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Sonic Foundry and BxVideo Offer Breakthrough Rich Media Solution for Legal Community via Courtroom Connect

Sonic Foundry(R) Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO) and BxVideo, a provider of rich media services, today announced they are powering a novel rich media solution offered by Courtroom Connect that is helping re-define the way trial litigation communication takes place both inside and outside the courtroom in many state courthouses. Courtroom Connect, a provider of technology infrastructure […]

IBM to Contribute Speech Software to Apache Software and Eclipse Foundations

NEW YORK, NY — Sep 13, 2004 — SpeechTEK 2004 — IBM today announced it is contributing software to the open source community in a move to spur the availability of speech-enabled applications by making it easier and more attractive for developers to build and add speech recognition capability in a standardized way.The initiative, supported […]

HaiVision Announces H.264 Video Encoder/Decoder

The new multi-format HM2 codec blade adheres to the H.264 standard as defined in section 10 of the international MPEG-4 specifications, ensuring complete inter-operability with other vendors who comply with the standard. Moreover, the HM2 is designed to meet the same stringent technical performance levels defined by HaiVision’s award winning MPEG-2 codec systems, i.e. highest […]

eCollege’s Product Vision to Drive Profitable Growth and Regulatory Compliance

DENVER – September 13, 2004 – eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a leading provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, today announced its product advancement vision driven by a focus on student retention, operational efficiency and program reporting, which yields top and bottom line growth for institutions, and supports regulatory compliance.In the fourth quarter […]

Pathlore Forms Alliance with EMC to Deliver

EMC is the world leader in information storage and management. As a result of the alliance, Pathlore will resell the industry-leading EMC Documentum Enterprise Content Management platform and deliver an integrated enterprise content management and learning management system. The new system will eliminate the need for multiple content repositories – including those dedicated to learning […]

SyberWorks has been awarded a 5-year GSA Contract

Dave Boggs, CEO of SyberWorks, states, “We are very excited to be offering our learning management system and custom e-learning solutions under the GSA Schedule 70 for Information Technology. Our product set is highly robust and flexible and represents a tremendous value for the money spent. The SyberWorks Training Center application suite is uniquely suited […]

Online University Consortium Announces U Share – U Learn; Challenges Corporations to Raise Bar on Online Education Programs, Degrees

U Share – U Learn provides relevant solutions for human resource and corporate learning officers by benchmarking peer companies and using the benchmarks to create online education standards and university-to-business alliance programs that benefit participating organizations and employees. Read the Full Story

School’s tech gamble gets mixed reviews

The answer, college leaders decided, was technology. Read the Full Story

Futuremedia & Royal Mail have completed the second phase of the UK’s largest Home Computing Inititative (HCI).

The Royal Mail first introduced Futuremedia’s programme last November, signing up 16,500 employees. Having proved so popular, the scheme was launched again, prompting a further 5,500 people to register for Learning For All.Futuremedia’s Learning For All programme gives employees the opportunity to gain an internet-ready, fully installed home computer system for as little as £4.40 […]

Acadient Partners With Thomson Learning to Provide Online Business Courses for Higher Education Market

With one of the largest courseware libraries in the financial services industry, Acadient continues to expand its presence in the higher education and distance learning markets by creating and delivering fully customizable online course materials along with tailored marketing and analytical support.Read the Full Story