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Plateau Earns High Marks for Enterprise Learing in Forrester Study

Arlington, Va. – January 13, 2005 – Plateau Systems, a leader in enterprise software that manages learning and knowledge readiness, today announced that it was among the select companies that Forrester Research invited to participate in its December 2004 TechRankings for Enterprise Learning Management Suites. Of the six vendor solutions evaluated, Plateau’s OpenSuite received top […]

Polycom Announces Industry Firsts for Voice and Video over IP with First SIP Conference Phone and Entry Video System

PLEASANTON, Calif. – Jan. 24, 2005 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced two new solutions that expand its award-winning voice-over-IP (VoIP) and VSXâ„¢ flagship group video conferencing product lines while broadening Polycom’s industry leading support for SIP. The SoundStation® IP 4000 is a new IP […]

Electronics giants form alliance

Japan’s Sony Corp and Panasonic-brand owner Matsushita Electric Industrial, South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Dutch Philips Electronics formed the alliance because they want buyers of their products to watch or listen to “appropriately licensed video and music on any device, independent of how they originally obtained that content,” they said in a joint statement.Read the […]

Dekart Logon for Lotus Notes – authentication for Lotus Notes with smart cards,

January, 17 – Dekart (www.dekart.com) announces the release of Dekart Logon for Lotus Notes version 1.02, a flexible and reliable access control software solution for two and three-factor authentication of Lotus Notes users. Users can be positively authenticated to Lotus Notes resources via a wide range of secure storage devices and biometric identification. With tokens, […]

VideoPerception Simplifies Live Video Streaming for K-12 and Higher Education

Highlands Ranch, CO, January 18, 2005 / – VideoPerception, (videoperception.com) an Application Services Provider of end-to-end Web-based Video Solutions, today announced the release of VP Live!, a live video service for broadcasting Video-Over-IP. Designed to let educators broadcast any event on campus, VP Live! utilizes Windows Server 2003 push distribution to allow broadcasts to be […]

Microsoft offers subscription Outlook

Known as Microsoft Office Outlook Live, the service includes a subscription version of Outlook 2003 to connect with Hotmail or MSN e-mail accounts. For $59 a year, customers get an e-mail account with 2GB of storage and the ability to send individual messages with up to 20MB of attachments.Read the Full Story

The Coming DVD Format War

Neat trick.So neat, in fact, that it would seem to upstage the efforts of the biggest consumer electronics companies and Hollywood studios, which are choosing sides in a battle between two high-definition DVD formats, Blu-ray and HD DVD.Read the Full Story

A Diamond in the Rough: Divining the Future of E-Content

What appears in the headlines of articles in daily or weekly newspapers and magazines will not usually present a fully formed trend, but the bellwethers are often there to provide some productive avenues for further exploration.Read the Full Story

Brandon-Hall.com Recognizes GeoLearning in 2005 LMS KnowledgeBase Report

GeoLearning, Inc., the leading provider of managed learning services and hosted learning technologies, announced today that e-learning research and advisory firm Brandon-Hall.com has recognized GeoLearning’s ASP-hosted GeoMaestroâ„¢ learning management platform in its 2005 LMS KnowledgeBase report. Providing an in-depth profile of 50 learning management systems, the report highly recommends GeoMaestro as a hosted LMS that […]

By Tapping Pathlore, E-Training Flows at Advanced Drainage Systems

“Pathlore’s software suite gives us the infrastructure to evaluate employee retention, develop more comprehensive training programs for vehicle operation, safety and maintenance and share best practices across our vast network of manufacturing plants,” said James Baich, vice president of manufacturing for ADS. “When we change a production line and break down our equipment to manufacture […]