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Corporate eLearning
Blackboard's eLearning Patent Declared Invalid
Washington, DC (USA), April 2008 - In a preliminary re-examination, the US Patent Office, recently suggested that Blackboard's eLearning patent may be invalid. The Patent Office rejected all 44 claims in the disputed US patent for a system for teaching in a virtual classroom using the Internet, including chat, a virtual blackboard, and provision of teaching materials. » MORE
Dubai Municipality Selects GlobalEnglish
Brisbane, (CA), April 2008 - GlobalEnglish Corporation, a provider of online learning and support for business English communication, has announced that the Dubai Municipality, the government body responsible for public services and infrastructure in Dubai, has selected GlobalEnglish to provide on-demand business English training and instant communication-support tools for its employees in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). » MORE
IMC AG expands activities in Asia
Saarbruecken/Frankfurt (GER), April 2008 - The "German-Asian Business Community" and the "Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce" have invited representatives to a forum entitled "Discover Vietnam - Business opportunities in the 21st century". In the presence of the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Tan Dung, and the Hessian Minister for Arts and Sciences, Mr. Udo Corts, several agreements were signed between German and Vietnamese companies. » MORE
UAE and American Firms to Cooperate
Dubai (UAE), April 2008 - UKS, one of the Middle East's leading learning solutions enablers, has announced its partnership with Plateau Systems, an American provider of software for developing, managing, and optimizing organizational skills and talent. The joint effort will provide learning and workforce performance solutions to the rapidly growing commercial and public sector organizations in the Middle East. » MORE
Xyleme Announces the Launch of Voices
Boulder, CO (USA), April 2008 - Xyleme® Inc., provider of 100% XML, SCORM 2004-certified learning solutions has announced the launch of Voices, an educational podcast series featuring interviews with today's top analysts, consultants, and practitioners in the field of learning. » MORE
LCMS Provides Technical Controls for Regulations
Nashua, NH (USA), April 2008 - Eedo Knowledgeware has announced that ForceTen™, its award-winning learning content management system (LCMS), is providing built-in technical controls for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 21 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 11. » MORE
Nespresso Relies on Swiss Software for Learning
Baar (CH), April 2008 - Nestlé Nespresso, the worldwide pioneer and market leader in pre-portioned coffee, supports the growing importance of international training management with an online solution from Switzerland. The i-qbox Human Performance Suite provided by Comartis allows Nespresso to offer learning material to its growing employee population globally and enable an effective training-management solution. » MORE
Web 2.0 Business Skills Innovator DTV Has New Faces
London (UK), April 2008 - Key strategy, content, and sales management roles at business-skills video producer Digital Training Videos (DTV) have been filled with the appointments of Sean Walsh and James Ralph. DTV, a web 2.0 technology-enabled learning and development innovator, delivers engaging, relevant, up-to-date business skills videos direct to desktops. Core benefits in DTV training are greater value, flexibility, choice, quality, and trackability. » MORE
Innovative Cooperation for a Knowledge-based Society
Bucharest (RO), April 2008 - (by Elena Lita) IBM Romania recently organized the fourth edition of the national forum "IBM Academic Days for Universities in Romania". The aim of the two-day event, held on 27-28 March, was to provide information and initiate ways of innovative cooperation for a networked, knowledge-based society through long-term, interdisciplinary strategic training and R&D partnerships. » MORE
Serious Game Helps Bankers Detect Fake Currency
London (UK) / Kolkata (IN), March 2008 - As custodians of the national currency, all banks are expected to ensure that counterfeit notes presented at any customer outlet are identified and removed from circulation. ICICI Bank, India's second largest, was keen to reduce the amount of counterfeit currency being passed through its counters, but it faced the challenge of training its new cashiers to identify security features and, at the same time, reduce the continual flow of fake bills. » MORE
