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eCollege, a provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education market, is collaborating with Microsoft and HP in the development of a content management system to support enterprise-wide eLearning programs both online and on campus. The eCollege Content Manager will be fully integrated into the eCollege platform to help institutions centrally manage, standardize and reuse content across multiple programs, courses, sections, and other applications. This helps institutions simplify enterprise-wide administrative processes to easily and securely maintain content. It also enables institutions to decrease the time and cost of content development, while still improving the quality, consistency and interactivity of courses. eCollege has a long track record of working with Microsoft, incorporating Microsoft .NET tools and interoperability standards ... (more)

Microsoft and Verizon Wireless Form Groundbreaking Alliance to Offer Superior Wireless Data Services

(June 4, 2002) - Verizon Wireless and Microsoft Corp. forged a groundbreaking strategic alliance to deliver co-developed and jointly marketed wireless data services featuring MSN® services and content, Windows® Powered devices, and enterprise solutions. As a result of the agreement, the MSN network and Verizon Wireless will deliver the most compelling wireless data services to consumers in the U.S. through a new joint service offering, while collaborating on future next-generation offerings. Verizon Wireless and Microsoft will also develop, co-brand and offer technology and servi... (more)

WinXP SP2 RC2 Released

Microsoft has released the second release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) with Advanced Security Technologies. Windows XP SP2 RC2 is another milestone in the development of SP2 and is intended to give software and hardware developers and IT professionals the opportunity to continue testing in preparation for deployment, and to allow Microsoft to collect additional customer feedback. Microsoft encourages developers and corporate IT customers to continue their testing by downloading Windows XP SP2 RC2 at www.microsoft.com/sp2preview/. Developers are encouraged to visit... (more)

NJDOT Using .NET For Web-Based Data Access

.NET is being increasingly employed in all levels of the government, to give the public access to information relating to legal matters, environmental concerns, and a host of other subjects government agencies administer. This is what the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is doing. It recently awarded a contract to PlanGraphics to design and develop an Internet application, allowing citizens to search and view soil data maintained by NJDOT. Plans call for a Web-based application to be developed in ASP.NET using ESRI's ArcIMS interactive mapping environment. In addit... (more)

Visual Studio Gets Help With Indigoware Help Publisher

Indigoware has released the latest addition to its product range, Help Publisher for Visual Studio 2003. The product transforms Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 into a powerful help authoring tool by adding all the necessary project templates, editors and import wizards to create and compile Help files from within Microsoft's leading IDE. The product adds a selection of new Visual Studio project templates to create HTML Help 1.x files, as used by most Windows applications, and MSDN-style MS Help 2.0 files. A wizard is provided to import existing content from either HTML Help Wo... (more)