Tech talk
In looking at the Google News tech articles this morning, each of the highlighted articles found my interest for different reasons: “Cisco’s consumer electronics dream” discusses Cisco’s purchase of Pure …
Random notes…
* Apparently one of our districts is taking the plunge into a 1:1 computing environment at their high schools. McCracken County will be adding 2,170 MacBooks to their three high …
iTALC
The more we learn, the more we realize what we don’t know. I’ve talked to two districts this week that use a product called iTALC. The name is derived from …
Press release from Office of the Attorney General
Someone passed this link along to me recently. It givess details of a $77,000 grant from AT&T. For school districts, the relevant portion I saw was: The grant will fund …
Stimulus (or "economic recovery") and Title II Part D
If you dig deeply enough into the text of the Economic Recovery bill, you can find (on about page 169) that $650M has been provisioned for the Title II Part …
Webcast next week on iPhone integration
I was forwarded some information on a webcast related to integrating iPhones with Exchange and Active Directory. I don’t know if it will be compatible with the way we do …
Don’t let this happen to you!
A few of our folks saw the following story from the Arizona Daily Star. There are several cautionary tales here, including appropriate E-Rate behavior and accepting vendor favors, creating conflict-of-interest …
Photosynth attempt
When you’re living through something like this recent ice storm, it’s difficult to gather yourself enough to try to capture the event in pictures. I have several pics (as many …