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  Cisco shows Brazil the money

  Cisco this week said it would invest close to $550 million in Brazil to expand its presence in the country and spur economic growth.

  By Jim Duffy | 04 April, 2012 08:38

  Tags: business issues, Cisco Brazil, Configuration / maintenance, corporate issues, Data Center, digital economy, hardware systems, Investments, networking, schools, technology and public safety, unified communications

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  Perth school turns on interactive whiteboards

  Students at Hillside Christian College in Perth are now using a new interactive whiteboard solution won as part of a competition run by SPC and Goulburn Valley and Woolworths and supported by Panasonic Australia.

  By Rodney Gedda | 23 May, 2011 12:18

  Tags: education, E-learning, interactive whiteboards, Panasonic, Perth, schools

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  Sydney school marries Moodle with Live@edu

  Sydney grammar school Redlands has opted for the Cloud-based Live@edu e-mail system over an on-premise system and integrated the open source Moodle learning management system with it in the process.

  By Rodney Gedda | 20 April, 2011 12:08

  Tags: cloud computing, education, E-learning, live@edu, Microsoft, Microsoft Live@edu, Moodle, open source, schools

• MGM Wireless offers Cloud to schools

  IT services company MGM Wireless (ASX:MWR) has begun offering its student management systems as a Cloud-based solution in an attempt to increase availability of its solution.

  By James Hutchinson | 08 April, 2011 11:25

  Tags: cloud, MGM Wireless, schools

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  School canteen gets savvy with SMS lunch orders

  Payment service company mHITs has officially rolled out its school canteen SMS payment service, Easy Canteen, which allows parents to pay for their children’s lunch order by SMS text message.

  By Computerworld Staff | 08 September, 2009 14:05

  Tags: canteen, schools, sms

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  Students tweet telescope takeover

  Students from three Melbourne high schools have taken control of CSIRO’s famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet, posting their results on Twitter.

  By Georgina Swan | 12 August, 2009 12:38

  Tags: csiro, popular science, radio telescope, schools, social networking, twitter

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  Telstra, Catholic schools build $146m broadband network

  More than 1550 Catholic schools and Catholic education offices around Australia will be connected to Telstra’s network infrastructure following a two-year, $146 million broadband project announced today.

  By Rodney Gedda | 13 July, 2009 14:05

  Tags: broadband, Catholic Education Office, Catholic Network Australia, networking, schools, Telstra

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  Sydney girls school gets electronic roll call

  Pymble Ladies' College, a girls secondary school in Sydney's north, has introduced an electronic classroom student roll call system to reduce administrative disruption for students.

  By Rodney Gedda | 07 May, 2009 14:51

  Tags: education, kiosks, schools

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  Desktop sharing lets schools save on PC costs

  Australian schools have taken to a new form of virtual desktops that allows multiple students to work off a single computer without the limitations and server software associated with traditional thin clients.

  By Rodney Gedda | 09 February, 2009 16:20

  Tags: education, ncomputing, schools, thin clients, virtual desktops

• Onetouch introduces fixed GSM phones in schools

  Onetouch, the mobile phone subsidiary of state-owned Ghana Telecom, has introduced fixed public GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) terminals in secondary schools for student use.

  By Emily Aggrey | 22 August, 2008 06:52

  Tags: ghanatelecom, schools