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Educational Benchmarking Quality Assessments Education to Support Accreditation & Drive Continuous Improvement EBI Assessments were developed in cooperation with AACSB to support accreditation efforts. Since 1994 over 450 institutions have benefited by participating in our Management Education Benchmark Assessments in such areas as: Student Exit, Alumni, Employer and Faculty for both MBA and Undergraduate programs. For more information visit: www.webebi.com or Contact Viviana Harper at 417.866.7163 or email viviana@webebi.com for Management ■ VIRTUAL CAREER GUIDANCE EM LYON, a business school located in Ecully, France, recently launched its Career Centre, which integrates EM LYON's virtual cam- pus and software from Quebec-based Technomedia. The Career Centre offers a three-stage process. First, students use online self-assessment tools, including a 360- degree assessment and personality testing tools. Second, students move on to training tools that teach them how to work with recruiters, look for a job in a global market, research a company, and write a resume and cover letter. Finally, students can access a network of personal development professors and career professionals. EM LYON's Career Centre is now available for its bachelors- and masters-level students, and even- tually will be extended to all EM LYON graduates. D ATA B I T Reuters reports that the city- wide wireless network planned for Taipai, Taiwan, will be able to accommodate the city's 2.6 million resi- dents, include up to 20,000 access points, and cost $70 million. The network is being built by Taiwan's Q-Ware Corp. with help from HP, Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, and is scheduled to be opera- tional by the end of this year. ■ LAPTOP DAY AT ST. JOHN'S Last semester, St. John's University distributed close to 3,700 laptops to entering freshmen. Although this was the second year of laptop distribution, it was the first after the expansion of the school's wireless com- puter network to cover all indoor and outdoor areas of its campuses in Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan, and Oak- dale, New York, as well as its campus in Rome, Italy. With last year's contingent of 3,400 lap- tops already in use, more than 7,000 stu- dents and faculty can access the wireless network from any point on its five campuses. ■ GOING AFTER GOOGLE Although Microsoft is a dominant force in software technology, there's one area where it lags behind: search engines. Microsoft mogul Bill Gates has announced the company will soon launch a search engine to give the current search engine leader Google, a run for its market share. Microsoft's new search engine will initially search 5 billion indexed Web pages. In a preemptive strike, Google has doubled its capacity to 8 billion pages. Google presently holds 36.1 percent of the market; Yahoo, 30.6 percent; and Microsoft, 14.4 percent, according to the U.K.'s The Daily Telegraph. ■ z BizEd JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005 51