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The deal means that within the past 18 months, Microsoft has forged partnerships with at least five major wireless carriers in the United States to carry a cell phone or wireless device that runs a Microsoft operating software. Read The Full Article
STAMFORD, CT – July 29, 2002 — Leading testing and assessment software supplier Questionmark today announced a new technology partnership with Qarbon.com Inc. Qarbon.com publishes ViewletBuilder, which allows businesses to create animated online demonstrations (called Viewlets) that graphically depict how productivity applications, custom software, hardware and other technical processes work. Through the partnership, the two […]
A high-school algebra student is struggling with quadratic equations. He loads a photographic image of his face and a sample equation into a simple but sophisticated computer program. The program distorts the image based on that equation, thus providing a visual illustration of the concept. Read The Full Article
Content and collaboration are becoming increasingly intimate bedfellows, but one of the key players in content management–Documentum Inc.–has been absent on that front. Until now. Read The Full Article
In spite of past fiber setbacks, 2002 has seen a influx of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) solutions from a bevy of equipment makers, bringing prices down and making the technology manageable for not only incumbent monopoly telecom carriers, but also municipalities, upscale development communities and small independent companies. Read The Full Article
REDMOND, Wash. — July 24, 2002 — Microsoft Corp.’s Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates today outlined the company’s vision and road map for phase two of Microsoft® .NET, the company’s two-year-old software initiative for connecting information, people, disparate systems and devices. This next phase continues to build upon the XML-based interoperability of Web […]
Film canisters are collecting dust after 75 years of nonuse, video formats from the 1980s are becoming unreadable and Web projects created just minutes ago are already becoming stale. Read The Full Article
Similar solutions for other operating systems will be coming soon, government officials said. The standards and software are available free to anyone who wants to use them. Read The Full Article
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – July 25, 2002—SmartForce (Nasdaq: SMTF), the world’s largest and most experienced e-Learning company, today announced the formation of its “SmartForceConnect” program, a comprehensive series of initiatives and relationships that will help to drive its learning solutions, and ultimately its customers’ learning programs, deeper into and more closely aligned with customers’ core, […]
The Web3D Consortium ( W3DC) made its draft of Extensible 3D (X3D) and an accompanying software development kit available for download and solicited comment on the specification. The technology is a descendant, expressed in XML (Extensible Markup Language), of the pioneering but ultimately unsuccessful Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). Read The Full Article