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Blackboard Provides ASP Solutions for More Than 100 Clients

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More and more institutions are turning to Blackboard, the leading e-Education infrastructure company, for their application service offering. Today, Blackboard Inc. announced that more than 100 clients have selected Blackboard’s application service to deliver the Blackboard e-Education platform at their institutions. In addition to providing a highly effective online teaching and learning […]

MEDIA 100 ANNOUNCES CLEANER LIVE

Cleaner Live Brings Cleaner 5’s Unrivalled Image Quality and Performance to Live Internet Streaming

Interactive Gaming Grows Up

Here comes the next-generation game: Majestic combines AI, fake Web sites and other tech tricks to surprise you where you least expect it.

PowerBook G4 Diary: The Final Analysis

Summing up and rating Apple’s new portable

MathML Added to Question Mark Perception Assessments

STAMFORD, CT — Mathematical and scientific formulae, created in MathML, can now be easily incorporated and displayed within web-based assessments following the integration of Design Science WebEQ software into the Question Mark Perception testing and assessment software suite. MathML is a powerful language for encoding mathematics in Web pages. For a sample quiz utilizing this […]

One Man’s Fight to Wire Africa

South Africa’s Econet has become the continent’s third-largest Pan- African telecom operator, in large part because CEO Strive Masiyiwa doesn’t listen when governments say no.

GDC Goes the Distance for Education in North Dakota

MIDDLEBURY, Conn. — General DataComm Industries, Inc (NYSE:GDC) took another step to close the digital divide with the delivery of an advanced multimedia distance learning solution to Red River and Dickey Rural Telephone Cooperative in support of schools in southeastern North Dakota. Red River and Dickey Rural Telephone adopted the GDC solution as part of […]

Tele-vator

Tele-vator is a computerized excavation backhoe that can be remotely operated over Internet2 High Performance networks. Because of its size and potential criticality of operations (e.g., in rescue hazardous situations) Tele-vator requires a high level of sophisticated two-way feedback, including adequate depth of vision provided via high-definition stereovision.

Chrystal Software Deploys Eclipse for Open Learning Agency; Expands Reach of Major Distance Learning Provider

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Chrystal Software, a Xerox Corporation New Enterprise Company, announced today that its Web-based content management software, Eclipse, is being installed at Open Learning Agency (OLA) of British Columbia. One of the largest developers and providers of distance learning opportunities in Canada, OLA offers kindergarten-through-university educational services to distant locales. Chrystal Software […]

Technology: Is That All There Is?

MIT computer science honcho Michael Dertouzos wants technology to do away with the humdrum busy work that consumes our lives. Until then, and only then, will we reap the promise of the technology revolution.