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There’s an article linked at MacSurfer today that begs the question of whether Apple is losing ground in the college market because of lax marketing efforts or the vulnerability and short-sightedness of the administrators who make the purchasing decisions.In either case, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the situation doesn’t bode well for Apple.
Web Crossing, Inc. announced its newest specialized community solution, Campus Crossing. Campus Crossing is a new Web Crossing-based intranet/extranet solution optimized and pre-configured especially for educational use and corporate training. Now setting up a high-quality, full strength online education space is easy, with features specially tailored for teaching such as public and private discussion areas, […]
Computers are faster and smarter than ever. But the purchase decision has become more complicated. The choices are particularly tough this year, with Microsoft and Apple Computer releasing Windows XP and OS X, major revisions to the most popular personal-computer operating systems in the world. The new software will place fresh demands on your system, […]
Intel’s Pentium 4 sales have suffered in the general downturn, and the company hopes deeper price cuts and other incentives will pave the way for the 2GHz version.
SEEKING TO SHED the remaining traces of its proprietary roots, Novell is readying the latest upgrade to NetWare, which aims to morph the network operating system into a vehicle for accessing services over the Internet.
Wireless deployments are on ice while IEEE committees address the alphabet soup of 802.11 standards–and the next meeting is in September.
Competisys Corporation, an integrated utilities company based in Irvine, Calif., announced today the “lighting” of its HomeStream system at Poppy Meadows, a Schuler Homes development located in the Northern California city of American Canyon. The HomeStream system is the first in the country to provide a broadband system that integrates telephone, video (digital television and […]
During this coming school year, nearly 24,000 middle school, high school and senior high school students in the Plano (Texas) Independent School District will find that their classrooms have been transformed into leading-edge projection sites – and that bright, sharp, large-screen computer and video presentations will become the norm, thanks to PLUS(R) U2 Series digital […]
AUSTIN, Texas (June 19, 2001) On July 19, 2001 VTEL videoconferencing technology was used when Walt Disney Imagineering R&D and the Kilby International Awards joined to produce an interactive distance learning videoconference. The conference program featured Kilby Laureates as role models for participating students from Los Angeles inner city schools and for students in three […]