Posts Tagged ‘education’
Much to the disappointment of students (and perhaps teachers) everywhere, a new school year will soon start.? But Google’s celebrating something related to education this afternoon, as it’s secured the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium as yet another Google Apps partner. Miriam Schneider wrote on the Official Google Enterprise Blog , “[W]e’re happy to announce that The Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) will make Google Apps for Education available to 1.4 million students in the state.? MEEC is comprised of the University System of Maryland, Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Education, and provides software resources and services to its 194 members across the state.” There’s more, too.? Schneider later continued, “In addition to Google Apps, this agreement also enables MEEC member institutions – for example University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) – to license Google Postini Services such as Google Message Security, for use with the existing email infrastructure to enhance Spam filtering and email security for students, faculty and staff.” So it seems that all sorts of people will soon get an introduction to a significant array of Google’s services.
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Maryland Educational System Embraces Google Apps
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb reports that Sean Parker (of Napster and Facebook fame) announced from Techonomy that he’s working with ChatRoulette. This is particularly interesting, as TechCrunch reported in June that Shawn Fanning (also of Napster fame) was advising Chatroulette.
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Chatroulette Calls Upon the Power of Napster
Google has announced some new mobile device management options for Google Apps administrators. The options will be available to all Google Apps Premier and Education customers starting this week. New options include: – Requiring devices to use data encryption – Auto-wiping device after specified number of failed password attempts – Disabling the phone’s camera – Ensuring old passwords are not reused – Requiring passwords to be changed after specified time interval – Disabling data synchronization when device is roaming to reduce wireless overage charges “It’s our mission to provide users with seamless access to their data while allowing enterprise administrators to centrally manage a diverse range of mobile devices,” says Google Software Engineer Dale Woodford.
