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Computing giants struggle over DVD recording format

For the third Comdex in a row, manufacturers at the trade show strutted out models capable of recording to DVD media. But behind the scenes, manufacturers jockeying to push their preferred rewritable and recordable formats over competing standards have left consumers with a string of failed promises.

Home networking products come knocking

comdex LAS VEGAS–Ready or not, wireless technology will soon invade the home.

e-Learning Taking Off in North Carolina

North Carolina Community College System Chooses Blackboard to Power Online Campus Environment

ICANN selects new domain names

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) — The Internet got its first new batch of international domain names on Thursday with the selection of .biz, .name and five other suffixes that will enable a lot more Web site variety.

Oracle Unveils Hosted Learning-Management System

When companies implement learning-management systems–platforms that manage Web-based and classroom training–the experience can be as costly and complicated as an enterprise resource planning rollout.

click2learn Teams with Microsoft to Distribute XML-based e-Learning Courses

Beginning in January, click2learn will make available more than 16 individual Microsoft courses to its e-Learning Network membership – a group that encompasses some of the nations largest companies and organizations. The move marks Microsofts first widespread distribution of e-Learning courses based on Microsofts Learning Resource interchange (LRN), an XML-based standard that gives developers a […]

Comdex 2000: Aiming at nothing but Net

LAS VEGAS — Since the Internet’s birth in the early ’70s, access to its content has been ruled by access to computers.

Top 10 Power PCs

It’s a live one: We tested an Athlon 1.1-GHz system this month, and it turns out to be a barn burner. Sys Technology’s Performance 1100T nails fourth place on the power chart with the highest score we’ve seen on our PC WorldBench 2000 tests. Our other new Top 10 system–Premio’s Apollo 820R–proves no slouch either, […]

WordPerfect Opens a New Office

Upgraded office suite adds features requested by loyal users.

Secure XML standard defined for e-commerce

BACKED BEHIND SOME very diverse names, Netegrity announced plans on Wednesday to develop an XML-based standard to secure e-commerce transactions.