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Chapel Hill Seeks Best Role for Students’ Laptops
Requirement yields savings, but educational gains are evolving and hard to measure
Laptop Proposal Stalls in Massachusetts
Officials at the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education took a bold step last October by recommending that laptops be required for all students attending the state’s public colleges.
Motorola completes 1.6GHz PowerPC G5
PowerPC 8500 – aka the G5 – last week and is set to go into volume production real soon now at speeds of up to 1.6GHz – a higher clock speed than AMD’s latest-generation, ‘Palomino’ Athlon is expected to ship at – The Register has learned.
Front Porch Digital Launches Rich Media Services; Unique Services Will Unlock the Value of Video Content Libraries
Front Porch Digital, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: FPDI) today launched a Rich Media Services offering that will allow content creators including broadcasters, entertainment companies, corporations, educators, and government agencies to quickly and cost-effectively encode, index, store, and publish their video content in less time and at less cost than using a competitive offering or doing […]
Vbrick Systems Launches World’s First Real-Time MPEG-2 to Windows Media Transcoder
VBrick Systems today unveiled the world’s first real-time MPEG-2 to Microsoft’s Windows Media transcoder. The new product, called `VBXcoder’ enables customers to deploy one-way or two-way MPEG video with true DVD-quality throughout their existing enterprise networks and stream that same video over the Internet. VBXcoder includes advanced features that enable streaming video via the Internet […]
Internet Surpasses Its Original Goal
NEARLY 40 years after it was conceived as a method of maintaining communications in the event of an attack on the United States, the Internet — long since broadened past that purpose — last week had the first real test of its original goal.
Global: Disaster highlights importance of Internet technologies
Corporate responses to the terrorist attacks in the US underlined the importance of back-up communications systems and disaster-recovery plans. As the terrorist attacks on the US unfolded on Tuesday, and in the immediate aftermath, many global companies found themselves scrambling to locate their people and communicate with their far-flung facilities. Based on experiences being reported […]
Trying to Plan for the Unthinkable
Business disaster recovery experts have been confronted by a stunning new form of devastation that few had imagined before Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
How Terrorists Use the Internet
Experts say that terrorists have made a practice of putting encrypted messages, including maps of targets, inside seemingly innocent Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other Web sites.