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Internet Buckles But Doesn’t Break

Internet traffic slowed and major news Web sites were jammed Tuesday as people searching for details about the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks went online.

Hawaii Department of Education Selects 3Com for Network Infrastructure Solutions

3Com Corporation (Nasdaq:COMS – news) today announced that the Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) has deployed $1.63 million worth of 3Com high-speed, chassis-based Switch 4007 switches, upgrading networks in 82 of its largest schools to Gigabit Ethernet and Layer 3 switching technologies. In addition, HIDOE chose the 3Com® SuperStack® 3 Switch 4900 for its central […]

VBrick Systems Launches World’s First Real-Time MPEG-2 to Windows Media Transcoder

VBXcoder Enables Simultaneous Streaming of MPEG Video Across Enterprise Networks and Over the Internet

HP introduces new lineup of business PCs

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) announced its new PC products for the fourth quarter on, saying it will launch three desktops and two monitors next month.

Belgian Software Maker Files New Bankruptcy Plan

Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (news/quote), the struggling software concern, filed a new restructuring plan with the Belgian bankruptcy court in its hometown, Ieper, today and announced that it was talking to at least two potential buyers of its core activities.

Anlon 4.0 Selected as System-wide eLearning Software Platform for Maricopa Community College District

Anlon Systems announced Anlon 4.0, the latest version of the company’s industry-leading, enterprise-class Learning Content Management System (LCMS), has been selected to support system wide distance learning for Arizona’s Maricopa Community College District (MCCD). The largest community college system in the nation, Maricopa employs 1,100 full-time faculty, augmented by 3,600 adjunct faculty who are specialists […]

Penguin Enrolls in U.S. Schools

mascot of America’s financially strained public education system –- for Linux represents a way to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for software.

Video Downloads Swamp Computer Network in U. of Delaware’s Dorms

Technology managers at the University of Delaware had a rude awakening this week, when the computer network in the residential halls saw its heaviest traffic ever. Internet access for the 7,500 students living there — many of them freshmen — ground to a halt.

Mentergy Breaks Down Live e-Learning Barriers with Multi-language Versions of LearnLinc Virtual Classroom Platform

Mentergy™, Ltd. (Nasdaq: MNTE – news) announced its LearnLinc Live e-Learning division has released multi-language versions of LearnLinc 5 virtual classroom software, including German, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Japanese. LearnLinc is used by Global 2000 corporations worldwide for highly interactive live e-Learning classes reaching employees, partners, and customers in any country. LearnLinc classes can be […]

Wireless network comes to Clemson U. campus

Technology is catching up with the hype at Clemson University. Imagine a network system so fast that it can email roughly 250 lengthy Western Civilization papers, in less than once second, cableless and wireless.