A few weeks ago it was reported that AtMeeting Industries had been sub-contracted by Littlehall Corporation to provide backbone network services for the IDCAS virtual environment, Education 3D Grid (Edu3DGrid.com). One of the roles which AtMeeting obtained through this contract was the administration of the grids authorization service framework. First a little background: Each user [...]
Mar
3
2011
3
2011
Feb
24
2011
24
2011
IDCAS February Donations
This month the International Development Council for Academic Studies (IDCAS) has generously released a significant amount of additional funding to a number of non-profit organisations. These organisations include the International Health Research Institute (IHRI) and the 3D Grid Association. Today the 3D Grid Association has issued a press release stating that a portion of these [...]
Feb
22
2011
22
2011
Education 3D Grid (Edu3DGrid) Beta Servers
It has been announced today that both the AtMeeting and Education 3D Grid administration intend to release a beta land development scheme. The principle behind this move is to drive forward an initiative to increase the number of developers and testers on both grids. As part of this initiative there will be an allowance made for colleges, [...]
Oct
24
2010
24
2010
ETDA Seminar (2010 Summary)
ETDA have reported that this event as a sucess with many benificial outcomes obtained through it. For this seminar the European Technology Development Association decided to focus mainly on the topic of 3-dimensional internet services. For information regarding IDCAS 3D visit www.idcas.org/3D. The implementation of stable 3D technology for the academic sector was discussed in great [...]
Jul
24
2010
24
2010
IDCAS AGM 2010
The Annual General Meeting took place on the last day of the week long IDCAS 2010 Conference. Entire meeting was broadcast to remote participants using the AtMeeting and Education 3D Grids. Opening Speech was delivered at 9am, followed by a brief summary of events which took place during the conference. Several new services for the [...]
Jul
22
2010
22
2010
ETDA Technology Day
European Technology Development Association has just completed its “2010 Technology Day” and reports that it is very happy the outcomes obtained through it. Multiple issues were discussed including the future of the Internet in terms of ICANN policies, whois management, new DNS TLD’s and vertical integration for domain supply purposes. The development of stable 3D [...]
Jul
3
2010
3
2010
IDCAS Grid Association
It has been officially announced today by IDCAS that they have created the worlds first ever public “OpenSim Grid Association”. The Association was formed in June 2010 as a partnership between several grids, for the purpose of achieving common goals, in terms of developing stable 3D technologies. All member grids of the association run on [...]
Jun
15
2010
15
2010
AtMeeting.com (Littlehall)
General management of the Education 3D Grid has been outsourced to the Littlehall Corporation and will be operated under a new trading name “AtMeeting”. A working group has been established to assist in the creation of this service.
Apr
10
2010
10
2010
Want to visit Mars?
Have you ever wished to experience what it might be like to become a NASA astronaut or perhaps even to see the surface of other planets such as Mars. Well now you can. IDCAS have teamed up with the European Technology Development Association to create a simulation connected the Education 3D Grid platform. This service will allow [...]
Apr
6
2010
6
2010
IDCAS 3D City
IDCAS has announced today that their 3D Grid Development Team intends to release a new service to their server users in the form of a virtual city region. The purpose of this new region will be to provide a central location on the grid for both business and residential purposes. Grid Reference 998,1001 has been [...]