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)
(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)
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)
.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)
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)