Sponsors

Sponsors

3Com is a tier-one provider of innovative, practical and high-value networking products for enterprises of all sizes and public sector organizations. 3Com offers a pay-as-you-grow approach to building scalable, core networks and makes the integration of telephony and wireless efficient. 3Com specializes in helping customers obtain advanced networking capabilities that are easy to use while supporting demanding applications. 3Com's areas of expertise include high-speed, resilient and intelligent LANs (local area networks), networked telephony and wireless LANs. These technologies are proven to help increase organizational productivity, improve service, expand access to information, enable mobility and lower the total cost of ownership.

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netTrekker is the trusted search engine for schools that saves K-12 students and educators time. Unlike ordinary search engines, netTrekker contains only academic-focused websites that are organized around the K-12 curricula and aligned with state standards. These websites are prescreened by a team of 400 educators and librarians for academic integrity and age appropriateness, so users get high quality, contextual results, every time. And netTrekker gives educators easy access to online resources, like lesson plans and learning exercises, that link directly to their state's standards and benchmarks. These online resources enable educators to easily integrate standards into their everyday curriculum.

SurfControl, the world's Number One Web and e-mail filtering company, is the only company in the security market offering a total content security solution that combines Web and e-mail filtering technology with the industry's largest, most accurate and relevant content database and adaptive reasoning tools to automate content recognition.

SurfControl's Internet monitoring and policy management solutions are flexible, and scaleable in order to meet the diverse needs its clients. SurfControl offers a choice of platform independent or integrated solutions, and the software can be installed in any network environment.

Epson offers a wide range of products for your school. From award winning color ink jet printers to scanners to multimedia projectors and document cameras, Epson's high-performance, easy-to-use products are ideal for the classroom. Moreover, because they are from Epson, you are assured of great service, support, and savings. Epson representatives will help you choose the best products for your needs, answer your questions, inform you about extended warranty options and offer installation and product training support. Epson understands the challenges educational institutions face in today's environment of budget cutbacks. That's why we offer a number of ongoing incentives and special programs to qualified educational institutions. To find out more about incentive programs and promotions currently available, contact your Epson Account Representative and visit us at www.epson.com/k12.

As a technology leader, Oracle has created a family of education programs to assist schools in the teaching technology literacy to today's students. Oracle Education Initiatives includes the following programs for K-12 schools:

  • ThinkQuest is an international competition where students work together to research and create educational websites.
  • Think.com is a global learning environment that provides students and teachers with protected email accounts, their own web sites, and a powerful set of learning and collaboration tools.
  • The Oracle Internet Academy prepares high school students for future academic and professional opportunities with database, SQL and Java training.

CrossTec Corporation is the exclusive North American distributor for Danware's award-winning line of remote control and support products.

NetOp Remote Control is designed to meet the needs of professional organizations by incorporating the most advanced security features, easy deployment & integration along with cross-platform support for all your Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, CE & even legacy systems over the Internet, LANs, VPN's, wireless, and modems.

NetOp School combines several powerful tools to allow teachers and corporate trainers to take back control of their classrooms. Instructors can show their screen to the class, broadcast video in real-time, see student screens as they work, operate PCs as if they were in front of them, chat with one or more students via text or audio, launch applications, and transfer files effortlessly.

Palm™, Inc. is a pioneer in the field of mobile and wireless Internet solutions and a leading provider of handheld computers, according to IDC. Based on the Palm OS® platform, Palm's handheld solutions let people carry and access their most critical information wherever they go. Palm™ handhelds address the needs of individuals, enterprises and educational institutions through hardware add-on options and more than 18,000 Palm OS based application solutions. Palm, Inc. consists of two businesses — PalmSource, Inc., a subsidiary responsible for developing and licensing the Palm OS platform, and the Palm Solutions Group, a business unit responsible for designing, making and marketing the world's leading handheld devices.