Microsoft Funds Web-Based Education Firm
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Software giant Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT – news) on Monday joined a $48 million investment round for Blackboard Inc., which provides software for online education providers.
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Use of English as Global Tongue Is Booming, and So Is Concern
NEW YORK As a band of trained terrorists plotted to blow up the World Trade Center, clues to the devastation ahead lay under the nose of law enforcement officials.
E-Libraries Hoping to Profit From Term Paper Blues
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – With the development of electronic books, or e-books, still stymied by numerous roadblocks, a number of Internet companies are now starting to take a similar but different route.
ActiveEducation to Deliver Courseware That Offers Seamless, Rapid Deployment With Pathlore Learning Management System
GOLDEN, Colo. — ActiveEducation, Inc. (ActiveEducation), a provider of e-learning courseware on e-business technologies (E-BizTech) and desktop applications, announced it has joined the Pathlore Content Partner Network, one of the e-Learning industry’s most comprehensive content integration programs. ActiveEducation and Pathlore are working to ensure customers are afforded seamless access to ActiveEducation’s online courseware through Pathlore […]
PictureTel combines PC, Internet, video
Videoconferencing solutions have improved to the point where participants all over the world can see and hear one another with decent quality and reliability, but the systems have lacked the ability to make sure that everyone is — literally — on the same page.
South Koreans Accessing the Net Is Rising
SEOUL (Reuters) – The Ministry of Information and Communication said on Monday the number of South Koreans who access the Internet at least once a month rose 3.9 percent by end-March to 20.9 million from 19.04 million at end-December.
Top 15 Notebooks
Prices are dropping and values abound. For $1200 you can now get a powerful Dell system with a decent screen and a roomy hard drive.
The National Academy Press (NAP)
The National Academy Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. NAP publishes over 200 books a […]
American High “Boogie Nights”/”Pressure High”
This program takes an unflinching look at the real lives of American teenagers, focusing on a group of high school seniors in the Chicago area. I