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Changing the Face of Technology in Education: Funding Education - Not Technology
White Papers It's time to begin funding education and not technology. Adopting Shared Service Centers provides services to smaller, less funded schools; services that were previously unavailable because of access, support needs, implementation costs.
[May 30, 2009, 1:20]
BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News Funding for research councils has been slashed by £68m this year, from £196m to £128m, the government announced last week, with science and technology councils bearing the brunt of the cuts. On Monday the British Computing Society (BCS) expressed...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
Tech VCs toughen up on funding terms
News With venture capital mired in the doldrums and scant demand for initial public offerings, technology entrepreneurs are jumping through increasingly onerous hoops to get funding. During the bubble, no venture capitalist would bring (terms like this...
[March 18, 2002, 13:01]
SETI@home looks for user funding
News The director of SETI@home -- a high-profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life -- has made a plea to his users for funding after denying late last month that the project was facing a funding crisis.
[November 13, 2002, 9:38]
No lottery funding a dissapointment.
Talkback Considering where other lottery funding has been granted, it's extremely disappointing that this project is not considered worthy. I question the intelligence of those handing out the money
[September 8, 2008, 17:55]
Rural broadband conference sunk by funding squeeze
News But the organisation announced late last week that the event has been pulled, due to lack of funding. Rural campaigners have failed to persuade government and industry that the non-availability of faster broadband services across the UK is a...
[November 21, 2005, 10:30]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
News OpenBSD developers have admitted that the organisation is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open source operating system. OpenSSH, a secure network connectivity tool project...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
VC funding tops $9bn in 3Q
News Venture capitalists continue to throw an astounding amount of cash at the tech sector as funding reached a record $9.04bn in the third quarter, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers Money Tree Survey, released Monday.
[November 16, 1999, 10:30]
E-crime unit 'on track' despite funding delay
News Plans for a national UK cybercrime policing unit remain on track despite the government stalling on funding, according to the Metropolitan Police Service's e-crime chief . Funding for PCEU has been slow to arrive, with the government still not...
[June 16, 2008, 8:39]
No gov't funding for faster SME payments
News The government is not allocating funding to upgrade payment systems to meet the prime minister's commitment to pay small suppliers faster during the credit crunch. The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr), which is co...
[October 15, 2008, 15:54]
VoIP in K-12 Education: Leveraging Data Networks and E-Rate Funding
White Papers Phone systems in schools across the country are undergoing a major transformation, fueled by E-Rate funding and VoIP technology. Phones and advanced applications are being deployed to every teacher and classroom at minimal cost, by leveraging data...
[October 2, 2008, 9:43]
Rural broadband satellite gets funding boost
News The European Space Agency has awarded Avanti Communications €250,000 (£220,000) in funding for the design of a super-fast satellite broadband system called Hercules. The proposed satellite could deliver between 2Mb and 50Mb broadband access to 2.5...
[May 26, 2009, 12:27]
Funding boost for new technology firms
News An existing company will be able to win up to £3m in funding through InvoRed, while a previously unfunded organisation is eligible for between £15,000 and £500,000. Small technology companies and individuals based in the East Midlands could benefit...
[June 3, 2003, 14:59]
Gov't rejects call for Bletchley Park funding
News In a debate on Tuesday in the House of Lords, the chamber was told funding is needed to help keep the site financially viable while restoration work to the home of the World War II codebreakers is carried out.
[May 20, 2009, 9:10]
Worldpop lands £5m funding
News The funding includes £3m from investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and other investment from 3i Group and Amadeus Capital Partners. It may be getting more difficult for new-media startups to find financing, but Worldpop, for one, has pulled...
[January 15, 2001, 12:54]
Debian start-up wants more funding
News Progeny, a start-up seeking to commercialise the Debian version of Linux, is on the prowl for new funding, a company co-founder has confirmed. Ian Murdock, chief strategy officer and a co-founder of both Debian and Progeny, said his company has...
[August 15, 2005, 9:15]
Venture capitalists turn off the tap on funding
News Hummer Winblad was likely to buy into that vision and grant the funding, Robel said. If you took your money in 1999 or 2000 and you're coming up to your next funding round now, it's not at all certain that you'll even get anything.
[February 19, 2001, 14:18]
The Effects of Performance Budgeting and Funding Programs on Graduation Rate in Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities
White Papers The study presented in this paper was conducted to determine whether states with performance budgeting and funding (PBF) programs had improved institutional performance of higher education over the five years (1997 through 2001) considered in this...
[July 14, 2005, 6:00]
Ofcom: No public funding for 21CN competitors
News In an interview with the regulation-related blog Ofcomwatch, Richards denied that a serious competitor to BT's 21st Century Network (21CN) would need any kind of public funding. The market might go to 60 percent but there'll have to be government...
[April 11, 2007, 17:49]
