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Higher education company TargetX has introduced the latest version of its CRM tool for college admissions.  The Spring '12 release of new features and functions makes the Student Recruitment Manager more flexible and powerful, according to CEO Brian Wm. Niles.  "The SRM has emerged as the clear choice for schools looking to recruit more efficiently and effectively," he said.  "This latest release provides even more capabilities -- in such areas as reporting, travel management, email broadcasting, workflows, telemarketing and social engagement."

Vaddio, manufacturer of specialty PTZ cameras and camera control systems, today announced a commitment to bring educational technologies into every classroom via a new partnership with Sonic Foundry, maker of lecture capture, enterprise and event webcasting solutions.

Mercer University is rolling out 500 new virtual desktops based on the Unidesk virtual desktop provisioning and application delivery platform as part of the university’s new “Borderless Classroom” Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) initiative. The project will offer Mercer students enhanced access to lab applications, empower faculty to more rapidly evolve class curriculums, and enable IT to reduce the operational costs of desktop management.

With Vaddio's EasyUSB tools you now have Pro AV quality computer peripherals you need to transform your personal computer into an effective, affordable meeting room system. Whether you are looking to design a small videoconferencing system or a large integrated lecture capture classroom, Vaddio gives you the tools you need to make your software applications work in a real world AV environment.

Heartland Payment Systems, Campus Solutions division announced that, as an official collaborative partner with SunGard Higher Education, its hosted payment gateway and Campus OneCard are now integrated with the SunGard Banner Student Information System. Heartland’s hosted payment gateway is a PCI and PA-DSS compliant solution that provides real-time integration for student payments, while Heartland’s Campus OneCard System is a multi-functional campus ID card.

With Vaddio's EasyUSB tools you now have Pro AV quality computer peripherals you need to transform your personal computer into an effective, affordable meeting room system. Whether you are looking to design a small videoconferencing system or a large integrated lecture capture classroom, Vaddio gives you the tools you need to make your software applications work in a real world AV environment.

Turnitin, maker of solutions for originality checking and plagiarism prevention, announced a partnership with ProQuest, an information company serving the global research community, to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. The agreement enhances Turnitin's repository of scholarly content while extending its massive plagiarism-checking database, which now tops 20 billion current and archived web pages, 200 million student papers and more than 110 million articles from scholarly journals.