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PLEASANTON, Calif. – Jan. 13, 2004 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leader in video and voice conferencing, conference bridges, and integrated web collaboration solutions, today announced its continuing commitment to the field of deaf education with the appointment of Michael Baker, Polycom vice president of Vertical Markets, to the board of associates of […]
MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative will make it easier and cheaper for universities to share online education software.Read the Full Story
JANUARY 13, 2004 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) – Several critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and videoconferencing products based on the H.323 protocol that’s used in IP telephony applications to exchange audio and video communications.Read the Full Story
“It was important for us to select a user-friendly virtual classroom technology that could accommodate both low- and high-end access to the Internet,” said Kathrine Swanson, associate dean of students. “We also wanted to leverage voice-over-IP technology. Centra’s product met all of our needs, and was a stand out among the offerings we looked at.”Read […]
By granting Nortel an exclusive 18-month deal to supply the equipment that sends phone calls as digital data like that used over the Internet, Verizon, the nation’s biggest phone company, had given a huge lift to a technology that some industry executives say could be the most important development in public telecommunications networks since analog […]
Denny Jaeger, a musician and composer who spent the past decade developing the software, will unveil it to the general public Jan. 15, when people will be able to download a scaled-down version for free. Read the Full Story
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq:GILTF) announced today that it will supply a hub and 300 very small aperture terminals (VSATs) of its popular SkyBlaster* 360 broadband platform, to China’s Central Agriculture Broadcast and Television School (CABTS).Read the Full Story
Their single shared license for WebCT Vista will support rapidly escalating e-learning activity across the three independent systems and their 72,000 students. “This will be one of the largest e-learning initiatives in the Northeast as students begin 2004,” said Allan Cole, co-founder and executive director of the New England Learning Association, a Boston-based association that […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 5, 2004 — Beginning in January, the 5 colleges of the Vermont State Colleges System will offer their students around-the-clock tutoring and academic support online in math, writing, statistics, accounting, economics and chemistry.College students are busy. Many hold down a job, support a family, or are simply involved in numerous extracurricular […]
Headquartered in Danvers, Mass., OSRAM SYLVANIA manufactures and markets a wide range of lighting products, including automotive, electronic and magnetic ballasts, and precision materials and components for industrial and commercial users, original equipment manufacturers and consumers, sold primarily under the SYLVANIA brand name, but also under the OSRAM brand. It also offers lighting systems installation […]