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2004 Highlights

Lexia Learning Systems, Inc., headquartered in Lincoln, MA, produces curriculum materials and software to support basic skill development in people of all ages. Their new educational software, called Cross-Trainer , aims to improve the user's intelligence by honing thinking skills through specific intellectual exercises. Studies show that students, especially those with learning disabilities, show dramatic improvement on written IQ tests after repeated use of the Cross-Trainer programs. Read more about Lexia Learning and the Cross-Trainer program in the December 19, 2004 issue of the Boston Globe.

Harmony Line, Inc. is a new company founded by MIT music professor and Media Lab researcher Tod Machover. The company will develop and commercialize new applications for music and learning. Under the premise that music is a beloved medium, but difficult to learn, Machover and his MIT team developed the Hyperscore software program, which allows people who have never read a note of music to “compose” a musical piece by freehand drawing of colored lines on a screen. This technology is currently used by the Fisher-Price Color Pixter Symphony Painter , but Harmony Line will be working to commercialize other projects in the future. Read more about the Hyperscore technology and Harmony Line in the December 13, 2004 issue of Mass High Tech.

TechTarget, Inc. has acquired Boston-based Bitpipe, Inc. for $40 million in cash. Bitpipe is the #1 distributor of IT white papers. As a result of the acquisition, TechTarget now owns a majority share of the market for the distribution of IT white papers and other vendor-supplied content. Read more about the acquisition in the December 7, 2004 issues of the Wall Street Journal , the Boston Globe and the Boston Business Journal.

Azimuth Systems in Acton has announced the first commercially available laboratory testing product for voice-over-wi-fi equipment. The product, a software application that runs within Azimuth's wireless test platform, will be available in January, 2005. The new test suite focuses on the performance and voice quality of mobile handsets as they move throughout a wi-fi environment, handing off calls as they shift from access point to access point. Read more about Azimuth's new wi-fi testing product in the December 6, 2004 issue of Mass High Tech.

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