Big Vendors Reaffirm Commitment to Standards
More coverage from the eLearningresults conference in Sestri Levante, Italy, as major companies outline their plans for standards compliance in e-learning. Microsoft endorses the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF). More...
SCO warns businesses over Linux liabilities
SCO, which said that it would not go after Linux users when it sued IBM, has gone after Linux users, sending letters to 1,500 corporations warning that their use of the open source software may result in financial liability because of patents. Critics say that SCO - which has now stopped distributing its version of Linux - has essentially declared war on the Linux community. More...
Secret Standards Business?
Some great links from last week's EDUCAUSE Australia, thanks to the good people from The Networker. More tomorrow. In this first item: many have thought this, but few have come right out and said it. The standards building process sometimes resembles a secret society, with its own (canonical) vocabularity, meetings in exotic places, and a special handshake. More...
Canada's Advanced Technology Business Plan
Not actually a plan, this document is a set of recommendations forwarded by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) based on a survey of city executives and business leaders across Canada. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of major Canadian cities with respect to innovation in technology and offers suggestions based on that assessment. More...
In response to student demand for a simplified college transcript and admissions’ process, the National Student Clearinghouse ® and Liaison International announced today that they will work together to help students submit electronic transcripts to colleges and universities throughout the United States. More...
Developing and maintaining a strong customer service ethos sometimes brings IT managers into unexpected territory. Following are tips on how to handle four such scenarios. More...
Addressing concerns that many medical students and residents lack sufficient training in their medical school and residency program electronic health record (EHR) systems, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy at its Annual Meeting aimed at ensuring that medical students receive quality clinical documentation experience using EHRs. More...
The West Australian founders of a so-called "Spotify for textbooks" have raised $5 million for their platform which provides cut-price access to thousands of academic tomes. More...
Cengage, an education and technology company, achieved a strong finish to its 2018 fiscal year with a 10-percent revenue increase in the fourth quarter. The company returned to growth ahead of the launch of Cengage Unlimited, the first-of-its-kind subscription for higher education course materials. More...
Elon University will feature two LED video displays inside the new Schar Center on campus in North Carolina. The displays will be the largest end wall displays in an arena in the Carolinas and will be designed and manufactured by Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota. More...
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