Newstream.com Digest: Frequent Flyer Online Releases Results of Annual Reader Poll, Pilot Education Tech Program Helps Bridge Digital Divide Using Cable TV Infrastructure
NEW YORK--March 5, 2001--Pilot Education Tech Program Helps Bridge Digital Divide Using
Cable TV Infrastructure
WorldGate Gives Cable the Key to Closing the Digital Divide WorldGate , the leading interactive TV solutions provider for the cable television industry, announced the deployment in three states of WISH TV, its pilot educational technology program created to help bridge the digital divide using the cable TV infrastructure. WISH TV gives fourth graders a year of free Web access, both at home and in the classroom, through the television.
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Frequent Flyer Online Releases Results of Annual Reader Poll
The poll revealed a dramatic trend toward online booking, up 4 percent from just two years ago to more than tripling in 2000 to 13 percent. Although booking through a travel agent still remains the preferred method, a three-year decline illustrates a definite downtrend.
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Sony Unveils Network-Ready Installation Projector with Futuristic
`Out-of-the Box' Design
Embarking upon a new frontier in projector design, Sony Electronics today unveiled the VPL-FX50 LCD projector at Presentations 2001 Expo (Booth No. 2653) in Atlanta. A bold departure from the traditional bulky and boxy projectors commonly found in today's conference and board rooms, the new Sony projector is lightweight and features a futuristic-looking, semi-round shape with center-mounted lens.
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Increase in Automotive Electronics Drives Need for Sophisticated
Test Equipment
Automobiles have been radically transformed from purely mechanical machines into sophisticated, hybrid mechanical-plus-electrical machines, and electronics companies are becoming more integral than ever. Learn about the active safety systems, and telematics and info-tainment systems all major carmakers are rushing to develop and incorporate into smart vehicles, as well as the sophisticated test procedures and equipment to go along with these advancements.
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One of America's Oldest Companies Changes Name
The BFGoodrich Company, one of the largest suppliers of advanced aerospace products and services and a major supplier of engineered industrial products, is changing its name and logo to match its evolving business. Get the new name, corporate logo and video here.
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ABC-TV's 'Prime Time' to Showcase Role of Sensory's Fluent
Animated Speech Technology in Teaching Deaf Children to Speak
Software transforms Diane Sawyer's image and voice into a so-called 'conversational agent.'
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Abgenix's ABX-IL8 Antibody Associated With Statistically
Significant Improvement in Psoriasis
Abgenix Inc. presented the results of its Phase IIa clinical trial of ABX-IL8 for use in the treatment of moderate-to-severe psoriasis at a meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) in Washington, D.C.
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PMC-Sierra Introduces Highest Performance Multilink T1/E1 Packet
Processing for a Channelized OC-12 in a Single Chip
PMC-Sierra has announced two new members of its FRame Engine and Datalink Manager (FREEDM(tm)) packet processor family: the PM7388 FREEDM-336A1024 and the PM7389 FREEDM-84A1024. The new FREEDM products provide 4 times density improvement for IP Access.
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Japan's Struggle Forces Many Small Business Firms to Seek Answers
in Technology
Japanese Small Businesses have faced difficult challenges during the past decade's recessionary environment. One tactical way forward, many have decided, lies in expanded Internet and networking technologies, according to the annual Asia Pacific Small Business Market Study released by Access Markets International (AMI)-Partners Inc.on March 5, 2001
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The Home of the Whopper is Moving
Burger King Corporation broke ground on its new 231,000-square-foot headquarters building. The new "Home of the WHOPPER(R)" will be located at the Waterford Office Park complex south of Miami International Airport. Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas and other dignitaries participated in the ceremony with newly appointed Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of BURGER KING(R) Corporation John Dasburg, who takes the reins of the company on April 1.
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Quantum Ships Super DLTtape Products
Quantum brand Super DLTtape drives and media products deliver compatibility with previous product generations, higher backup capacity and cost-effective protection of digital assets.
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Scott-Levin Launching Managed Care Series with Benefit Design --
How It's Changing Managed Care
Scott-Levin will be launching a series of reports on timely and critical issues in managed care. The first of these reports, Benefit Design -- How It's Changing Managed Care, will be available to pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical clients in April.
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Jonathan Rice Joins Holliday Fenoglio Fowler's Atlanta Team
Jonathan D. Rice, a 17-year commercial real estate veteran who has been involved in the capitalization and restructuring of more than $1 billion in commercial real estate during his career, has joined the Atlanta office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P., the nation's leading intermediary of capital to the commercial real estate industry.
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Bruce Fernald to Co-Manage Holliday Fenoglio Fowler's Atlanta Team
Bruce C. Fernald, one of the local commercial real estate community's notable finance professionals, has joined the Atlanta office of Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P., the nation's leading intermediary of capital to the commercial real estate industry.
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