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Microsoft Aims to Create New Opportunity for Everyone Through Education
Microsoft Corp. announced a renewed commitment over the next five years to Partners in Learning, a program that provides the education community with resources and training to help students reach their full potential. Through Partners in Learning, Microsoft is leveraging the transformative power of software to create innovative educational experiences that remove limitations, create opportunities, and bring students and teachers closer. — CNN

Bill Gates Announces Microsoft Partnership Aligned to Arab Region Quest for Social and Economic Development
At the Government Leaders Forum-Arabia in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates highlighted the transformative power of education and the critical role public-private partnerships and information and communication technology (ICT) play to create a strong, vibrant economy across the region. During his keynote address, Gates announced a partnership with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Foundation to enhance research and knowledge creation in the Arab world; the results of a new study by IDC underscoring the impact of ICT on the region’s economy; and a renewed five-year commitment to the Partners in Learning program that aims to significantly expand its impact worldwide, reaching up to three times as many students, teachers and schools. — IT News

Hot Lava Software to Represent Mobile e-Learning Technology at SALT Conference
Hot Lava Software will represent the Mobile e-Learning market (mLearning) at the 2008 New Learning Technologies Conference (SALT), to be held February 20 – 22, 2008, at the Sheraton Orlando Downtown Hotel, Orlando, Florida. “The addition of wireless technologies, mobile devices, PDAs, PocketPCs and smartphones has changed the way people work and communicate. Mobile technologies are changing the way we do business, training and learning,” says Bob Sanregret, CEO, Hot Lava Software, Inc. “Technology experts are continuing to push the mobile e-learning envelope, by thinking outside the box. We are honored and excited, both, to be a part of this conference, and to share our cutting-edge, mobile e-learning knowledge.” — Newswire Today