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Microsoft Restates Its Mac Allegiance

Microsoft still loves Apple’s Macinstosh, even as the current five-year deal between the companies comes to a close. Microsoft’s plan: Remain focused on creating products that make it easier for Macs and Windows PCs to communicate. Microsoft will soon take that plan so far as to make Apple products compatible with its much ballyhooed. Read […]

Mac Office to get spring cleaning

…but the company is not saying when it will solve one major shortcoming in its OS X offering: the lack of an e-mail program that can directly share data with a Microsoft Exchange server. Read the Full Article

Click2learn Announces Synchronous Addition to Aspen Suite

Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) announced today that the next version of its award-winning Aspen Enterprise Learning Platform™ will include a full-featured synchronous module that will provide companies with virtual classroom, Web conferencing and instant messaging capabilities as an integrated component to the Aspen suite. These capabilities, married with Aspen’s learning content development and management system (LCMS) and […]

eCollege(SM) Gives Publishers an Easy and Cost Effective Way to Increase Distribution

eCollege(SM) [Nasdaq: ECLG], a provider of technology and services for online higher education programs, announced the launch of its Publisher Toolkit(SM), enabling publishers to easily extend the distribution of their quality content to faculty and students through the eCollege AUSM platform.The Publisher Toolkit provides publishers with an industry-leading infrastructure, professional services, PIN technology, and end-user […]

DigitalThink Selects New WebEx Training Center Service as Part of Complete E-Learning Solution

SAN FRANCISCO and SAN JOSE, Calif., April 9, 2002 – DigitalThink, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTHK), the leading provider of e-learning business solutions to Global 2000 companies, and WebEx Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBX), the global leader in communications infrastructure for business meetings on the Web, announced today that DigitalThink will offer the new WebEx Training Center service […]

Seton Hall’s Technology Center Creates Free Software for Multimedia Presentations

The software, called SyncStream, makes it easy to mix video of a lecture with a PowerPoint presentation or other slide show. Read the Full Article

Click2learn Ships ToolBook 8.5

Click2learn (NASDAQ: CLKS) today began shipping ToolBook Instructor 8.5, its highly acclaimed desktop e-Learning authoring software. With this important release, Click2learn introduces deep interoperability between ToolBook and Click2learn’s Aspen learning content management (LCMS) technologies. The move allows developers to seamlessly integrate ToolBook learning content within the Aspen LCMS system, where it can be added to […]

Polycom Announces Soundstation Premier Interoperable With Nortel Networks Meridian 1 Pbx

MILPITAS, Calif., March 25, 2002 — Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), a worldwide leader in the convergence of interactive voice, video and data communications, today announced the newest members of its industry-leading SoundStation® voice communications family, the SoundStation Premier® 500D and the SoundStation Premier 550D. Both products have a licensed Time Compression Multiplexing (TCM) interface enabling […]

Sun Microsystems and NCS Pearson Bring E-Testing To State Classrooms Using The Sun One Platform

SANTA CLARA, CA — March 19, 2002 — Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it is working with NCS Pearson and its state assessment services to provide high-stakes electronic testing and measurement services based on the Sun[tm] Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform. The open standards Sun ONE platform enables Sun and NCS Pearson to […]

Motorola Labs Internet2 Initiative

The initiative stems from Motorola Labs’ participation in Internet2, a consortium chartered to accelerate the creation of future Internet technologies. Read the Full Article