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Maine moves closer to laptops in high schools

Maine’s education commissioner has obtained assurances from at least 47 superintendents that they’re ready to press forward with laptops in high schools this fall, giving her confidence that a deal can be struck with Apple Computer. Read the Full Story

DS3 Computing Solutions Deploys Orthogon’s OS-Gemini as Backbone Network for Texas A&M University Distance Learning Network

The network covers over 235 miles and connects Texas A&M’s Kingsville campus to 24 school districts in Southeast Texas using Orthogon’s OS-Gemini point-to-point broadband wireless solution. It is the result of a partnership between Texas A&M University-Kingsville, DS3, the school districts, and several government agencies that enables high school students to earn dual college credits, […]

Companies use loans to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to rural areas

It’s just one of the challenges that officials at some wireless communications companies encounter when they expand into rural communities to offer broadband Internet access. Read the Full Story

Pathlore Introduces Industry’s First “Plug & Play” Virtual Classroom Connector

In addition, Pathlore has entered into an alliance with WebEx Communications (Nasdaq: WEBX), the web communications services leader, to offer Pathlore customers a free 30-day trial of WebEx services.Pathlore and WebEx are also planning to host a free series of web conferences that will explain the benefits of incorporating virtual classroom services into an organization’s […]

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Announces the Addition of a NEW Interactive Tutor to TechCONNECT

The popular TechCONNECT online learning solution helps students learn six application suites from Microsoft(R) Office, Microsoft(R) Works, and AppleWorks(R) through online activities integrated into in the core content subjects of language arts, social studies, mathematics and science. Read the Full Story

TANDBERG Unveils Integrated Multimedia Video Communication System for Education Market

NEW YORK, June 21 /PRNewswire/ — TANDBERG(R) (OSLO: TAA.OL), a global leader in visual communication, today introduced a mobile video system to meet the sharp rise in demand for integrated multimedia visual communication in America’s classrooms. The new system is being unveiled today in New Orleans at the National Education Computing Conference, the premier forum […]

How computing is changing the classroom

My son will be moving from primary to secondary school in September, and we have recently spent some time at his new school so that he can get used to it. Read the Full Story

Wisconsin Virtual School Selects eClassroom to Power Statewide Program

DENVER – June 21, 2004 – eClassroom(SM), the K-12 division of eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], today announced it has been selected to power the Wisconsin Virtual School (WVS), a statewide online program serving students in approximately 90 school districts across Wisconsin. WVS, which is beginning its fifth year, is transferring its online program to the eClassroom […]

First Virtual Communications Expands Its Commitment to Educators

New Orleans, La. – National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2004 – Booth #2256 – June 21, 2004 – First Virtual Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: FVCXE), a premier provider of infrastructure software solutions for real-time, rich media communications, today announced it is expanding its commitment to its education customers and the educational technology consortia that serve them. […]

Administrative & Student Management Software

With Server 7, users have the ability to perform searches and calculations on the server instead of the client database, which provides data speed gains and greater performance from hard disk storage systems and multi-CPU servers.Read the Full Story