Chances are old school civil service types only wanted the document so they can get their secretaries to print it off and read what on earth all this tweeting is about - and whether it should be taxed. [31 Jul 2009]
To Educate Young Students, It Does Take a Village
White Paper The largest school district in Florida and the fourth largest district in the United States, the Miami-Dade County Public School District serves almost 340,000 students in 367 schools.... [27 Jul 2009]
Revealed: £12.4m cost of pilots' ID cards project
News Edgar Whitley, reader in information systems at the London School of Economics and co-author of two LSE reports on the ID card project, said it is hard to justify the spending on the CWIC project. The future of the... [23 Jul 2009]
More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
News Users will be introduced to this through "transition tools" that allow them to toggle how open everything on their profile will be - totally public, friends-only, restricted to company or school... [02 Jul 2009]
Students at Major University Rely on the Google Search Appliance to Rapidly Plan Course Schedules on the Web
White Paper The University deployed Google Search Appliance which drives queries to the mainframe, users can submit any number of flexible requests to determine the time, instructor, and location of the school's... [21 Jun 2009]
Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News A government plan to allow the intelligence services to monitor all UK web communications is technologically impossible, according to experts from the London School of Economics. They must also present those details to... [18 Jun 2009]
Hawaii Safeguards Schools Statewide Using Intrusion Protection Systems From 3Com's TippingPoint Division
White Paper In 2004, officials at the Hawaii Department Of Education (HIDOE), the oldest public school system west of the Mississippi, confronted what school districts nationwide dread. HIDOE needed... [12 Jun 2009]
Texas School District Enjoys the 'Rock-Solid Reliability' and the Unique Value of 3Com Enterprise Networks
White Paper The Forney Independent School District is one of the fastest growing public school districts in the state, with a student population expanding 20 percent annually for the past seven... [12 Jun 2009]
Collier County Public School District Relies on AMD Opteron Processor Powered HP ProLiant Server Blades for 24/7 Learning
White Paper Nestled in Naples on southwest coast of Florida, Collier County Public School District is located in what is commonly considered an affluent area. The school district has vowed to give... [12 Jun 2009]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) Case Study: Columbia Public School District
White Paper With more than 17,000 K-12 students and about 1,400 teachers spread across 30 schools - and with high standards of educational excellence - the Columbia Public School District in Missouri represents a... [12 Jun 2009]
East Grand Rapids Schools Find Security and Economy With the TippingPoint X505 From 3Com
White Paper School is posed security risks to the suburban Grand Rapids school system. Administrators, in particular, feared that a virus, worm, or spyware could penetrate the district's network... [12 Jun 2009]
The University of Utah Supports Cutting-Edge Research by Delivering 50 Percent More Work With Half the Power Consumption
White Paper The school, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, supports research in a wide variety of areas, including medicine, genetics, and engineering, and is ranked among the top 35 public research universities in... [12 Jun 2009]