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Featured Articles » Georgia Schools Win Funds for Creation of Healthcare Jobs » Cricket Communications Names Android Apps for Boosting Education Experience » TJ & Pals Brings Pencil and His Dancing Pals to Life in an Educational Website » 'A Beacon of Hope' Opens on the West Coast   Sponsored By: Datacom Systems Inc. Where's your blind spot? Improving Network and Security Analysis Wednesday October 5, 2011 11:00 AM Register Today! What Attendees Will Learn: Best Practices to collect and capture network traffic Designing data centers for network analysis Impact of the cloud on network analysis Customer Case Studies Selecting the right product features for the jobs   Top Stories » Optimum Lightpath Announces Grants to Long Island schools » Energizer Kicks off Mobile Marketing Ad Campaign on Apple's iAd Network » HMH Distributes Six Red Marbles' Early Education Program » Volt to Host Immersion Event for Students of Preuss School UCSD   From The Expert Corner September 26, 2011 Haitian Students Get Solar Power for Their Laptops from U.S. Volunteers By Cheryl Kaften, TMCnet Contributor “It takes a village” of volunteers, educators, and entrepreneurs to equip one school in Haiti with laptops and a charging platform. In fact, 500 children in Lascahobas, Haiti, are now able to charge their “XO” laptops, thanks to the generosity and hard work of three U.S. organizations: One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Green Wi-Fi, and Illinois Institute of Technology.   Soon, University of Colorado-Boulder students also will be involved. The project started with the philanthropic services of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), which, in 2008, donated 10,000 laptops to the government of Haiti.  OLPC, a small nonprofit based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, provides low-powered, low-cost XO laptops to schoolchildren in developing countries... Read More   From The Blogs Admissions Counselors Hiring Facebook as a Spy? September 27, 2011 By: Carrie Schmelkin So you visited Johns Hopkins University last weekend to see if you could see yourself there and took to Facebook that night to update your status to read: “The interviewer was a gray-haired freak with a lazy eye… sounded like Kermit the Frog.”  Sounds harmless enough right... Read More    Featured Videos Interview with Nitro PDF Software    Featured Resources » Social CRM From Talk to Action: Learn how to put Social CRM to work for you » Introduction to Security for Smart Objects Networks » Build smart metering solutions with IBM Informix TimeSeries   TMCnet's Blogs » Do Teachers Want Help with Homework? Skype Thinks So   Featured Channels » Education Technology » Information Technology   education.tmcnet.com is Your Source for the Latest Education Technology News and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Education Technology Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here      Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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