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Participants at the Itec 2001 show explore technology-based business solutions in the training section at the Gateway Country booth. © by Bob Moore, SLFP.com Gretchen, a model with Barbizon, Inc., demonstrates the navigation finesse of St. Louis Front Page at Booth #1233 at the ITEC show. © by Bob Moore, SLFP.com 2001 ITEC Provides Technology Solutions for St. Louis Businesses by Betty Magrath, SLFP.com photos by Bob Moore, SLFP.com ST. LOUIS, (SLFP.com), May 24, 2001 - The 2001 St. Louis ITEC (Information Technology Exposition & Conference) being held thru May 24 at America's Center, has taken on a new focus. In an effort to bring more content and vision as well as IT manufacturers to the event, the producers of ITEC - Imark Communications, have turned to some industry leading speakers to provide insight and vision in today's technology for St. Louis' business IT community. A featured keynote will be Ellen Kitzis, Ph.D. - Group Vice President, Americas Executive Programs for Gartner. She will be addressing a key group of CIO's and IT leaders privately at the event on the subject of "Odyssey 2001...Morphing CIO Agendas". Ellen will also moderate a CIO Roundtable discussion focusing on "Today's Challenge: Managing Cost and Business Value." Robert F. Young, Co-founder and Chairman for Red Hat presented a keynote address on May 23rd open to the ITEC attendees and exhibitors. Bob is active in determining the company's strategic and creative direction and driving the global, industry-wide adoption of open source development practice. A true open source visionary, Bob's efforts developing Red Hat into a household name have won him honors such as Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" and Smart Resellers "50 Smart People." Obtaining Mr. Young for this keynote was accomplished through a partnership with the St. Louis Unix User Group (SLUUG). On May 24th, ITEC attendees and exhibitors will be treated to a panel discussion titled "Collective Vision" held in the keynote theater on the ITEC event floor. This group of leading IT providers will discuss, in panel format, leading issues and trends in the IT industry. Gartner will moderate this panel that will consist of industry leaders from Accenture, Microsoft, Gateway and Asynchrony Solutions. The event will also feature in excess of 100 free seminars from leading IT providers over the course of the two-day event. St. Louis Unix Users group has produced comprehensive seminar series on Open Source in both Technical and Executive Venues. Other focuses, such as eBusiness, IT Security, Consulting, and new technologies have been featured throughout the event as well. Tickets are $20 at the door. For additional information call Imark Communications at 515-332-1355 or visit their website at www.goitec.com Return to St. Louis Front Page Apple Announces Largest Portable Computer Sale to Education Ever CUPERTINO, California and HENRICO COUNTY, Virginia, (SLFP.com), April 2, 2001 - Apple® has announced an agreement with Henrico County Public Schools to supply 23,000 new iBooks™ to the district. This initiative will give every middle and high school student and teacher access to their own laptop computer with plans to eventually provide every teacher and student throughout the district with an iBook. Apple® introduces an all new iBook™ - the lightest and smallest full-featured consumer and education notebook on the market today. Photo courtesy of Apple The announcement coincided with the introduction of the lightest and smallest full-featured consumer and education notebook on the market today. Weighing just 4.9 pounds, the new iBook features the first 1024-by-768 resolution 12.1-inch display in its class, FireWire® for video editing, and up to 5 hours of battery life. "This is the mammoth - the single largest sale of portable computers in education ever," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Apple is thrilled to partner with Henrico County Public Schools in their revolutionary initiative because when every student and teacher has access to wirelessly-networked mobile computing, learning reaches far beyond the classroom." "Students, teachers, parents and the community will now have the best technology tools in the world at their fingertips every day," said Dr. Mark Edwards, superintendent of Henrico County Public Schools. "We chose Apple's iBook because our experience has shown that it costs significantly more to support other platforms. Apple's iBook is the best product available to meet our instructional needs." Every iBook is powered by 500 MHz PowerPC G3 processors, and offer up to twice the onboard memory, twice the memory expansion, and twice the storage than previous models. iBook's new stunning design is almost two pounds lighter and twice as durable than previous models, and small enough to easily fit into any backpack or computer bag. Made for students and consumers alike, iBook's streamlined impact resistant polycarbonate enclosure has no doors protruding, latches or levers to break or accidentally catch. According to leading market research firm International Data Corp. (IDC), Apple was the leading supplier of portable computers to the U.S. education market for calendar year 2000. Apple recently announced its Apple Teacher Institutes, a series of hands-on technology workshops for K-12 educators across the United States and Canada this summer. Workshop participants will learn to effectively utilize technology to maximize planning and instructional time, expand their individual areas of expertise, engage an increasingly diverse student body, and discover new ways to individualize instruction. The Apple Teacher Institutes will highlight the potential of digital media, the Internet, mobile and wireless computing and will be led by a team of educators who have effectively integrated these technologies into their classrooms. The workshops will be held at the following locations this summer: July 14 - 18, University of California, Los Angeles July 15 - 19, University of British Columbia, Vancouver July 26 - 30, University of South Florida, Tampa July 26 - 30, University of Texas, Austin August 2 - 6, Lesley University, Boston August 3 - 7, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor August 3 - 7, Northwestern University, Chicago Apple will underwrite the cost of the seminar content and materials for all attendees. All K-12 teachers, regardless of grade level or subject area, are invited to attend. To register, or to learn more about the Apple Teacher Institutes, visit www.apple.com/education/institutes. In other news announcements on May 1, Apple® said that it will release its second software update for Mac® OS X, which together with a simultaneously-released update to iTunes will add the ability to burn custom music CDs on Mac OS X. Both software updates will be released at noon today and will begin automatically notifying users and updating their copies of Mac OS X over the Internet during the coming week. Along with providing support for burning music CDs with CD-RW drives, the second software update to Mac OS X also features improvements in overall application stability and the latest version of the Internet file transfer service (ftpd). The update will be made available by automatic software update to all Mac OS X users for free. "As promised, CD burning is now available on Mac OS X," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "As you can see, we're improving Mac OS X on a regular basis by using our amazing Internet-based software update technology." See archived story: Review of MacOS X - Welcome to the future my friends... The Saint Louis Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Saint Louis area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 1996 - 2008 Moore Design Group .