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Microsoft UK have announced a free open day to demostrate various solutions, tools and software that they have for primary schools. The day will be held on the 23rd June 2010 at the Microsoft Campus in Reading and is open to primary teachers, technicians, ICT ...

To access the live stream please go to:
http://eseminars.adobeconnect.com/edugeek/
Please use Guest access, there may be a delay getting into the room due to an approval process being live.

Due to delays we are running behind but the itinary is listed below.

09:15 – 10:00 Rick Byers - The DPA Myths and Musts ...

Computer World UK are running a webinar on Windows 7 migration which they thought you guys may be interested in. Its free to register and attend on Tuesday 17th of May @ 2PM
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Here is a list of the lovely members who will be attending our Preston conference in June. This page will be updated as ticket sales continue and all the people listed have consented to having there username shown here which is completely optional when registering for tickets.

To attend yourself (free!) please register here
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It's that time of year again when we invite you all to make you way up, down and across to Preston in Lancashire on Thursday 2nd of June for a day of informed talks from companies specialising in education and other areas, socialising and meeting the site sponsors and being pampered by us.
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We have introduced a tweaked prefix style when you attempt to post a new topic in a forum with prefix's.
The new style (shown below) should make it clear and easy to set an appropriate prefix for your topic. We will be rolling more prefix's out to other forums soon as we plan to make ...

At the end of March, Casio announced 3 new ranges of the Hybrid LED / Laser projectors which many on Edugeek have been buying and / or using since they launched at BETT 2010.

Of the 3 ranges, one was the short throw that was ...

We've just received a press pack from one of our sponsors, NetSupport, announcing the release of a new addition to their product range. NetSupport Assist is designed to work with Mac and Linux environments and give teachers a similar level of control that NetSupport School did for Windows. The press release can be seen below and TBH, being a former NetSupport Manager user myself it's nice to see a more fully featured system/client for Mac and Linux boxes available which ties in with existing NetSupport management interfaces such as the Windows management console (applicable versions that is).
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Last week Sebastion James, the group operations director at Dixons released an independant report on the Building Schools for the Future project and concluded that 30% of the money spent could have been saved.
The first link is to the orgional report and the one's beneath are media ...

Spotify has taken down it's third-party advertising network following reports that malware was being downloaded by rogue adverts since Thursday.

According to Netcraft, users of the ad-supported free client were vulnerable to ...

ComputerWorld UK are to hold a free live webcast entitled 'Virtualisation: Maximising efficiency, flexibility and cost savings' at 10am on the 29th March and the first 100 registrants will be entered into a draw for an iPad 2!
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York University has attracted the unwanted gaze of the Information Commissioner after accidentally publishing private information about students on the institution's website.

An A-Level exams enquiry tool allowed access to more ...