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Intel Cuts Prices on Its Chips Up to 52 Percent

The price cuts, made on Sunday, come less than a week after Intel introduced its fastest Pentium 4 to date, running at 2.8 gigahertz, or 2.8 billion clicks per second. Intel, for example, cut the price of its Pentium 4 chip running at 2.4 gigahertz by 52 percent to $193 from $400 each, in lots […]

Corel’s Dell, HP deal opens options for schools

The move gives school technology buyers more options: They can save even more money on inexpensive computers or upgrade to various versions of Microsoft Office for an extra charge. It also gives new life to Corel, based in Ottawa, Ont. The Canadian software publisher has struggled in recent years. Read The Full Article

Simulation may be the e-learning “killer app”

Simulation-enabled content can revolutionize learning and accelerate the transfer and application of knowledge. Enterprises should leverage the scalability and immersion characteristics of simulations to accelerate time to competency and depth of competency. By 2006, 70 percent of all off-the-shelf and custom e-learning content will include some application of simulations (0.8 probability). Read The Full Article

Jones Knowledge Will Give Away Its Course-Management Software

Details of how the software would be made freely available to developers have not been worked out, company officials acknowledged. They said the transfer would take place by the end of the year. Read The Full Article

Microsoft aims to rewrite mobile computing with its Tablet PC

Not much larger than the spiral notebook found in most students’ book bags, the Tablet PC combines the handiness of a handheld computer with the power of a laptop. Read The Full Article

Numerex and Time Warner Interconnect Texas Area School District With High Speed Network

ATLANTA, Aug 28, 2002 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Construction of 100 Mbps WAN Now Complete for Ysleta Independent School District (YISD) of El Paso, Texas Numerex Corp. (Nasdaq: NMRX) today announced the completion of a project signed through its subsidiary, BNI Solutions, with Time Warner Communications to install and support a 60-site WAN (Wide Area […]

Commonwealth of Learning Selects Convera Search Technology to Power One of World’s Largest Multilingual Sources for Online Distance Learning Content

Vienna, VA, August 26, 2002 — Convera (Nasdaq: CNVR) today announced that The Commonwealth of Learning, the world’s only intergovernmental organization solely concerned with the promotion and development of distance education and open learning, has installed Convera’s RetrievalWare as the search and categorization engine on its new Knowledge Finder portal. Launched in July 2002, the […]

UC Berkeley Improves Classroom Results with eLearning System from Presedia

UC Berkeley Improves Classroom Results with eLearning System from Presedia Instructors at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering Quickly and Easily Add Multimedia Courses to their Growing Web-Based Curriculum Sunnyvale, CA, August 26, 2002 – Presedia, Inc. a leading provider of enterprise solutions for eLearning, compliance, certification and corporate communications, today announced that the company’s flagship […]

Ridgeway Teams with California’s Imperial County of Education offering Distance Learning Opportunities For Remote Schools

West Long Branch, NJ — August 26, 2002 Ridgeway Systems & Software, Inc., the world’s leading provider of boundary traversal solutions for IP voice and video, has partnered with the Imperial County of Education to deploy their ambitious distance learning initiative, the BorderLink Project. BorderLink provides equal educational opportunities for all schools across its rural […]

Push-Button Innovation

Hello? Hello? Can you hear me now? The telecom sector seems badly disconnected. Read The Full Article