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Polycom and Edgewater Team to Address Enterprise Video Firewall Issues with Standards-Based, Open Solutions

PLEASANTON and SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 24, 2004 – Edgewater Networks, Inc., a provider of solutions that make the deployment of voice and video over IP easier and more secure, and Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leader in unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced an expansion of their co-development and marketing partnership beyond […]

Computers as Authors? Literary Luddites Unite!

Writers and computers nowadays are locked in such an enduringly dysfunctional embrace that it can be hard to tell us apart. We both rely heavily on memory, for instance. Read the Full Story

Questionmark Scoring Tool Enhances Grading of Essays

The Questionmark Scoring Tool helps both individual and multiple graders maintain consistency in marking constructed answers such as essays and vocal response questions. This is achieved by using the Scoring Tool to define rubrics, or scoring rules, for each question. For example, the rubric for a history essay might assign points to grammar, spelling, persuasiveness […]

The real cost of open source

In Hollywood parlance, U.S. marshals are the good guys and gals in the white hats. But now, this venerable group of federal law enforcers, who trace their lineage to George Washington’s administration, are making a new fashion statement.Read the Full Story

Qwest Communications Continues Delivering High-Performance Network to Internet2 in Extended Agreement

Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE:Q) today announced an agreement to continue providing optical and SONET network services to Internet2, a university-led research and development consortium that includes more than 300 U.S. universities, research institutions, corporations and government agencies working together to create and deploy next-generation Internet technologies. Read the Full Story

Hot Technologies in K-12 Education

Perhaps the greatest promise of anticipated technologies is their potential to transform schools through innovation. Read the Full Story

IBM Introduces ‘World Community Grid’

ARMONK, N.Y. — Nov. 16, 2004 — IBM, along with representatives of the world’s leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, today launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world’s most difficult health and societal problems. World Community Grid will […]

SyberWorks Learning Management System Selected by Pingtel

Arlington, Massachusetts – November 18, 2004-SyberWorks, a leader in custom e-Learning Solutions and the Learning Management System industry, announced today they have been selected by Pingtel Corporation, the leading open source, enterprise class, IP PBX software, to provide reseller and customer support training using the SyberWorks hosted e-Learning solution.Larry McMahon, Vice President of Services for […]

Morgan Stanley Chooses Plateau LMS

ARLINGTON, Va., November 17, 2004 – Plateau Systems, a leading provider of enterprise software that manages learning and knowledge readiness, announced today that Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MWD) has selected Plateau 4 Learning Management System (LMS) to help manage e-learning and enhance operational readiness for its employees around the world. Morgan Stanley will use Plateau 4 […]

Gates Stresses Value of Digital Technology in Making Information More Accessible to People with Vision or Print Disabilities

REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 15, 2004 — Imagine what it would be like if more than 95 percent of all print publications, from textbooks to popular novels to magazines and daily newspapers, were simply unavailable to you. For millions of people worldwide who are blind or have other print disabilities such as mobility impairments or learning […]