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Senator calls for hearings on Windows XP

A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary on Monday said he will call for congressional hearings into Microsoft Corp.’s “anticompetitive practices.”

A Four-Star Hotel That’s Out of this World

A Dutch architect has put his Earth-bound energy into designing a lunar lodging for future travelers who will have truly traveled far off the beaten path.

Web College Teams With Dakota Site

Since its virtual doors opened in 1999, Western Governors University has delivered via the Internet the degree programs of other universities. Now the university is repackaging those degrees and selling them back to the brick-and-mortar world of academe.

Florida International U. Uses the Internet to Teach Yiddish

A Jewish cultural center in Florida has turned to the Internet to revive an age-old language: Yiddish.

L.A. Unified Pins Literacy Hopes on Computer Reading Program

Schools: The animated approach is aimed at kindergartners, first-graders. Cost is $44 million.

It really is proving to be a worldwide Web

In the dusty suburbs of Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, paved roads disintegrate into muddy tracks, phones are rare, and battered three-wheeled taxis are the only means of public transportation. Many children never go to school, and even those who make it to class often fail basic literacy tests.

WPSU-FM recognized for outstanding performance at Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference in Phoenix, Arizona

WPSU-FM, Penn State’s Public Broadcasting radio station, was recently recognized as the top small market radio station in two of five categories in public radio development at the Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference in Phoenix. WPSU’s Web site and overall membership efforts were both named number one in the nation for stations with weekly […]

PictureTel Announces ‘Universidade De Sao Paulo’ Harnesses the PictureTel 900 Series Integrated Collaboration Platform for Distance Learning

PictureTel(R) Corporation (NASDAQ:PCTL), the world leader in integrated collaboration, announced today that The “Universidade de Sao Paulo” (USP), the largest institute of higher education and research in South America, and the third largest in Latin America, has deployed the PictureTel 900 SeriesINTO as part of the university’s distance learning program at “Escola Politecnica” (EPUSP), its […]

ADL supports deployed pilots

One ADL application is proved in the combat environment. Delex Systems, Inc. of Vienna, VA, holds a contract with the Navy and the Joint ADL Co-Laboratory to conduct an applied research project using the companys adaptive learning technology with Web-based instruction for EA-6B Prowler pilots. During the air war over Yugoslavia in 1999, the company […]

Macromedia Unleashes Public Beta Of Sitespring

Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) says it is ready for the public to start poking and prodding at Sitespring before it puts it on the store shelves.