| | Macworld: News: More details on Cobb County iBook deal |
 | | When generating their request for proposals (RFPs) from possible laptop computer vendors, Cobb County school officials researched the one-to-one computing efforts made in other parts of the country, including Henrico County, Va., the state of Maine and Schaumburg, Ill. Learning from some of those programs’ shortfalls was key when making their decisions, said Dillon. |
 | | Cobb County made sure to include that as part of their RFP, which Apple has agreed to — Microsoft Office will be installed on all the new iBooks. |
 | | Dillon also explained that Cobb County is separately bidding out the installation and maintenance of the wireless networking infrastructure that will be needed to allow these thousands of iBooks to surf the Internet and communicate with other network resources. |
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