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TestOut Launches Academic Learning Solution

Plug-and-Play Multimedia Instruction, Practice Simulations, and Comprehensive Testing Software Raises the Bar for IT Certification Training at the Academic Level PLEASANT GROVE, Utah June 26, 2002 — TestOut Corporation, the leading provider of experienced-based training and simulation products, today released its TestOut Academic Learning Solution, a simulation-based learning program developed specifically for the academic information […]

Microsoft VP Raikes Urges Industry to Develop Products, Solutions that Support How People Work

As group vice president of the Productivity and Business Services Group at Microsoft, Raikes was one of the first people to get his hands on the Tablet PC, which Microsoft played a major role in developing. Read The Full Article

Web Thinkers Warn of Culture Clash

At the annual Internet Society conference this week in Arlington, the engineers who built the Internet and many of the policymakers who follow its development urged caution as governments try to exert control and businesses look to maximize profits. Read the Full Article

The Pew Internet and American Life Project

On an average day in America, you’ll find at least 64 million Americans on the Internet. That’s about half of the 149 million Americans of all ages with online access.

Planning to Use the Internet2 Network? A Few Other Upgrades Might Be in Order

“The technology has gotten ahead of people’s thinking how best to use it,” says Bruce A. Metz, vice president for information technology at Tufts University. Read the Full Article

HorizonLive 2.6 released

HorizonLive 2.6 browser-based architecture requires no custom plug-ins, add-ons or downloads, is highly scalable and accommodates PC, Mac and Unix operating systems. According to John Walber, implementation is fast with no need for complex technical assistance. Presenters are able to setup their own meetings or create virtual classrooms using a wide range of tools unique […]

Docent Delivers Business Performance Management Solutions to OneBeacon

Docent Inc. (NASDAQ: DCNT) announced that OneBeacon Insurance Group has chosen Docent® to provide learning solutions for employees in its U.S. offices. Docent Enterprise™ will support the distribution, management and tracking of employee learning and competencies to identify strengths and professional development requirements on both an individual and organizational level. OneBeacon also plans to leverage […]

Cogent Selected by C-SPAN for Fast, Reliable Transport of Distance Learning Video and Data Transmissions

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (AMEX: COI), a Tier One, optical Internet service provider, announced C-SPAN has selected Cogent to provide a point-to-point, high bandwidth connection that is enabling an innovative, two-way, distance learning program for students at the University of Denver. Over Cogent’s 100 Mbps dedicated transport connection, C-SPAN’s distance learning program is taught by […]

Career Education Announces Its Online University Is The First College To Use E-Signatures In Federal Aid Process

HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL, Jun 03, 2002 (INTERNET WIRE via COMTEX) — Career Education Corporation (Nasdaq:CECO) today announced that its E-learning division, American InterContinental University Online (AIU Online), is the first higher education institution in the United States approved to allow students to electronically sign federal financial aid application- related documents. Read the Full Article

An Internet Pioneer of the 90’s Looks to a Future in Software

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. In its boom years, the Internet, despite being decentralized technology with countless contributors, had a leading man: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications, who wrote code and became rich, the first of the young Internet millionaires, smiling from the cover of Time magazine at 24, barefoot and wearing shorts. Read […]