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Goal: educate world’s kids with $100 PCs

It’s the kind of dream reminiscent of the dotcom fervor of the 1990s – and a personal goal of Nicholas Negroponte since the 1980s. But only recently has the funding been secured to move forward on his goal: a portable computer that can survive excessive dust and 130-degree days, recharge itself in villages with no […]

How To: Be VoIP-Savvy

This technology sends ordinary telephone calls over the Internet rather than over telephone lines. While impractical without the use of a broadband Internet connection, with the number of home broadband users exceeding 50 percent, a small but growing number of people are opting to use VoIP for their telephone service.Read the Full Story

Elluminate Delivers Dynamic Interaction to Tennessee Tech Distance Education; Virtual Classroom Connects University with Sister Institution In Japan

During the current semester, the university is using Elluminate Live! for 12 to 15 courses, either exclusively or in a blended environment with WebCT, the institution’s course management system.Read the Full Story

Review: iPodcast Producer

The podcast is pushed to listeners from a Web site in the same fashion blog content gets pushed to an RSS Reader.Read the Full Story

Polycom Demonstrates High Definition (HD) Video on Industry Leading VSX Video Communications Platform

PLEASANTON, Calif. – April 26, 2005 – Polycom®, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM), the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced that it is demonstrating high definition video this week at the Polycom Global Partner Conference being held in San Diego, Calif., and next week at the Networld+Interop conference in Las Vegas (booth #2348). […]

Microsoft to Pit ‘Metro’ Format Against Adobe PDF, PostScript?

SEATTLE—Microsoft took the wraps off a new document-workflow technology that it is readying as part of Longhorn during the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here on Monday.Read the Full Story

WebCT Announces the Beta Release of WebCT Campus Edition 6

WebCT, provider of higher education’s most flexible and widely used e-learning solutions, today announced a new version of WebCT Campus Edition(TM).Read the Full Story

Can video replace the written word?

Ms. Bergsma is the associate director of the Rural Health Office at the University of Arizona. But recently, in addition to the seminars she teaches on health issues, she has begun to offer on a regular basis a class aimed at teaching her listeners how to cull information from a video format.Read the Full Story

Apple upgrades OS, video-editing tools

On April 18, the company announced that a new suite of video- and audio-editing software, called Final Cut Studio, will be available starting in May.Read the Full Story

Microsoft ships Windows x64 operating systems

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions operate on systems running 64-bit microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. The new software costs the same as their 32-bit counterparts.Read the Full Story