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Digital video surveillance cuts campus crime
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-08-27 22:04:25
The deployment of a digital video security system at Melbourne's Swinburne University has led to a decrease in major crime on campus, although students seem to be taking slightly less care of their property.


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IBM in $1.2 million university scholarship deal
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-08-26 21:45:06
An IBM-funded Future Leaders Scholarship program will fund a dozen Bachelor of Business students. The first recipients have been selected.


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La Trobe joins Apple's iTunes U
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-08-26 00:11:23
Many leading universities are using iTunes U as a way of getting their content to a wider audience. The latest to get on board is La Trobe University.


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Australian high schools lead the world in Windows 7 rollout
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-08-25 22:52:27
Today the New South Wales (NSW) Department of Education (DET) has commenced its rollout of 220,000 netbooks to senior secondary school students and teachers. The netbooks have been preloaded with the release Windows 7 code which is not yet available to the general public.


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HP opens services centre in Christchurch ‘technology hub’
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-08-24 00:35:25
HP has opened a services centre in Christchurch, which it says is increasingly becoming New Zealand’s technology hub with a technology education sector and highly-skilled labour market.


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Gone but not forgotten part one - VAX/VMS
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery

Category: The Linux user and switcher blog

2009-08-20 08:24:29

Like anyone who has been in IT for a reasonable length of time I've worked with technologies that have lapsed, been superseded, died off or just simply gone out of vogue. Yet there are some my heart yearns to see again.


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HP funding for schools’ tech innovation
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-08-03 00:06:39
Hewlett-Packard has given grants totaling over $470,000 to three Australian secondary schools as part of its Innovations in Education program this year.


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Agresso finance system for Queensland schools
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-07-26 05:05:39
Queensland’s department of education and training is to deploy a finance system from business information management solutions vendor, Agresso Australia, to be rolled out to 1,320 of the state’s schools.


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Catholic schools, Telstra combine for $146 million broadband project
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts

2009-07-12 23:59:06
Catholic schools across Australia are to be linked by a national broadband network in a deal secured today between the newly established Catholic Network Australia and Telstra.



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GeoDome brings learning alive in 21st century
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science

Category: Biology

2009-07-08 08:20:34
AARNet is demonstrating its inflatable dome, interactive software, immersive learning, digital projector, three-dimensional, high-definition GeoDome theatre that it says will "engage Australian students and make the curriculum come alive."


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Google Doodle your wish for Australia!
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-07-08 01:06:15
Google Australia has launched its second Doodle 4 Google initiative for Australian schools, challenging students to design a Google ‘doodle’ inspired by the theme, ‘My wish for Australia’.


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SAP aims Value Academies at customer executives
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2009-07-08 00:09:38
SAP wants to teach its customers how to get better value from the software they're already paying for.


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CSG wins multi-million dollar government contract
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry

Category: Deals & Wheels - Government

2009-07-02 00:34:54
IT services group, CSG is to deliver an online portal and support services to students in Victorian state schools under a $64.6 million, four year contract with the Victorian Government.


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Microsoft to give Tech-Ed attendees HP netbook with ethical choice attached
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-30 06:58:40
When paying around $2,000 for a technical conference you expect some good swag to take away. Microsoft's annual Tech-Ed event ups the ante this year with attendees receiving a free HP netbook with Windows 7. There is a small catch however with an ethical choice being attached.


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The netbook belongs to Linux
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-29 03:42:18
Why do Microsoft and vendors like ASUS continue to push the line that Microsoft Windows is the ultimate operating system for the diminutive ultraportable netbook market? The Windows 7 plan for netbooks is fraught with limitation and burdens. It's time to bring back the penguin.


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Universities deploy new generation student management solution
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-28 22:30:55
Universities in Adelaide and Perth have gone live with the deployment of Technology One’s new generation student management solution.


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Microsoft student email for WA TAFE
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-23 08:28:12
Microsoft’s hosted Live@edu student email solution has been deployed by one of Australia’s largest TAFE colleges, Central TAFE in Western Australia.


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Readin', writin' and raidin': the World of Warcraft learning experience
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature

Category: Virtualisation

2009-06-22 19:12:29
You are a level 10 character. You have a quest to kill 10 mottled boars which yield 120 experience each. The quest reward is 1000xp. How many extra boars do you need to kill to level up? Yes folks, World of Warcraft is the new educational medium.


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United Nation launches world's first free online university
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-06-14 20:04:05
For hundreds of millions of people around the world higher education is no more than a dream. The United Nations hope to make this dream a reality with their global tuition-free online University.


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NSW DET begin hiring for high school laptop rollout
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Government

2009-06-14 18:57:22
The New South Wales Department of Education and Training (DET) has advertised for several hundred Technology Support Officers ahead of the deployment of hundreds of thousands of laptops to secondary school students later this year.


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