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Microsoft pushes interoperable Net trust network

Microsoft Corp., acknowledging that no single company will be able to provide a universal single sign-in or authentication service, will announce Thursday an initiative that it hopes will facilitate a trusted, interoperable authentication network across the Internet.

Selecting a Search Engine Optimization Provider

What should you look for when selecting an SEO provider? That was the topic of discussion in the Selecting an SEO Provider session at the Search Engine Strategies 2001 Conference on August 16th. It was interesting to note that though the session was certainly attended by those looking for an SEO provider, SEO providers themselves […]

Empire State College to provide distance education to Army

Empire State College has been selected to provide distance learning to the U.S. Army through an e-learning portal administered by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

World’s First Complete Telesurgery Procedure Performed Using Surgical Robots and Telecommunications Solutions With High-Speed Services

IRCAD/European Institute of Telesurgery, France Telecom and Computer Motion Announce that Surgeons in New York Successfully Operated on a Patient in France Using Surgical Robots and a High-Speed Fiberoptic Solution

Satellite Campuses: Distance Learning to the Rescue?

FOR the umpteenth time, the Federal Government has once again banned satellite campuses of universities, sending ripples across the education sector. Will the ban be effectively carried out this time around?

Internet2 Land Speed Record

The current Internet2 Land Speed Record (I2-LSR) was set by a team that included the University of Washington, the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California, Qwest and Microsoft using the High Speed Connectivity Consortium (HSCC) Network to send 8.4 gigabytes worth of data from Redmond, Washington to Arlington, Virginia at a rate […]

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What security technology can—and cannot—do about terrorism

God Bless America

America’s unofficial national anthem was composed by an immigrant who left his home in Siberia for America when he was only five years old. The original version of “God Bless America” was written by Irving Berlin (1888-1989) during the summer of 1918 at Camp Upton, located in Yaphank, Long Island, for his Ziegfeld-style revue, Yip, […]

Go Ahead, Make Ashcroft’s Day

Though he smiles often, Attorney General John Ashcroft comes across as a stern man. When he speaks, it’s in a slow and menacing fashion, and every now and then he flashes a Dirty-Harry grin which says you’d be wise not to cross him.

Crossing Education Borders

South African distance education took a major step forward last month when Technikon SA (TSA) opened offices in Gaborone, Botswana, as part of its provincial operations.