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ActiveEducation to Deliver Courseware That Offers Seamless, Rapid Deployment With Pathlore Learning Management System

GOLDEN, Colo. — ActiveEducation, Inc. (ActiveEducation), a provider of e-learning courseware on e-business technologies (E-BizTech) and desktop applications, announced it has joined the Pathlore Content Partner Network, one of the e-Learning industry’s most comprehensive content integration programs. ActiveEducation and Pathlore are working to ensure customers are afforded seamless access to ActiveEducation’s online courseware through Pathlore […]

PictureTel combines PC, Internet, video

Videoconferencing solutions have improved to the point where participants all over the world can see and hear one another with decent quality and reliability, but the systems have lacked the ability to make sure that everyone is — literally — on the same page.

South Koreans Accessing the Net Is Rising

SEOUL (Reuters) – The Ministry of Information and Communication said on Monday the number of South Koreans who access the Internet at least once a month rose 3.9 percent by end-March to 20.9 million from 19.04 million at end-December.

Top 15 Notebooks

Prices are dropping and values abound. For $1200 you can now get a powerful Dell system with a decent screen and a roomy hard drive.

“Is Low Power FM Finally finding its Voice?”

In the Mountain Empire communities of Potrero, Campo and Morena Village, California, local community news is distributed by word-of-mouth and through information placed on post office bulletin boards. There are no daily newspapers, local radio or TV stations in this rural mountainous part of southeast San Diego County, along the border of the United States […]

AVID|DS HD Driving Success for Corporate Productions

Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced that its newly released Avid®|DS HD system is successfully being used to produce a variety of corporate videos, training films, and sales presentations for corporations in the US and abroad. Avid|DS HD is the industry’s premiere nonlinear production (NLP™) system for real-time conforming and finishing of projects at […]

Students Rave About PC Music

College students are eschewing their home stereos in favor of the computer. With high-speed connections, interactive storage, and CD- quality sound, the PC provides a better listening experience. Also: Eveo brings videos to independent musicians … And more, as Brad King spins the latest digital music news.

Innovative Mouse Lets Visually Impaired ‘Feel’ the Web

Computer users who are blind or visually impaired are finding their way to the Web through talking browsers and other technologies, but a computer mouse system called VirTouch is expanding on the experience by translating sights on the screen to touch.

Shadow netWorkspace (SNS) An Advanced Teaching Application

It is called Shadow because it follows you wherever you go; your network space is accessible at any computer anywhere that has a connection to the Internet. SNS provides much of the functionality of a personal PC with the added benefit of being accessible from any computer anywhere via the World Wide Web. As Laffey, […]

Motorola, WorldCom, and APTE Launch Wireless Classroom Pilot Program

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), WorldCom (Nasdaq: WCOM) and APTE, Inc. announced today the launch of a pilot program to introduce wireless technology applications to the classroom. The Motorola Timeport™P935 personal interactive communicator, customized with Internet Coach® Learn Together™applications, and provided with wireless service by SkyTel, a WorldCom company, were assigned to each […]