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SunGard SCT Gives Higher Education Software Developers New Tools to

HONOLULU (SunGard Summit User Conference) — March 08, 2005 — New software development kits (SDKs) will help make it easier for college and university software developers to rapidly expand the number of applications and services they offer to constituents through the SCT Luminis Platform. SunGard SCT, an operating unit of SunGard (NYSE:SDS), today announced availability […]

Polycom Announces Second Phase of Strategic Alliance with Microsoft For End-To-End Collaboration

PLEASANTON, Calif. – March 8, 2005 –Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced phase two of its multi-year joint marketing and development alliance with Microsoft Corp. to deliver business-quality, rich collaboration solutions across communications devices, applications and services.Expanding on solutions introduced last year that integrated Polycom’s widely-installed […]

Videré Conferencing Sees ”Perfect Storm” Behind Strong Demand for Conferencing Solutions In The Education Marketplace

QUINCY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 7, 2005– Videre Conferencing, New England’s leading provider of video, audio and web conferencing solutions, says that growing interest in conferencing solutions is being driven by a host of new products tailored to meet the specific needs of the education marketplace. These solutions seamlessly integrate audio, video and multimedia tools typically found […]

Committee considers maintaining alumni e-mail accounts

But after graduation, former students receive an e-mail from Computing and Media Services telling them their Syracuse University Orangemail account will be terminated in a month. However, that could possibly change, said Deborah Nosky, CMS information technology manager.Read the Full Story

Villanova faculty to acquire new course-building options with WebCT Vista

LYNNFIELD, Mass., March 7, 2005 – Villanova University, a perennial number one school in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, has selected the WebCT Vista academic enterprise system to provide faculty with powerful new course development capabilities on a scalable infrastructure to accommodate burgeoning e-learning growth.Villanova’s 900 full- and part-time faculty members will be […]

uCertify, Launches Exam Simulation PrepKits for MCSE 2003 Exam 70-291 and 70-293

The Microsoft Exam 70-293 and 70-291 Exams are based upon skill sets found to be most important, and they measure your ability to plan, implement, manage and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure. An MCSE candidate should have at least one year of experience implementing and administering a network operating system and designing […]

HDV Hits Airwaves

Although it was good news for consumers, the format failed to meet the demands of professional broadcast acquisition. Then Sony entered the game and upped the ante by offering a three-chip, 1080i consumer-level camcorder–the $4,000 HDR-FX1.Read the Full Story

UMass Professor Receives $500,000 NSF CAREER Grant To Study Open Source Computer Programming

The CAREER grants support early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21 st century, according to the NSF.Schweik says the main goal of his project is to identify factors that lead to success or failure of Internet-based free and open source software projects and emerging […]

The CampusEAI Consortium and Internet2 Announce The OPEN Student Television Network

Through this collaboration, OPEN Student Television Network will now reach the over three million users at 220 Internet2 member research and education institutions, in addition to the 34 state education networks which have access to the Internet2 Abilene network. Abilene is a nationwide high-performance backbone network which operates at a speed 20,000 times faster than […]

WBT Systems Reaches Another Major Milestone based on Fixed Price – QuickValue® Methodology

Dublin, Ireland – March 3rd, 2005 – WBT Systems, a global leader in enterprise e-learning solutions today announces the successful delivery of major new implementations using its unique methodology – QuickValue®. By controlling complex projects against key success metrics QuickValue® has enabled the successful delivery of over 200 installations since its inception 3 years ago. […]