A few ‘recovery’ links
Whether you call it ‘stimulus’ or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), people are curious about these funds and there are various sites available that attempt to inform. I’ll …
Nehalem – heard of it?
I’ll nerd out for a second and talk about processors. Nehalem is a code name for an Intel release of processors. An article out today discusses server vendors cutting costs …
Power consumption of PC’s left on…
I know this has been a popular topic with at least one of the handful of followers, so I thought I’d pass this article along that references a supposed study …
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 …