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IU’s Digital Library Program receives federal grant to digitize half a century of America in color slides

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The Indiana University Digital Library Program has received a $147,000 National Leadership Grant to digitize and present on the World Wide Web nearly 18,000 Kodachrome slides taken by amateur photographer Charles Weever Cushman between 1938 and 1969.

General Electric Family Invests $11 Million in Diversity and e-Initiatives At the University of Connecticut — Highlights – Largest single corporate investment in University’s history – New high-tech e-Business center unveiled – Joint research planne

STAMFORD, Conn., Nov 14, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The University of Connecticut (UConn) today announced several significant educational partnerships with the General Electric family.

Amazon.com Launches E-Books Store

SEATTLE (AP) – Online retailer Amazon.com on Tuesday began selling electronic books, along with the old-fashioned paper kind.

Virtual Academics.com Expands Global Recognition

BOCA RATON, FL, November 14th, 2000 – VirtualAcademics.com, Inc. (OTC BB: VADC), an online distance learning company, today announced it has been granted additional licensing and recognition Virtual Academics.com’s Barrington University branch school in China, Wuhan Barrington College has been approved by the Hubei Province Education Department on November 3rd, 2000 File [2000] #115. This […]

A Nascent Internet Takes Root in Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam — Ask Truong Gia Binh whom he looks to for inspiration in running Vietnam’s largest technology company, and he doesn’t name William H. Gates, Steve Jobs or any other Silicon Valley warrior.

International Datacasting to Expand ITESM’s Distance Learning Capabilities

OTTAWA, Nov 14, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — International Datacasting Corporation (TSE:IDC.) and its partner in Mexico, Grupo Etercom S.A. de C.V., are pleased to announce a new contract with Mexico’s Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) to expand the encryption capabilities of their Universidad Virtual Empresarial (UVE) Network.

Mexico: Growing market for educational Internet services

The long distance Internet educational market represents US$10mil in 2000 and is to grow to US$64mil by 2003, attracting companies to play on it. Such is the case of Aprendeweb.com, to focus in the corporate professional education market. Corporate educational services is a US$350mil market in Mexico.

Experts to Discuss Oregon Opportunities on Internet2

The University of Oregon is hosting a 2-day Internet2 event on November 13th & 14th. This event will showcase the activities of academic and network professionals in the region. The agenda features discussions on partnerships and demonstrations using Internet2 applications.

Negroponte: Third World Will Rock

SINGAPORE — Developing countries will soon dominate Internet usage, with wireless technology — along with the right policy and cultural mix — speeding the process, MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte said on Monday.

Question Mark Announces Browser Based Authoring for QM Perception

STAMFORD, CT – November 13, 2000 — Question Mark Corporation has released new software that allows users to author questions and group them into tests, quizzes and surveys from a web browser. Now non-Windows users, as well as people using Windows machines, can author questions locally or from a distance using Question Mark(tm) Perception(tm) Browser […]