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LEXINGTON, MA (April 5, 2001) – Centra (NASDAQ: CTRA), the worlds leading provider of software and ASP services for live eLearning and collaboration, today announced that Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., has deployed Centras virtual classroom software for the delivery of real-time distance education programs.
The Web100 project will provide the software and tools necessary for end-hosts to automatically and transparently achieve high bandwidth data rates (100 Mbps) over the high performance research networks. Initially the software and tools will be developed for the Linux operating system, but will be done in a standard, open manner so that they can […]
THIS YEAR, American colleges will spend 13 percent more on information technology than they did last year, according to a new report by the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation.
SEATTLE, Wash., April 2, 2001 — “Angel and minister of grace, defend us.” Theater buffs will recognize this line from Shakespeares “Hamlet,” when the Danish prince first meets the ghost of his murdered father. But what does it mean? Since the line can be interpreted many ways, some productions of the play portray Hamlet as […]
BEVERLY, Mass. — Furthering its strategy to deliver affordable e-collaborative product development capabilities to its manufacturing customers and their supply chains, Smart Solutions, a Dassault Systemes (Nasdaq: DASTY – news) company and its Americas subsidiary, SmarTeam Inc., a leading provider of rapidly-implemented business collaboration solutions for small-to-medium-sized manufacturing organizations, today announced mySmartMeeting. The new powerful, […]
NEW YORK — McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education and a leading provider of electronic learning solutions for the college market, today announced it has formed an alliance with MetaText, netLibrary’s digital textbook division, to develop electronic versions of its college textbooks that will be ready for review this spring. In a move […]
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Steven M. Bettinger, president and CEO of Virtual Academics (OTC Bulletin Board: VADC – news), said today that VADC’s plans to develop systems and courses for wireless education and training are proceeding. “We believe the academic delivery systems that we are developing and testing will change distance learning for schools and […]
DENVER – April 2, 2001 – eCollegeSM [Nasdaq: ECLG], an eLearning software and services provider, today announced that new advancements in its technology infrastructure enable a “peerless” connection among its users with different ISP’s. The new technology greatly reduces the need to transfer across networks within the Internet, as if eCollege and all of its […]
Here are the latest estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone (native speakers). We classify by languages instead of by countries, since people speaking the same language form their own online community no matter what country they happen to live in.
STAMFORD, CT – April 2, 2001 – Question Mark Corporation, the leading provider of testing and assessment software since 1988, is introducing an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication product that makes it possible to verify assessment participants against centralized directories. With Question Mark ™ Perception ™ for LDAP, a user gets referred to an […]