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Follett and Campus Pipeline Plan to Integrate the Bookstore With the Digital Campus — Largest Operator of College Bookstores To Join Campus Pipeline’s Platform Partners Program

Follett, the largest operator of campus bookstores, plans to become a lead member of Campus Pipeline’s Platform Partners program, a group of leading higher education software and services vendors that will develop applications based on the Campus Pipeline Web Platform’s open integration and presentation capabilities. Platform Partners, comprised of vendors from key campus categories, will […]

Blackboard and Campus Pipeline to Collaborate for Benefit of Mutual Customers

Blackboard Inc. announced today that Campus Pipeline has joined the Blackboard Building Blocks program to fully enable the Campus Pipeline web platform to work and integrate with Blackboard’s e-Education platform, Blackboard 5. The alliance unites two of the e-education industry’s leading products to allow greater choice, flexibility and convenience to higher education institutions. Through Blackboard’s […]

Columbia University’s Fathom Seeks New Users Among Readers of ‘The New Yorker’

It takes an ambitious kind of company to aspire to advertise inside the back cover of The New Yorker. There you’ll find the likes of Rolex and Acura, the pop icons featured in Absolut Vodka spots, and … Fathom?

Next Windows CE supports Bluetooth

The next generation of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows CE embedded operating system will include support for the wireless standard Bluetooth, paving the way for CE-powered computing devices to communicate with a variety of other wireless devices, the software maker said Tuesday.

Videoconferencing: Attend Meetings From Home

The basics, the extras, everything you need.

Yankee: 93 percent of PC-owning homes wired to the Net

A whopping 93 percent of U.S. homes equipped with PCs now have Internet access, marking a 10 percent increase over last year, according to a survey released Monday by the Yankee Group Inc.

“Anthrax & Bioterrorism:” A free online consumer information course

“Anthrax & Bioterrorism” is a free online consumer information course available on the GeoLearning web site at http://www.geolearning.com/main/promotions/demos. The program was developed by The Patient Education Institute to help explain the causes and types of anthrax. It also reviews the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of anthrax through vaccination and awareness of bioterrorism. During this […]

LearningWeek is Live from the EDUCAUSE 2001 conference in Indianapolis!

EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Our live webcast will include interviews with experts and thought leaders in the field of education and online learning. Please join LearningWeek http://www.learningweek.com for a special Tuesday show, which includes the opportunity to interact with […]

NASA Software “Builds” Facilities in Virtual World

The Mars Map virtual reality software guided NASA scientists through the 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission by allowing mission scientists and operations personnel to command and control remote robotic spacecraft within a virtual environment. The 3-D imaging software was developed at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. San Jose-based Reality Capture Technologies, Inc. (RCT), which […]

Virtual observatory to go online

Astronomers in the US have announced plans for the world’s biggest virtual observatory.