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Communications News, June, 1999

What's Vietnamese for "save as?"

Career Dynamics International (CDI) selected MicroVideo Learning Systems' Office 97 videos for translation into Vietnamese. CDI, in conjunction with the Foreign Service Company of the Government of Vietnam, plans to use the videos in training 5,200 Vietnamese government personnel at the Khai Minh Foreign Language & Informatics Training Center in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). CDI, licensed by the State of California to organize accredited IT programs, offers adult students state-of-the-art multimedia computer-training courses. "We're thrilled to have CDI at our side," says Michael Katz, marketing director for Micro Video. "This is a real opportunity to provide the training necessary for solid, active international development. This is the precise moment in the history of the world to reach out, partner, and explore." www.microvideo.com

What a wonderful world!

Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) announced recently that its Unicenter TNG is being used to manage several significant projects: Mekorot, Israel's water company, deployed it to manage the information system of its vast national network connecting the entire Israeli water supply system. In Canada, the Unicenter TNG manages Canada Life's complex IT infrastructure; with total assets of C$48 billion, it is one of the top 30 insurers in North America. In Basiglio, Italy, COOP Lombardia, one of the largest Italian cooperatives operating in the food and nonfood distribution and retail market-with 37 supermarkets, four hypermarkets, and 80 small cooperatives-chose Unicenter TNG for comprehensive management and control of its complex, geographically dispersed IT infrastructure. And in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Unicenter TNG enterprise management solution will be a key component of EDS' Renascence service for distributed desktop management. www.cai.com

Chile's CATV marketplace heats up

"The Chilean cable TV marketplace is one of the most competitive in Latin America," says Martyn Lewis, regional director for CableData's Latin American operations. And, under the terms of a new contract with Metropolis Intercom, CableData's Intelecable customer management/open billing solution for that leading cable TV operator has a potential of over one million customers in the near future. Intelecable supports video, voice, data, and interactive services in multiple languages from a single relational database, www.cabledata.com

Singapore counts on the 'Net

Already the Internet is used widely by Singaporeans to file income taxes. Now that country will be the first in the world to use the Internet, along with call center technologies, to conduct its census. Like the U.S.A., Singapore's census takes place every 10 years. Thirty percent of Singapore households (1.2 million people) are expected to have Internet access by June 2000. Twenty percent of that number will be selected for additional census questions by letter to be answered via the Internet with household I.D.s and passwords used to ensure confidentiality. Households without the Internet service will be contacted using computer assisted telephone interviewing. National Computer Systems is the appointed vendor for developing and providing the total IT solution and call center service for Population Census 2000. www.ncs.com.sg

Resources

* Real Education has changed its named to eCollege.com but kept its Web site, www.ecollege.com and re-emphasizes its core focus; to work with educators to design, build, and manage on-line accredited campuses, connecting educators with students via the 'Net. Full courses and degrees from certificates through Ph.D.s, plus an extensive grant and scholarship program, make eCollege an appealing alternative to busy professionals--adult learners are the Number One users of on-line education.

* Employees and employers get immediate answers to questions about minimum, wage, overtime, child labor, and recordkeeping requirements with help from the Web site Elaws, designed to educate users about the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Sixteen elaws "advisors" currently available to workers and the small business community can be found at www.dol.gov/elaws.> * For information from Global Knowledge's American Research Group on additional dates and locations in 1999 for the following, try http:am.globalknowledge.com:

Frame Relay Internetworking in Columbus, Ohio, June 8-9

ATM Troubleshooting in Seattle, Wash., June 8-10.

Telecommunications Fundamentals I in Columbia, Md. June 8-10.

MultiLayer Switching and Wire-Speed Routing in Atlanta, Ga., June 8-10.

Intro to Wide Area Networking Technologies in Cleveland, Ohio, June 8-10.

Unix Level II in Philadelphia, Pa., June 10-11.

Telecommunications Fundamental II in Columbia, Md., June 10-11.

JavaScript--Versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2--in New York City, June 10-11.

Bay Network Hub Connectivity in Chicago, Ill., June 29-July 2.

* www.landstonegroup.com is the Web site for The Landstone Group of Management Recruiters International, Inc. (MRI) specializing in matching staffing needs of clients in the high tech and consumer electronics industries. Jeffrey Heath, president of Landstone in New York, suggests job seekers change the way their resumes are written. Among up-to-date methods of presenting resumes are using highly specific detail since scanner software searches for words indicative of exact experience for jobs offered. Use action verbs. Create a concise resume. Use bold sparingly; use white space to separate sections; do not underline as this often disrupts the scanner and cuts into letters; never use paper with marble shades or speckles as scanner interpret them as letters.