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Microsoft Office:mac 2001

This month, Office:mac 2001 hits store shelves across the United States. Rebranded, repackaged, and updated with new Mac-only features, this is a powerful suite of applications designed specifically for anyone with a PowerPC-enabled Mac.

Schlumberger Smart Campus Access Technology Provides the University of Texas at El Paso with Virtual Campus Solution

Applications Include Online Security, Physical Campus Access and Cashless Transactions Applications Include Online Security, Physical Campus Access and Cashless Transactions

Microsoft launches Office 2001 for Mac

Executives from Microsoft, Apple Computer and FileMaker were on hand Wednesday at the downtown San Francisco CompUSA store as Microsoft officially launched Office 2001 for Mac, the latest version of the company’s productivity suite. About 100 Mac users crowded CompUSA’s Apple Store–a white, vaulted area otherwise known as “the Cathedral.”

Universities Find Wireless Systems Bring Them Convenience and Savings

Ask administrators about the benefits of wireless technology, and they’ll tell you about “ubiquitous computing,” about students who …

Apple Exec Talks Up QuickTime 5

Frank Casanova touted the forthcoming upgrade’s extensibility thanks to a new Component Download feature. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Version 5.0 of QuickTime will take the multimedia technology to the “next level,” Frank Casanova II, Apple Computer Inc. director of QuickTime marketing, told MacCentral at this week’s QuickTime Live! show here.

Personal Fingerprint Scanner

Leave your secret-file-laden computer unattended for a long enough while and that greasy-fingered intern is going to be playing Asteroids on it. Heaven forbid.

IU Extends Pact with Microsoft

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Office of the Vice President for Information Technology today (Oct. 4) announced an extension of Indiana University’s highly successful enterprise license agreement with Microsoft Corp., continuing the groundbreaking agreement until June 2003.

Marconi Demonstrates Converged Distance-Learning Solutions at EDUCAUSE 2000 — Leading Edge E-Learning Tools Enable Users to Acquire Knowledge Anywhere, Any Time

PITTSBURGH and NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct 10, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Marconi (London: MNI), a global supplier of advanced communications solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate the capabilities of easy-to-implement distance- and e-learning solutions in Booth #145 at EDUCAUSE 2000, October 10-12 at the Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Hudson Valley Community College Licenses SCT Solutions — Upstate New York Institution Seeks Improved Student Information, Administrative and Web Services

MALVERN, Pa., Oct 10, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — SCT (Nasdaq: SCTC), the leading provider of software and services to support the business processes of higher education, today announced that Hudson Valley Community College, one of the largest community colleges in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, licensed the full SCT Banner suite […]

InnovaCom Features Its TransPEG(R) Distance Learning Technology At EDUCAUSE 2000 — Demonstration Shows Benefits of Converged Networks for the Higher Education Marketplace

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct 10, 2000 PRNewswire via COMTEX — At EDUCAUSE 2000, InnovaCom and Marconi (London: MNI) will demonstrate a distance-learning solution that enables teachers to deliver lectures to virtually unlimited numbers of students, whether those students are across a university campus or around the world.