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More Cities Set Up Wireless Networks

The city of Long Beach, Calif., plans to announce on Friday that it will make free wireless Internet access available in its downtown area as part of an effort to attract visitors and companies to the business district. Read the Full Article

Companies Reach Pact on Digital TV

Their proposal would eliminate the need for a proprietary digital-cable box, making digital TV sets “plug-and-play” devices; consumers could plug a television into the wall and start watching, a one-remote-control experience now foreign to many viewers who must rent a tuner box from their cable company. Read the Full Article

GSA tool to collect workforce data

GSA’s workforce was cut in half by the early 1990s, and with more agencies using FSS schedules, that smaller group of acquisition professionals has an ever-increasing amount of work to do. Read the Full Article

WebCT Releases Japanese Version of WebCT Campus Edition

LYNNFIELD, Mass., Dec. 6, 2002 – WebCT, the world’s leading provider of integrated e-learning systems for higher education, today released a Japanese plug-in for the WebCT Campus Edition course management system, enabling customers to provide a Japanese interface to Japanese users. The plug-in is not only valuable for higher education institutions in Japan that need […]

onViz multimedia authoring tool released

With onViz you can create interactive applications for computer-based instruction, electronic books and reference manuals. Read the Full Article

IBM, AT&T and Intel form new company to provide high-speed wireless Internet access

Cometa Networks, a joint venture between technology giant IBM Corp., long-distance carrier AT&T Corp., and chipmaker Intel Corp., plans to sell high-speed wireless Internet access — also known as WiFi or 802.11 — Read the Full Article

Palm Reader eBooks Head for the Library

The software provides libraries with an easy way to let patrons check out Palm Reader eBooks. The announcement came at the Open eBook Forum’s Tablet PC Digital Publishing Conference held today at McGraw-Hill Auditorium. Read the Full Article

What can you tell from a face?

The site asks whether, at the end of dinner, this anonymous person would: Read the Full Article

Digital blocks worth sharing

This sort of choice among bits of successful courses could save millions of dollars in Australia alone and widen the choice for students, said Shirley Alexander, director of the University of Technology, Sydney’s Institute for Interactive Media and Learning. Read the Full Article

‘Grid Computing’ Is the Next Wave in High-Performance Computing

A grid is a network of computational research centers whose supercomputer clusters, databases, and specialized programs form a pool of resources that is more powerful and more versatile than that of any single research center, or node, on the network. An example would be North Carolina’s BioGrid, a statewide infrastructure that university scientists will use […]