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EduTone Acquires K12complete and Launches EdPay
Alameda, CA – September 08, 2011

-- EduTone today announced the acquisition of California based start-up K12 Checkout, Inc., dba K12complete, which will be merged into EdPay, Inc., a newly formed wholly-owned Subsidiary of EduTone. EduTone will integrate K12complete’s online School Storefronts with its award-winning EduTone Xchange™ Platform. The consolidated solutions will enable EduTone’s customers to streamline online payment processing and fund raising activities and to offer a broad range of school-related products and services to local communities.

EduTone acquires Global Grid for Learning from Cambridge University Press to become its digital content marketplace for Education
United Kingdom – 27/07/2011

-- Cambridge University Press and California-based EduTone today jointly announced an agreement for EduTone to merge Global Grid for Learning (GGfL), the Press’s innovative digital content aggregation business, into EduTone’s portfolio of education businesses. EduTone has acquired all of the shares of GGfL and the Press has taken a minority interest in EduTone.

EDUTONE TO MARKET AFFORDABLE SCHOOL-CENTRIC TABLETS
Alameda, CA – June 15, 2011

-- EduTone Corporation announced today the ET Persona™ family of school-centric tablets to be bundled with a new Mobile Edition of its core, 2011 CODiE award-winning services delivery platform, the EduTone Xchange™ (ETX), aimed at the K-20 Education market. Ranging in price from $179 to $399, the Android™ based ET Persona Tablets will ship in July 2011 with 8 and 10-inch touch-sensitive screen displays. Unlike all of the consumer-centric tablets on the market today, the ET Persona is the first school-centric tablet solution that ships with pre-installed CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) compliant filtering software and the EduTone Passport™ to enable easy and secure single sign-on wireless access to centrally-provisioned school applications. Together, the ET Persona and the ETX-Mobile Edition deliver the most comprehensive, financially sustainable technology infrastructure solution for personalized mobile learning in the K-20 Education market globally.

EduTone Sweeps the 2011 SIIA CODiE™ Awards for Education Technology
San Francisco, CA - May 24, 2011

-- EduTone Corporation, a wholly owned Subsidiary of VIP Tone, is honored to be recognized by SIIA with 3 prestigious CODiE Awards for Best K12 Enterprise Solution, Best Education Administration Solution and Best K12 Solution.

EDUTONE XCHANGE™ CONNECTS EDUCATION APPLICATIONS TO GOOGLE APPS™
Alameda, CA – January 25, 2011

-- EduTone Corporation announced today the immediate availability of the EduTone Xchange™ - Google Apps Marketplace Edition, bringing Single Sign-On and automated end-user account provisioning capabilities to third-party education enterprise applications from within Google Apps for Education™.

PENNSYLVANIA’S ASSOCATION OF INTERMEDIATE UNITS (PAIU) DEPLOYS THE EDUTONE GATEWAY STATEWIDE
Alameda, CA -- June 28, 2010

-- EduTone Corporation and the Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units (PAIU) announced today the deployment of the EduTone Xchange™ Platform as a Statewide Application Gateway to automate the distribution of and access to web-based instructional software applications and digital content libraries. Funded by a grant through the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), PAIU’s Statewide Application Gateway is available at no cost to each of the 29 member Intermediate Units (IUs) and 500 school districts which serve more than 2400 private and public schools in the State.

NAMTC AND EDUTONE LAUNCH A DIGITAL MARKETPLACE FOR K-12 SCHOOLS
Alameda, CA – April 19, 2010

-- The National Association of Media & Technology Centers (NAMTC) and EduTone Corporation announced today the launch of a state-of-the-art, Web 3.0 and Social Media-based Digital Marketplace (DMP) to be offered by NAMTC exclusively to its members. The NAMTC Digital Marketplace consists of various web-based solutions provided by NAMTC’s Corporate Partners. The DMP includes new and innovative software as a service (SaaS) application and content providers whose aim is to revolutionize learning and enable teachers to prepare students to compete in the 21st century economy. The EduTone Xchange Platform will enable member ESAs to deliver these solutions to their districts and schools through locally-branded ESA Portals.

VIP TONE IS A FINALIST IN SIIA’s 2010 CODiE AWARDS
ALAMEDA, Calif. – February 26, 2010

-- VIP Tone, Inc. a leader in creating world-class school infrastructure through integrated solutions for learning, communication, and collaboration, is pleased to announce that its EduTone Xchange™ Platform has again been recognized by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) as a finalist this year's 2010 CODiE Awards. Released in June 2008, the EduTone Xchange Platform is nominated in the Best K12 Enterprise Solution within the Education industry for the second year in a row.

PEARSON Partners with VIP Tone to deliver an Integrated School Solution in Australia
Sydney, Australia -- September 14, 2009

-- Pearson Australia and VIP Tone jointly announced today a Heads of Agreement between the two companies enabling them to integrate and market their respective products and services to create the first end-to-end integration platform specifically designed for Australian schools.

NAMTC and EduTone join forces to create a digital Marketplace for K-12 Schools
AAlameda, CA -- September 14, 2009

-- The National Association of Media & Technology Centers (NAMTC) and EduTone Corporation announced today their plan to create an On-Demand Services Catalog to be offered by NAMTC exclusively to its members. The NAMTC Catalog is the foundation of a Digital Marketplace and will consist of various web-based solution bundles provided by NAMTC’s Corporate Partners. The EduTone Xchange Platform will enable member ESAs to deliver these bundles to their districts and schools through locally-branded ESA Portals.

VIP Tone Completes $3 Million Project with Calaveras Unified School District
Alameda, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2009

-- VIP Tone, a leading solution provider to K-12 education, today announced the successful completion of a $3 million multi-year contract with Calaveras Unified School District (CUSD) in California, for installing a district-wide managed IP Telephony system along with an upgraded gigabit network infrastructure and a 100 megabit point-to-point wireless WAN across the school sites.

VIP TONE FINALIST IN TWO SIIA 2009 CODiE AWARDS CATEGORIES
ALAMEDA, CA - March 3rd, 2009

-- VIP Tone, Inc. a leader in creating world-class school infrastructure through integrated solutions for learning, communication, and collaboration, is pleased to announce that its EduTone Xchange™ Platform has been recognized by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) as a finalist in two of this year's 2009 CODiE Awards. Released in June 2008, the EduTone Xchange Platform is nominated in the Best Identity Management Solution across all vertical markets of the Software industry, as well as the Best K12 Enterprise Solution within the Education industry.

LearningStation and VIP Tone Partner to Advance Teacher Collaboration
CHARLOTTE, NC - September 24, 2008

-- LearningStation, a leading provider of customized, online solutions for the K-12 classroom, today announced a partnership with VIP Tone, Inc., a leading provider of K-20 education specific application integration and single sign-on solutions with powerful resources for teaching and learning. The partnership will result in the integration of LearningStation’s proven solutions with VIP Tone’s EduTone™ Platform, an education services integration and on-demand delivery infrastructure.

VIP TONE Partners with MuseGlobal to Deliver EduTone Search
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 12, 2008

-- MuseGlobal, provider of award-winning content integration platforms worldwide, today announced that VIP Tone, a leading provider of K-12 technology solutions, has selected MuseGlobal’s federated search technology to power EduTone Search for the EduTone Ecosystem. The partnership will enable VIP Tone’s EduTone customers to simultaneously search multiple sources of content—including internal databases as well as millions of images, lesson plans, e-books, biographies and educational games—with one single search query. With the new federated search capability from MuseGlobal, users will have the most comprehensive, up-to-date information possible with a simplifying and time-saving solution in EduTone Search.

VIP TONE Licenses rPath’s Technology for its EduTone Gateway™
ALAMEDA, CA - September 12, 2008

-- VIP Tone today announced it has selected rPath’s rBuilder® and the rPath Appliance Platform™ to distribute and maintain its EduTone Gateway™ virtual appliance.  VIP Tone’s EduTone™ Platform is a single sign-on identity management and web services delivery and provisioning platform, specifically designed for the K-20 education vertical market.
rPath’s rBuilder is the first and only development platform that simplifies and automates the creation of virtual appliances.  rBuilder gives VIP Tone an automated and repeatable build process to ensure the highest quality images every time, and the rPath Appliance Platform provides a complete appliance lifecycle management capabilities, from creation through deployment, configuration, management, and update.

VIP TONE ACQUIRES WEB 2.0 WEBSITE FOR TEACHERS
ALAMEDA, CA - June 30th, 2008

-- Today VIP Tone announced the acquisition of WeTheTeachers.com (WeTheTeachers), a Web 2.0 social networking and educational content sharing website for teachers. WeTheTeachers.com allows teachers from all over the world to search its database by subject area and grade level and to download lessons, educational resources and tools for free. It provides tools for its users to author, store and share educational content and best practices. Members can rate and discuss each other's content and can work collaboratively across the globe through special interest groups and discussion forums.

EDUTONE GATEWAY CONNECTS SCHOOLS WITH CONTENT PROVIDERS
ALAMEDA, CA - June 30th, 2008

-- After five years of research and development, involving educational agency partnerships in California, VIP Tone announces the immediate availability of its innovative EduTone™ Platform for the K-20 education market, and launches the EduTone Xchange™ Partner Program to attract education market focused software and content service providers and distribution partners.

VIP TONE ELIMINATES ECONOMIC BARRIERS TO ADOPTING TECHNOLOGY IN SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS
ALAMEDA, Calif. - OCT 9, 2007

-- VIP Tone, Inc. today announced that it will grant FREE, perpetual licenses of its School MATRIX® 2.0 web-based data management platform to small K-12 public school districts in the United States. By offering the software licenses at NO COST to districts with less than 1,000 students, VIP Tone is eliminating the traditional economical barriers that prevent many of these districts from automating their student data management and reporting. Based on data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 8,700 US districts, representing more than half of all US school districts, are eligible to receive this free software grant. The thrust behind this philanthropic program is to accelerate the adoption of technology and data-driven decision support tools that enable US schools to meet State and Federal (e.g. No Child Left Behind) reporting requirements and improve student achievement.

VIP TONE VoIP SOLUTION DEPLOYED IN ANOTHER CALIFORNIA SCHOOL DISTRICT
INDIAN WELLS, CA - OCTOBER 9, 2007

-- VIP Tone today announced the award of a multi-year contract for VIP PBX™ services with Calaveras Unified School District (CUSD). This is the third contract VIP Tone has been awarded with Northern California school districts in the last 12 months. Hayward Unified School District and Morgan Hill Unified School District are currently using the VIP PBX services from VIP Tone. As an integral part of their VoIP project, CUSD is deploying IP phones to all of the district locations and is also upgrading the district wide network infrastructure while deploying a wireless network in all district locations.

VIP TONE AND SAN MATEO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION EXTEND LEARNING BEYOND TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM WALLS
ALAMEDA, CA. - June 28, 2007

-- VIP Tone, Inc. a leading solution provider to K-12 education, today announced that the San Mateo County Office of Education (SMCOE) has deployed a customized version of the CEEDS Enterprise Portal for use by all school staff and students in the Hillsborough City School District. The Hillsborough deployment is the first in San Mateo County where as many as 8 more districts are expected to begin to use the Portal over the next several months.

VIP TONE AND CPSI CONNECT TOGETHER
ALAMEDA, CA. - MARCH 27, 2007

-- VIP Tone, Inc. a leading solution provider of K-12 solutions, today announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with CPSI, Ltd., the developer of SIF-Connect Suite --a Zone Integration Server which adheres to the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) along with several SIF agents and other SIF integration tools. VIP Tone will leverage CPSI's expertise in data integration to add new SIF-certified applications to the EduTone XchangeTM Catalog of pre-integrated on-demand services for K-12 education.

VIP TONE Connects the Dots for the Catholic Schools in South Australia
Adelaide, South Australia - MARCH 27, 2007

-- VIP Tone, Inc. a leading solution provider for primary and secondary schools (K-12 Education), today announced that the Catholic Education Office will deploy VIP Tone's School MATRIX® Data Zone to all schools in the Catholic Education System in South Australia.

VIP TONE CONNECTS ALL THE DOTS FOR HAYWARD USD
ALAMEDA, CA - March 26, 2007

-- VIP Tone today announced the award of a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for VIP PBX™ services with Hayward Unified School District (HUSD) in California. As an integral part of the HUSD e-District Project, VIP Tone is upgrading HUSD's district wide network infrastructure, deploying a wireless mesh network to the district's 36 school locations, installing over 2,000 IP phones, and gradually rolling out the HUSD e-District Portal to all of the District's stakeholders, including staff, students and parents.

MGM WIRELESS AND VIP TONE ALLIANCE
Adelaide, Australia - 16 March, 2007

-- Today MGM Wireless Ltd. (based in Adelaide, South Australia) and VIP Tone, Inc. (based in California, USA) announced a strategic distribution agreement to co-brand and distribute both MGM and VIP Tone attendance improvement products and services to schools in the USA and Australia, offering a complete solution for student attendance and parent communications.

South Australia's DECS licenses VIP Tone's School MATRIX® Enhanced Student Attendance System (ESAS)
Adelaide, South Australia - December 13, 2006

-- VIP Tone, the sole supplier of school administration software to both the state and Catholic departments of education in South Australia, announced today that it has licensed to the Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS) a series of software applications, School MATRIX®-ESAS, for enhanced student attendance tracking. VIP Tone has recognized the emerging need for schools to maintain more accurate and detailed information about student attendance.

NEWLY APPOINTED PRESIDENT OF VIP TONE AUSTRALIA
ALAMEDA, CA. - DECEMBER 13, 2006

-- VIP Tone, Inc. a leading solution provider for primary and secondary schools (K-12 Education), today announced Adel Habib's promotion to President of VIP Tone Australia PTY, Ltd. Adel joined VIP Tone in 2004 as Chief of Operations where he provided leadership in managing the company's resources while running the Program Management Office at VIP Tone, successfully delivering various strategic projects including the development and deployment of the Consortium of Educational Enterprise Data Systems (CEEDS) Platform in California.

WEBINAR: Solution Providers Key to On Demand Success
SANTA CLARA, CA, July 31st, 2006

-- This webinar hosted by Jamcracker, "Solution Providers: Key to On Demand Success" and moderated by SaaS industry expert Phil Wainewright will take place August, 3 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific.

VIP TONE Expands Product Offering Through Acquisition of Learning Technology Systems
SAN DIEGO, CA -- July 5, 2006

-- (From the National Educational Computing Conference) VIP Tone today announced its acquisition of Learning Technology Systems (LTS), Inc., developers of IMSeriesTM, the only process-based instructional management information system available in the market today. The addition of IMSeries to the School MATRIX® Platform provides a complete solution, integrating data from all aspects of the teaching and learning process while making it securely accessible to all stake-holders. This strategic technology acquisition accelerates VIP Tone's growth in the US market and enables it to become one of the leading providers of K-12 solutions worldwide.

"E-Community - Leveraging Technology to Foster Public/Private Partnership" The Consortium for Educational Enterprise Data Systems (CEEDS)
MENLO PARK, CA April 25, 2006

– The evening of Tuesday, May 2, the Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula (JLPA•MP) will host its annual Community Forum event, inviting members of the Bay Area non-profit community to learn how technology has benefited a newly created California-based organization called CEEDS, The Consortium for Education Enterprise Data Systems. Recognizing that non-profit organizations are continually seeking out new ways to attract volunteers and drive increased donations, the League's Advocacy Committee conceptualized a speakers panel to showcase CEEDS, where technology is helping to accomplish both of these efforts. This event is being held free of charge to all attendees.

Hayward USD Unveils World's First Citywide WiFi eDistrict & High-Tech Learning Center
HAYWARD, CA -- February 10, 2006

-- Hayward USD and Hayward Partners in Education (PIE) are launching the world's first web-based, globally-converged, continuously available, citywide wireless school district. eDistrict is powered by a wireless Nortel network and features an "On-Demand Learning System" that escalates student learning and assessment, professional development and facilities/document management.

VIP Tone commercially supports IBM open source software for K-12 Education

IBM and VIP Tone announce Teaming Agreement

VIP Tone and Softlink Build Strategic Partnership

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