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Indian State Wants to Move Internet Data 5,000 Times Faster, Clears Ambitious Broadband Plan

HYDERABAD, India (AP) — In a bid to provide better government services, an Indian state on Monday cleared a plan that will help its officials move Internet data thousands of times faster than now. Read the Full Story

A new iMac for under $500?

Two Mac-focused sites–Think Secret and Apple Insider–reported on the possible release of a low-end Apple PC this week, citing unnamed sources. The rumored $499 Mac will have no monitor, 256MB of RAM, a 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 processor and a hard drive with storage capacity between 40GB and 80GB, according to the reports.Read the Full Story

Telcos Revisit Video

Regional telephone companies had been waiting for relief from Sec. 251 of the Telecom Act of 1996. Sure enough, in a matter of days, Verizon and SBC announced plans to speed up building fiber networks into neighborhoods and, in Verizon’s case, to the home itself.Read the Full Story

Leadtek Announces New Videophones & Cameras — Wins Three CES 2005 Awards for Innovations

These innovative products have already been honored with three separate prestigious CES 2005 Innovations Design and Engineering Awards, to be announced at the 2005 International CES held January 6-9, 2005 in Las Vegas.Read the Full Story

Mozilla’s Lightning to strike Outlook?

The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla’s calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird e-mail application. That integration is aimed right at the heart of Microsoft’s widely used Outlook software.Read the Full Story

uCertify Launches PrepKit for CompTIA Exam IK0-002 for i-Net+ Certification

CompTIA i-Net+ certification is an international industry credential that validates the knowledge of technical and non-technical professionals alike with at least six months experience in Internet, Intranet, and Extranet and e-commerce technologies. The technology community identifies CompTIA i-Net+ as the perfect entry into an Internet-related career. Top companies recognize CompTIA i-Net+ as part of their […]

MindEdge, Inc. Reaches Agreement with New England College

WOBURN, MA, December 15, 2004 – MindEdge, Inc., the leading provider of online courses to higher education institutions, today announced an agreement with New England College (Henniker, NH) to provide a program of up to 28 online health sciences courses for NEC’s students. ”We are excited about the partnership between NEC and MindEdge and are […]

Simpson Strong-Tie Taps Pathlore to Enhance Training Management and Effectivenes

“Pathlore will enable us to define and control our required training and skills for a variety of job roles within Simpson,” says Charles Roesset, Simpson Strong-Tie’s company-wide training manager. “We will enhance our training efforts by concentrating on the content and automating the administration.”Simpson Strong-Tie, an ISO certified company, will measure training effectiveness and determine […]

Broadband Use Surpasses Dial – Up in U.S.

For now, what people do online hasn’t changed as much as its frequency and duration, although some people are beginning to make telephone calls on the Internet or use cheap webcams for video chatting.Read the Full Story

XML documents merger ahead

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday recommended XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0, a specification designed to replace awkward work-arounds for combining XML documents.Read the Full Story