Tengtu Partners With Netopia to Launch Education Portal in China

📅 July 31, 2001 - Tengtu International Corp.(tengtu.com), a developer and distributor of multimedia educational and entertainment software andrelated services, and Netopia, Inc. (netopia.com), aleading developer of Web platform software, yesterdayannounced the launch of a new educational portal inBeijing, China.

The portal will target K-12 schools, students andtheir families. Tengtu will deploy hardware andNetopia's platform software in a new hosting center,and both Tengtu and Netopia will support the launch ofthe portal in August.
Tengtu has an exclusive contract with the NationalCenter for Audio/Visual Education of the PRC Ministryof Education to create and implement China's BroadbandEducation Resource Center, a national initiative toprovide content to computerized classrooms acrossChina as an ASP/Internet content provider. The goalof the PRC is to link all 800,000 K-12 schools inChina directly to the Resource Center and via theeEducation portal to each other by2006.
This high-priority PRC initiative will deliver thecapability to transform China's education system intoone of the world's most modern learning and teachingenvironments for K-12, professional and life-longlearning applications. The portal also supportsmulti-level functions for administrative ande-commerce applications.
The design and functionality of the eEducation portalusing Netopia's Web Platform results from the 18-monthcollaboration between Tengtu and its partners in Chinaand the Ministry of Education. The portal technologywill support not only the national Broadband EducationResource Center but local versions of the Centerthroughoutthe provinces of the PRC.
"The launch of the portal within the People's Republicof China will add online functionality to theTengtu/Microsoft 'Total Solution' software suitecurrently being installed in thousands of PRCschools," said Tengtu COO Greg Mavroudis. "The portalwill go live in September when schools re-open andbegin to generate significant additional revenues forTengtu beyond its software sales to schools underOperation Morning Sun and other initiatives."

Reads: 1817 | Category: General | Source: TheWHIR : Web Host Industry Reviews
URL source: http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/tengtu731.cfm
Want to add a website news or press release ? Just do it, it's free! Use add web hosting news!

Other news

📅 Jul 27, 2001 - Centrinity and Telus to Offer Unified Communications in Canada - Centrinity Inc. (centricity.com), a developer of collaborative groupware technologies, yesterday announced it has signed a definitive three-year agreement with Telus Enterprise Solutions (telus.com) under which Telus will offer Centrinity's FirstClass Unified Communications to its enterprise customers across Canada. Telus will offer Unified Communications, an integrated online collaboration and messaging technology, under its own brand on an ASP basis. Telus expects to launch its unified communications offering in September 2001. "We look forward to continuing to work closely with Telus toward our common objectives -- a successful product launch, high visibility in th

📅 Jul 27, 2001 - D-Link, Sierra, VitalStream Launch Online Gaming Tournament - D-Link (dlink.com), a developer of networking and communications solutions, Sierra (sierra.com), one of the largest publishers of interactive entertainment and VitalStream, Inc. (vitalstream.com -> inap.com), a leading provider for digital broadcasting today announced that they have formed an alliance to support free tournaments of Sierra's recently introduced Tribes 2 online game. The first of these open tournaments will launch July 28th. Players can enter to win up to $30,000 in prizes, such as D-Link MP3 Players, D-Link Networking Kits, signed copies of Tribes 2, and Tribes 2 Summer Games 2001 t-shirts. "Summer Games 2001" will consist of a series of weekend online competition

📅 Jul 27, 2001 - IBM Expands Web-Hosting Services - IBM (ibm.net) has unveiled 30 new Web-hosting services to meet growing market demand, following its announcement last week that IBM's Web-hosting customer contracts exceeded $1 billion during the first six months of 200. The managed services range from programs to help small business customers get retail Web sites operating quickly, to new security and Linux offerings for larger hosting customers. IBM Global Services operates 37 e-business Hosting Centers around the world. During the past three months, IBM opened centers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and next month will open a new center in Shanghai, China. "When you're running a c

📅 Aug 1, 2001 - ICANN Signs Registry Agreeement for .Name - Marina del Rey, California, USA (1 August 2001) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced a key step forward towards a new top-level domain that will make it easier for individuals to register their names as personal domain names on the Internet. ICANN has signed an agreement with Global Name Registry (GNR) for the introduction of a new Internet top-level domain (TLD) designated as .name. Individuals will be able to request domain names of the form jennifer.smith.name after GNR opens the registration process in late August.

📅 Aug 1, 2001 - Open Call for Independent Review Panel Closes - Marina del Rey, California, USA (1 August 2001) From 26 June-26 July 2001, the ICANN Independent Review Panel Nominating Committee conducted an open call for nominations for the Independent Review Panel. That panel will provide a mechanism for independent third-party review of whether actions of the ICANN Board comply with the ICANN bylaws and articles of incorporation.The open-call period ended last week, and today the Nominating Committee

📅 Aug 1, 2001 - Ebone Streams Pay-Per-View Concert to 10,000 Viewers - Viewers of a pay-per-view concert featuring Elton John were able to watch the 1½-hour event in near TV-image and CD-sound quality as a result of live video steaming capability provided by Ebone (ebone.com), one of Europe's largest and most experienced optical and IP network services providers. On the night of the concert and for the seven days afterwards, Ebone was able to support up to 10,000 viewers simultaneously at 100kps across its network. The concert was held in a 1st century Roman amphitheatre in Ephesus, Turkey, on July 17. The concert webcast was managed and produced by Mediawave (mediawave.co.uk), a leading European webcasting company, and hosted on the