Foundation Approves $290 Million in Grants to Support Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching; Also Announces $45 Million for Measures of Effective Teaching Research Project
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed [...]

Leader of Multifunction Firewall Appliances Unveils Extensible Content Security (XCS) Platform to Provide Business E-mail, Web Content, Data Loss Prevention and Cloud-based Protection
18 November 2009 – WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced its entry into the messaging and content security markets with the launch of its new WatchGuard XCS (Extensible [...]

The editors of iLounge proudly announce the winners of the prestigious iPod + iPhone Best of the Year Awards. From cases to speakers, games and applications, the Awards spotlight top picks across major Apple hardware and software categories, and were selected by iLounge’s editors without any influence from advertisers, Apple, or other interests. Recipients were [...]

Seattle-based Nanaimo Studio today introduces Idea Organizer 1.0, their new free-form note taking and organizer utility for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, Idea Organizer is a simple yet powerful tool that lets anyone quickly record their ideas, reminders and notes in whatever form that [...]

Seattle based Instant Voodoo Magic introduces Newsie 1.0, their new smartly design Google Reader client for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique interface, Newsie works directly with Google Reader to ensure the news readers see on their phone is the same as the news they will see on the web, [...]

Seattle based CVZ Productions today released Daily Tracker 3.0, an update to their personal organizer for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, Daily Tracker allows users to track virtually anything. Users can quickly choose from an existing category, or easily create a custom one [...]

Seattle based BusyMac today released BusyCal 1.0, their desktop calendar for Mc OS X. BusyCal allows families and small workgroups to easily and cost-effectively share calendars on a local area network and over the internet without the need for a dedicated server. BusyCal combines the calendar sharing and synchronization technology from the award winning BusySync [...]

BEEDOCS today announced that Bee Docs Timeline 3D software for Mac OS X will support built-in integration with Basecamp by 37signals. The new feature comes as part of the v2.9 release which is free to existing customers from the BEEDOCS website. Basecamp integration joins a host of Mac applications that Bee Docs Timeline 3D integrates [...]

ePapyrus Inc. today introduced “PDF-Pro for iPhone & iPod Touch”, one of the most powerful PDF readers through The Apple App Store. PDF-Pro is built on the powerful and proven PDF engine from ePapyrus Inc. that has been marketing its PDF products worldwide. PDF-Pro also supports other standard PDF reader features such as creating and [...]

Simple Web and Mobile Content Publishing Platform – Glue – announces a new paid service coming in early 2010 with a wide feature set expanded off of the current Glue beta service. Built by the Seattle Washington web design/development firm Squad, Glue is best known for its ability to push information to multiple social network [...]