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A school district in California is using the Next-Generation Mobility Firewall from Aruba Networks -- free on Aruba OS 6.4 -- to help prepare for online testing under the Common Core State Standards. Among other things, the firewall allows network managers to set usage for applications on a granular level, such as restricting YouTube and Facebook for educational purposes.

The Innovation Day III video is now available to for all to view!

Cisco is readying a suite of new and enhanced videoconferencing solutions designed to offer companies a number of high-performance but cost-effective avenues to increase enterprise communication. The new offerings, which will include a price cut of up to 45% on some products, will leverage the popularity of bring-your-own-device by adding employee smartphones and tablets to the videoconferencing mix.

Increasing demand for IT talent is driving computer science enrollments, the Computing Research Association's 2013 Taulbee Report says, and reveals a 22% boost in enrollment in bachelor programs between 2012 and 2013. Ph.D. degree enrollments rose 6.8% over the past two years.

FINALLY--Millions More in Microsoft Technology Funds Available to California Schools from 2003 Settlement.

Still time left for joining the Digital Literacies 1 MOOC on Canvas.net . Nearly 700 in the class so far!

Join us next Wed. @ 3:15pm Pacific for a free web tour of the MySkillSource online training resource for IT pros. #edtech

Intel's "Ivytown" 15-core Xeon chip, with 4.31 billion transistors and targeted for high-end servers, could be the company's fastest in the lineup, Agam Shah writes. The chip is based on the "Ivy Bridge" microarchitecture and will succeed the Xeon E7 chips. Intel is also introducing an integrated graphics core that it says will boost the battery life of laptops, smartphones and tablets, and has provided more details about its "Haswell" offerings. http://www.itworld.com//intel-aims-cut-graphics-power-draw

Innovation Day is nearly full. If you're a TechSETS memeber and would like to participate, send a request email to [email protected] . For more information, visit http://www.idiii.net/

TechSETS is proud to sponosr Innovation Day III on February 20th. All TechSETS members will have access to the video recordings of the presentations a few weeks after the event...