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Haivision introduces the hai200 TASMAN Multi Format MPEG-4 H.264 CODEC

Montreal, Canada, June 7, 2005 – HaiVision Systems Inc. is demonstrating its newest high resolution video communication solution, the hai200 TASMANâ„¢ multi format video communication system, at InfoComm 05 in Las Vegas, NV on June 8, 9, 10. HaiVision is significantly expanding its solution offering for interactive video systems, and, as part of its commitment […]

Polycom Launches Honors Education Program to Expand and Enhance Distance and Interactive Learning

PLEASANTON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 7, 2005–Polycom®, Inc. (Nasdaq:PLCM – News), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced the launch of its Honors Education Program, providing beneficial services, training and curriculum to educational institutions to expand usage and enhance collaborative communications for distance and interactive learning.Read the Full Story

Microsoft Office Communicator 2005: Integrated Communications for Real-Time Collaboration

REDMOND, Wash. — June 1, 2005 — Information workers have more ways to communicate and collaborate than ever before. There’s e-mail, instant messaging (IM), Web and video conferencing and the plain old telephone. There are also several modes of communication for the mobile worker, such as the cellular phone, the desktop PC and mobile Pocket […]

uCertify Launches upgraded Exam Simulation PrepKit for Sun’s Java 2 Programmer

According to Wilbur Allison, Product Manager, uCertify, “I am very confident that this fully upgraded PrepKit, with new questions and study notes, will help students preparing for the Java 2 Programmer Certification score even better.” “In addition to the most realistic exam simulations and detailed study notes, the PrepKit includes several significant features that are […]

Laptops for Kids With No Power

Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT’s Media Lab, is planning to provide several hundred million kids in developing countries their own rugged, internet- and multimedia-capable $100 laptops.Read the Full Story

Conflicting claims baffle wireless buyers

But school technology buyers, beware: Despite the early existence of some products that claim to take advantage of the new technology, no uniform standard for its use has yet been approved.Read the Full Story

Sakai announces new additions

The Sakai Project is a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education.Read the Full Story

PC milestone–notebooks outsell desktops

Analysts with research firm Current Analysis said laptop sales jumped to 53.3 percent of the total PC retail market in May 2005. Last year, notebooks made up 45.9 percent of the total PC retail market.Read the Full Story

Software Agents to Assist in Distance Learning Environments

The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) is a distance education university with about 22,500 students.Read the Full Story

Free Cmap software rivals Inspiration

The move could threaten some vendors that offer similar concept-mapping software for a fee–most notably Inspiration Software Inc., which has based its entire business model on selling a similar type of product.Read the Full Story