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Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project
An Ohio startup company has raised US$200 million to fund gigabit-per-second broadband projects in six university communities across the U.S., the company announced Wednesday.
By Grant Gross | 23 May, 2012 15:48
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Up-and-Coming Tech Jobs
Any study of the IT labor market is likely to find that project managers and business analysts are in demand, but what about cloud transformation officers?
By Mary K. Pratt | 21 May, 2012 23:44
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One Laptop Per Child Australia scores $11.7m in federal budget
One Laptop Per Child Australia received a one-off boost in the federal budget, scoring $11.7 million of funding. In addition, budget measures mean that donations to OLPC Australia will be tax deductible from 1 July.
By Rohan Pearce | 09 May, 2012 10:46
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The Grill: Arthur Langer turns the IT education model on its head
Arthur M. Langer is chairman and founder of Workforce Opportunity Services, a nonprofit that uses an outsourcing model to train economically disadvantaged youth and match them with hard-to-fill IT positions. Langer's "skills first" approach stresses getting vocational training and a job upfront, and then gradually fulfilling general education requirements part time to finish a degree in five to six years -- leaving students with no debt. And since many families today can't afford the cost of college tuition, Langer's model is one that could have much broader appeal.
By Robert L. Mitchell | 08 May, 2012 00:09
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HCL CEO Vineet Nayar: Outsourcing is dead, and there's nothing innovative in cloud technology
The customer always comes first. Except when it comes to HCL, the $6 billion Indian outsourcing -- make that co-sourcing -- giant led by CEO Vineet Nayar, who literally wrote the book on a philosophy known as 'employees first, customer second.' In this latest installment of our CEO Interview Series, Nayar spoke with IDG Enterprise Chief Content Officer John Gallant about how that philosophy is fueling HCL's rapid growth and why more CIOs ought to consider adopting it. Nayar also discussed how HCL has set its sights beyond competing with other Indian outsourcers like Infosys and Wipro and is squarely targeting what he believes are the many unhappy customers of services giants like IBM, Accenture and CSC. The outspoken Nayar took shots at the 'fear psychosis' created by services firms in trying to peddle their offerings and used a barnyard epithet to describe public cloud computing, which he claims isn't ready for prime time. He also outlined HCL's aggressive plans for hiring locally in the U.S. and Europe, and defended the company's use of the controversial H-1B visa program. In addition, Nayar talked about the new goals for IT departments in 2012 and beyond, and explained why treating mobile as a technology 'misses the point.'
By John Gallant | 01 May, 2012 02:29
Features about education
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NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source
A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools.
By Angus Kidman | 25 January, 2010 06:03
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50 years of essential student technology equipment
University students just can't do without their gadgets. We look at the technology that's been a must-have for students from the 1950s to the present day.
By Lauren Barnard | 07 September, 2009 13:51
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IBM, Monash extend IT education partnership
IBM and Monash University have partnered on a new $1.2 million Future Leaders Scholarship program aimed at developing IT leaders versed in both technology and business.
By Tim Lohman | 28 August, 2009 11:11
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Education IT chiefs debate open source
The concept of open source software seems so firmly entrenched in higher education that it comes as almost a shock to realize there's actually a debate over it. But debate there was, civilized and trenchant, this week during the annual Educause conference on high technology in higher education in the US.
By John Cox | 03 November, 2008 14:16
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