Industry Briefs
NEWS
ELEARNING IN ASIA
Chinese universities are rapidly adopting eLearning solutions
such as those from WebCT (
www.webct.com),
the eLearning solutions provider. The company has signed up more than 25 universities
in greater China, including
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
The
University of Hong Kong, and the
National Taiwan
Normal University. Also, to help continue and support the expansion,
WebCT has announced that it will establish a corporate office in Shanghai.
MANAGEMENT BUYOUT
Datatel (www.datatel.com)
announced that its executive team, backed by Thoma Cressey Equity Partners and
Trident Capital, has signed and completed a definitive agreement to acquire
the company from its founders, Ken Kendrick and Tom Davidson. Concurrent with
the signing of this transaction, President and CEO Russ Griffith will also assume
the role of chairman of the board.
M&A, ETC.
PARTNERING FOR WIRELESS DATA
SBC Communications Inc. (www.sbc.com),
the Internet and communications provider, announced a deal with the
University of Arkansas to provide a Wireless Mesh Network
from Nortel (www.nortel.com),
the global communications provider, for an on-campus private wireless network.
Nortel’s Wireless Mesh Network allows the U of A a minimal
amount of Ethernet cabling, giving students and faculty a secure, wireless broadband
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LEVERAGING CONFERENCING COMMUNICATIONS
. The Center for Technology and Innovation Management GmbH (www.cetim.org),
an independent, non-profit research institute at the University of Bundeswehr-Munich
(Germany), will deploy Arel Spotlight from Arel Communications and Software
(www.arelcom.com), a voice,
video, and data Web communication provider of interactive conferencing, collaboration,
and training applications. The deployment will promote the integration of rich
media conferencing, communication, and collaboration in the enterprise environment
at CeTIM’s Virtual Enterprise Lab, a state-of-the-art facility for testing and
leveraging multimedia technologies for real-time communications.
PEOPLE
NEW TO TANDBERG
With headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and New York, Tandberg (
www.tandberg.com),
the visual communications provider, appointed three new members to its leadership
team. Those appointed: Fredrik Halvorsen, who has been a key member of McKinsey
& Company, with solid international financial and management experience, to the
post of CFO; Rick Snyder, with over 20 years in management, to president of the
Americas theater; Steven Peri, the company’s former outside counsel, to senior
VP and general counsel; and Brad Johnston, the company’s former president of the
Americas theatre, to a new leadership position as senior VP, Global Sales Operations.
The new execs will join Tandberg during Q2 2005, and will be based in Reston,
VA.
NEW WORLDWIDE SALES VP FOR SYMPHONIQ
Symphoniq Corporation (
www.symphoniq.com),
a new firm created by the founders of NetIQ to manage the Web application infrastructure,
has announced the appointment of Richard Rudolph to the position of VP of Worldwide
Sales. Rudolph brings to the table almost 20 years of market development for Web
application management tools. Before joining Symphoniq, Rudolph was VP of Worldwide
Sales for Keynote Systems. Prior to that post, he led sales operations at webHancer
and at WebTrends, a division of NetIQ.