Internet/Intranet
- Judge Deals Setback to Ohio U Computer Hacking Victims
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9/11/2007
A lawyer for two Ohio University alumni who sued the school over losing their personal data in a computer security breach said that a judge's decision to throw out the case is typical of how courts are dealing with the growing problem of computer data theft.
- Drexel Hosts 'PodCamp Philly' on New Media Apps
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9/11/2007
Drexel University hosted a conference last week on new media applications, a "PodCamp" to "promote the use of new media to television, newspapers, radio, businesses, educators, and individuals." The conference was free to "podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in new media."
- [Your College Here] Wants to Be Your 'Friend'
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9/6/2007
In the past five years, social networking has rocketed from a leisure activity to a "phenomenon that engages tens of millions of internet users," according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit that follows the impact of the internet in differing social environments. In a recent national survey on teenagers and social networking conducted by Pew, more than half of all online American youth ages 12 to 17— 55 percent to be precise—are heading to online social networking sites. What does this mean for higher ed? Simply this: Your incoming students are now expecting a presence of your college or university on social networking sites.
- The Fox and the Hedgehog
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9/6/2007
There's a business management principle known as the "hedgehog concept." The whole thing apparently comes from a Greek poet, Archilochus, who wrote: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Okay, so right away I think, "I want to be a fox!" But, no. Apparently, in the business world, the thing to be is a hedgehog.
- C-Labs Digital Library Now Supports High Definition
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9/6/2007
Digital media service provider Cdigix has added HD capabilities to its C-Labs solutions. C-Labs are designed to provide tools for higher education faculty and institutions to maintain and post online digital media while complying with copyright laws.
- Nottingham Trent U To Deploy D2L Virtual Learning Environment
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9/5/2007
Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom has signed on with Desire2Learn to deploy that company's learning management system. The goals of the deployment will be to enhance student learning and allow the university to expand into new markets domestically and internationally, supporting online and blended learning.
- Queen's U Project To Render 'Touch Over IP'
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9/5/2007
Researchers at Northern Ireland's Queens University are working on a project to approximate the sensation of touch via the Internet.
- Drexel Upgrades Internet Library as Learning Lab
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9/4/2007
Drexel University will collaborate with the University of Michigan and Florida State University to help transform its 10-year-old Internet Public Library (IPL) into a "virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference," the university announced.
- USC Prof: Internet Will Soon be Overwhelmed by Video
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9/4/2007
A University of California, San Diego professor has warned that a massive expansion of Internet capacity is required in the United States to keep the economy from slowing down and possibly stalling.
- Harvard Team Rehabs P2P as eCommerce Platform
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9/4/2007
A team of Harvard computer scientists is experimenting with using peer to peer file sharing as a model for exchanging Internet bandwidth between individual users. The researchers said they believe that P2P networking, which has become notorious for helping foster illegal downloading, can be used as a safe and legal model for electronic commerce.
- Berkeley Warns Freshman To 'Learn Before You Burn'
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8/28/2007
University of California, Berkeley has mounted a publicity campaign to warn its incoming freshman class of the consequences of downloading copyrighted music. The message of the campaign is "Learn Before You Burn" and is directed at the 95 percent of incoming freshman who own computers and may have not been aware that most music is not, in fact, free.
- U Penn To Put Special Collections Online
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8/17/2007
Penn Libraries, the University of Pennsylvania Library system, is embarking on a project to digitize its special collections, including rare books and historical documents. The project will kick off this summer and culminate in a fully searchable collection of rare books online.
- UP Deploys Secure File Transfer for Faculty, Students
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8/16/2007
The University of Portland has rolled out South River technologies' GroupDrive to let its 3,200 students and faculty securely share and collaborate on files across the 'Net.
- Columbia Southern U Launches Social Networking for Alumni
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8/15/2007
Columbia Southern University has launched a new online service for its alumni. Dubbed "CSU Click," the service provides social networking functionality for the school's graduates at no charge.
- Research: College Students Use Internet for Education ... Huh
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8/15/2007
Whatever else your students are doing on the Internet, they are using it for educational purposes as well. According to a study released last week by Houghton Mifflin, more than half of college students use the Internet "to keep up with course work and prepare for exams."
- U Oklahoma Taps Day for Content Management
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8/15/2007
The University of Oklahoma will deploy Day Software's Communiqué, an enterprise Web content management suite, to help revamp the school's various portals for students, staff, and alumni.
- Yahoo! To Open Illinois Office To Tap Engineering Talent
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8/14/2007
Yahoo! will open an office in University of Illinois's home town of Urbana-Champaign. The office, which will pursue a cross-section of the Web giant's operations and business interests, will employ about 100 engineers, according to Ken Timmons, vice president of operations for Yahoo!
- Internship Lets CS Students Pitch Proposals to VC Firm
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8/14/2007
Three teams of University of Illinois computer science students are spending the summer trying to launch their own companies with the help of an internship that requires them to pitch their own software or web based services to potential investors.
- Carleton Student Awarded Best Paper on 'Usable Security'
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8/10/2007
Sonia Chiasson, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the Human Oriented Technology Lab (HotLab) at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, was awarded the prize for best paper at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) at CMU.
- European Union Sponsors Global Malware Study
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8/10/2007
The European Union has awarded a group of academic and commercial researchers a $7.1 million grant to analyze data on global malware activity and trends, according to Stephano Zanero, a researcher at the Italian university Politecno de Milano, who is helping lead the three-year project.
- The Calm Before the Calm?
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8/9/2007
August is a time of calm for most in the education community. But our students are out there interfacing with the world and getting ready to bring back all sorts of things with them to our campuses when they arrive in the fall. Are we ready?
- U Denver Hosts Student Peace Talks via HD Link
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8/9/2007
The University of Denver, in partnership with RJ Macklin and Associates, today will host "peace talks" between students in Israel and Iraq. The twist: The talks will be conducted via high-definition videoconferencing. The technology is being supplied by LifeSize, a developer of HD communications tools.
- Inside Indiana U's Move to ChaCha
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8/8/2007
Indiana University's alliance with search firm ChaCha, announced last week, may portend how universities, librarians, and Internet search engines will work together in the future.
- Google Offers Researchers a 'Drink from the Fire Hose'
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8/7/2007
Google Inc. announced it would make two new services available to the higher education research community--access to Web search and machine translations--as part of a new University Research Programs effort. The search firm made the announcement at its higher ed Faculty Summit held July 26 to 27 in Mountain View, CA.
- IU & ChaCha: Reports of Google's Demise Greatly Exaggerated
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8/6/2007
Earlier we reported that Indiana University has partnered with Internet search service ChaCha, also based in Indiana, to create an alliance for developing research tools and services via the Web. Since then, we've had a chance to speak with Brad Wheeler, vice president for information technology at IU, to provide some clarification on the move, including information that contradicts other reports out there.
