Archive for the ‘New Economy’ Category

Netscape and Powered, Inc. Collaborate to Launch New Online Education Service

Netscape, a subsidiary of AOL Inc., and Powered Inc.(TM), a leading provider of interactive marketing solutions, today announced a collaboration to create the Netscape Learning Center, a new online resource for consumers to learn about topics of interest to them. Read the Full Article

SCT and Blackboard Announce New Relationship to Offer Enterprise Integration of e-Education Products

Prior to the creation of this relationship, a number of colleges and universities have integrated their Blackboard and SCT e-Education systems to more efficiently manage course resources with student services and information. By entering into a formal relationship, Blackboard and SCT will now be able to offer thousands of higher education institutions enterprise integration between […]

How Robots Will Steal Your Job

After all, it only takes a typical round of errands to reveal how far we’ve come already. From automated gas pumps to bank ATMs to self-service checkout lanes at major retailers, service jobs already are being replaced by machines on a scale of obvious magnitude. Read the Full Article

N2H2 bought by Secure Computing

Industry experts say the merger could be the first of many in the K-12 filtering space, now that the market has reached near saturation. Read the Full Article

Report: 1 in 10 tech jobs may go overseas

Gartner Inc., the world’s biggest high-tech forecasting firm, said in a report entitled “U.S. Offshore Outsourcing: Structural Changes, Big Impact” that 500,000 of the 10.3 million U.S. technology jobs could move just in 2003 and 2004. Read the Full Article

Pay Now, Learn Later

In 2000 they put $45,000 into the Virginia Education Savings Trust to open accounts for daughters Lea, now 5, and Anne, now 3. Since then their investment has shrunk 5% while the average private college tuition has climbed 18% to $18,300. Read the Full Article

Tuition hikes are outpacing financial aid

Thousands of Indiana’s neediest college students could be forced to borrow more or work extra hours to pay for their education this year because state financial aid hasn’t kept pace with tuition increases at public and private universities.Read the Full Article

Experts Urge Strong Education Rather Than Big Tariffs

Consumers are importing too many goods and services, the argument goes, while companies are exporting too many jobs. But while these activities may indeed be slowing the recovery in the short term, in the long term they are likely to be essential to raising standards of living.Read the Full Article

eCollege(SM) Announces Net Income of $.02 Per Share and Record Revenue of $7.3 Million for the Second Quarter 2003

DENVER – July 22, 2003 – eCollege(SM) (the Company) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of outsource solutions for online higher education programs, today announced that, during the second quarter of 2003, it achieved positive net income for the first time in its history. The Company’s net income for the second quarter of 2003 was $356 […]

I.B.M. Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas

During the call, I.B.M’s top employee relations executives said that three million service jobs were expected to shift to foreign workers by 2015 and that I.B.M. should move some of its jobs now done in the United States, including software design jobs, to India and other countries.Read the Full Article