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A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate

While PowerPoint® has been the communication tool of choice for most subject matter experts (SMEs), most agree that it’s not a premier e-learning tool. On the other hand, Flash is great as an e-learning development tool, but it requires talented and experienced Flash developers. Clearly, the market needs tools that combine the advantages of these […]

Polycom Simplifies Deployment fo Installed-Room Systems Joining AMX Inconcert Alliance at Platinum Level

PLEASANTON, Calif., – March 2, 2005 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leader in video and voice conferencing, conference bridges, and integrated web collaboration solutions, has become a Platinum level Inconcert Partner with AMX® Corporation (NASDAQ: AMXC), a worldwide leader in control system technology. The program ensures simpler and faster integration of Polycom installed […]

Mac’s Original Designer Dies

Raskin died Saturday night at his home in Pacifica, California, his family said in a statement. In December, he told friends he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.Read the Full Story

Mississippi Picks Pathlore; 60 Percent of U.S. States Run LMS

Passage of the “State Employee Management Training Act” in 2003 helped the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration spearhead the purchase of the Pathlore solution. Along with establishing a training program for supervisory personnel, the act buttressed efforts to create employee development opportunities for state workers. The Pathlore solution offers Mississippi’s state workers a Web-based […]

Embanet CampusWebPort Increases ROI for Online Programs

Toronto, March 1, 2005 – Institutions with successful and growing online programs face the unforeseen challenge and cost of data automation for growing rosters and courses as well as custom reports to keep in compliance with accreditation. Institutions are typically faced with the challenge of manual processes which are expensive and prone to errors, or […]

$69.9 million iBook deal on tap in Ga.

If approved by the school board on March 9, Cobb County’s “Power to Learn” program will be among the largest one-to-one learning projects in the United States.Read the Full Story

IBM Helps Drive Open Source Development

SOMERS, N.Y. — Feb. 25, 2005 — IBM today contributed more than 30 open source projects to SourceForge.net and launched new online skills-building programs to spur innovation, collaboration and development around emerging open source projects. Additionally, IBM today announced it is extending support for developers building Web applications using PHP, a popular open source Web […]

Two-hundred Channels and Nothing on – Literally

Since then low-power television service (LPTV) has grown to include 2,034 stations across the nation, and according to the FCC and the trade association that represents the industry it has been a tremendous success.Read the Full Story

Universities and Colleges Embrace Blackboard’s Revolutionary Networked Learning Environment

WASHINGTON, Feb 24, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) announced today that eight new universities will use the complete Blackboard Academic Suite(TM), to foster Networked Learning Environments(TM) for their educators and students.Read the Full Story

Tables turn in campus Mac vs. Windows feud

Ten years ago, the computer world was different than today, and it seemed like Microsoft had bested its rivals. Beleaguered was a popular phrase used to describe Apple, and Linux was less than a year old and unknown outside small circles of avid coders.Read the Full Story